reprice, or list new items?

[keziak]

I have enough FB listings that when they end and I have to relist, repricing each item is super time-consuming. Right now I am experimenting with just relisting them and using the time saved by not repricing  to get more listed (on Amazon mostly).  If you have listings expiring after 30 days do you reprice them or relist without repricing? Or reprice just some of the time?

[mam98031]

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@abfabvintage wrote:

@mam98031

Thanks for the reply. I think I sort of said the same thing? If the actual relist sold, I would get a credit on the listing fee. But I wouldn't care since I get free listings. Maybe I said it wrong lolol.

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The Old rule was that if you ran an auction the first time, it didn't sell, you do a RELIST and it sells, Ebay would give you one regular listing fee credit when the item sold.

The New rule is that a relist doesn't matter.  If you sell a listing [even first time out], you get a credit for the initial listing fee.  So this was a fee improvement for sellers.

[abfabvintage]

@mam98031

Does that only apply to auctions and not Fixed Price? Am assuming Auctions Only. Again, doesn't matter to me since my listings are free. UNLESS I get some credit on the FVFs which in my lifetime won't happen lol. Thanks again.

[mam98031]

@abfabvintage

This may help.

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/selling-fees?id=4364

[cooltronix]

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@cooltronix wrote:

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My search tool gives some idea how the search comes out on a live page.

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I tried that but don't understand what I'm seeing. I enter a few words from the title of my listing along with username and get, Total Search Results: 2132572 and the first 100 listings. It might be more useful if it gave the actual ranking of your listing.

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The total maximum any search can get from eBay is 10,000 hits. For now I just do the first 100. So if you rank below 100 you simply don't appear, and that's it for now (but stay tuned!)

But with 213572 hits your search words are way too broad. If somebody searches i.e. for SHOES it would be extremely hard to get into the top 500. I believe most buyers on eBay will narrow their search down with more keywords.

BTW, when I looked at the top 100 in SHOES, all have a crisp article image with a white background. The top one from adidas_official has even a rather pathetic item description with no images at all. Mobile short description is also just the eBay default. So item description and mobile short description don't really count in ranking. Seems feedback doesn't count much too.

[stickboy1974]

Thanks for your hard work making this tool. It is interesting to key in an item your trying to sell, cross your fingers  LOL, and see if you are in the 100 listings. I wish I knew enough about making a web page like this.  I hope in the future you can expand that number to 200. Maybe I would show up then.  Thanks again for this tool.

[dhbookds]

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@dazzlecity wrote:

mam - can I ask how you ship your fragrances? I have a huge collection but USPO keeps telling me I can't ship them thru them and if they catch me there is an automatic $2,500 fine - no questions asked.

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I have never heard that before.  I think someone gave you bad information.  My fragrances ship USPS Priority Mail.

I think if you check USPS regs, the only way you are supposed to ship perfumes  is Parcel select......i.e. ground.....

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[mam98031]

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@mam98031 wrote:

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@dazzlecity wrote:

mam - can I ask how you ship your fragrances? I have a huge collection but USPO keeps telling me I can't ship them thru them and if they catch me there is an automatic $2,500 fine - no questions asked.

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I have never heard that before.  I think someone gave you bad information.  My fragrances ship USPS Priority Mail.

I think if you check USPS regs, the only way you are supposed to ship perfumes  is Parcel select......i.e. ground.....

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My supplier has done this for years.  There was a brief period a few months back when they went first class parcel, but it is now back to PM.  It could be a negotiated rate with them since they ship so much, I don't know.  But I do know they ship PM.

[magicjohnsonsvariety]

I always reprice after an item first goes unsold. 

I will also sometimes change the category, for example from cookware in collectibles to the more general cookware section in H&G. I might also change the main photo if possible to make it look fresh. Anything that might help attract new interest.

Sometimes it works....but not always.

[keziak]

With over 600 FP listings I've grown weary of all the relisting and repricing, especially when it's hard to tell that it makes a lot of difference. I'm taking a break for a month and maybe get back to it later.

[reallynicestamps]

Except buyers seeing the same old same old and leaving because they feel they already have seen it before. @emerald40

But eBay's emphasis on protecting buyers is meant to encourage new customers all the time.

I'd like to see more 'yellow star' customers than the 10% or so I see over all my selling IDs. And I'm concerned that I almost never get a zero FB buyer.

It strikes me as odd that if I buy someThing eBay shows me more of the same Thing. I just bought the Thing. I don't need another Thing, I need a different Thing.

let`s talk about China sellers having 25 active listings of the same identical item ...Or having even 5 different accounts doing the same thing, @hillbillymedia

I get really bored with this China -blaming.

From my observation, a lot of these listings, especially the most misleading ones, are uploaded by US dropshippers who have persuaded themselves that selling online is easy.

Sure there are bad Chinese sellers, but there are a lot of bad US (and Canadian and German and UK) sellers too.

Most overseas sellers are offering a product they have put time and skill into procuring and listing.  Just as most North American sellers do.

Their presence does mean that it is difficult to compete on low end, mass produced merchandise.

But the answer, in my opinion, is not to try.

Find a niche product they can't produce. Promote that it is Made in the USA (or Germany or Latvia or Brazil). Use photos that show you actually have the item.

And maybe be willing to ship outside the lower 48. I have not found my overseas customers to be any worse or better than any others* in my 20 years of selling here.

*Well, I do block India, Israel, and Brazil.

[hillbillymedia]

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@reallynicestamps
"I'd like to see more 'yellow star' customers than the 10% or so I see"

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I`m estimating my zero feedback customers at about 10% of my monthly sales. We can look at that as 10% growth although it`s not an accurate summary. The real question is: can we keep these new customers and turn them into regular buyers?

let`s talk about China sellers having 25 active listings of the same identical item ...Or having even 5 different accounts doing the same thing, @hillbillymedia

You stated:"I get really bored with this China -blaming"

Had you went on to read my further statements you`d have seen that duplicate listing manipulation is what I`m against and I was using China sellers as one example along with other places including US sellers. And I`m not blaming the seller, I am blaming ebay as they are allowing the manipulation to take place.

You say you are bored with the discussion? I`m bored trying to find the item I want and having to go thru hundreds of pages of the same listings from the same sellers to find what I`m looking for. If I`m bored with the search manipulation as a seasoned buyer how will a new buyer fair?? You did state you`d like to see more new buyers correct?

The fact is duplicate listing are against ebay rules and it`s not being enforced. The fact is buyers will leave ebay if they can`t easily find what they want. This may not effect you or my sales because we do sell in a niche but do we know that for sure? Buyers leaving ebay can`t be a good thing as a whole.

I want ebay to fix the site and enforce their own rules. It`s not too much to ask.

[cooltronix]

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@stickboy1974 wrote:

Thanks for your hard work making this tool. It is interesting to key in an item your trying to sell, cross your fingers  LOL, and see if you are in the 100 listings. I wish I knew enough about making a web page like this.  I hope in the future you can expand that number to 200. Maybe I would show up then.  Thanks again for this tool.

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I am working on 'well well over 100'. Stay tuned (some time in August the function will go live).

[cooltronix]

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@keziak wrote:

With over 600 FP listings I've grown weary of all the relisting and repricing, especially when it's hard to tell that it makes a lot of difference. I'm taking a break for a month and maybe get back to it later.

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IMHO a better ebay first image may help. To get your listings to appear in Google searches they need to be crisp with a white background. This listing is good (and has a straight to the point mobile description too)

https://www.ebay.com/i/223081710020

For top eBay image I would follow that format.

For the repricing, I would select just one item and see how the ranking changes. Keep in mind, you get a new ranking when you change the price. Does not really matter what direction. But I suggest you stay close to the median price for that item (in your case probably that ISBN number).

[yuncreations]

Well, relisting has worked for me! I just sold an item I have relisted at least 10 times. lol. I think you just never know when a buyer will come forward.
still, good tip to know! I will try "listing as similar" next time.

[yuncreations]

what is USPO?
I just sold two fragances thru poshmark and shipped with Priority mail with no problem