In response to victorjunkman Is that even possible? Message 9 of In response to pingpong You would never make any money as a business management consultant so give up the ghost!!! Message 10 of Message 11 of In response to z50com. Message 12 of Message 13 of Message 14 of Message 15 of Post Reply. About this board. You can chat with other sellers about anything to do with running a business on eBay For news and more see: What's new Selling related questions?
Check out some shipping best practices! Every successful seller needs a steady stream of inventory. A strong shipping strategy is key for a successful holiday. Adding product identifiers is highly recommended to maximize your potential on eBay through better product placement and better SEO data for search engines. Product attributes define the relevant and important facts about a product — such as brand, style, size, and color. Product attributes are created by mapping the product specs to the item specifics of the eBay category.
Providing a very detailed set of item specifics will create a complete set of structured data that allows the search engine to locate and filter products.
This improves the relevance of search results to what users are typing in their search queries. If applicable, include the dimensions of the item in the attributes. The product dimensions should specify the size of the actual product, not the packaging size.
Here are some important details to remember when creating the attribute list for a multi-pack or manufacturer-created bundle:. Another tip is to include product variants on one page instead of multiple. You could use spreadsheets if you only have a half-dozen items listed, like eBay Ellen. However, if you have hundreds, thousands, or even millions of products, a spreadsheet will be too complicated, unwieldy, and inadequate.
A feed management platform , used in conjunction with an ecommerce platform like BigCommerce, can make your listings much more manageable. You never want to be in a position where you are listing out-of-stock items on your site. With feed management platforms, orders are updated and synced to your online store. A client needed help with managing orders for two marketplaces: eBay and Amazon.
This client had multiple products that were low in stock, and they wanted to avoid running into an oversold situation — which can get sellers suspended from eBay. Feedonomics was able to solve this problem by intelligently controlling inventory on multiple channels. The best practices listed here are much the same as best practices you should follow on any marketplace, as well as on your ecommerce site. Here are some general tips, with more information to follow:.
Take high-resolution photos against a plain white background to make the products stand out. Make sure the lighting is sufficient to feature the item and its relevant details. Try taking shots of the product from different angles, and get some close-up shots as well to highlight details. Cost and speed are top of mind for eBay buyers. Offer competitive shipping prices low-cost or free shipping is best to appeal to more buyers and increase your chances of a sale.
It goes without saying that the most attractive return policy for the eBay buyer is free returns. The reviews are in — literally and figuratively! The best way to avoid bad eBay reviews is to maintain good standing with your customers by having customer service. Subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter to get the latest thought leadership content delivered right to your inbox — from blogs and resource articles, to podcast episodes, webinars and more.
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Get The Print Version Tired of scrolling? Table of Contents. Why Sell on eBay? Who is Selling on eBay? Its like being a plumber , or an electrician. But it will take time and the right attitude.
Complaining all the time will not solve anything. Alan Paterson Is there a way we can get in touch? I regularly read your comments and find them helpful. If you could let me know a way of getting in touch with you it would be great.
Brysen, thanks for your message. And thank you for your positivity. I am glad my posts have been helpful. As you know it is quite rare for someone to say that — I often get the opposite reaction lol. I am not sure how much help I would be to you at the moment. I was taken ill again last year and I am currently not even trading on ebay myself. My mistake was having no one to take over while I was unable to function.
Somebody on here seemed to be offering me a position a few months ago but I lost the post if you are reading this I am sorry I did not respond.. I am certainly not at my best. And I have always prided myself in giving my advice for free anyway.
As a consultant I might be a round peg in a square hole. My health became so bad last year that I was struggling to lift and pack a pair of shoes averaging 1. Poor me. Its always good to hear a seller succeeding on the platform.
But good for you, I am genuinely happy that you are not the clueless oaf that you come across as. Feel free to network and share your experience.
I think you are awesome — I have been reading the posts up this thread. You are amazing. Share your success story and what ebay has given you. You might actually inspire someone. It seemed to be constant mud slinging at ebay form you. You just came across as a very angry man mud slinging. Religion and religious insults should also be kept out of the fray in my opinion.
You said in one of your earlier post you owe ebay nothing. What is the world coming to when everyone feels it is fine to have your items lifted in the searches as long as you pay more.
We have shops selling antiques for people in our local area from lovely glass cabinets and when i asked them about cost. More or less every search engine and platform that counts practices this. Its not just ebay. The advantage with ebay is that you only pay the extra IF the item sells. I remember taking newspaper or yellow pages ads out in the 90s and getting zero response for quite a lot of money.
The ebay way Is if you dont pay it wont sell If it sold in any event why would you use the promote feature. Alan tricked you earlier to show your shallowness and materialism. Your response is typical of someone who is trying to inflate their own ego People like you judge success with what car you drive or cars as you put it and I think your a liar anyway.
You constantly contradict yourself and attack people who come on here to share information. I hate liars. Alan seems to have more patience. Just a thought. As far as I am aware our products have stayed constant in search with us generally having 10 in the first Impressions measured over 1 week in January for last 3 years Jan 20 — Jan 19 — Jan 18 — Kestral As explained in an earlier post in this conversation, we are very much same.
We might be up, we might be down, you could say that is up to us. That is saying Ebay has a big problem, and in previous conversations it would appear that ebay have asked large merchants to add extra inventory as ebay felt they did not have enough.
If you asked for inventory , you most certainly done a deal to add the listings. In fact, you hide my listings and I take those listings and list elsewhere.
Simple really. Unfortunately all eBay thinks is money and how to charge you for fees they are like vouchers Waiting for you to list an item and grab you for unfair charges Without your knowledge Trying to get intouch with one of the superiors,every time I call and wait for hours they are at the back desk,whatever this means ……………. Internet sales are still growing year on year, yet ebay sales are in decline or stactic, which clearly shows that it is losing market share.
When I launch my business just over 10 years ago, I was an ebay only business, then Amazon came along. Ebay has never listened to Sellers, as the problems that where highlighted years ago are still there. This makes a massive difference, and will continue to erode sales on Ebay, as you can sell cheaper and still maintain healthy margins on Amazon. I continue to see growth on all the Amazon Marketplaces on which I operate in, Ebay is just flat or falling and I expect this to continue, unless there is new owner that genuinely cares, listens and wants to change things and not just squeeze extra margin from falling sales.
The resources required, are not worth the rewards to focus on eBay like it was a few years ago. Ebay should be smashing Amazon on price and letting people know about it. Everyone else just pays basic single price x quantity. For certain items, I can look at the sales history on ebay vs Amazon and see this makes a staggering difference. The Amazon buyers are happily paying way more than they need to. Same products, same service, massive saving. Then again, when you read about people getting into debt online shopping and blaming it on using Klarna, maybe there is no helping them out when it comes to money.
There is no volume for us on eBay, When you actively recruit 10,s of Chinese sellers onto a platform and give them many advantages. Even factoring in Paypal costs, ebay fees work out lower than Amazon fees on like for like sales. Buyers regularly pay more than they need to when they purchase multiple items from my business through Amazon instead through ebay.
They do it all over the site: On your own listing pages, in search results, spamming buyers with messages about items they viewed, even messaging buyers after a sale that they missed a cheaper price which induces order cancellations. Then you have eBay always trying to get sellers to lower prices.
No sales leads to sellers undercutting each other on prices. Not just recently, many years. For chrissakes, their website is a comedy of daily errors and checkout issues.
Pretty telling about the state of this company. For example putting all of the money from the StubHub sale into stock buybacks instead of caring about their issues.
Self-serving only for eBay executives, activist investors, and others involved to sell behind the buybacks. A bunch of crooks indeed. Dev, agree a lot with what you are saying. What customer would not like receiving something for less. I have never had a buyer on Amazon ask me for money off or something for less as they see the price and know that is what they have to pay.
So do they pay their fair share of taxes? Who knows! You cannot compare paying more in a newspaper for a bigger advert. The newspaper does not make up posh names for algorythms to get you better rankings it checks the adverts and you are all able to be read. They do not throw the poorer advertisers in the bin you are all still visible as there is only 24 pages. The next one to be introduced will be extra fees if your delivery company do not drive electric vans and the drivers be vegan.
At no point in all my years on ebay have they said to me to get anywhere you must be prepared to pay us more money to be seen and learn how to use our complex systems to try and be visible using things even our customer service do not understand.
If they do tell them to stop sending messages how to improve my sales by reducing my prices and add more images images from all angles are enough usually about 5. Been on Ebay for years but we had 2 events in past 2 days that we never knew even existed…. Be very care full when selling on e-bay they do not support the seller You have no rights and the no return policy does not mean anything This is a third world company.
By Chris Dawson February 10, - am. Buyer Engagement I went with a friend this weekend to pick up a second hand dishwasher she just purchased. Thomas Shearing. Back when sales were good and to some degree predictable, I used to buy alot on Ebay in turn. Loads of orders like this now via southall. They must get trucks and trucks daily with zero duties paid. What a joke. When ebay refuses to enforce their rules it destroys the market for buyers.
Alan paterson. Adele Harrington. My advice. Get out now, and get out early. Jae from Gorilla ROI. Alan, Please do make a list of said positives. I am sure you will agree that three parties are involved in every transaction: 1. The buyer 3. The seller All 3 are imperative for the business to function. Good point! Registering for a throw away vat number and Hong Kong bank account now. Fear not yea ebay believers the Messiah has returned. Alan your inventing things to argue against so you can self congratulate yourself.
Ross K. Anyway, I need to get into town today to pick up my prescription so Im off to catch the bus……… A final thought ………… aint ebay been good to you. Seller offer an item with the title. Now 2 issues with that answer. Please all look no further for how eBay have got your back. Alan Paterson Ok I have struggled with promoted listings including running a month test before as a control, then a month with promoted listings and then a month without again and found no significant uplift to justify the cost.
Ebay seem to be drunk falling one way and fixing it and then falling another. We are positive thinking but finding Ebay very hard work at this moment in time. These are: 1. Sales conversion rate My following explanations assumes entropy on the category you are selling on and also assumes your product is non seasonal for ease of explanation. Thank you for the posts, will read with interest. I keep in touch with a few othr sellers and here is the whole scenarion in a nutshell They have a My long term goal is to get back on my feet and get my ebay business running again.
Awesome Jim. I bet you have a big car, a big house and fantastic holidays every year. Surley if you take the same money for a shop you should offer the same deal. You pay more for a bigger ad in the newspaper — or yellow pages.
Its not a new concept. Awesome Jim? More like Pitiful Pathetic Troll Jim. Your idiotic posts give you away. Crikey you really have if bad ross. Really awesome Jim. The biggest problem ebay has is Amazon Easier quicker cheaper.
I will say the same as a lot of others in these comments i. We sell wedding Decorations, so January is generally our biggest month for sales.
N Nicholas — were you dropped on your head as a child? Visibility for existing sellers becomes a problem. Alan you can blow smoke up the backside of eBay as much as you like. If they do tell them to stop sending messages how to improve my sales by reducing my prices and add more images images from all angles are enough usually about 5 6 more of a hamster ball are not going to show it any different. Tamebay Guide. Featured in this article from the Tamebay Guide — companies that can help you grow and manage your business.
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