@hioctane62 wrote:It was pretty clear to me that @gracieallen01 was speaking of ebay hiding listings from buyers' specific search terms and refinements in favor of showing items they THINK the buyer is looking for and from their favored sellers. This has been documented all over the place, I'm sure you can google it.
Hmmmmm, and I seem to recall, somewhere up-thread, the mention of Amazon doing it, as well.
Personally, I wouldn't put it past any site, if it might help with sales. I've always thought that the sites wanted sales - no matter whose sales, just sales, any sales.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Meh.
@hioctane62 wrote:It was pretty clear to me that @gracieallen01 was speaking of ebay hiding listings from buyers' specific search terms and refinements in favor of showing items they THINK the buyer is looking for and from their favored sellers. This has been documented all over the place, I'm sure you can google it.
Funny because she said she was speaking in generalities. So are you suggesting she was not being truthful and was really speaking to what you said???
@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote:
@hioctane62 wrote:It was pretty clear to me that @gracieallen01 was speaking of ebay hiding listings from buyers' specific search terms and refinements in favor of showing items they THINK the buyer is looking for and from their favored sellers. This has been documented all over the place, I'm sure you can google it.
Funny because she said she was speaking in generalities. So are you suggesting she was not being truthful and was really speaking to what you said???
Really ?
Signed,
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@gracieallen01 wrote:
@hioctane62 wrote:It was pretty clear to me that @gracieallen01 was speaking of ebay hiding listings from buyers' specific search terms and refinements in favor of showing items they THINK the buyer is looking for and from their favored sellers. This has been documented all over the place, I'm sure you can google it.
Hmmmmm, and I seem to recall, somewhere up-thread, the mention of Amazon doing it, as well.
Personally, I wouldn't put it past any site, if it might help with sales. I've always thought that the sites wanted sales - no matter whose sales, just sales, any sales.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Meh.
Amazon may tweak the order of some items in results, but not have the issues eBay has been having where you can search your own items and literally not even find them. I've personally noted at least 4 different issues related to this: One with it saying "14 results found" but only 1 showing. Another where yours does not appear at all. Another where yours does not appear in group similar. Another where certain filters that match your item, cause your item to disappear.
They also don't display favortism in their catalog where certain sellers brands are accepted automatically and immediately, where one seller we know has had ALL of his own newly created brand's items added to the catalog automatically... while others must go through a process that includes possibly breaking NDA's by releasing information where the items are manufactured, that has taken nearly half a year and we are still not in the new catalog.
Their CFO also doesn't openly admit that they manipulate search results to favor "high price branded items" (which by their new catalog design, features VERY FEW favored brands) which is a conflict of interests that resulted in, as he put it "really less sales" but a higher average selling price. EBay's CFO just has done this.
@zamo-zuan wrote:
@gracieallen01 wrote:
@hioctane62 wrote:It was pretty clear to me that @gracieallen01 was speaking of ebay hiding listings from buyers' specific search terms and refinements in favor of showing items they THINK the buyer is looking for and from their favored sellers. This has been documented all over the place, I'm sure you can google it.
Hmmmmm, and I seem to recall, somewhere up-thread, the mention of Amazon doing it, as well.
Personally, I wouldn't put it past any site, if it might help with sales. I've always thought that the sites wanted sales - no matter whose sales, just sales, any sales.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Meh.
Amazon may tweak the order of some items in results, but not have the issues eBay has been having where you can search your own items and literally not even find them. I've personally noted at least 4 different issues related to this: One with it saying "14 results found" but only 1 showing. Another where yours does not appear at all. Another where yours does not appear in group similar. Another where certain filters that match your item, cause your item to disappear.
They also don't display favortism in their catalog where certain sellers brands are accepted automatically and immediately, where one seller we know has had ALL of his own newly created brand's items added to the catalog automatically... while others must go through a process that includes possibly breaking NDA's by releasing information where the items are manufactured, that has taken nearly half a year and we are still not in the new catalog.
Their CFO also doesn't openly admit that they manipulate search results to favor "high price branded items" (which by their new catalog design, features VERY FEW favored brands) which is a conflict of interests that resulted in, as he put it "really less sales" but a higher average selling price. EBay's CFO just has done this.
Yes Amazon does do it as do other sites. It is all a part of the AI technology. Google even does it (which makes me crazy) but they all do it now.
And BTW.....you know Amazon Prime....the sellers that participate with that get favored big time...as does Amazon's own products.
@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote:
@zamo-zuan wrote:
@gracieallen01 wrote:
@hioctane62 wrote:It was pretty clear to me that @gracieallen01 was speaking of ebay hiding listings from buyers' specific search terms and refinements in favor of showing items they THINK the buyer is looking for and from their favored sellers. This has been documented all over the place, I'm sure you can google it.
Hmmmmm, and I seem to recall, somewhere up-thread, the mention of Amazon doing it, as well.
Personally, I wouldn't put it past any site, if it might help with sales. I've always thought that the sites wanted sales - no matter whose sales, just sales, any sales.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Meh.
Amazon may tweak the order of some items in results, but not have the issues eBay has been having where you can search your own items and literally not even find them. I've personally noted at least 4 different issues related to this: One with it saying "14 results found" but only 1 showing. Another where yours does not appear at all. Another where yours does not appear in group similar. Another where certain filters that match your item, cause your item to disappear.
They also don't display favortism in their catalog where certain sellers brands are accepted automatically and immediately, where one seller we know has had ALL of his own newly created brand's items added to the catalog automatically... while others must go through a process that includes possibly breaking NDA's by releasing information where the items are manufactured, that has taken nearly half a year and we are still not in the new catalog.
Their CFO also doesn't openly admit that they manipulate search results to favor "high price branded items" (which by their new catalog design, features VERY FEW favored brands) which is a conflict of interests that resulted in, as he put it "really less sales" but a higher average selling price. EBay's CFO just has done this.
Yes Amazon does do it as do other sites. It is all a part of the AI technology. Google even does it.
I am familiar with how they work. Everything I said above still stands. They may tweak the order you find results a bit, but you can at least find your own items
Marketing teams jobs rely on this. I train our team for marketing. There's absolutely no way for the marketing team to improve results when your impressions are being directly limited.
If we're talking on Google or Amazon, there's clear ways that you could improve your own placement. Sure, you might have to invest a bit for that. But you can get a substnatial boost by following their best practices.
On eBay, the majority of 2018 you follow their best practices, and you plummet. In our category I have evidence of this happening this year (you can check my other topic for screenshots etc). Or just check Terapeak and compare categories from 1 year ago until today. Watch how the sellers who grew tremendously all did NOT offer free returns/guaranteed delivery/had poor shipping and return policies.
You don't have to jump through hoops to get added to either of their part catalogs.
On Google or Amazon, if you have anything that suddenly reduces 50% of your impressions or more, it's a clear penalty that you have hit, and there's ways to resolve it. On eBay, they will claim there's no problem, say they can't control the buyers habits (even though buyers are not seeing it) and their customer service will play games to a point to where the supervisors are no longer allowed to speak to the seller.
Sure, Amazon/Google have their problems. Most notably in the customer service scenario. But eBay has raised the bar this year for dirty practices that harmfully affect the sellers.
If your store 100% focuses on Amazon, or Google, your business will be able to thrive. This was true for eBay as well before 2018.... not anymore.
@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote:
@zamo-zuan wrote:
@gracieallen01 wrote:
@hioctane62 wrote:It was pretty clear to me that @gracieallen01 was speaking of ebay hiding listings from buyers' specific search terms and refinements in favor of showing items they THINK the buyer is looking for and from their favored sellers. This has been documented all over the place, I'm sure you can google it.
Hmmmmm, and I seem to recall, somewhere up-thread, the mention of Amazon doing it, as well.
Personally, I wouldn't put it past any site, if it might help with sales. I've always thought that the sites wanted sales - no matter whose sales, just sales, any sales.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Meh.
Amazon may tweak the order of some items in results, but not have the issues eBay has been having where you can search your own items and literally not even find them. I've personally noted at least 4 different issues related to this: One with it saying "14 results found" but only 1 showing. Another where yours does not appear at all. Another where yours does not appear in group similar. Another where certain filters that match your item, cause your item to disappear.
They also don't display favortism in their catalog where certain sellers brands are accepted automatically and immediately, where one seller we know has had ALL of his own newly created brand's items added to the catalog automatically... while others must go through a process that includes possibly breaking NDA's by releasing information where the items are manufactured, that has taken nearly half a year and we are still not in the new catalog.
Their CFO also doesn't openly admit that they manipulate search results to favor "high price branded items" (which by their new catalog design, features VERY FEW favored brands) which is a conflict of interests that resulted in, as he put it "really less sales" but a higher average selling price. EBay's CFO just has done this.
Yes Amazon does do it as do other sites. It is all a part of the AI technology. Google even does it (which makes me crazy) but they all do it now.
And BTW.....you know Amazon Prime....the sellers that participate with that get favored big time...as does Amazon's own products.
And this isn't Amazon or any other site....so there is no point to comparing them really. Each has their own business to run and there are differences and similarities. Each has their own set of problems, some have to do with the same issues and deal with all the critisizms just like on ebay......Pretty much end of story.
@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote:
@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote:
@zamo-zuan wrote:
@gracieallen01 wrote:
@hioctane62 wrote:It was pretty clear to me that @gracieallen01 was speaking of ebay hiding listings from buyers' specific search terms and refinements in favor of showing items they THINK the buyer is looking for and from their favored sellers. This has been documented all over the place, I'm sure you can google it.
Hmmmmm, and I seem to recall, somewhere up-thread, the mention of Amazon doing it, as well.
Personally, I wouldn't put it past any site, if it might help with sales. I've always thought that the sites wanted sales - no matter whose sales, just sales, any sales.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Meh.
Amazon may tweak the order of some items in results, but not have the issues eBay has been having where you can search your own items and literally not even find them. I've personally noted at least 4 different issues related to this: One with it saying "14 results found" but only 1 showing. Another where yours does not appear at all. Another where yours does not appear in group similar. Another where certain filters that match your item, cause your item to disappear.
They also don't display favortism in their catalog where certain sellers brands are accepted automatically and immediately, where one seller we know has had ALL of his own newly created brand's items added to the catalog automatically... while others must go through a process that includes possibly breaking NDA's by releasing information where the items are manufactured, that has taken nearly half a year and we are still not in the new catalog.
Their CFO also doesn't openly admit that they manipulate search results to favor "high price branded items" (which by their new catalog design, features VERY FEW favored brands) which is a conflict of interests that resulted in, as he put it "really less sales" but a higher average selling price. EBay's CFO just has done this.
Yes Amazon does do it as do other sites. It is all a part of the AI technology. Google even does it (which makes me crazy) but they all do it now.
And BTW.....you know Amazon Prime....the sellers that participate with that get favored big time...as does Amazon's own products.
And to address the Amazon Prime comments, I'm assuming you mean FBA. And Yes I am aware of that.
Sellers are directly notified of those things, and it's a clear way to earn the buy box, which provides better visibility.
EBay also charges sellers fees, for their numerous new features added thsi year.
Free returns in itself is a fee.
But here's the difference - you follow Amazon's best practices, and get rewarded for it with visibility.
My evidence in my other topic provides proof that the only sellers seeing benefit in the current eBay climate, are the ones who do NOT follow practices.
Imagine if Amazon sellers who sent their items to FBA, simply lost their visibility? They LOST the buy box? Their items became no longer available in search??
This is literally what is happening on eBay in 2018! Sellers are paying more than ever, for less visibility, policies that are continually harder on sellers, and they see themselves losing visibility to sellers that don't offer these things.
Why act like sellers don't have a reason to be upset?
@zamo-zuan wrote:
@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote:
@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote:
@zamo-zuan wrote:
@gracieallen01 wrote:
@hioctane62 wrote:It was pretty clear to me that @gracieallen01 was speaking of ebay hiding listings from buyers' specific search terms and refinements in favor of showing items they THINK the buyer is looking for and from their favored sellers. This has been documented all over the place, I'm sure you can google it.
Hmmmmm, and I seem to recall, somewhere up-thread, the mention of Amazon doing it, as well.
Personally, I wouldn't put it past any site, if it might help with sales. I've always thought that the sites wanted sales - no matter whose sales, just sales, any sales.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Meh.
Amazon may tweak the order of some items in results, but not have the issues eBay has been having where you can search your own items and literally not even find them. I've personally noted at least 4 different issues related to this: One with it saying "14 results found" but only 1 showing. Another where yours does not appear at all. Another where yours does not appear in group similar. Another where certain filters that match your item, cause your item to disappear.
They also don't display favortism in their catalog where certain sellers brands are accepted automatically and immediately, where one seller we know has had ALL of his own newly created brand's items added to the catalog automatically... while others must go through a process that includes possibly breaking NDA's by releasing information where the items are manufactured, that has taken nearly half a year and we are still not in the new catalog.
Their CFO also doesn't openly admit that they manipulate search results to favor "high price branded items" (which by their new catalog design, features VERY FEW favored brands) which is a conflict of interests that resulted in, as he put it "really less sales" but a higher average selling price. EBay's CFO just has done this.
Yes Amazon does do it as do other sites. It is all a part of the AI technology. Google even does it (which makes me crazy) but they all do it now.
And BTW.....you know Amazon Prime....the sellers that participate with that get favored big time...as does Amazon's own products.
And to address the Amazon Prime comments, I'm assuming you mean FBA. And Yes I am aware of that.
Sellers are directly notified of those things, and it's a clear way to earn the buy box, which provides better visibility.
EBay also charges sellers fees, for their numerous new features added thsi year.
Free returns in itself is a fee.
But here's the difference - you follow Amazon's best practices, and get rewarded for it with visibility.
My evidence in my other topic provides proof that the only sellers seeing benefit in the current eBay climate, are the ones who do NOT follow practices.
Imagine if Amazon sellers who sent their items to FBA, simply lost their visibility? They LOST the buy box? Their items became no longer available in search??
This is literally what is happening on eBay in 2018! Sellers are paying more than ever, for less visibility, policies that are continually harder on sellers, and they see themselves losing visibility to sellers that don't offer these things.
Why act like sellers don't have a reason to be upset?
Do not be upset.....there are site that charge more...a lot more...and there are sellers that do not have sales on those sites either.
Being upset isn't going to change any of it nor is blaming ebay. You make all the choices for your own business and selling on ebnay is a choice.
@zamo-zuan wrote:
@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote:
@zamo-zuan wrote:
@gracieallen01 wrote:
@hioctane62 wrote:It was pretty clear to me that @gracieallen01 was speaking of ebay hiding listings from buyers' specific search terms and refinements in favor of showing items they THINK the buyer is looking for and from their favored sellers. This has been documented all over the place, I'm sure you can google it.
Hmmmmm, and I seem to recall, somewhere up-thread, the mention of Amazon doing it, as well.
Personally, I wouldn't put it past any site, if it might help with sales. I've always thought that the sites wanted sales - no matter whose sales, just sales, any sales.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Meh.
Amazon may tweak the order of some items in results, but not have the issues eBay has been having where you can search your own items and literally not even find them. I've personally noted at least 4 different issues related to this: One with it saying "14 results found" but only 1 showing. Another where yours does not appear at all. Another where yours does not appear in group similar. Another where certain filters that match your item, cause your item to disappear.
They also don't display favortism in their catalog where certain sellers brands are accepted automatically and immediately, where one seller we know has had ALL of his own newly created brand's items added to the catalog automatically... while others must go through a process that includes possibly breaking NDA's by releasing information where the items are manufactured, that has taken nearly half a year and we are still not in the new catalog.
Their CFO also doesn't openly admit that they manipulate search results to favor "high price branded items" (which by their new catalog design, features VERY FEW favored brands) which is a conflict of interests that resulted in, as he put it "really less sales" but a higher average selling price. EBay's CFO just has done this.
Yes Amazon does do it as do other sites. It is all a part of the AI technology. Google even does it.
I am familiar with how they work. Everything I said above still stands. They may tweak the order you find results a bit, but you can at least find your own items
Marketing teams jobs rely on this. I train our team for marketing. There's absolutely no way for the marketing team to improve results when your impressions are being directly limited.
If we're talking on Google or Amazon, there's clear ways that you could improve your own placement. Sure, you might have to invest a bit for that. But you can get a substnatial boost by following their best practices.
On eBay, the majority of 2018 you follow their best practices, and you plummet. In our category I have evidence of this happening this year (you can check my other topic for screenshots etc). Or just check Terapeak and compare categories from 1 year ago until today. Watch how the sellers who grew tremendously all did NOT offer free returns/guaranteed delivery/had poor shipping and return policies.
You don't have to jump through hoops to get added to either of their part catalogs.
On Google or Amazon, if you have anything that suddenly reduces 50% of your impressions or more, it's a clear penalty that you have hit, and there's ways to resolve it. On eBay, they will claim there's no problem, say they can't control the buyers habits (even though buyers are not seeing it) and their customer service will play games to a point to where the supervisors are no longer allowed to speak to the seller.
Sure, Amazon/Google have their problems. Most notably in the customer service scenario. But eBay has raised the bar this year for dirty practices that harmfully affect the sellers.
If your store 100% focuses on Amazon, or Google, your business will be able to thrive. This was true for eBay as well before 2018.... not anymore.
And yet there are still sellers thriving on ebay....again recent artcles of sellers making over a million were recently posted on news sites etc.
And there were sellers complaining about no sales long before this year on ebay too...go back and look in the archives. This may be when you began having issue.....but there have always been such complaints....and there have always been complaints abou how everyhting is ebay's fault...which never changed anything for the most part.
And there is and was no guarantee that buyers will always want what you sell either or to pay whatever you charge. Nothing last forever and sellers have to adapt to lots of things all the time....but mostly to buyers wants and needs. There are also generational shifts...today buyers to do care about some of the stuff the older generation did and earlier generations eventuall pahse out at some point which may be slightly different times for different sellers.
TImes change, people's wants and needs change....sellers adapt or not
Let go of the past...the past is gone.
@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote:
@zamo-zuan wrote:
@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote:
@zamo-zuan wrote:
@gracieallen01 wrote:
@hioctane62 wrote:It was pretty clear to me that @gracieallen01 was speaking of ebay hiding listings from buyers' specific search terms and refinements in favor of showing items they THINK the buyer is looking for and from their favored sellers. This has been documented all over the place, I'm sure you can google it.
Hmmmmm, and I seem to recall, somewhere up-thread, the mention of Amazon doing it, as well.
Personally, I wouldn't put it past any site, if it might help with sales. I've always thought that the sites wanted sales - no matter whose sales, just sales, any sales.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Meh.
Amazon may tweak the order of some items in results, but not have the issues eBay has been having where you can search your own items and literally not even find them. I've personally noted at least 4 different issues related to this: One with it saying "14 results found" but only 1 showing. Another where yours does not appear at all. Another where yours does not appear in group similar. Another where certain filters that match your item, cause your item to disappear.
They also don't display favortism in their catalog where certain sellers brands are accepted automatically and immediately, where one seller we know has had ALL of his own newly created brand's items added to the catalog automatically... while others must go through a process that includes possibly breaking NDA's by releasing information where the items are manufactured, that has taken nearly half a year and we are still not in the new catalog.
Their CFO also doesn't openly admit that they manipulate search results to favor "high price branded items" (which by their new catalog design, features VERY FEW favored brands) which is a conflict of interests that resulted in, as he put it "really less sales" but a higher average selling price. EBay's CFO just has done this.
Yes Amazon does do it as do other sites. It is all a part of the AI technology. Google even does it.
I am familiar with how they work. Everything I said above still stands. They may tweak the order you find results a bit, but you can at least find your own items
Marketing teams jobs rely on this. I train our team for marketing. There's absolutely no way for the marketing team to improve results when your impressions are being directly limited.
If we're talking on Google or Amazon, there's clear ways that you could improve your own placement. Sure, you might have to invest a bit for that. But you can get a substnatial boost by following their best practices.
On eBay, the majority of 2018 you follow their best practices, and you plummet. In our category I have evidence of this happening this year (you can check my other topic for screenshots etc). Or just check Terapeak and compare categories from 1 year ago until today. Watch how the sellers who grew tremendously all did NOT offer free returns/guaranteed delivery/had poor shipping and return policies.
You don't have to jump through hoops to get added to either of their part catalogs.
On Google or Amazon, if you have anything that suddenly reduces 50% of your impressions or more, it's a clear penalty that you have hit, and there's ways to resolve it. On eBay, they will claim there's no problem, say they can't control the buyers habits (even though buyers are not seeing it) and their customer service will play games to a point to where the supervisors are no longer allowed to speak to the seller.
Sure, Amazon/Google have their problems. Most notably in the customer service scenario. But eBay has raised the bar this year for dirty practices that harmfully affect the sellers.
If your store 100% focuses on Amazon, or Google, your business will be able to thrive. This was true for eBay as well before 2018.... not anymore.
And yet there are still sellers thriving on ebay....again recent artcles of sellers making over a million were recently posted on news sites etc.
And there were sellers complaining about no sales long before this year on ebay too...go back and look in the archives. This may be when you began having issue.....but there have always been such complaints.
And there is and was no guarantee that buyers will always want what you sell either or to pay whatever you charge.
TImes change, people's wants and needs change....sellers adapt or not
It's easy to base your opinion on one success story.
Meanwhile, I have piles of research and evidence to back up what I am saying. I have followed every top seller in my category from year to year, and as I mentioned before, I provide evidence in my other topic that majority of sellers are DOWN.
Terapeak confirms this itself. Period. Top seller market share should not drop by nearly 25% in one year. Terapeak is owned by eBay now. This is solid evidence with their own software that top sellers are dropping.
There is only one seller thriving, and as I mentioned, they are NOT using best practices. EBay's recommendations will drive your store in to the hole.
You might have one success story, how about how many sellers are dropping, not due to conversion rate or click through, but because of no IMPRESSIONS?
Impressions are not something sellers, or buyers, control.
You seem to think from a perspective that everyone is out for themselves. That seems to be eBay's perspective as well. This perspective will only lead to the demise of eBay.
I can only speak for myself, but I'm on here with the hopes of giving feedback from a sellers perspective, in hopes of a better marketplace.
What, exactly, is your motive? Because you are telling sellers to adapt, but you do realize, that sellers are following the instruction of eBay CSR's, whos advice is causing them to plummet as well?
@zamo-zuan wrote:
@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote:
@zamo-zuan wrote:
@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote:
@zamo-zuan wrote:
@gracieallen01 wrote:
@hioctane62 wrote:It was pretty clear to me that @gracieallen01 was speaking of ebay hiding listings from buyers' specific search terms and refinements in favor of showing items they THINK the buyer is looking for and from their favored sellers. This has been documented all over the place, I'm sure you can google it.
Hmmmmm, and I seem to recall, somewhere up-thread, the mention of Amazon doing it, as well.
Personally, I wouldn't put it past any site, if it might help with sales. I've always thought that the sites wanted sales - no matter whose sales, just sales, any sales.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Meh.
Amazon may tweak the order of some items in results, but not have the issues eBay has been having where you can search your own items and literally not even find them. I've personally noted at least 4 different issues related to this: One with it saying "14 results found" but only 1 showing. Another where yours does not appear at all. Another where yours does not appear in group similar. Another where certain filters that match your item, cause your item to disappear.
They also don't display favortism in their catalog where certain sellers brands are accepted automatically and immediately, where one seller we know has had ALL of his own newly created brand's items added to the catalog automatically... while others must go through a process that includes possibly breaking NDA's by releasing information where the items are manufactured, that has taken nearly half a year and we are still not in the new catalog.
Their CFO also doesn't openly admit that they manipulate search results to favor "high price branded items" (which by their new catalog design, features VERY FEW favored brands) which is a conflict of interests that resulted in, as he put it "really less sales" but a higher average selling price. EBay's CFO just has done this.
Yes Amazon does do it as do other sites. It is all a part of the AI technology. Google even does it.
I am familiar with how they work. Everything I said above still stands. They may tweak the order you find results a bit, but you can at least find your own items
Marketing teams jobs rely on this. I train our team for marketing. There's absolutely no way for the marketing team to improve results when your impressions are being directly limited.
If we're talking on Google or Amazon, there's clear ways that you could improve your own placement. Sure, you might have to invest a bit for that. But you can get a substnatial boost by following their best practices.
On eBay, the majority of 2018 you follow their best practices, and you plummet. In our category I have evidence of this happening this year (you can check my other topic for screenshots etc). Or just check Terapeak and compare categories from 1 year ago until today. Watch how the sellers who grew tremendously all did NOT offer free returns/guaranteed delivery/had poor shipping and return policies.
You don't have to jump through hoops to get added to either of their part catalogs.
On Google or Amazon, if you have anything that suddenly reduces 50% of your impressions or more, it's a clear penalty that you have hit, and there's ways to resolve it. On eBay, they will claim there's no problem, say they can't control the buyers habits (even though buyers are not seeing it) and their customer service will play games to a point to where the supervisors are no longer allowed to speak to the seller.
Sure, Amazon/Google have their problems. Most notably in the customer service scenario. But eBay has raised the bar this year for dirty practices that harmfully affect the sellers.
If your store 100% focuses on Amazon, or Google, your business will be able to thrive. This was true for eBay as well before 2018.... not anymore.
And yet there are still sellers thriving on ebay....again recent artcles of sellers making over a million were recently posted on news sites etc.
And there were sellers complaining about no sales long before this year on ebay too...go back and look in the archives. This may be when you began having issue.....but there have always been such complaints.
And there is and was no guarantee that buyers will always want what you sell either or to pay whatever you charge.
TImes change, people's wants and needs change....sellers adapt or notIt's easy to base your opinion on one success story.
Meanwhile, I have piles of research and evidence to back up what I am saying. I have followed every top seller in my category from year to year, and as I mentioned before, I provide evidence in my other topic that majority of sellers are DOWN.
Terapeak confirms this itself. Period. Top seller market share should not drop by nearly 25% in one year. Terapeak is owned by eBay now. This is solid evidence with their own software that top sellers are dropping.
There is only one seller thriving, and as I mentioned, they are NOT using best practices. EBay's recommendations will drive your store in to the hole.
You might have one success story, how about how many sellers are dropping, not due to conversion rate or click through, but because of no IMPRESSIONS?
Impressions are not something sellers, or buyers, control.
You seem to think from a perspective that everyone is out for themselves. That seems to be eBay's perspective as well. This perspective will only lead to the demise of eBay.
I can only speak for myself, but I'm on here with the hopes of giving feedback from a sellers perspective, in hopes of a better marketplace.
What, exactly, is your motive? Because you are telling sellers to adapt, but you do realize, that sellers are following the instruction of eBay CSR's, whos advice is causing them to plummet as well?
No one said anything about one success story there are examples of several just recently posted.
A sellers goal on any site should be to sell and make money...not to try to run the site or focusing on running the site. It takes a lot of time to run a business and keep it successful in this day and age....ruinning someone else's isn't going to accomplish that.
And I do not scare so easily with the whole world is ending thing...been around too long and heard it too many times over the years....and in 10 years from now someone else will still be saying it.
And ebay actually has a link for giving feedback and suggestions to them.
