How I Fixed My Slow Sales on eBay, I Can’t Believed I Missed This!

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Sometimes we can do everything within our power to increase our sales on ebay and it’s just not enough. Until we realize we were so focused on the other things and in my case forgot to stick to the basics. In this video I will tell you what I did to get back on track with my eBay sales and hopefully by sharing what I did wrong will give you some ideas to help boost your sales as well. As always comment down below, I want to hear from you!
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[@elissahoran1130]

I was selling at a flea market once and someone bought a Pyrex lid without the bottom dish. I totally thought how am I going to sell a lid without the dish, and then someone came and bought it. They told me their lid broke and they needed a new one. As they walked away, my Aunt said, "There is a lid for every pot." From then on, I learned that for the right person, anything can sell. I have sold some unbelievable things, at flea markets, and on Ebay. With millions of users on Ebay, stuff should be selling all the time. If it is not, it could be their algorithm. I am done with all this. I'm going to have a yard sale or go to the flea market. The time invested on Ebay is not worth it. You did a great video !!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Thank you. I’m serious. Try cross posting some of those items over to Mercari. I’ve sold 140 items in just over a month on Mercari. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

[@elissahoran1130]

@@FlippinAintEasy Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!

[@elissahoran1130]

@@FlippinAintEasy After I posted to you, one of my Ebay items sold. Algorithm worked on Sat !!!!!! Thank you for your message. I will try it. Thank you for letting me know. You are helping lots of people!!!!!!

[@MeMyselfAndUs903]

A Pyrex lid!! I didn’t even know my Pyrex bowls had lids until I accidentally stumbled across the lids-only online. I purchased them and am so happy to have them.

[@karlacarmichael7096]

Go, Jon!!!! It’s awesome to see how your channel is continuously growing; I’ve been here since the very beginning. 🤩 I always knew that once people had found your channel, they would get to appreciate the tremendous effort that you have put into this endeavor. Personally, I have learned a lot from your experience. You’ve always shared great info with your audience selflessly. Also glad to see you so excited! 😎 Thank you so much!

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Thanks Karla! I appreciate you.

[@calidebs950]

Thank you, Jon, My store is still having a gazillion glitches. Hopefully it will come back soon. I have a very old store and large store, and it's glitch fest right now. One glitch after the next, but hopefully whatever eBay is working on will clear itself up soon. I'm doing all the things that you are doing, and it's still very slow. :( Today I started another markdown sale and the sale wouldn't complete. I have been doing everything you said, but sometimes eBay just goes down and problems seem to alternate between sellers. I'm so glad your store is doing good right now!

[@biffboffo]

I'm on track for a July that is 50% better than July 2021. Last year, April and May were my best months of the year (stimulus checks), while this year April and May have been been my worst two months so far. I thought I was in for a long slow summer, but it has turned around since springtime. I'm very consistent with listing and I don't run any sort of promotions or coupons ever (for my niche, it just doesn't make much sense). The solution for me seems to have been fixing older listings. Aside from listing every single day, I have been re-optimizing older listings, which includes fixing keyword hierarchy and re-shooting photos. This feels like a lot of wasted energy at times, but I have to remind myself that the real wasted energy was creating the original non-optimized listing, and that energy was spent long ago. I look as these fixed listing as new listings, even though my store isn't growing very much for the effort. However, it's not about growing your store, it's about growing your sales.

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Exactly. And you don't need me to convince you that it is working, the results speak for themselves. Nice job!

[@Yourawesome5]

You sir are a genius. Cha-Ching within the hour indeed ! Thank you, really appreciate you taking the time to share this!

[@YardsalesDreams]

I love sourcing at yard sales first and foremost!! Good luck with your sales!!

[@expertbrian8314]

Anytime you talk about networking with the BiscuittButt it makes me chuckle 😂

[@niutak76]

Their algorithm is so screwed up. What works for some may not work for others. Every single time I have run a sale in the past, my sales tank and often get no sales at all. I have tried running sales numerous times and will never use them again as it has the complete opposite outcome of what should be happening. I do use promoted listings though.

[@bluroks1]

Same with us. If we do markdown sales we die, I use a coupon and get some sales that way

[@marthachastain210]

I love your channel, I learn so much from you! Thank you!

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Thanks Martha!

[@biscuittbutt1]

This video is so true...as you know too, listing kicks the algo for me. I'm so sporadic with listing, but as soon as I do, cha-chings happen.

[@happyandjoyful7916]

Thank you so very much for sharing your wonderful information!👏👏👏👏😊

[@FreshGrey-pm4vw]

Ebay changed the rules - they obviously dont want to keep the smaller sellers so they are just kicking us to the curb. (unless you pay them off....with extra$$$ in "promotions"). Sad.

[@SavagePickers]

Thanks Jon. I usually run sales a couple times a week and run them a week at a time. I find it generates some sales. This week has been ok. Not great but ok. Nothing yet today (Friday). Did 7 listings so far today but working on a few more.

[@Yazzie101]

Jon that’s old age .. welcome! 😂 I forget the simplest of things I do daily !! My slow time is Nov dec.. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Sales are so up n down that to get any sales it’s taking huge hours online to hustle sales! Few other sellers I’ve talked to have said the same.. can list and sit back anymore!!!

[@francoispalay5773]

I just started my Ebay store last month after starting on Etsy( which I had bad experience with).Made 2 sales which was exciting but haven't made any in past few weeks. Could be slow season and mixed inflation. All my items have value to collectors. My inventory is at 30 items and want to keep increasing. I figure its all learning at this point in the game. I think good reviews at 💯 percent is gonna also drive sales and build trust with customers.

[@AggressiveMeditation1]

Is it better to put more quantity on ebay more than 10 or i put it as 10

[@5797029]

I usually have around 10-15 different sale markdowns running at all times. Duration on each is from 3-7 days so every day there are a couple of them ending. This is where I use the end/sell similar procedure. Then I restart various sales. After that I go to Promoted Listings and tweak the percentage a little. Next is sending out offers and leaving a few feedbacks. I also find simply looking at some of my listings or other sellers similar listings seem to awaken the algorithm. This is like when a buyer asks a question about an item, then it sells a few minutes later to someone else. Just doing my shipping seems to stimulate the algorithm. Activity.

[@fisherflips]

I’ve made some minor changes with promotions, sales and coupons and sales have stayed steady. Also you have to remember that it takes the algorithm 3 days to catch up after any changes that are made

[@carltonleggett8222]

I have learned running short term sales works best. Like 2 days or 3 and end most on Sunday nights. I have 11 different sales running now at various percentages. What happens is hours before a sale ends watches are notified the sale is ending and they will buy. I use the filters to determine which items have the most watchers and numbers of days items are listed.

[@mrb6804]

Very underrated comment here. Great stuff. I need to get with u and pick your brain!

[@nadinepuopolo4307]

This was a great and very informative video. Thank you so much… from a new subscriber!

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Thanks for the sub!

[@cannpdx781]

Welcome to the group Nadine, Jon's channel is 1 of the best on Ebay, its informative and he doesn't brag about his 5000 dollar weekend sales, he teaches us how to increase our sales, so maybe 1 day we can brag on our big weekend on Ebay. And we have a great group of people here😸

[@Head2ToeTheatrical]

I am going to look at some of your newest videos and I just subscribed. I hope to keep learning.

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Welcome aboard!

[@ronrivera4738]

Hi John, Thanks for the video. I'm in my fourth month of selling on eBay. I have a store subscription, a really nice storefront, and a very good about story. I have over 800 products listed, yet my sales are less than 30 per month. My VA, say's that it is a waiting game and that I need to build up customers and reviews. I have about 36 reviews so far all of which are 100 percent positive. The products I sell are general products with good titles, descriptions, and photos. I even have the minimum promotions activated as well. However, my sales are still super low. What am I doing wrong? Please advise.

[@IamHedgehog]

Yeah so basically knock down sales , coupon discounts and more percent for promoted listings. You must be picking up items for virtually freeif you willing to do this week in week out!

[@garydavids2037]

Thank you for your Video , Do you think markdown promotion will help ? I sold $25 from last week with almost 300 items ,

[@happyreality244]

Thank you great tips and ideas

[@rachelwebber2120]

Hi I have a question about markdown sales - after one ends do I need to wait a certain amount of time before the same items can go on sale? Thanks, for the info in your video!

[@FlippinAintEasy]

No, launch it right away the day after your sale ends.

[@sboutlaw2007]

good video Jon, but I do wander about glitchy eBay playing a roll in the number of sales. I have a coupon on all of my items in my store, use best offers and send out offers and coupons. Talking 25 to 30% off all items and still sporadic sales. The reason I bring this up is using best offer and coupons some of my customer's don't realize you cannot make an offer and then use a coupon. So when I accept an offer I sometimes have to explain to new buyers you cannot use both coupon and best offer. With that said I have has some buyers state they did not see my coupon code. This was a shock since I have coupon on all of my items. So would eBay hide the coupon code from certain buyers?

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Maybe they just didn’t see the coupon but it was there. Just like when you clearly write something about the item in the listing and the buyer doesn’t read it.

[@MelywoodMedia]

My sales tanked 4th quarter 2021. I ended all my listings and sold similar. I list a minimum of 5 new listings a day and keep new listings saved as drafts so I always have new listings ready even on days I don’t work. All new listings have every item specific filled in as much as possible. I also ship lightening fast and keep up with feedback. That all jump started me again. Recently I started asking friends and family to rate my store because the algorithm probably favors stores with feedback too.

[@thebluetarp]

I run seven day auctions on everything I sell on eBay first. Everything that doesn’t sell on auction, gets put into my store with a buy it now price. I’ve done this for over 20 years. What are your thoughts on auctions verse buy it now in general? Have you done a video on this?

[@kayamac3]

I know you didn’t ask me but I find alot of items sell stupidly cheap on auction. Certain toys and books do better but clothing is fairly bad on auctions imo

[@Mike.hughes90]

Hey what do you start your auctions at thanks

[@kayamac3]

@@Mike.hughes90 depends what

[@dgh5223]

I see lots of auctions with one winning bid and rock bottom starting price. Buy It Nows gets higher price.

[@kayamac3]

@@dgh5223 the only opposite of this would be some vintage toy lots. People will bid sooo high on some like my Britains horses and knights figures from the 70s

[@rainingretronc8286]

I've recently started watching your videos and have subscribed. Love your content. Question on your markdown sales...do you put your entire store on sale, and what % do you use? Every month the same?

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Thanks for the sub. Yes, I do use them. Normally I do 5% to keep the algorithm happy. Currently for the summer slowdown I have done 15%. I do my sales month to month and i notice when i forget to reinstate a markdown sale my sales go in the tank.

[@ShelsBellesAndWhistles]

I decided to try a different tactic. Rather than give eBay 38% of each sale total...I completely turned off all promoted %. I ended all listings and using the sell similiar feature I put back up all my listings. I waited a day and made no other changes. I turned on a markdown sale for 40% off my entire store. I decided rather than give eBay more money I passed that savings onto the buyer. After 5 hours the sales started pouring in. Too bad eBay is having shipping glitches and will not allow me to print a label now. I reached out to every buyer to let them know eBay is having glitches and I will print the label just as soon as it is fixed. I have 3 hrs 45 mins to get to the PO. Today I am so over eBay and all their BS every single day. I waste more time jumping through eBays clown hoops rather than listing and maintaining my inventory and paperwork. EBay is no longer going to get any extra money from me via promoted listings. I'd rather lower the price to benefit my buyers.

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Sounds like ebay was mad at you for taking away their promoted listings money....

[@ShelsBellesAndWhistles]

@@FlippinAintEasy That's what I was thinking but sometimes I make up stuff in my head that's not true. I actually think a better pricing strategy is what I need to focus on after this 2 day sale ends. I reached out to eBay on Ebay for business on FB and never received a reply back. Not surprised. A friend who is knowledgeable in IT stuff came over and we cleared my cache, cookies, & browsing history & rebooted my PC and my phone a voila...suddenly I was able to print labels again. Maybe it's time to upgrade my PC & phone. Who knows. The glitches this month are out of control.

[@rainingretronc8286]

@@ShelsBellesAndWhistles Your point of replacing your computer might be true if it's fairly old. Or making sure you are using ebays preferred browser and it is updated. I use Chrome and rarely have glitches. With all of the changes to the code ebay is making, an old browser/computer could cause problems.

[@ShelsBellesAndWhistles]

@@Phoenixlightning369 eBay has been a dream the past 4 weeks now that the Fall updates are in place. I have had no glitches for 4 weeks. But I also am using eBays standard promotions on all my items. Pay eBay and you definitely get more sales.

[@maskedman4137]

My sales are definitely up from last year. Summer 2022 has been great for me and hoping it continues. I always try to get new/used items in weekly so that I have new items to list weekly. I think positive feedback really helps with sales and how eBay relists any unsold items. In the past month, I have sold approximately 50% of items that appeared on eBay 2-3 weeks after initially listing them

[@bluroks1]

Another great video. Any idea on a situation we have encountered. Sundays now are zero sale days. No matter what we do, Sundays are zero sales. And we have another thing, most days we get no more than 4 sales. Used to get 10 to 30 sales a day now very very rarely will we pass 4 sales. This is with almost 9000 store items

[@nancyboccuzzi863]

thank you. I just subscribed. you are very helpful.

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Thanks Nancy!

[@cannpdx781]

Morning Jon, agree on your comments on Ebay rates, I'm starting to think of Ebay like having to use an attorney lol, don't like paying them, but I'd rather have 80% of something then 0 of nothing. Finger's crossed that you find great stuff at the G sales 🤑🤑 All have a great weekend😸

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Thank you! I will keep you guys posted.

[@thebluetarp]

I have never ran a markdown sale on eBay. I do spend $50 or more in my store on buy it now items and get free shipping. I usually have about 5 to 8 sales a month, which isn’t that great. So when you’re saying a markdown sale, are you saying a certain percentage off of anything in the store flat out across the board?

[@thebluetarp]

@Susan Miller I just ran 30% off for 2 weeks and my sales didn’t increase hardly at all. So now I’m promoting at 7% and that seems to have increased sales by about 35%. And went back to spend $50 and get free shipping. Seems to be better for me...

[@kf1683]

They don’t work because people want it free or cheap. I have ran mark down sales every weekend now for several months. Not one person took advantage. They let it expire and then try to lowball through a message. 4K items, all new and name brand. I have 20percent off coupon run for two weeks. I have two scheduled markdown sales scheduled for next week. Not sure why if people never take advantage.

[@ashleighdeck3429]

I thought you could only do a markdown for 14 days and then had to have a 14 day break? Or is that just the UK? Or is everyone just ignoring that little notice in the fine print? Thanks

[@FlippinAintEasy]

That's certainly not a thing here in the USA. It is best to run shorter sale durations and I max mine out at the end of the month then start another right away (when I don't forget. lol)

[@basher875]

Huge thumbs up for the tips

[@ACDC4LIFE]

I’ve never used a markdown % or a coupon can you advise & show us how to apply to our listings. Thanks !

[@FlippinAintEasy]

I do have a video on that. I made it about a year ago.

[@Miranda3730]

Find the marketing area in your dashboard. It's really user friendly, just follow the steps on the screen.

[@biffboffo]

I think this feature is only available for folks with a store subscription though. If you don't have one, that's why you're not seeing the feature.

[@ACDC4LIFE]

@@biffboffo OK that’s why Thanks !

[@teedoeoli3839]

Ya you gotta pay 4.95 a month for a year store subscription to get this feature or its like 7.95 per month to use it just one month.

[@Milgamix77]

THANK YOU BRO YOU ARE A G

[@Playtrack22]

IMO we should research essentials stuff which sell or not. I'm glad my inventory is gone cause I'm going vacation next month when I get back started all over again.

[@lsgsrob2102]

I always use promoted on 100% of my listings. Anything under $20.00 gets promoted at 10% out of the gate & anything over $20.00 gets promoted at suggested out of the gate. My organic sales to promoted sales is about 70/30 respectively so it doesn't really make a difference on my average PPI & I get those extra sales. As for running sales, I set up all of the sales that I'm going to do at the beginning of each quarter so I never have to worry about it and always have sales/coupons/combined shipping discounts going. Don't forget to use buyer groups too especially if your a nich store.

[@woodyhayes7402]

Promoted @ 10% is ebay's regular fees and then the additional 10% promoted fee?

[@lsgsrob2102]

@@woodyhayes7402 yes and yes, still maintaining a 45-50% margin. Again it’s only rough 30% of my sales that sell promoted. When they sell organic my margin jumps to almost 60% so when I average it out at the end of the day my margin is right around 45-50%. Example, I sell alot of my items at $15+$6.50 shipping, average cost of shipping is $4.50 and if it sells promoted at 10% then I make $9.20 profit. Now multiply that by 15-20 sales per day and thats pre-tax profit. Edit: my average cost of goods is $3 so you can plug that into the ebay fee calculator to see. I also sell a lot of items at $17, $18 and $19. Also, I sell mens pre-owned clothing. At the end of the day the only thing I’m concerned about is cash flow, items sold and profit. I don’t care how much money I give ebay, I don’t care about returns and I don’t care about negative feedbacks. This is a business and my job is to deliver good items at a good price as quickly as possible and have great customer service and thats what I worry about. Far to many people go down the rabbit hole of “giving ebay to much money” or “ebay already takes enough”. Usually those sellers have really crappy stores and put in minimal effort and thus get minimal results.

[@marthachastain210]

Thank you so much, I know it took time away from your business to help others. You are a class act! Martha

[@lsgsrob2102]

@@marthachastain210 no time at all! Just got done sourcing actually so was taking a quick break, glad I could give some insight and/or help

[@woodyhayes7402]

@@lsgsrob2102 - Thanks for taking the time to give a detailed response. I'm definitely not agreeing with you 100% though. Cost of goods and fees to do business are the NUMBER #1 reason(s) businesses fail. You doing more work for less profit is NEVER A GOOD BUSINESS MODEL....EVER! A set rate of say 10% commission should never go up. Charge 10% and as prices/markets go up so does the gross profits of say Ebay. Same with Governmental taxes...we should never have a taxation rate that goes up. Commission like taxes are not levied for more profit, but more control by the rulers. I wish you success, but the only way to negate commission increase is to also increase fees. Don't believe me? Call a business bankruptcy Attorney, get a free consultation and they will tell you the same thing.

[@lisaa6099]

Same, Im no idiot and have tried all the tips that resellers advise. Still pretty slow, just not getting views.

[@amsiii]

Rightnow I'm trying not to spend alot of money on items to sell. I'm spending only a little bit of especially since i don't have over 100 listings on ebay. But i am still going out and sourcing to grow my listings on the side and making them as drafts. In the beginning of October im going to start listing those saved drafts about 2-3 per day and slowly increasing the drafts i lists towards the holiday when people are mostly on the Internet buying gifts. That's my plan.

[@carolc.1334]

When you say $500 a day are you meaning sale price plus shipping cost? or profit?

[@FlippinAintEasy]

For me, my current goal is to see and average of $500 per day in my sales summary. Ebay includes shipping in this figure. Let's just say 50% margin, that would equal out to $250 per day in profit or $7500 per month over a 30 day period.

[@sabochan1111]

Good advice ty

[@Floridabruce1960]

Good info. Thanks. I retired last year and started buying estates and storage auctions. I'm a one man show and have been steadily trying to increase my store daily. I'm up to almost 1,600 items listed but sales are slower than ever. 😢 Went from 8 to 10 sales a day to 1 to 2 sales every other day...😮

[@Yourdrivermike..0]

Same here dude luckily enough i just got mine fixed with the help of a professional expert! Called Lyft_techz who helped me when i was desperate and i think he can help you too, i suggest you send him a request.

[@user-xb2hf2id7q]

I list an item and then i search for it on the ebay search bar but i cant find it anywhere...Any suggestions?

[@sharon94503]

Search by item number 1st ...then you need to search with exact search words. Depending whether or not you pay for a subscription or not storefront, your listing may be in the bottom.

[@misseyespy1]

Yeppp I have been trying it works for me

[@cardenas262002]

Sales are so SLOW!! right now

[@brentbradley6711]

biden

[@marthachastain210]

John, I’m a new resale I look on my computer I can’t find out how to do a sale can you help me? I have 80 items in my store, and I get only one sale a week.

[@biffboffo]

You probably don't have a store subscription so you don't have that option.

[@FlippinAintEasy]

When you go into your seller hub there should be a marketing tap that you click on and find the dropdown menu that says "promotions". You create your markdown sales there provided you subscribe to an ebay store which in my opinion is a must have for most sellers.

[@marthachastain210]

@@biffboffo yes I do have a starter store, it’s just when I click on sale there’s nothing there. Thanks for your reply though

[@marthachastain210]

@@biffboffo yes I do have a starter store, it’s just when I click on sale there’s nothing there. Thank you

[@hydrolyzed_liquid_collagen]

How do I do coupons on Ebay? I am new lol I mark prices down but how do I hold a sale?

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Should be a blue button when you are in the markdown manager. There should be a drop down menu that allows you to set up a coupon.

[@curiouscollection2626]

I only want 200 a day. 1700 listed. Had multiple no sales days in the last month. I don't do salvage just collectibles. Trying hard but considering getting a job tland shutting down ebay business. Hope Christmas is better.

[@JoseBYOB]

Hey, great video. How are you sourcing products. Can you give me a few examples? Or at least one lol? Thanks.

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Yard sales. Liquidation

[@gailmcclendon7480]

Just a comment. I will never run a markdown sale or coupon campaign for more than 3 days at a time. What is interesting is that I won't necessarily sell items in the sale categories but my sales pick up for other items. When the sales end is when I get a big boost in sales.. always.

[@venividivici4253]

I’m in the slow sales boat. It hurts to sell electronics for dirt cheap and not make a profit. I don’t mind MSRP or slightly below for unused stock but the only way I was able to move my inventory was to take semi low ball offers. I’ve been on eBay since 2017 and the times have changed. I am a fair negotiable seller but sometimes I’ll accept a slight lowball.

[@FlippinAintEasy]

I think sometimes we see MSRP (or near it) as where our items need to sell for. Even with new stock most items will not sell close to full MSRP unless there is big demand for that item. Otherwise I have found you will normally get about 60-75% retail and sometimes less than that. What I do is focus on what I’m into the item for and try to get the market price (ebay solds) for that item. If after some time I have not sold the item I will turn on Best Offer and accept offers that will bring be at least 3x my cost. I will only go lower than that if I am just trying to move a dead item. As for fixing sales, I have found there isn’t one thing you can do to fix your sales but instead doing a collection of things with your listings and your account to be successful. I hope things pick up for you.

[@venividivici4253]

@@FlippinAintEasy Great timing with your comment. I was finally able to move some things with reasonable offers. My XBox one S being the most recent.

[@Swampy_Mama]

Keep your prices high er, everyone should , making the avg prices higher all over the board showing buyers that the price it is, is the price it is. Buyers will buy at that price then

[@venividivici4253]

@@Swampy_Mama appreciate the comment :)

[@markysspotlight2472]

Love the insight 👌 👏 we are still learning the world of resellers and this is great information for newbies! Thanks for helping!

[@starlacreationsco1550]

Of course I started my selling journey in July. 🤣

[@billiekite1897]

No sales in 5 days in my eBay store with 1500 items mostly new an great prices feedback excellent I use to have up 20 orders a day . eBay says my account is fine 😮 I don't even get views . Can anyone advise which platform mostly new disney and snoopy etc. Thanks Billie

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Depends much on what is being sold within those brands but maybe Mercari Postmark or even Amazon in some cases.

[@bowser2005]

I didn't know markdown sales were so effective, I might give it a try.

[@suzannecarsello7675]

Does this only apply to an Ebay store -not just selling on Ebay?

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Yes. You can only have markdown sales when you have a store.

[@TheBrandonn]

I always wondered what this "summer slowdown" is. my sales always pick up in the summer...

[@tabathaterry2998]

Try jacking the prices up first then discount down to normal.

[@CMRetroGaming]

I was having the same type of issue. I had weeks where I sold $8, $25, $12 lol. Keep in mind I'm a weekend warrior reseller with a regular 40-60 hour a week job, so my time is limited. I removed all of my items that got ZERO views over the last 60 days and I re-listed inventory that removed from eBay a long time ago. My last four weekly payouts were $163, $224, 254 at $114. My guess is that I removed all the clutter listings that weren't even being looked at and listed new "fresher" items. I can understand that, have you ever looked through someone's store and they have 10 pages of items? By page 5 you get bored and click off the page...you potentially missed 5 pages of items that you may have wanted, why did you leave the page? You were forced to look at items you (and no one else) cares about. By getting rid of the clutter items and getting the items on pages 5-10 closer to pages 1-5 you might increase the views and the sales. In my case, it seemed to work.

[@FlippinAintEasy]

That is good information. It confirms to me if you have a higher store sell through rate (getting rid of bad listings will improve this), it has an effect on the other items you are selling and I suspect you get a higher best match search boost.

[@arnolduk123]

I've done this myself, somehow if you leave a listing unchanged for while it becomes lost in eBays dungeon of desolate listings 😪 Relisting or changing the item title, description, price or delivery options, can boost the listing views and ranking. Another tactic that strangely works is moving the item into another item category. I've sold items in categories that an item is not usualy found. I think buyers have been looking for something else and then my item pops up which gets them interested. I've also noticed some unscrupulous sellers with multiple variations listings add a small value item of say $1 as a variation in order to rank the item higher when searched by price. Although, as a buyer I will not buy from a seller who used a low value variation in order to trick me to view their listing, it's like click bait.

[@i.m.7710]

My first time watching. Video starts at 6:25 or later. I prefer shorter and to the point without repeating info and long explanations. Don’t hate me!😅🤣 Other than that, I really enjoyed your video and will watch more! 🎉🎉🎉

[@Keepgrinding3173]

I do markdown sales all the time every month and zero promoted listings. I’m in the sports card market. Sales are slow given it’s summer and the economy but I’m still selling several items a day. When things seem bad and down keep listing.

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Best thing I’ve can do. I hope things pick up for you.

[@smerk429]

Hi thanks for your videos. Im a subscriber. Question please : I have an item listed on ebay. It sold on facebook. Now i still have it listed on ebay. * I dont want sales to slow. * Should i End Listing with Reason "Item no longer available", "price is wrong", etc. ? * Should i revise it with a new item to make a new listing without ending it ? Thanks. Anybody knowledgeable please reply soon.

[@pdeep1981]

You just nailed it on forgetting about mark down sale. I have just realised that why some months sales are down compared to the months which items are on mark down sales. Thanks for this

[@mzzzol]

Im Done with Ebay I did everything and no sales for weeks. Ebay was my full time work and I have to find a job bc no sales . Im disappointed of ebay I give all my time all my money and no sales. I have been selling on ebay since 2003

[@mercmanwon]

eBay business is 100% about making $$. They have discovered if they offer promoted listings and add a 12% premium they make the listing visible. Same item (exact same item) not ran thru the eBay promoted listings becomes invisible. When you look at your traffic history the promoted item will always have significantly more visibility. The promoted item sells and eBay collects an additional 12%. Total fees eBay collects is approaching 25%. I use the promoted listing, add the premium to the price and it sells. My exact item not promoted is still there. Same item and customer pays 12% more.

[@jeffcole1914]

Im not so concerned about the fee but why a fee on shipping ? We have to buy shipping and supplies why charge me on my shipping charges im new so weird to me lol

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Because some sellers charged a low price for their item and a higher than normal shipping charge to get around paying final value fees.

[@signebreeden1372]

I am running my first Campaign. Can I run a sale or Promote during that ? THank u

[@FlippinAintEasy]

If you have a store you can. I like using a coupon and use the markdown manager.

[@signebreeden1372]

@@FlippinAintEasy thank u so much, yes I do have a store- Happy Holidays

[@togetherrrr]

Ok I am sorry, English is my second language, so I did not grasp the main idea, how he did fix his sales? What exactly he did to improve his sales? I need this advice so much, but I listened and listened again, and not sure what the fix was, still. Thank you in advance.

[@mrfrisky5887]

I have noticed lately that people will not pay more then lowball auction other sellers run

[@sunnieyes]

Ok, what happens if everyone does the promoted listing, then there will not be anyone being promoted, all will be in the same, just like it was when no one was promoting listings. Please comment on this. Barbara

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Your right. When the bar keeps getting raised it becomes the seller who is willing to pay more IN THEORY who will be at the top. However, if you watch the video I referenced when I set 3 items at 100% promoted, you will see these items did get a boost in search but were not at the top for similar items. Promoted listings will not take a bad or incomplete listing and put it to the top no matter how high you go. It is just another component in the equation that helps to determine your best match search ranking.

[@arnolduk123]

The same would be true if everyone did not promote listings. I think the promoted listings is a fee booster for ebay and listings should be ranked by a buyers search keywords and filtering preferences, not by how much the seller is prepared to pay ebay.

[@JoseLopez-wx1xi]

Quick question how do yiu run mark down sales on ebay

[@FlippinAintEasy]

On the pc go into your seller hub. Click on the marketing tab. On the left side you should see “markdown sale”. On the next screen you will see a blue button “create a promotion”. On the bottom of the menu select “sale event + markdown”. Set up your sale. Please note you need a store subscription to use this feature.

[@JoseLopez-wx1xi]

Thank you for the great details

[@michaeldenzer6024]

Had glitche in coupon but asked buyer to cancel so they could use coupon. Then they got discount and bought

[@thesavagechristian61]

Im a garage sale flipper. The cool thing is that its not just a 50-60% margin but a 2000-10000%+ margin

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Everything 100% depends on what you are into each item for.

[@SAK89]

It’s been three days I have open business account and listed 21 sku but no sales and no views

[@Mark-sy2bx]

Sellers need to realize there are different types of buyers: those who pay top price and those who don't, and there's a lot more who don't. So if sales are slow it's because the top buyers aren't there.

[@sunnieyes]

Has anyone contacted you about the Ebay glitches going on right now. I just got off the phone with Ebay. Can't ship, they are aware of this, can't leave feedback don't think they know this on. Barbara

[@FlippinAintEasy]

The glitches are plentiful. I read on the eBay sellers forum that many are having problems with shipping. I didn’t have this issue but I did have an issue with uploading photos into new listings where they would just spin and not load.

[@Rsellerebayboi]

Hey man! Are you in vegas? I am vegas reseller but only part time

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Yes I’m in Vegas

[@arnolduk123]

Some smart words from the ebay master. I'm gonna try this. Thanks!

[@FlippinAintEasy]

I hope it works out for you as it has for me.

[@davebukove490]

You aren't blaming eBay enough. It could be better but they gave up marketing the site so they can keep all the money you paid.

[@peterstanton9626]

At the end of the day you can have all the bells and whistles, buy now or promoted items if people do not have the money they won’t buy we are in a worldwide recession and a cost of living crisis plus many many sellers are all selling the same things

[@sunshine4evr517]

This is a confusing time to be starting an Ebay business much less just survive the changes. Any great tips appreciated!!! Get a wild hair and just leave you best tip. Maybe this could be a new seller resource hidden in a video comment section...just kidding but I really do need all there help I can get. I'm working on getting the report downloads to download in the correct format. ... ugh!

[@whatif2416]

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[@foodini666]

Sales plus promotional eBay %, be careful on compounding discounts. Still got the eBay fees on top of that.

[@sleepy36323]

I have specialty items that I'm want to sell, I've worked my fingers to the bone to get started, but now I'm scared, so scared of failure. I've got to do it now because I have so much invested

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Failure is good, you learn from most failures. Just pick yourself back up and keep going.

[@SyntheticStuntMan]

I understand the idea of letting ebay keep the 20%...but where does it end? all the nickle and dime-ing us to death cant keep going up because sooner or later it wont be worth selling because you cant command a price high enough to end with any profit.

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Unfortunately I only think it will stop when all the sellers have left. Until that day comes it will continue.

[@msnaturalnotts]

6:34 WHAT HE DID TO RAISE HIS SALE ON EBAY

[@AriefPrabowo93]

Nice tips..thank you so much,you are awesome!

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Happy to help!

[@mikehorvath8176]

Do you think putting the title description in all caps hurts or helps a listing? I know all caps is considered as shouting, but my reasoning for doing it is to make the listing stand out.

[@cannpdx781]

I agree, and do my listings in caps, great question.

[@FlippinAintEasy]

The listing does stand out however it is off putting to some people. You are better off making sure your title is optimized.

[@Miranda3730]

No. eBay recommends you to start each word in the title with a cap. Please don't do all caps.

[@marykuettner752]

I think the most important thing you said here is customize it to suit your merchandise. I have sold part time on Ebay since about two years after they started. I could look at everything in a category in an hour with dial-up. Things have changed a lot since then but knowing who you are trying to sell to has always been the most important thing. My customers are getting a great deal and I rarely accept offers and never run sales. Every store is different so research people who seem to have similar stores. If I used all caps my customers wouldn't buy. They would assume I don't know what I am doing.

[@biffboffo]

eBay specifically recommends against this practice, so the algorithm is probably penalizing your search placement to a degree. Honestly, you're not really converting any extra sales with this tactic. I assume that the people who use all caps are old and don't know how to type very well, so they just leave the caps lock on out of laziness.

[@daurgo2001]

Huh? What's a "Mark down sale"?

[@misslashayresells3853]

Mercari fee is 10% of sales price plus 2.9% + 00.30 processing fee.

[@Find.list.ship66]

Mercari doesn’t have enough buyers from me to mess with

[@misslashayresells3853]

@@Find.list.ship66 I understand. Just letting you know the fee wasn't 20%. Doing decent for me.

[@FlippinAintEasy]

You know what, you may be right. I was thinking of poshmark.

[@dansanfrisco]

@@Find.list.ship66 You should be thinking the opposite. I had my first Mercari sale last week which got forty times the views it got on eBay (46 views to 1 view on eBay). Mercari right now has LESS competition than eBay and listing is super easy compared to eBay. Just have to get used to waiting three days after delivery to get paid if no problems arise in between.

[@Find.list.ship66]

@@dansanfrisco I’ve done my own testing with mercari. Didn’t like it. And it wasn’t easy to print dymo labels through mercari like eBay

[@OnizukaSenseSay]

I gotta say that most ebay youtube channel hosts annoy me. So far you seem genuine and not annoying so I think I'll check you out for a while and see how it goes...

[@FlippinAintEasy]

Please let me know when I do. Thanks.

[@OnizukaSenseSay]

@@FlippinAintEasy Having annoyed me yet and that's saying something. 😆

[@Iam-motors]

Try running daily markdown sales to get buyer more eager

[@jevan40]

I learned when the slow down season are….

[@maldo8955]

Ive had listings since september with no views. Need help

[@mikeh3559]

that 20% for promotion is on top of the fees that already apply

[@FlippinAintEasy]

That is about what my average percentage is after I promote.

[@ypcomchic]

Even if you use promoted item on one item it promotes them all and you pay eBay more money in the end