Profiting from the eBay reset w/ advanced techniques | Finding ways to survive slow sales | Q&A

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[@BKVendingFlipping]

I did my entire store yesterday, 650 listings, sold 2 items, had more page views yesterday then I have had in months, and sent out 15 offers and received a few as well.

[@BKVendingFlipping]

So just an update on day two so far, 4 sales, page views are down from yesterday, but still higher than any other day for the last few months. I've sent out 20 offers and received several offers as well, 2 of the offers I received are 2 of the sales for today. Can't wait to try this all over again in two days and see if I can get even better results as I continue to list new items as well. thanks guys.

[@DarthThrifter]

Just over 24 hours since my reset I have 8 sales for $350. Pretty amazing considering I did only $650 the last 7 days.

[@Milliemae1]

I have a small store, been operating about 5 months as I'm retired and need extra $$. I totally agree with list similar, it's like tricking Ebay into thinking that you've had a big listing day with new items which shows that listing regularly does make an impact contrary to what Ebay reps would have you believe. I have been unwell and not been able to list for a week, my sales dropped too zero, as soon as I reset, bam! Sales started to filter through.

[@hayfro]

awesome news. hopefully more come in.

[@Milliemae1]

@@hayfro fingers crossed, thanks for replying:)

[@howgroovyisthis]

As others have already pointed out this is not a new method but your approach is different in the you are recommending a full store reset every 4 days. I haven't had a chance to watch your previous video but I think I get a jist of it from the comments. My personal take on the method is to work items 90 days or older. Everyone needs to see what works for them. Thanks for the great content and your passion to help other resellers. ❤

[@hayfro]

yes. experimentation is paramount. hopefully viewers can share what they learn and we can get thru this together.

[@creedysgirl]

I too did my whole shop yesterday, 123 items, and today I sold my Treebeard action figure and two sets of toleware plate holders. Awesome!! Thank you!

[@bneshan1264]

Wow! It's officially the Jack & Jeff Show! Hey you guys... if eBay doesn't work out for you both -- you certainly can get a job as FBI Detectives! Amazing! I took the plunge this afternoon as you both explained and I would have written earlier but so sorry i was too busy.... SHIPPING!!! OMG! 8 sales one after the other and the night isn't over yet -- and a ton of watchers so I've sent many offers. Thank you Thank you Thank you! It hasn't felt this way since April. I will continue to follow the Jack & Jeff show! -- looks like eBay owes us months of 'back rent' -- so much time, energy, effort wasted all these months trying to manipulate our stores. Well -- again much appreciation for all your valuable instruction!!!

[@hayfro]

this is truly exciting news and I'm happy that you got some sales. THIS is what reselling should be about.

[@bneshan1264]

@@hayfroYes! You guys renewed my inspiration again... it was fading fast. But you gave us 'tangible' hope! You guys really care and it shows! Thanks again.

[@nicholcreach9441]

If you Google how many listed items eBay has… it’s 1.7 billion 😵‍💫 To share the size of my store… 2800 items, 90% clothing. (Which is high competition.) Last year I was doing 30k every 90 days, this year is 10k every 90 days. I am so desperate for sales I have promoted on 7%, sales running 17% on new items and 30% on stuff over a year old. I’ve run sales up to 50% off… I even have a coupon on all items for 15% off if they use it. It will be interesting to see the jump in sales, yesterday I did half my items and got 5 sales on sell similar items that I knew I had up to 50% off at one time. 273$ in sales yesterday up 26%. Also 7 out of 9 sales from yesterday sold with no promoted fees. That might be a negative for eBay even though they get paid regardless. :) thank you for responding!

[@hayfro]

that was a benefit I didn't want to talk about for obvious reasons. :-)

[@Tlip1119]

I do something similar, except I end my listings and update them before selling similar rather than submitting them as is. I sell primarily clothing, so I go to the storage bins that have the most aged inventory and work on those first. I take new pictures, update my titles and item specifics, and adjust my pricing as needed. After all that, I submit the new updated listing My results have been good. Not only have those items been selling, but it has actually caused some of my older items to sell as well. I'm guessing it is from the increased traffic, it may be causing these buyers to look at other items in my store similar to what they searched for. If you have a smaller store, I highly recommend doing this. For a larger store, it would be a good idea but would just be much more time consuming

[@NashTV8]

DailyRefinement just ended-and-Shilled-Similar his entire career. : )

[@HolyDiverDio928]

He’s Poshmark closet should be named smash and grab items for sale.

[@JLStanton1968]

You're supposed to take out the trash, not bring it into the house.

[@hayfro]

omg. so funny bro. i just laughed out loud.

[@Jake-Day]

eBay won’t take it way. They’ll just find a way to monetize it.

[@JLStanton1968]

Isn't it amazing what they do to kill their own sales?

[@bluroks1]

Thank you for the tip. I just redid my entire store this morning. 6900 items. So far about 3-4 hours later I just sold two old items that were in my shop. I mean OLD items. I noticed my page views increased some. So hopefully this jump started something and I will see what it does rest of day and overnight. Thanks again for posting the video.

[@just_cath_5789]

I did about 70-80% of my store, and did the same thing with the app to make sure I never lost any listings. Impressions and page views yesterday were definitely up, here’s hoping it converts to some sales 🤞🏻 Thanks Jeff & Jack for the tips ❤

[@TheCCCkevin]

Was skeptical how our store with 467 items would fair, but believed. Ended all listings and sold similar around 3PM pst. Have sent 5 offers in the past 10 minutes -- will follow up. Thank you…Lewis Clan Collectors

[@rick9705]

OK... HOLD UP!!! So I did this while watching your video and an item that I've had listed for months with over 150 views and 18 watchers just sold within literally 10 minutes of the reset! WOW!!!

[@DarthThrifter]

It really works my man

[@hayfro]

great to hear rick.

[@DarthThrifter]

Jeff, my new video is up. Hope everyone enjoys my experience with the eBay reset! @heyfro

[@Patricia.resells]

I will send hard numbers reset results after it's been live 24 hrs but I definitely see heartening results so far and I don't have more than 200 listings. Higher views, watchers, ability to make offers.

[@hayfro]

fingers crossed patricia

[@broughttoyoubuy4590]

Hello, Thank you for the Information. I have done the End/Relist many times but not as a whole store. I am working on doing my whole store which is only 750 Items. I hope to have a strong Weekend. Thanks Again

[@bluroks1]

So far my stats show that the first day I did the entire store the impressions and page views went through the roof. Did not translate in many sales but at least they are seeing our ads. Funny how the promoted listings are in the negative numbers. All my sales from the day one store reset resulted in 100% total organic sales and zero promoted sales. Day 2 totals really dropped off in views and in orders. But still increased but no where near the day 1 totals. Going to play around with promoted and adjusted selling prices to see if it sparks more sales.

[@hayfro]

views drop each day after reset, that's just how it happens. glad you got some organic sales. I've got some more tricks I'm working on but I have to do some research first.

[@persiancucumber9255]

i did this method to 1/3rd of my inventory, didnt get one hit. It really does have to do with the items you are selling, as I know its not my prices. Im glad this is working for most people.

[@hayfro]

is your store niche or an everything store? I believe it works best for everything as it seems to cast a wider net but right now it's just a hunch.

[@kidcryptic8193]

This is a good idea, I have been selling for about 7 months, I heard this unlist and sell similar form a few random reseller youtube channels my first 3 months into reselling, just combing the whole youtube for reseller content to learn from and this idea is wide and well known in the re-sell community with lots of different opinions on if it works or not, in my case yes It does work for me. Before my items automatically role over back to 30 day, I will take all items that have 5 days left and under and unlist and then sell similar, changing up the prices and the titles, promotion rates, and then relist them at the same time as List my regular 10 items so its like listing 15 or 20 items on those days i sell similar. It really does boost the store, or it seems to for me, the community is all over the place on this topic, but I tend to do what works and not listen to the tubers who complain about what is not working, like your channel because you are looking for answers and not just complaining for hours. Lets get this money

[@hayfro]

I’ve done my fair share of complaining, but I’m just trying to find out what actually works to generate sales and what’s in the best interest for the community. appreciate the comment

[@polish_pete_uk]

There is a way to recover accidentally deleted listings. Too much to write in the comment. I must so the video on it.

[@hayfro]

that would make for a great video for the community Pete

[@polish_pete_uk]

@@hayfro Video is up, so feel free to have a quick look (it's 5 min long), and pass the message if you'll find it usefull. I'm not pasting link, as it's up to you to decide, mate.

[@TrevorAngel]

Can you do an actual video on the 123 of ESS - I find it daunting as never done it before and wouldn’t know where to start - reading about it doesn’t work for me and I imagine many others so a walk through video would be awesome!

[@hayfro]

i will do that as soon as i have time.

[@Tyejohnston]

I got 7 sales 6 organic!! Less fees loving that

[@hayfro]

i've noticed that trend about organic. I didn't talk about it and figured I'd let people discover that on their own.

[@user-zg5sr2zh7j]

You might want to remind people to keep track of how many items they are ending/selling similar. If they go over their allowed monthly allowed amount they will be charged. It can add up quickly

[@hayfro]

i will try to rememeber in the next video to give a reminder. appreicate your suggestion.

[@bluroks1]

Well here it goes. Very bad Sunday. So this morning I did another total reset on half of my store. Did 4000 items with the sell similar. This was at 7 am this morning my time (eastern). Well already picked up two very good sales and the views are up again. This is good news coming off a real bad non sale weekend. However its looking like you have to keep on refreshing your store just to get sales. After about day three forget it as its time to redo the items again. But happy for today so far anyhow. Ill keep the updates posting.

[@hayfro]

this is not an ideal situation by any means but it's one tool we can all use. and from here we can learn how to do other things. I'm looking into a few other things that there is a learning curve first and then another testing phase.

[@bluroks1]

@@hayfro Been very busy today since resetting the store. If it takes every few days for now, Im game to at least survive. Thank you for posting this again. Look forward to any tweaks you may come upon

[@heavymetalpicker1272]

I got no issue with anyone recommending this or doing this method. But I'm confident eBay will continue to try and stop it, do it while you can. I've seen all the issues we have with eBay play out in many other industries of the last 25 years. Online search, search monetization, mobile app stores, mobile advertising, Amazon, KDP, etc... loopholes are always taken advantage of and exploited to the nth degree, and then they are closed, I've seen it over and over again. Maybe I'll even take another look at this in some form, but I'm still focused primarily on figuring out where exactly eBay is going and how I can go there too. Lastly, I do believe things are mega-screwed up right now and eBay is just as confused as we are at the moment. At least that's how it's seemed for the last 45 days to me.

[@heavymetalpicker1272]

BTW, It goes without saying, do continue to innovate and try new things. It's the only way through these tough times.

[@glitterandsudsasmr7130]

Agree. I spoke to a customer service rep a few weeks ago. They are aware of the end sell similar being overused. When I mentioned it, the call went from the usual "don't know, so sorry" to "Do you mind if I take notes and bring someone else into the conversation". They know it was KZbinrs giving out this advice. They wanted to know who. I told them I couldn't remember the channel names. I don't want Jeff and Maria to get caught up in this if it has a blowback.

[@JLStanton1968]

Jeff and I have spoken about this and here's the cold hard sad truth: eBay screwed up with their April update, killing sales. People find some workarounds to save their businesses, then eBay says, "Oh, we know sellers are getting killed because of our incompetence, but we can't have them making money for themselves and our stockholders, so we're going to take this little thing away." Isn't it crazy that eBay will take away working solutions that they profit from? And btw, taking this away will NOT increase their profits in other areas AS THEY'RE NOT SHOWING OUR ITEMS! I look forward to a day when Jamie Iannone's vision is put to rest and he's sent off into the sunset with his $20-$30 million dollar golden parachute for being awful at what he does. It's like, here's a book on 20 things to do if you're running a business. Jamie picks it up as CEO, talks to his marketing, etc to double check the stats, then systematically goes about working against those things, because, stupidity. How does one go about figuring out how bad a CEO is? Take a look at their earnings reports every quarter. Jamie has had nearly four years of fail. If the stockholders continue to keep him at the top, they deserve their upcoming losses. Seriously, wouldn't it be nice if eBay devoted their time fixing the platform instead of taking things away from sellers, the people who do the bulk of the work and without whom profits for the stockholders couldn't be derived.

[@glitterandsudsasmr7130]

@@JLStanton1968 Agree. There will probably need to be lawsuits to do anything about it. We'd have to prove they are price fixing first

[@JLStanton1968]

@@glitterandsudsasmr7130 The longer Jamie is CEO, the more damage will be done. I hope the stockholders see this at some point. The quarterly reports speak for themselves.

[@Tyejohnston]

I also have been doing it for a while when I had 0 sales 2 days in a row I was motivated by what more could I loose… the phone is always next to me when I do this also. It is important to look at both

[@reputablehype]

I can tell you another thing I tried a few months back. I tried sell similar with drip feeding listings, meaning I scheduled 400 of them every 30 minutes for however long that takes lol I wanted to experiment to see if it worked like regular listing but I definitely have better results doing sell similar all at once. I think one at a time basically just gets lost in the shuffle of other sellers new listings whilst a bunch of them all at once has better chances of being clumped together. I assume that's why listing in once category at a time helps with sales too. Just thought I'd share :)

[@hayfro]

thanks for that info. I'm sure it will save others from trying it or others can try and confirm. I'm amazed at all the different ideas that people have.

[@jrkr1964]

I did about 800 of my items yesterday and it seemed to give me a boost in sales. Anxious to see what happens today.

[@sarahgabel1528]

Awesome. Works well. Hoping the 2nd reset does as well. Thanks

[@sarahgabel1528]

Has killed my store on the 3rd reset. Was getting 8-10 sales a day then did this last reset and no sales for 2 days and 1 sale the next......don;t do this if your store starts popping

[@SandraRawlinson-gd3me]

I had a really bad experience with the reset. I thought I was following our instructions on how to do the reset. I ended up losing almost half my listings. I also ended up with a ton of duplicate listings. Even after all this I ended up getting 4 sells.

[@Casmige]

The only way to increase performance is to audit what you’re doing, the peripheral conditions, & then carefully tweak it towards improvement & therefore success. Develops a standardized Template for gathering conditions, tweaks, results, info & statistics.

[@tonyfazzini9236]

To the comment about using the app on the phone.I just use 2 browser windows on my computer.I lost 200 listings once also.I know how to recover them now but unfortunately too much time has passed.

[@hollyl3376]

Hi! I'm new to your channel. Thank you for this info, I'm going to try it! BTW, who is Jack that you keep referring to?

[@hayfro]

jlstanton1968 - he is a friend that found me thru this channel and we've become friends and bounce ideas off each other offline. this reset was his idea that he used to do in june and a few weeks ago he mentioned he was trying it again so we decided to test it out on my two stores and his and see the results. When they appeared to be very positive we wanted to share with the community because many were saying end and sell similar was dead or seeing very little results. we theorize that doing your entire store every 4 days really provides a big boost and nobody out there was really talking about this angle.

[@preciado1980]

Exactly…I’d rather give the discount to the buyer. Rather than give the percentage to eBay. The buyer ends up losing with promoted listings fees period.

[@greenmosaicresale-april4671]

I refreshed about 200 listings yesterday and my numbers are showing and upward trend. With the people saying that they may run out of listings (myself being one of them), I wonder if this would be effective on a smaller scale by ending and selling similar all the listings that should relist that day and either doing that daily, or ending and selling similar all the listings that will reset in the next 3 days and refreshing every 4th day. I may try that - that way I won't come close enough to running out of listings and my store will still be brand new every month

[@hayfro]

interested in how it goes.

[@debk3135]

I've noticed I will sell items that previously had watchers before the reset. I'm wondering if ebay sends them a new message when you reset

[@JLStanton1968]

Someone had mentioned this yesterday and we're pretty sure it does. Sometimes people need a reminder.

[@queenbosslady1102]

Do you guys know how to end the entire store on Vendoo?

[@JLStanton1968]

We do it the old fashioned way, 200 at a time. So, no automation for us.

[@HolyDiverDio928]

Sold a G1 transformer for $109.00 and a Hebrew Tora Bible for $128.00 took a day to get sales after ending 90 precent of my store and sell similar. Hoping the high prices items sell through the weekend.

[@bluroks1]

Day 2 so far very low numbers. No offers watchers etc. No orders also. Yesterday tremendous bump. Will post tomorrow when totals for today's end numbers

[@hayfro]

i woke up to 21 offers to watchers, 3 sales for $102, even have a local sale today. hoping some of those offers covert.

[@vickiolson1198]

What I don't understand is this. Most offers end or expire in 48 hours if no one counters or purchases. Why, when I have 11 watchers, 9 of whom I sent out offers to 14 days ago, is ebay only allowing me to send out offers to the two newer watchers who have not gotten an offer yet? One would think I should be able to send out offers to those older watchers whose older offers expired almost two weeks ago.

[@hayfro]

that's just the way the system is. tbh, if they don't buy right away, usually the don't buy at all so it's a moot point.

[@PabloDiabloTreasures]

so far not really working great for me, 0 sales and several low ball offers and 2 people added to my blocked list.

[@JLStanton1968]

How was the traffic? Did it increase views? Thanks for the update and good luck.

[@PabloDiabloTreasures]

it did by about 35 to 50% but still a very low number and sadly no sales.@@JLStanton1968

[@arte1989]

Anyone ever seeing a random spike in sales when 1 item sells and you ship instantly and you get another sold within an hour and you ship instantly and keeps going maybe for 5 items extra in a day?

[@hayfro]

i've not noticed it but I've often theorized that it could be a thing.

[@michaelr3883]

Judging with your numbers shown on your wife's store, she seems to get a TON of external views + organic views, but little to no promoting views. Mine is the opposite and I wonder if that's because we promote differently. I have Dynamic Ads at 10% and my views I have half Organic and Half promoted but very little external traffic. I wonder if you also promoted at a high % or dynamically if you would then increase views even more or if that would drop your external views and push more into promoted views after a reset. My next reset I do later, I may try promoting back at 2% instead and see if that causes less page views overall for me or increases my external views. Also I do hope they eventually fix this and not to close any loop holes, I would like them to fix the overall visibility issues on the website for all sellers so that they don't NEED to do this anymore, even though it does help for now. I wish they would get rid of all the corporations on eBay and bring it back to its roots when it was everyday sellers like us, mom and pop shops, vintage items or used items at a good deal that you couldnt find on your own. I really feel that eBay trying to compete with Amazon will eventually kill them.

[@JLStanton1968]

Jeff and I have talked about this. We think it could have to do with her having a Canadian store versus his American store. Jeff and Maria's stores are more of an everything store versus mine which specialize in books and records (and more niche, pre-1960 records and Mormon religious books---I live in a large Mormon area and the books are there). Both their stores get more overall everything doing the resets compared to mine due to bigger diversity. Still, this helps my store.

[@hayfro]

mine is 3.1%, maria's is 5.1% if you play around with promoted list please report findings good or bad so it saves myself or other viewers that experiment.

[@francesburns2511]

I don’t know how to do bulk end item and sell similar. I just do them one by one. Is there a video that can take me through step by step how to all my listings together? 900 listings. Would be greatly appreciated. Frances

[@hayfro]

I will try and go thru an example on my next video on monday.

[@PabloDiabloTreasures]

They definitely could take it away probably for same reason they have drafts expire after 90 days and why you can't see the sold item after 90 days.

[@saradoherty3875]

would you need to use promoted listings if you have an anchor store and did this every 3/4 days i dont think you would

[@SAXON7147]

Problem with step 5. Go to ended listings and delete all the ended listings. I chose to do 100 at a time because I don't have a massive store but after step five, I don't remember the hundred I chose to go back to step two and select another hundred.

[@hayfro]

once you relist the first 100 you need to delete them out of your unsold to prevent this from happening. the only way to correct this is to check each one out of the 200 in your unsolds to see if it's been relisted then delete those ones.

[@Bawkr]

I sold an item that was 8-10 months old using this and my store has more visibility but sales are still really really bad (that was my only sale). I think the amount of open returns has negatively impacted my store but they're not legit returns or perhaps because I refunded a customer without asking him to return, it was a car stereo that neither of us knew needed a dealership code, will make sure of that in the future but honestly probably just avoid old factory honda stereos forever now. That same customer threatened to report me and then said that he did report me all within a 30minute window when I was in the kitchen. I asked ebay for business and they said I had no flags or issues on my account but it still seems like something is going on if not then the economy just took a massive dump when this war news hit, it's a sheer drop of from the action I was getting before & my daily time spent on the store.

[@rick9705]

It's ridiculous when selling women's clothing that returns have any negative impact whatsoever. Our return rate is under 3% which I think is amazing considering we're probably 60% womens 40% mens items and yet this weekend we had 2 returns open up, both did not fit, and suddenly we went from selling 4-8 items a day to 1... then suddenly one evening we sold 5 items within an hour, then another 24 hours with nearly zero activity. I don't understand why it's these crazy peaks and valleys ups and down it's extremely frustrating nothing seems consistent ever we don't know if we're waking up to send 15 offers or 1 or 0 even... may sell 1 items at 10pm or we may sell 8 or 9 back to back days. I drives me crazy.

[@Bawkr]

@@rick9705 Must be a server viewability issue or a round robin system that is not crediting you based on time contributed anymore.

[@Bawkr]

My return rate before the recent batch was slightly above my competition which is frustrating to me because I work really hard & carefully. I did sell a lot of really old stuff though so that does make sense to a degree, I would be much more likely to have buyers remorse on people seeing something shiny & better after buying my item.

[@Patricia.resells]

After 36 hrs, end of day 2, page views still high, watchers and offers continue, and I have new sales. Not a lot but as a small seller I wouldn't expect more than this before April. It's feeling like it used to.

[@hayfro]

and didn't it feel good to see activity in your store and being able to engage the customers through offers. it felt like there were actual buyers out there whereas before it felt like nobody was seeing my store, or very few were.

[@Patricia.resells]

Yes, it is energizing and encouraging. I need to send you my take on the new algo search patents and what they mean to listing visibility.

[@Mark-sy2bx]

By lowering your price you drive down the average sales price for that item. Promotions keeps the asp higher.

[@hayfro]

sales are sales to me. i don't focus on asp

[@vintageboothpro]

Just did this and had a sale in the first 10 minutes 😳🤯 question, is there a way to do this in bulk or can you only do 200 at a time?

[@hayfro]

200 at a time right now is the most. I just requested to join your facebook

[@gemflipper]

Hi, I think impressions are pretty important along with page views. Just like when you walk into a grocery store you don't buy everything that you see. Sometimes they'll be a small display in the cereal aisle that has nothing to do with cereal. It's an advertising tactic to trick a consumer into thinking maybe I need that or want to try that. Or when I walk into Target and I'm jamming through everything to get to what I want but occasionally something will catch my eye and I'll buy it. They're not looking for 100% conversion but smaller percentages.

[@hayfro]

impressions can be an amazing metric if they are targeted. unfortunately we have no way of confirming the type of impressions we are receiving and I'm sure that's by design.

[@goodwillbunny5773]

I did a reset on a tablecloth that has been listed for 2 years. Two identical sold in the past 90 days. Currently there are 11 for sale. I picked 2% Promoted. I put key words in Recommended Specifics. Mine is priced the lowest-just move it out! I posted it on Facebook too. What else can I do?

[@hayfro]

just keep listing. it'll sell eventually.

[@juliedubois5650]

So helpful thank you 🤝 do you have an immediate effect when doing the reset or it takes about 24h for items to index ? I am asking because when I do the reset it doesn’t have an immediate effect in my store.

[@bluroks1]

I noticed on mine it was about 4 hours later I got sales and offers

[@hayfro]

I usually get offers coming in pretty soon after I start resetting.

[@bluroks1]

May I asked if I am doing this right? Should I end sell similar my store every 4 days? End then do sell similar set my promotion rate and then put it back on ebay then do it again about 4 days later or what day should i redo it. Thanks for the awesome videos!! btw i have over 6900 in my store currently

[@hayfro]

go back to the first video where we introduce this method (yesterdays video) and read the description box. Jack outlines the process. I would recomment with 7k listings do 3500 first, then 4 days later do the other 3500. and keep alternating.

[@PabloDiabloTreasures]

I always suspect ebay does more promoting of higher priced items so they get a bigger cut.

[@rick9705]

I've experimented with raising prices and promoting up to 15% I don't notice any difference. Nothing about ebay seems predictable or consistent anymore. Driving me nuts. Thankfully we're part time and we just treat it like a 401k it all goes to a separate account trying to grow some money and we don't depend on any of it. No way my sanity could take it if this was my full time living.

[@PabloDiabloTreasures]

What about when you do end lisling and then do relist instead of sell similar?

[@DarthThrifter]

That basically tells eBay you're putting the same listing back up and it kinda puts it back where it was with no boost.

[@pfeiffdog0811]

I have over 2000 items. So I would have to end/sell similar each individually or can this be done in mass? Doing individually will take forever it seems.

[@hayfro]

Bulk. 200 at a time

[@pfeiffdog0811]

@@hayfrothank god. I was dreading the thought of this but now I’m all in

[@mihalyfreeman5928]

Why are all your titles in CAPS? Isnt this the 1st thing we try to get people to STOP DOING?

[@hayfro]

Does it really make a difference? idk, it's a habit I got in and believe me I'm not perfect.

[@Usernothome]

Why does this only work if you have a larger store? I deleted weded out low performing listings a couple of months ago to have a small store with quality listings.

[@DarthThrifter]

It works with smaller stores also. I have 400 items and working great. I uploaded a video about my experience.

[@bluroks1]

Well so far 1 day in to it. Views increased. My organic views were up 125%. Promoted down 9%. Impressions up tremendously. Promoting at 3%. Had lots of action early but cooled down as the day went on. May try to adjust my selling prices and maybe raise promoted a little. Made offers which did increase. Did not really relate to sales yet so far. But at least they are seeing the ads

[@hayfro]

it's the engagement and closing the sale part we all need to work on but the visability is the key. if people can see our items then we have a chance to make a sale. give it some time, hopefully it translates into sales.

[@user-fj3uu8bb6i]

I heard from other videos it is good to wait 12 to 24 hrs once you end listings before you do a sell similar, any validity on that?

[@hayfro]

did they explain why the 12 hour wait?

[@user-fj3uu8bb6i]

They did not. They did mention that the wait made it look like everything was new. After listening to you, it doesn't sound that way. I did it yesterday and I had three sales and put in three offers. I only have around 80 items in my store. I have done this before, but seems it worked much better this time! Thanks @@hayfro

[@maetullos3997]

I am having a problem with my shipping being changed. I talked with some other sellers they are having the same problem. I’ve tried changing to flat pay free play and different options. But it keeps going back to ground advantage with large package measurements making my postage high. I am getting lookers but when they see this high shipping they don’t even watch. I had a customer call it to my attention. So I spend so much time having to go back everyday and check and change my shipping. Do you have a solution to this problem.

[@Patricia.resells]

I sell some really large items on repeat, 30x30x6 inch boxes @ 9 pounds ea - calculated shipping UPS - and Ebay SYSTEMATICALLY overcharges the buyer on shipping EVERY SINGLE TIME. I have to go in and issue refunds to my buyers in excess of $50 EVERY TIME on shipping overcharges. I am sure when buyers see the shipping cost next to the item price in the search results or page view they just exit as the shipping ebay quotes is exorbitant. And as I am on the East Coast (Pennsylvania) I cannot in any conscience do Free Shipping and fold the shipping cost into the item price as shipping to Virginia from Pennsylvania is much, much cheaper than shipping to California or worse, Washington State - and I used to get buyers for these items from Cali and Washington state before the overcharging began. I don't even use EBAY SHIPPING for labels anymore anyway - I ship with Pirate Ship as their prices and customer service are outstanding -- their insurance is reasonably priced (I insure these items) and they make good on 100% selling price on even my most expensive items. Not long ago USPS lost a Pirate Ship insured pkg value $3900. Took Pirate Ships underwriter 4 weeks to be sure the box was really lost but they paid up the full $3900 value.

[@pnw-coast]

@@Patricia.resells Are you passing along the ebay shipping discount to your buyers in your account settings? If you do that, then buyers will be shown the ebay-discounted shipping rate, otherwise they will be shown the much higher retail rate.

[@Patricia.resells]

@@pnw-coastYes sir, and they still overcharge. I've been over this repeatedly with Ebay for business, multiple tickets put in by them to IT trying to get the discounted shipping setting on my account actually to work for customers.

[@hayfro]

what did you sell that valuable?

[@Patricia.resells]

@@hayfroAn extremely rare and highly collectable piece of 1930s Crown Trifari costume jewelry. Listed it at auction.

[@rick9705]

Just reset 120 items Promoting 1/3 each at 5%, 9%, and the suggested % to see the different results. Curious!

[@hayfro]

what do you normall promote at before this test.

[@rick9705]

@@hayfro I was doing 7.7% promoted with 12.35% base fee past few months. I’ve tried 5%, 9% 20% 10%. I’ve tried doing resets and then promoting at the suggested +2% which seemed to work but maybe it was just the reset doing the magic. I’ve tried everything in the past and just never noticed any difference whatsoever really that I felt was drastic enough to be solid evidence. 😂

[@rick9705]

@@hayfro we are relatively new been on eBay for about a year we quit for a few months back around April May June July out of pure frustration then just started back seriously with it mid August and everything was really steady doing great over 1% sell through per day of our total store inventory and then October suddenly it’s just peaks and valleys. List 5-10 per day, clothing, 430 items currently. All September we were steady 2-6 sales per day usually 15-18ish on the weekends. Last weekend only sold 10. Last week it’s been 1 a day then some days 4-5 at most. Seems like no activity suddenly nearly no watchers and sometimes I’m waiting until 10 PM at night praying for something to sale just to keep activity in the store.

[@hayfro]

did you feel like promoting higher actually brought higher sales? @@rick9705

[@rick9705]

@@hayfro i’ve always wondered if maybe our sample size was too small or maybe I’m just way too impatient because I can’t just sit around for weeks or months and do nothing. I have to constantly be messing with things trying anything to move items. Personally, I never notice a difference between running coupons mark down sales pricing high pricing low. I just don’t see any major difference at all. Only thing I do know is when I’m not running coupons I feel like I get more full price purchases than I get people offering low balls. I’ve run markdown sales all the way to 70% off and I don’t think items sold any faster at all. Just more frustrating not making any money. I actually do believe that it works better pricing at the higher end of market and then you have plenty of room to make and accept offers with people who want to reduce the price by your shipping amount. Which is very common. It’s hard for me to say anything is predictable on this platform. And I feel like I spend about three or four hours a day on it. Whether it’s listing researching or watching KZbin videos about it. And we are part-timers.

[@Bawkr]

(why they would take it away) Very taxing on their servers I would suspect, I don't know the number of sellers who watch KZbin but when you think about that many sell similar operations it could actually screw up the site potentially. But we're just trying to get some sales out of all the hard work we put in. Days without a single sale or days where you're only making $3 per day profit is ridiculous. Seems like they want to take a bunch of people for the yearly subscription rate & then shut down the site suddenly one day based on the way it has been going.

[@pnw-coast]

The End and Sell-Similar strategy has been around for a long time. It's nothing new here except that these guys are saying to do as many as your store allotment allows you, or to up your store subscription rate so that you can ESS more frequently. Heck, if a lot of sellers increase their store subscriptions so they can ESS more frequently, or they accidentally go over their allotment and get charged insertion fees, then that's a positive for eBay's revenue. There are numerous ways to improve visibility in search. ESS is one way and is pretty easy to do as long as you keep organized and don't accidentally delete or go over listing limits.

[@hayfro]

that's why I said it's a new take on an old classic. plus many were saying ess is dead or ineffective, which just isn't true. we want to debunk ebay myths when possible. @@pnw-coast

[@Bawkr]

Been on ebay for years if that wasn't obvious from my post & have been selling similar 10 to 20 a day for a long time. I don't really know what that operation requires in terms of bandwidth and computation power. If well programmed it could be almost nothing but if not it could be pretty taxing it all depends.

[@pnw-coast]

@@hayfro My comment was to nicm2610. S/he was saying that ESS would be taxing on the servers, so I said it's been happening for a long time to counter the idea that it's going to be a problem. It seems like you take every comment as a personal attack. Geesh!

[@Patricia.resells]

@@pnw-coastIn all honesty I don't read Jeff's response as being any way defensive or attacking.

[@goofydumbgoofyhobtch2765]

Seems you would want to skip listings with watchers.

[@J.SMITH.]

Watchers are usually watching cuz they want a better deal... If the watcher finds the item again you can send them a new offer with a better deal.

[@joytoyouandme4593]

I send out offers to watchers, once the offer ends then end and sell similar.