eBay is discontinuing guides in April

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In case you didn't see it...

eBay is discontinuing guides and will be removing them from the site between now and April 12, 2018. If you’ve used guides to help bring buyers to your listings, we offer sellers even more effective ways to generate traffic. Learn how promoted listings and Promotions Manager will help you drive velocity. Please save your work before guides are removed from the site April 12. Backing them up to your computer is as simple as copying and pasting them into new text documents. To keep your guides published on the web, consider transferring them to a web publishing platform, such as Wordpress or Blogger.

I'm really sad to see the guides go. I had a lot of them published. They are also taking away customizable stores soon, so creating custom pages in your store (yes, I considered that) will not work either.

[mallontown]

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@*coinswrote:

In case you didn't see it...

eBay is discontinuing guides and will be removing them from the site between now and April 12, 2018. If you’ve used guides to help bring buyers to your listings, we offer sellers even more effective ways to generate traffic. Learn how promoted listings and Promotions Manager will help you drive velocity. Please save your work before guides are removed from the site April 12. Backing them up to your computer is as simple as copying and pasting them into new text documents. To keep your guides published on the web, consider transferring them to a web publishing platform, such as Wordpress or Blogger.

I'm really sad to see the guides go. I had a lot of them published. They are also taking away customizable stores soon, so creating custom pages in your store (yes, I considered that) will not work either.

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Out with the old and in with what Millenials want. it took me 8 seconds to write that so Millenials already changed their mind.

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If anyone from eBay sees this, I have a suggestion.

Maybe you could move some guides somewhere in the community. Maybe some helpful eBay-related guides to the Knowledge Base, like the FAQ board?

Just a suggestion.

[threshold.sales.group]

Fwiw, I've found some of the guides to be very helpful and as a user I never considered them traffic builders.  Most imo, are more like pay it forward work by folks.  

[the_fancy_fox]

"If you’ve used guides to help bring buyers to your listings, we offer sellers even more effective ways to generate traffic. Learn how promoted listings and Promotions Manager will help you drive velocity."

better ways... aka pay us for exposure.

how long till eBay wants us to pay a fee for every buyer we bring in from another source?

[*coins]

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@the_fancy_foxwrote:

"If you’ve used guides to help bring buyers to your listings, we offer sellers even more effective ways to generate traffic. Learn how promoted listings and Promotions Manager will help you drive velocity."

better ways... aka pay us for exposure.

how long till eBay wants us to pay a fee for every buyer we bring in from another source?

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You're right..eBay gets money from both - sellers paying fees for Promoted listings and only store subscribers can do promotions manager, and they are raising the store rates for that now!

I really have never seen how promoted listings get more buyers to your store. One of the only listings I have seen on the eBay homepage has been lunch with Warren Buffet. I wonder if that was promoted listing...

[*coins]

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Out with the old and in with what Millenials want. it took me 8 seconds to write that so Millenials already changed their mind.

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@mallontown- what is 'nana-nana-boo-boo' supposed to mean and why did you copy what the eBay emplyees have as their siggys for your siggy?

I'm just curious.

[castlemagicmemories]

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@*coinswrote:

In case you didn't see it...

eBay is discontinuing guides and will be removing them from the site between now and April 12, 2018. If you’ve used guides to help bring buyers to your listings, we offer sellers even more effective ways to generate traffic. Learn how promoted listings and Promotions Manager will help you drive velocity. Please save your work before guides are removed from the site April 12. Backing them up to your computer is as simple as copying and pasting them into new text documents. To keep your guides published on the web, consider transferring them to a web publishing platform, such as Wordpress or Blogger.

I'm really sad to see the guides go. I had a lot of them published. They are also taking away customizable stores soon, so creating custom pages in your store (yes, I considered that) will not work either.

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I understand; it may be hard to see them go, but I found some horrible misinformation there, too.   A guide on Bid Retraction comes to mind; the writer, a seller, claimed the bidder can retract for any reason~flying in the face of Ebay pollicy.

[a_c_green]

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@lookng2015 wrote:
(we really need a sarcasm font)

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I did some Googling and apparently there's been an ongoing discussion in recent years about exactly that topic. Most common idea seems to be not as a specific font, but as a reverse Italic slant of the existing font; i.e. whatever font you're using when the snark strikes.

[luckythewinner]

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@*coinswrote:
I'm really sad to see the guides go.

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I'm not because I find them to be of marignal use.

Most of the ones I've read have been poorly written and/or incomplete and/or full of misinformation.

The record collecting ones are pretty much useless.

[retrose1]

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@luckythewinnerwrote:

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@*coinswrote:
I'm really sad to see the guides go.

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I'm not because I find them to be of marignal use.

Most of the ones I've read have been poorly written and/or incomplete and/or full of misinformation.

The record collecting ones are pretty much useless.

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The same with the vintage clothing ones.  I looked at guides once and saw the information in the few I looked at was so bad, I never went back.

But I bet the how to scam ones are really popular.

[timemachine777]

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@*coinswrote:

In case you didn't see it...

eBay is discontinuing guides and will be removing them from the site between now and April 12, 2018. If you’ve used guides to help bring buyers to your listings, we offer sellers even more effective ways to generate traffic. Learn how promoted listings and Promotions Manager will help you drive velocity. Please save your work before guides are removed from the site April 12. Backing them up to your computer is as simple as copying and pasting them into new text documents. To keep your guides published on the web, consider transferring them to a web publishing platform, such as Wordpress or Blogger.

I'm really sad to see the guides go. I had a lot of them published. They are also taking away customizable stores soon, so creating custom pages in your store (yes, I considered that) will not work either.

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Anything to erase the uniqueness of individual sellers footprint in the market place. One look fits all. Also a good way for eBay to set up the appearance that the inventory on the site is eBay's inventory. Give it time and I bet public access to seller inventories will be on the chopping block. 

[1786davycrockett]

I still regularly use my 1980s paperback guide, my 1990s comic book guides and my variety of old LP record guides, even though the prices are ridiculously out-of-date. But I use them particularly for establishing dates, researching variations, investigating cover and interior artists, discovering pseudonyms, etc -- so I feel that, although severely out-of-date, the guides still have value; and, thus, may have value to other researchers as well.

But I guess I won't be listing them anytime soon, since eBay can't see the forest for the trees.

[ted_200]

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@retrose1wrote:

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@luckythewinnerwrote:

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@*coinswrote:
I'm really sad to see the guides go.

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I'm not because I find them to be of marignal use.

Most of the ones I've read have been poorly written and/or incomplete and/or full of misinformation.

The record collecting ones are pretty much useless.

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The same with the vintage clothing ones.  I looked at guides once and saw the information in the few I looked at was so bad, I never went back.

But I bet the how to scam ones are really popular.

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I've got three, they've had enough views to make me a "Top 5,000 Reviewer" (even though I've never written any "Reviews").  One of mine discusses how to avoid the various coin scams on eBay... another one discusses the DSR program... they've been de-activating and hiding them for the last several years anyhow, they'd may as well delete them...

[retrose1]

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@1786davycrockettwrote:
I still regularly use my 1980s paperback guide, my 1990s comic book guides and my variety of old LP record guides, even though the prices are ridiculously out-of-date. But I use them particularly for establishing dates, researching variations, investigating cover and interior artists, discovering pseudonyms, etc -- so I feel that, although severely out-of-date, the guides still have value; and, thus, may have value to other researchers as well.

But I guess I won't be listing them anytime soon, since eBay can't see the forest for the trees.

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That's why I pick up old price guide books every chance I get.  The price info may be outdated, but the information about the items themselves is always the same.  And you can depend on it being correct.  If you need the recent selling price - that's when i check ebay.

AND while a book takes up some space, the information will always be there when you need/want it.

This is why I will not use ebay's seller hub.  One day it's the way you list and store your listings and next week, all your stored listings will be gone because ebay came up with a 'better' idea.

[ted_200]

That's why I pick up old price guide books every chance I get.  The price info may be outdated, but the information about the items themselves is always the same.  And you can depend on it being correct.

Yep.  I still use my 1990s era price books, the prices themselves aren't accurate anymore - and no one on eBay will pay "book" anyhow - but it's a quick way to sort out the $1 from the $100 items.