WHAT IS THE BEST EBAY PROMOTION STRATEGY?

[@seanfay5625]

I think the heavy influence on promotional listings right now are honestly more of a cash grab by eBay than anything else. Especially compounded by, yes, the economy is heading a bit downwards and people aren't using the platform as frequently on average as say a year ago. eBay knows more than any of us the realness of that through their analytics and hence the pushing of promotional listings more so now. So I would say that better photos/listing titles/general account activity would be a better lane to roll in than throwing more of your money eBays way. I don't use promoted listings anymore and have dabbled in the past but would say work on your own store/image/etc more than anything right now and the sales will get better in time.

[@jdubbink98]

I do not pay extra for promoting listings. My experience is good stuff sells regardless.

[@eddiegoldeniii]

No need to promote unique or high-end items such as art, rare toys, etc.. But definitely should promote in 'flooded' categories, or if there are many other items for sale just like yours - clothing, media, etc.

[@stankwho]

My vintage stuff sells slow and steady with no promotion but the more common items in saturated categories do better with promotion on.

[@bbeep69]

I use 9% on saved watched items. I have the best luck doing that. However I don’t do it everyday. I usually go in once or twice a week to send out the offer. Works for me

[@brettlott570]

I was only promoting with my shoes. Now I noticed eBay has my clothing as promoted also and I NEVER set that up. eBay does some shady stuff 😒

[@MrSaddie123]

I do very short promoted and sale campaigns like 24-48 hrs and get nice results even with 2-5% promoted and 5-10% sales I feel like short sales and Promoted gives me a "newly listed campaign" and "Ending soon campaign" bumps in search. Sorry if that doesn't make sense it's a little hard to explain in a comment. TFS Bubba!

[@GlamGam1964]

I promote every item at 2%. I have 750 listings. About half my sales sell on promotion. You only pay for it if the item sells, so why not? It puts my items nearer the top. I also share each item on Facebook to keep eBay fresh in ppls minds. Late last summer I had a sale. I sold quite a bit, but made so little profit off each item. I’m just trying to get through slow sales post-Christmas. I sold quite a bit today,so maybe things are picking up.

[@DudeGigger]

IMO. Free Shipping is my promotional strategy. It's what everyone looks for including the algorithm and eBay themselves.

[@GerryPicker]

I do not promote any listings & do fine as a part-time seller of vintage & antiques. I call it corporate greed disguised as "promotions" 😮

[@cloudedjourney]

That Dynamic pricing would pronbably only work if you hired a bunch of illegal immigrants to source, list and ship for you. Then you could just send them out to buy anything that profits at least 10 bucks and go big on bulk. I only use promoted listings if I have good items that aren't that searchable. For example i had a nice set of office phones that wern't one of the top searched models. If something has been getting stagnant or seasonal i'll sometimes raise the price a bit and add a promotion to more or less even out. But mostly I've found the extra effort in promotion, sending offers etc doesn't help much.

[@johnnymunoz1898]

I don't promote at all and I'm doing quite well

[@michellevolkmann5675]

Me too