Im so sick of trying to keep up with these algorithms ...... promoted listings..... volume pricing...... markdown sales....... coupons...... best offers.... offers to watchers..... IT's INSANE just let me sell my sweater for 12.99 + shipping and i'm on my way.
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
yea it is complex at times but that's e-commerce selling.. I get it though I am definitely not in the mental space anymore.
@R.L.KRANESCHRADTT11 ай бұрын
AMEN. Iv'e been a seller for 20yrs... full time. last week was the worst since I began... they've crated a system 'rigged' against us which demands we do battle with it to survive. It's insane.
@debk313511 ай бұрын
Ebay needs to be sued like Amazon for hiding listings unless you promote
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
are they hidden? or just not at the top? Mine come up in search still. but promoted is at the top
@mihalyfreeman592810 ай бұрын
@@SarahStylesLLC Its a fact that they are hiding. Its easy to see. Simply search for an item then on the left have a look at the new and used boxes. There are numbers in there. Now compare that number with the TOTAL number shown at the top of the page. You will know the number hidden by 1) adding up the numbers from the new and used boxes then looking at the numbers at the top. My example shows 700 or so hidden items for my search. RIDICULOUS! This means Ebay does not think that your item title is relevant enough to be shown, even on the 1st 20 pages. After that your dropped!!!!!!!!!!
@R.L.KRANESCHRADTT11 ай бұрын
Promoted listings are just a mob protection racket... "Say, that's a nice listing you've got there... it'd be a real sham if nobody ever saw it"😎
@Tyejohnston11 ай бұрын
I had 3,000 listings sales were not good like $50 days… ended everything listed 600 again in 2 days and today I sold 14 for $278 I was promoted at 12% now doing 5% more sales
@RadRelics11 ай бұрын
If you are selling one offs with very little competition you do not need promoted listings but if you are selling in a flooded category then you need it.
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
Yes Exactky
@madmediagal238811 ай бұрын
I called eBay out on this in a message, recently. If I am the only person selling a unique item, do not say the average promo of 12%. It cannot be compared to another item in the category. I have a feeling that the slow downs are because of one of two things: Fall Updates. This is when they work on the site and items may not present as usual. Or, EB is going to want to change for tiers of exposure. The PPC Is a waste of money. Tried that - it did nothing and I feel others did, too. They are always looking for ways to get more money out of sellers, just like AMZ.
@TorranceJPlaylist11 ай бұрын
Oversaturated items promote, non saturated items dont promote
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
Yup!
@TheThriftyBroad11 ай бұрын
Every time I try to not promote at all or under 7% this is what happens for me. I sell mainly common items as you know so I do the dynamic rate. It helps me make more sales which is what I am after. I have accepted this is just how it works now. Hope you are well friend! 💕💕
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
Yup! Most my categories average from the listing quality report is 7% so make sense since we are in similar categories
@dk129111 ай бұрын
OMG, this is the most informative video I've seen to date (1 month). I had my wife watch and now she understands my convoluted dialog while on this topic. THankS
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
Awe glad it helped!
@travisw637811 ай бұрын
I guess it depends what your selling, I got tired of the promoted listings like 6-7 months ago, and moving forward from that date I stopped promoting 90% of what I list, I did leave up anything that was already promoted though. My sales have been consistent and I’m on track to do better than last year, if you have good items they sell. I think people that sell a lot of clothes and really common items have to worry about this.
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
yes correct. and in women's fashion that's just what it is...
@michelleapple12146 ай бұрын
I'm selling women clothing and it's so slow, you are correct. I wonder what's good to sell.
@travisw63786 ай бұрын
@@michelleapple1214 Categories oI have done well in camera lenses, video games, handblown glass - especially signed pieces you can identify the maker, collectible 80s and 90s toys - gi joe, transformers, power rangers, star wars... just try and buy larger collections, also costume jewelry the garage sales or estate sales that have usually have a lot and can buy for 25 cents to a few dollars a piece, some stuff like crown trifari can potentially fetch lots of money for the right piece, enamel pins are an easy one too, disney, ski resorts, sometimes certain military or fraternal groups have small pins that are 14k gold that i have sold for 50$ each, diversifying your categories and knowledge is key in my opinion.
@Bawkr11 ай бұрын
I have a store about 1/4th the size & my chart looks similar in up and downs and when those happened... I think economy & or ebay bugs+glitches on top of that. There's definitely a lot of fear in the news & peoples bank accounts right now that to me would definitely reflect in my store as well.
@misseyespy111 ай бұрын
They are turning off and on no doubt about that now grrr
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
yes true about outside factors we cannot control..
@jaysawyer951611 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video - I promote my items at a very low rate and sell collectables. Some are the only ones available. Even as a one off item, I will promote it because i find a lot of sales are through promoted, and it also gives exposure as a listing if people are looking at other similar listings.
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
yes true! and in collectibles you can get away with smaller % for sure
@kathyhayward57308 ай бұрын
It's impossible to figure out what really works on Ebay these days. I downgraded my store to Basic and stopped all promotions. My sales tripled, even though impressions and page views tanked. It's important to note that the organic impressions and views remained steady.
@hplovecraftmacncheese6 ай бұрын
That's really weird. Why do you think it had such a huge effect to stop all promotion?
@kathyhayward57306 ай бұрын
@@hplovecraftmacncheese Here's what I'm thinking... Ebay shows promoted listings to people who aren't even looking for the item. (I see lots of "here are similar things you might be interested in" at the bottom of the page when I'm searching for something.) If they don't click on the item, your click-thru and sales conversion rates drop, which makes Ebay think you have non-desirable items, which drops you lower in the algorithm & search results. For instance, my click-thru rate dropped from about 1.5% to 0.7%, and my avg. sales conversion rate dropped from 5.1% to 3.9% when I started promoting. Could be wrong, but that's my theory.
@AwesomeFinds2411 ай бұрын
Great Info! We are just getting started, so any Advice you can give is Very Helpful! Thank You 👍😁
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@LizGarrisonReaLiZeU11 ай бұрын
At least you don’t pay for promoted items on eBay unless you sell that item.
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
very true! Nice to see ya Liz!
@NathanGrant7511 ай бұрын
Not necessarily true. eBay does offer one time fees for promoting auctions. You pay whether the item gets a bid or not.
@wandasilver391411 ай бұрын
I got mad also and turned off promoted listing just to see what would happen. I had no page views. I tried 15% promoted listings. I realize that I would lose way too much money at 15% ! last week I listed Different items and lowered my promoted listing to 9 % fixed to see what would happen. I sold about half to 3/4 of everything I listed last week to my surprise. I had no sales since about mid august. I have a really Small Ebay store of only about 100 items. I only been selling for about 10 months. Over the summer I pick up by accident some horrible brand’s trying to learn what brands were good and bad. I am still learning every single day because I am a beginner. My impression have been horrible for awhile but I am making sales . I am doing everything perfectly so I am clueless why my impression are low.
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
yea I am going to work on lowering it slowly and hopefully find a lower rate without too much sacrifice of sales.
@mihalyfreeman592810 ай бұрын
I had ZERO sales for 5 days. I turned off all promoted because i noticed i only had 4 clicks in a 24hr period to my promoted listings which means Ebay was still not showing my STUFF. Within a few hours i had 3 sales and its be 3 or more since i completely turned it off. Its not ground breaking but at least there is activity on my store. Testing is work in progress.
@SpiceBear9 ай бұрын
We love you Sarah! ❤ love your videos!
@SarahStylesLLC9 ай бұрын
Awe thanks
@reynanledesma958011 ай бұрын
Thanks for Sharing your experience Sarah!!!!!
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
You are so welcome!
@Howsithanginebay3 ай бұрын
I went down in promoted list by 2% and it has taken about 2 months to get back to normal.
@robertdeveau744511 ай бұрын
Good stuff Sarah!
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it!!
@cathyeller572211 ай бұрын
I just moved most of my stuff off of ebay. They are giving what I'm paying for why pay them? I have another 800 items I'm going to pull off and put on another platform. They want higher sell through rates is what I keep hearing so mark all you items to 5 dollars everyone sinks to the bottom along with ebay's profits. They want to play games with peoples income, screw them.
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
Where are you putting them?
@Mark-sy2bx11 ай бұрын
I turned off promoted listings for a few days then turned it back on and my impressions are the same.
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
Um… that’s so interesting definitely not the case for me. Did you end a campaign? Or just edit them off?
@Mark-sy2bx11 ай бұрын
@@SarahStylesLLC I just did a bulk end promotions. Then after a few days did bulk add 3%.
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
@@Mark-sy2bx yea ok so I think this way doesn’t impact as much as with campaigns.. I’ve done that before too. But now I use campaigns.
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
For the data…
@catwhisperer96811 ай бұрын
THE END of ‘End & Sell Similar’? How does this idea sound? I am currently on dynamic promotion with 13% cap My new listings I do NOT promote 30 days I mark down sale. 60 days promote dynamic. After 90 days I will revise. If you are in dynamic promotion you have to end ALL dynamic promotions to end & sell similar. (Unless I’m missing a step) Which will take a while to catch up to rest of your store. If you have your photos stored off site you can end items you can create a whole new listing without ending dynamic promotions. Hope I am making sense.
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
yes I do sell similar almost daily, my store turns over in 2-3 months and it helps. I have a video on it. I was doing promoted after a week but with the new campaigns it automatically do it..
@juliedubois565011 ай бұрын
Hi Sara, this is helpful thank you ! Did you do dynamic cap at 15% or 15% fix rate ?
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
dynamic, capped at 15%
@juliedubois565011 ай бұрын
@@SarahStylesLLC thank you Sara !
@misseyespy111 ай бұрын
I don’t know how I have three campaigns lol I have all different rates 9 12 and sometimes I do seperate 15 still super slow . I was doing 3-6 sick of paying feees better to get cash in so I upped the proms . Thanks stats really interesting .yes good point 30 days . I have lots old dead stock need to move bla bla lol Have a great week ! I need visibility too might have to go 25 % see what happens on 100 listings. I have 500
@TravisInDallas11 ай бұрын
Is promoting items that aren't moving at 25% really effective or just running up the rate for everyone else? I don't promote new listings for 30 days. Then I promote at 2.6%. I have around 250 listings with a .04 click through and 2.7% conversation. I list 3 a day since July and have sold 73 items over the last 30 days. A little over $1000 profit. Working on getting my ASP up now. Then I will start listing more. Having items people want is the most important thing.
@misseyespy111 ай бұрын
Hi yes good stats, just an idea to go to 25% not sure if I go that high have to do numbers .. Many not promoting and some going ing higher! that’s a choice ect . You might not need to at all? Sarah’s videos on statistics on her store ..sales and impressions I have learnt lot from Sarah’s analysis of them! Yes clearing and changing stock out for sure was promoting that at 4 maybe
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
worth a shot to see what happens and look at stats. Last year I went up as high as 25% and did a video... It worked but at a cost.
@kimhanson26237 ай бұрын
I am new to selling on eBay.. with promoted listings, just curious as to the overall fees from what I understand I'm paying 13.25% to sell an item on eBay so with you paying 15% for promoted listings that means eBay is taking 28.25% for each item that you sell?
@Bobbie-Loves-To-Thrift11 ай бұрын
Different subject. Poshmark i got 90 looks like bots ? Joined under my closet name! I didnt invite anyone and they had wierd names and number. Then my sales stopped. Before this my sales were normal. Did this happen to anyone else?
@everlyeverly309011 ай бұрын
You're not the only one, it's happening to me too
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
oh posh is dead and I'm definitely getting new registered when I don't promote at all
@WhatEdThinks11 ай бұрын
Me too. Like 200+ people.
@mihalyfreeman592810 ай бұрын
You need to work out how PM works. Its all about sharing your items from your closet. Get one of those automated programs such as closet tools and run it so it shares the items in your closet. If you dont share you wont make sales. Keep your closet at around 500 items and no more. Once your closet BLOATS higher than 500 its much harder to share your entire closet MULTIPLE times a day even using an automated program. Run it for a week and see if you start getting sales. Dont follow anyone, dont follow closets, dont use any feature other than, SHARING YOUR ITEMS and SENDING OFFERS. Its been tested and proven that you dont need any other feature of the program to make sales. Thats it!
@hplovecraftmacncheese6 ай бұрын
What happens when you increase the percentage fee? You get more impressions?
@hzzn11 ай бұрын
What happens if you pay for promoted listings and eBay doesn’t actually promote any of them?. That’s what happened to me. They may be happening to countless sellers, they just don’t realize it
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
yea that's hard to know. I only do basic so only pay if it sells.
@hzzn11 ай бұрын
@@SarahStylesLLC sellers need to check each and every listing they have up in search because eBay is probably scamming untold amounts of sellers this way.
@mihalyfreeman592810 ай бұрын
Exactly! See my post on this.
@jorejaha7 ай бұрын
Selling costs of 42.5%? Just shoot me. My selling costs fluctuate between 29%-32% and includes ALL of my shipping.
@ronman541511 ай бұрын
I just started listing...is it okay to give primary Bank account info to get paid if something sells ?
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
yes it's how they will send you money
@ronman541511 ай бұрын
@@SarahStylesLLC I can't find my listing 🤷♂️
@sogent56Ай бұрын
What rate do you use
@SarahStylesLLCАй бұрын
@@sogent56 I’m currently at like 7 I think.
@sogent56Ай бұрын
@@SarahStylesLLC thanks… I changed to 2 to see the activity
@HustleSlow11 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing! Have you tested different percentages? I usually stay under 5% 🫣 but I also don’t mess with it much. I should do more testing.
@SarahStylesLLC11 ай бұрын
I have over last year and I plan to mess with in monthly this year. Going down to find a lower rate without sacrificing too many sales..