@rockystradingpost wrote:
Can you tell if the sky high promo rate sold it faster than you've sold similar items without the promo?
I've experimented with higher and lower promo rates and don't really feel like the higher rates are worth it.
Well assuming it works the way it purports to, as a "competitive" agent, then theoretically you can't promote any better than ... better than everyone else. So if the highest anyone else was promoting Disney pins was, say, 25%, then no, 91% would not make any noticeable difference. However (again theoretically) someone promoting at 25% should get about "twice" as much promotion as someone using the current suggested rate of 11.9% (last I checked).
But what exactly does "how much" promotion quantify, exactly? How often the item shows up in this or that location, purportedly. But obviously that makes it so hard to check up on. -Just because I do use promotion doesn't mean I'm a cheerleader for it. I find it EXTREMELY suspicious that we have to rely on eBay's word that an item either 'did' or 'didn't' sell via promotion. -eBAy, as in, the same one who CHARGES when the item "did" sell that way. That would be like NBC charging Tide for commercials according to whether people purchased their detergent because they saw the commercials ... and only NBC is privy to that information.
The closest I have seen to hard data on what happens with various promotion rates were experiments done by @zamo-zuan . And he keeps his links, so if he sees this and has time (very busy auto parts seller, mind you) maybe he'll chime in.
