multiple accounts for different items?

[happygreenoak]

Can i have 2, 3 or 5 accounts for selling pre-owned clothes? For example first account for selling jackets, sweaters. Second account for dresses. Third for pants and shoes?

[fashunu4eeuh]

Yes, you can. Here is a link to eBay’s policy on multiple accounts.

https://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/multiple-accounts.html

[gopetersen · Accepted solution]

Yes, it's perfectly acceptable to do that.

The downside is that it takes much longer to build sufficient feedback to garner buyer trust if you have to build up feedback on several IDs. The possible lower sales volume on each ID might also make your listings "age out" faster in eBay's search engine.

Here's a another possible problem... eBay knows that you have separate IDs (f you buy on one ID and then go back to your seller ID, the things you just looked at will be displayed on the other ID) and... the search-engine algorithm is a mystery (this is what eBay says and it's at least partly true because the main architect of Cassini left after it was basically operational).

I've been keeping statistics on how the search engine works and I have enough data now to know for certain that eBay cycles the listings around. For about a day-and-a-half it appears near the top and then disappears to the point that it's almost not findable even if you look for it. This is particularly true in categories where many sellers have the same product in the same general price range.

So... what we don't know (or maybe someone has figured it out and can chime in) is whether eBay is rationing your search visibility for each ID individually, or do they do it across all of the seller's IDs? If so, this would affect how often your items are seen. If they ration it for each individual ID, I would think that spreading out the products over several IDs might be a good idea, but it's not at all certain whether they do it that way or whether they treat you on a seller-by-seller basis rather than an ID-by-ID basis.

[fashunu4eeuh]

@gopetersen It is great to see you!

[gopetersen]

Thank you, back at ya!   😄

[dhbookds]

I've been keeping statistics on how the search engine works and I have enough data now to know for certain that eBay cycles the listings around. For about a day-and-a-half it appears near the top

I found the same thing several years ago.  The listings cycle starts with an item near top of the search, cycles down and then back up.  I had multi quantity listings and the listing could "pause" in the progression if a number sold.  Only have sold on one id at a time, so can't compare the different id question. 

It's fairly easy to see the progression if you do a search with less than 50 items and check it every day........

[chrysylys]

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@rolandakemzur-0 wrote:

 For example first account for selling jackets, sweaters. Second account for dresses. Third for pants and shoes?

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I see no reason to do that though.  To have one for Women's, another for Men's and a third for Children's would make sense.  Or one for general/economy/thrift items and another for higher end items.

[myboardid]

It is a lot more effort to keep track of multiple accounts, with multiple email addresses, having to check messages, keeping track of what you've shipped on different screens, etc.  I know  'cause I do it for a variety of reasons, but the work level is greater and you can confuse yourself more easily. 

[chrysylys]

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@myboardid wrote:

 you can confuse yourself more easily. 

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Me confusing myself couldn't possibly be more easy than it is now.