Hey Jeff. I thought you were back! lol. We need a new video. Hope things are going well with you.
@misseyespy115 күн бұрын
Hi Jeff ! Good to see u back! Can’t wait to watch !
@EmilGuillen-lx8hq16 күн бұрын
Sometimes people put a high price on a boom like $200 because they can’t find it on their store Amazon slowly reduces visibility if the book is too expensive
@Yazzie10118 күн бұрын
Exactly .. eBay used to have promoted ad when sending offers.. I though good but that doesn’t happen now! I send an offer thinking my fee would be $3 but after an hour after sale that turns to promoted with another $4 to them and it’s total cost shipping too .. we are really being fleeced! I had to change all my shipping since we don’t get the credit they pas it in to customer.. now all my sales are promoted so I had to increase my prices! Otherwise it’s not profitable WE BECOME THE MONEY COW FOR EBAY & WE DO ALLLLLL THE WORK! I’ve been onto eBay about this a few times but bottom line they can add the fee upto an hour after sale or longer .. I can see at some point a class action! I just hope they fix it before then! Or just being upfront in an email not disclaimer with a word salad ..
@mihalyfreeman592818 күн бұрын
Im living proof that posting daily is a Myth. I injured my knee back in March and was pretty much unable to walk and im still struggling even now. I did not LIST for 9 weeks. You cant photograph, source and run a biz properly when you cant walk properly. Thats right, May was my best month ever on Ebay and Poshmark yet i did not list one item from March to May. Go figure!
@hayfro18 күн бұрын
how was jun & july?
@mihalyfreeman592818 күн бұрын
Dude WTF is trading stocks nowadays when Crypto is making millionaires daily? I will be a crypto millionaire within a year even less. I started with $200 bucks. Put your money where the money is.
@mihalyfreeman592818 күн бұрын
Im not sure why you cant see an offer coming though as promoted or not but on my listings it always says that this offer is coming from a promoted listing. If it says nothing i assume its not. It even tells me what state and zip the user is from.
@hayfro18 күн бұрын
It’s when I send an offer to watcher and they counter that it doesn’t show them.
@EmilGuillen-lx8hq19 күн бұрын
Watchers are either sellers or people who decided for some reason didn’t want to buy descriptions or bad photos I guess
@arenavisionTV19 күн бұрын
Drop shipping buyers play a small fraction In the halo effect. It sucks! But it's the misery they've created
@rosiegames586113 күн бұрын
Arena, when are you appearing in a new video? Is your channel still active? Hope things are going well with you and nice to see you here. Jeff, keep up the great work my friend.
@Yazzie10119 күн бұрын
I literally get 0 views after listing for 1-2 days and then only items that are multiple now get pushed and higher views! I get 1 in 6 get views lots finish with no views! It’s very very fraudulent in my opinion .. we used to have transparency on eBay 2013- before promoted so I know what that looks like! I used to run my business off numbers and where traffic was coming from! Now it’s so arse upwards manipulated that it’s impossible for us to read the data .. if my traffic came from google I would pay to advertise or if it came from Facebook I’d advertise it used to be very clear but now it is not! We could look at overseas traffic too ..🤷🏻♀️
@Yazzie10119 күн бұрын
I sell as organic and then it changes to promoted! Every sales in the last few days is promoted .. I share myself so where are my sales from my sharing, unless every eBay link even if I’m doing the work gets tagged as promoted!
@HerTouacha20 күн бұрын
I have thought the exact same thing. My theory is that this is eBay charges the promotional flat % no matter what regardless if it was a sale through promotions or not. The reason I have come to this conclusion is the same as what you talked about. Organic views shows a numerical value whereas promotional views is Zero. Item sells and it still sets as a promotional sell. I believe this is eBay's way of getting an average payout for getting more eyeballs on items across the entire platform and the who thing is based on trust on them to do the ethical thing on actually providing a valuable service. There needs to be a validator of some sort to actually verify if it is the direct result of the AD that caused the buy. Almost like the Amazon Affiliate cookie. As long as a buyer clicks on the Ad at some point within 24 hours it counts. Maybe this is the same way. Who knows. All I know is, this is a gray area if promotional ads is actually working or not. It should be easier for sure so that way a seller can make an educated decision to activate ads or not.
@hayfro20 күн бұрын
great points. I like the way you think. looking forward to hear more of your thoughts on important issues.
@NashTV820 күн бұрын
Who is the eBay Genius who said: "This is eBAy's Sandbox, and we have to play by their rules, so Promote your items or your business will die, ebay doesn't care about sellers, they care about shareholders". Also: "Who Cares?"
@hayfro20 күн бұрын
are you poking the bear nash...lol.
@NashTV820 күн бұрын
@@hayfro No, it's called "Bish-Slapping".
@ljwhitmire20020 күн бұрын
I've done several A/B tests with promoted listings in the past 4 years. Lets say I've been selling 100 items a week with no promoted listings at all. I start promoting and now I'm selling 110 items per week. However, Ebay will claim that that 90-100 of my sales are due to promoted listings. So in other words, they are just stealing money from us with promoted listings.
@hayfro20 күн бұрын
very interesting and true.
@ljwhitmire20019 күн бұрын
@@hayfro Right now I'm piloting offsite ads because they have two coupons. The first week was dead. The second week took off. The third week so far is dead. Ol' Ebay says it could take several weeks for it to learn. We'll see. I'll keep going until the coupons run out.
@eyeswideopen86620 күн бұрын
On counters - we are just going to have to assume it is promoted and at farthest distance
@zachariah711420 күн бұрын
Not if we stop promoting
@hayfro20 күн бұрын
it shouldn't be like that tho.
@WildCardTraders20 күн бұрын
I don't know how promoted works at all. Yesterday I was searching for a shirt and the top results were promoted items that weren't even close to my search words.
@zachariah711420 күн бұрын
Don’t worry, you’re not the only one. How it works is a mystery. Only the illuminated know.
@kimberlyn558720 күн бұрын
I have looked for the majority of this video on how to find traffic history on sold listings and I can't. Current listings, yes. Sold, nope. Can you tell me where to find this, please?
@hayfro20 күн бұрын
go to your order page and click on the title of the listing, it will be a link. when the opens the page views will be on the top right, click that number and the box will come up with view count and whether it's organic or promoted or in some cases it won't differentiate. lmk if you have any further issues locating it.
@polish_pete_uk20 күн бұрын
Yes, same here. 30 views, 3 promoted, sold as promoted. Plenty of examples in my sales from last two weeks. I've mentioned this in my last what sold video. I had +3 sales overall, comparing with previous week, but promoted sales went up from 11 to 24 items. They've basically repleaced a dozen of my organic sales with promoted sales. In terms of helo. Nomather what they click into, as long as it's promoted. Nomather, how they'll come back to you within 30 days, and buy something that you even don't promote, it's still promoted sale. Whatever they are doing with PL, I don't think that there's a dodgy stuff going on there. All they need is one whistle blower who was fired by them, and it's all in media. I think there's something that is perfectly legal, and makes our sales fall into promoted very easily. I have no idea what could that be.
@DenDecorDepot18 күн бұрын
If ANY promoted listing of yours is clicked in a 30 day, and they buy another of your item that is part of a promoted campaign, it’s going to be a promoted sale. Could have been someone else looking on the same PC or phone. It might even be the same ISP tagged.
@EmilGuillen-lx8hq20 күн бұрын
I promote during the day for a high percent little to no sales then when I sleep the sales come in. I think it’s better to turn off promoted before you sleep so you get the free advertising without the fees.
@zachariah711420 күн бұрын
I don’t think that’ll work because of the 30-day “Halo effect” Jeff mentioned in the video where now, if a buyer clicked on ANY listing of yours that was promoted in the last 30 days then buys anything else, the fee is applied…
@hayfro20 күн бұрын
i rarely get overnight sales anymore so maybe it would be good to try that. and yeah, the halo effect is there, but if it's a new buyer looking at your listing overnight then you wouldn't get any PL fees.
@EmilGuillen-lx8hq19 күн бұрын
@@hayfro that’s bs just sold something it says sold via promoted listings but it doesn’t have an ad fee how is that possible?
@misseyespy115 күн бұрын
I will try this to turn it off see what happens
@HolyDiverDio92820 күн бұрын
I noticed June and July my eBay fees increased about 8%. All from promoted listings which I keep the ad rate under 3%. I would have organic sales that “magically” turn into a promoted sale hours later of the next day. This must be the “magical” innovation Jamie Iaonne is talking about. The opaqueness of the promotional fees is definitely questionable. Is this a eBay cash grab to make the earnings forecast every quarter? I watched the Q2 earnings call and all it was a screen shot of a one page PowerPoint slide. Jamie Ianonne did not go over any granular detail nor did their CFO. One anaylst ask what was their advertising “take rate”. Iaonne said eBay wants to double the “take rate” for Q3. Another analyst asked what eBay was doing to expanded their Buyer pool. Iaonne said they don’t care about Increasing the Buyer volume. All about focused categories and claiming an enthusiastic eBay buyer spends on the average of 3k a year. So in theory eBay wants to squeeze every dollar possible out of the Buyer and Sellers. Will eBay eventually be trying to squeeze blood from a rock? eBays general account principles is to not spend any money on advertising and take as much as they can from their Sellers. How many Sellers would drop eBay if there was a viable alternative platform.
@zachariah711420 күн бұрын
There are alternative platforms. If enough sellers left en-masse, they would become viable.
@EbayLife20 күн бұрын
Very Very Interesting video Jeff. I have to be honest I have never broken down the views from this data set. I feel that I should start reporting the sale views breakdown when (if) I get any and report that in the Stats N Stuff videos. Thank you for opening my eyes a little wider to this glaring issue. I definately think that Liz at VAR would be very interested to know about. Worth the wait for the video :) Glad you had a wonderful time with family :) Keep It Real!
@hayfro20 күн бұрын
i feel we have to utilize what little information ebay provides to us to keep them honest. they are trying to take as much and we are trying to keep as much. it's a very sad battle where we could all make more money if we worked together. I'm hoping this video is seen by the right people. happy belated my friend.
@bennystratton773420 күн бұрын
Hey Jeff how i handle promoted listings now i promote my entire store all 18k items, i do it based on Price anything under $20 is 5% anything over is 3% i also have MOST of my offers set to auto decline and auto accept so the offer coming is is the lowest im willing to accept and im already assuming it has a PL % attached to it if it does not all the better its just how we have to navigate the new eBay btw Update on my experiment i have not did a end and sell similar since June 1st my may was the best month i have had in a long time but even without doing end and sell similar in June and July both months were up compared to Jan Feb and March! those winter months are suppose to be the better times not the summer so Just for me summer has been good no summer slow down im excited to see what fall and winter bring because if spring and summer were this good im hoping to at least do double what i did in spring and summer (the 2 slowest times of the year) have not done anything different then list more consistently and again i started promoting in Nov 2023 so not sure if it just took a while for promoting to kick in. one thing Not doing end and sell similar and doing the same or better shows me you do not have to do end and sell similar to get sale from April till now my 90 day numbers have been up compared to Jan Feb march so amount of items sold and total Sales (gross)
@bennystratton773420 күн бұрын
wow He does exists! great to see you jeff!
@hayfro20 күн бұрын
haha!. yep. thriving too despite the worse conditions possible for reselling.
@bennystratton773420 күн бұрын
@@hayfro glad your having a great time with your family! especially since they do not live close to you! one thing is guaranteed we are not guaranteed a tomorrow! btw congrats on your daughters wedding!
@PabloDiabloTreasures20 күн бұрын
I bet their algorithm is a random generator with like 30% chance that an item sold via promotion, maybe even more evil where more expensive items have higher % chance that Cassini will mark it as promotional sale. Why haven't you tried Mercari?
@hayfro20 күн бұрын
maybe next year. want to build out etsy and posh. jack does mercari and it's an absolute crap show so i want to focus on what is working right now for me and that is local and the other two sites.
@bluroks120 күн бұрын
I miss Mercari. Have not sold anything since they changed the fee structure. I lowered prices offered great deals the entire site just died for us. That was our third best site
@NashTV820 күн бұрын
Last year I had 3,500 items listed and my Sales Conversion Rate was 1.2%,....I whittled my store down to 2,500 items this year and my Conversion Rate is still 1.2%(in fact, I've been at 1.2% for 6 years straight, -coincidence???). Out of my 2,500 items, about 2,200 items have at least 1 view,...but I end-and-sell-similar most of my items at least once per month. The number of the unbelievable anomalies I encounter on eBay in the last couple years is in the Thousands.
@NashTV820 күн бұрын
Out of the 35,000 items I"ve listed in the last 6 years, 33,000 have sold,....and I've NEVER done a promoted listing, and i've NEVER allowed a "best offer" either, etc. You don't need Promoted Listings. Promoted Listings "work" for a reason that most don't realize: Instead of your items being "promoted" to buyers, they are simply not "INVISIBLE" as much. BOOM!
@PabloDiabloTreasures20 күн бұрын
Jamie is that you?
@WellnessWizdom20 күн бұрын
I caught bigfoot last night. We had dinner and watched a movie.
@thecriticalobserver758520 күн бұрын
So you sold 33 boxes of screws with 1000 screws in each box😅
@NashTV820 күн бұрын
@@thecriticalobserver7585 lol, clever, I wish, -that would've saved me a lot of time
@n-joysilver775220 күн бұрын
My store has 750 total listings and about half are clothing items promoted at 2.6%. I never promote hard goods and only promote clothing to appease the algorithm. Surprisingly, I only pay about $10 in additional promoted fees on my $5K+ monthly sales.
@PabloDiabloTreasures20 күн бұрын
no way
@hayfro20 күн бұрын
now that is some funny math. not sure how that is possible.
I am stuck at my hidden sales cap level and I can't get my sales to go above that mark no matter what I do. I have tried increasing my listings, improving the quality of the listings, even adding known, high demand items. No matter what I try, I am always stuck within 3% of the same sales amount every month. Btw, it doesn't matter if I promote at 5%, 10%, 20% or use sales promotions, my store sales always remain the same. If I do have 1 great week, the next week will underperform so my average always stays the same.
@Patricia.resells21 күн бұрын
In what categories do you list?
@DamnedMedia21 күн бұрын
I know what you mean, I have been at the same level for years, always evens out over the month. Even when I sold on other platforms it would seem my ebay sales would then go down like they know what I am up to. Last few months though seems like I might have had my cap raised. I hope it stays that way and that yours increases at some point.
@thesequelvintage20 күн бұрын
@@DamnedMedia I have the exact same feeling. If you have the same items listed and then delist them on ebay when they sell on another platform, I think that they mark that as negative against your seller score. Ebay's GMV is actually less than 2018 and there is way more sellers that saturated the marketplace during 2020. So if you just look at the pie and imagine they're trying to share it evenly so no one leaves the platform, there really is no way for our sales to increase unless they push off some sellers. Ebay have been doing this by adding all these hoops to jump through and having "focus categories" but I think that is happening slower than they thought it would. They now focus more on promoted listings now because they can't actually repair their brand recognition as an online garage sale and they have to try and milk their existing customers dry.
@ToooSweet120 күн бұрын
Agree. They put a cap on sellers
@bluroks120 күн бұрын
Exactly here as well. I'm capped at this one number at least a year now. I mean you can't even miss it, and here is another, I had a strange fluke where for 3 straight days my sales went up a lot. Had a 9 sale day, 7 and another 9. And you can guess shut off. I hit my weekly limit I guess then it started up again, 1 sale, 3, 2 and the same pattern over and over.
@EmilGuillen-lx8hq27 күн бұрын
I’d like to find the eBay store who was able to sell everything they had 😂
@hayfro20 күн бұрын
you mean like if you have 500 items in your store you sell all 500?
@EmilGuillen-lx8hq20 күн бұрын
@@hayfro yes they keep you here because they don’t want you to complete your mission haha
@ericenloe896728 күн бұрын
Unfortunately calling in to eBay to have ANYTHING RESOLVED is WORTHLESS. If I REALLY have a problem I use eBay for business on Facebook. I send a message about my problem and someone usually gets back to me within a day and these people REALLY HELP YOU.
@ljwhitmire200Ай бұрын
There are 460k listings with the word Bomber in the title. I understand you can't use "Velcro" when the product isn't actually made by the makers of Velcro. Understandable. But the word "Bomber" can't be protected. It's a common word. Any time I receive a VERO complain I contact the company. Exactly ZERO of the complaints were legit. The worst I got was, "we just didn't like the way you worded the title." I asked why a company who owned a trademark complained when the product was actually made by them. They couldn't say, they just made a VeRO claim because they felt like it. These types of complaints SHOULD result in that owner being suspended from the VeRO program! :P
@hayfroАй бұрын
mad bomber actually copyrighted that word in reference to their product line. if you choose to use the word bomber in an ebay title you are risking getting a vero. sad but true.
@ljwhitmire200Ай бұрын
@@hayfro They can trademark "mad bomber" but that's all they own. I understand that Ebay is shirking their responsibility in this whole mess. Many companies are abusing VeRO to try to stop sales of their products. The only way it's ever going to stop is to start suing them AND Ebay for violating FTC rules and laws. That's my dream! :P
@ljwhitmire200Ай бұрын
@@hayfro Further research shows that their trademark is a drawing with the words "Mad Bomber". They claim "Bomber" in regards to a hat and won that case in court. So I'd say they can only legally enforce the use of the word "Bomber" in regards to hats. I mean Bomber jackets predate their company by decades after all. :) Of course getting Ebay to apply legal reason is beyond hope at this point.
@ljwhitmire200Ай бұрын
I believe most sellers genuinely want to do the right thing. However, they treat everyone like morons. I've done a lot of work to learn how to ID counterfeits. I've called manufacturers. Some are glad to help but most are only interested in killing the secondary market for their goods. They mistakenly believe that will bolster new sales. However, I personally believe that products without secondary sales also have poor primary sales. For me I got hammered by VeROs when I first started 4 years ago, but now they seem to leave me alone.
@Yazzie101Ай бұрын
I could watch this video weekly and feel exactly the same way EVERY WEEK! I’m $500 down on the week because eBay decided to change something that caused 8 million drop in traffic.. offers are not working! I’ve got two tickets in! Crazy! I’m sick of thinking what I can do to reset the algorithm.. I am going insane.., 😵💫🤯🤪
@hayfroАй бұрын
sorry to hear that yaz. local sales have been fire for me..saving my butt. my store is actually doing well and I finally got my ess mystery on maria's site figured out yesterday. got a good rep that helped me out so I was finally able to do a reset on her store after 2 weeks.
@hayleyhellbound9513Ай бұрын
Literally only bad for people who rely on their viewer base elsewhere for sales. Good luck! XD
@dansanfriscoАй бұрын
When shopping online do not click on or buy from sponsored ads. The more people that make this a habit the more these greedy companies will be forced to change tactics.
@mayakoyama9130Ай бұрын
Late comment but congrats on your grandchild!
@DOCDOCFLAMINGOSАй бұрын
I would just like to say that i saw in your community tab, a post of you talking about low page views. Prior to seeing that i was watching this video and thought i would go see what kinda stuff you have listed. .. BUT .. no link or info to your ebay stores under this video and nothing under the Creator about page!! Maybe that is something to look into?? I would think that links or info to every store and platform your using would be readily available and easy to find. Not to say that those things might actually be on other videos... And ill be real... Im not going to go searching for that. Again just something to think about... Maybe!?!?
@hayfroАй бұрын
look again doc. every video has a link to all my platforms. before you look and say it's not there look again. realllllly look.
@DOCDOCFLAMINGOSАй бұрын
@@hayfro I did look in both places that I said i looked!! And I didn't see any link to your Ebay store.. Now if that link and others are listed some place under another link ,then sure it might very well be there. I was just looking for an eBay specific link that i didn't see. And Im just not going to look harder for something that very well could be a couple clicks away on some other website. Maybe that's just me. So no call to action to change anything ... Just rather something to give thought too.... Just in case it's not just me.
@pereirahawkАй бұрын
I believe anyone Ebay brings on as CEO, will be focused on stock price/shareholers, irrespective of sellers. What I mean is that unless sellers become a hot commodity, Ebay will continue on its present path. Ebay is on a perpetual path of attempting to bridge the gap between total revenue and dwindling sellers by leveraging an increasing percentage of current sellers revenue. Essentially, our profits are building that bridge. If Ebay stops now, their stock price would drop on a continual basis. If I were an Ebay seller, I'd be looking to expand to various platforms. It's not ever going get better. Why would it get better? Ebay's problem is one of lack of buyers, and ever increasing competition.
@uwsupergirlАй бұрын
They have enough passive income from those of us who have been busting our butts but have STORES- if they just stopped bothering with getting us sales- especially those of us who have smalls and less expensive items- and we keep on keeping on because we're TRYING- we are paying them that store fee every month and they can get that without giving much in return! We have to pay it! I made less in 2023 than I've made in YEARS and with much more effort and crossposting and higher fees. I used to do this PT and sporadically list and had 1/3rd of the listings I have now and didn't have a store, and now I'm paying $60/mo and getting a fraction of the sales.
@WildCardTradersАй бұрын
When they switch to this "mode" I just move my focus to other platforms. It's actually great because It's getting to the point where I don't really need to sell there anymore. This time I think I'll take the leap on to Depop which I have been tinkering with for a little bit. The funny thing is that I actually make more daily at my physical booth locally where the traffic is WAY WAY less.
@hayfroАй бұрын
This is exactly what we need to hear more stories about. How people are shifting away from ebay and listing on other platforms. Woke up to zero sales on both stores with 7800 listings and I have 3 local sales today, all of which were on ebay. one of them I've had on ebay for at least 18 months, just listed it last week on fbmp and it's selling today. I don't think ebay can tout how many buyers they have anymore or at least it doesn't matter how many they have if they aren't seeing our items.
@buenlook453Ай бұрын
I am as you as well, I am returning to my Photography Businesses. I can’t work like an animal only to give ebay money.
@fisherflipsАй бұрын
the ebay gift cards comment was awesome....so many frauds in this community !!!! push push ebay and tell everyone how awesome their sales are and how they promote at 15%
@hayfroАй бұрын
i messaged you on ig.
@Yazzie101Ай бұрын
It’s called Walmart cooperate guy this Jamie! I worked for Walmart & would decipher their end of quarter reports.. i literally had to translate for my coworkers because it was reading between the lines.. now we have the same with eBay!
@AK36677Ай бұрын
You're the only eBay KZbinr who tells it like it is... Thank you it's refreshing. 🙏
@FelixTheCatLover36Ай бұрын
You WILL NEVER get ANY white collar job saying "AN JOB".
@hayfroАй бұрын
that's what you took away from watching?
@AK36677Ай бұрын
Every time eBay makes a change or a glitch happens we just have to deal with it. No compensation for lost wages or time. Pathetic... 🙄🤮
@flutterbyenterprises8452Ай бұрын
A store in the UK middle tier only gets you 1500 listings and very little else.
@AK36677Ай бұрын
What a nightmare it has been. I couldn't end my old promoting listing campaign. Every time they make a change it is always for the worst....
@rosiegames5861Ай бұрын
Great video Jeff-as always, great work! Enjoy your family visit, my friend.
@kennethoros4043Ай бұрын
I’m not sure I’m more worried about the calls or James playing with puppets. Maybe calab with james