Selling on eBay ultimately boils down to simple mathematics and probability. The more items you have listed, the greater your chances of making a sale, especially if you enable "Make an Offer" and consider the demand for your items. However, you don’t need high-end brands or the most in-demand products to succeed. The truth is, almost everything sells on eBay-eventually. It may take months or even years for some items to find a buyer, but patience is key. One of the biggest challenges with eBay sellers is the desire for a quick buck. Many haven’t realized that selling on eBay is a long game, not a sprint. This impatience is what has led to the "race to the bottom" in pricing. If you want better sales, focus on maintaining fair prices and stop undercutting your fellow resellers. Collaboration, not cutthroat competition, will help sustain a thriving eBay marketplace for everyone.
Well yes and no IMHO. "The Race To The Bottom" is what put Amazon as the #1 undisputed king of third party sellers points of sale. Back in the day I coded a re-pricer for Amazon and it was deemed too aggressive by the company. I was able to continue using it but they told if I tried resell it they would remove my API keys. Pricing matters. Walmart exploded into the #2 spot in eCommerce as they demand low price from vendors or they'll hide listings. Temu annual revenues rivaled eBay's in a mere two years all due to pricing. I'd not be surprised if some point in time all this FaceBook, eBay, Shop Safe Act on and on aside that the site mandate price drops which some of the Business To Consumer (B2C) venues back 20 years ago did. Actually rather surprising eBay has not but it is an "Open for all to sell" venue whereby those B2C's were not, they were mostly requiring vendors be authorized be that Authorized Liquidator, Authorized Surplus Vendor, Authorized Wholesaler, Authorized Distributorship, Authorized Reseller all quite different legalese. They required price drop because their venues get "clogged up" if you will with stale product and of course the vendors want get it gone so they just keep relisting against those SKU's. End up in time with stale product chewing the visibility of fresh product and that costs sales. eBay NO DOUBT has several algorithms that will deal with stale product and those various program code bases will be at least semi-focal and very focal categorically. For example in say Media items (Games, DVD's, Books, Music etc) its likely they've code there blanketing all media. However in say moderate to high end watches or womens apparel its far more likely to be focal and a VERY DIFFERENT code base and objective of that software code. This is where sellers *THINK* product is not being shown or in Amazon terminology, "Surfacing." Amazon does surface product, you could see it clear as day with the re-pricer I'd wrote. I could set SKU's to get competitors product via both the API (which limit result counts) but also it could actually scrape the product web page. See stuff disappear and reappear. eBay doesn't do this, I've tested. But they do handle "Stale Product" and without seeing the actual program source code I can't get all too specific but surely all the traditional mechanisms are in place. Those same mechanisms are in place at many enterprise levels websites where lets say "The Product" is information not physical hard goods. What most all of them have in common is "weighting" and many factors go into that "Weighting Score." It's not ALL THAT DIFFERENT from computer driven wargaming engines whereby data such as unit type, strength, battle experience, fatigue, terrain such as swamp, road, mountain top, lines of sight and more all play into that "Weighted Score" of the unit. With eBay as an enterprise "Data Venue" they have a plethora of variables that will play into "My listings" weighted score and that score is going to "dynamic" just as is the case with that strategy wargaming engine. Vendor performance, product flooding, pricing, age on site (how stale is it!) on and on and on. There are likely perhaps one hundred or more variables that will play into that final weighted score. That score will affect product ranking towards upsell, cross sell etc of consumer indexed searches. Promoted listings basically "Short circuit" that weighting adding to the "Weighted Score" by a vendors wanting pay more for visibility. Yet that visibility is FOCAL tied to the search, not casual browsing nor upsell, cross sell etc. You have to use ANOTHER type of promoted listing expense to enter into those potential targets. None of this is anything new its just sorta new to vendors at eBay. Now you'll hear of sellers with heaps of different products and those who've perhaps hundreds and one might think the vendor with heaps of product would have advantageous sell through compared to the smaller dataset. Not the way things tend to work and the reason are the sales performance ratios much like how say a Walmart or even Amazon looks at real estate. At Walmart the sales floor is the main asset as without it can't display product same same online be it hard goods or information in enterprise datasets. Walmart measures floor performance statistically across regional assets aka: NY, Mass or South and North California. They measure quarterly down to store level. So a seller with 10,000 items with a click through, sell through etc rates of a lower ratio than that seller with hundreds of items the seller with less may well have a better ratio than the bigger guy resulting in "Higher value weighting" and they get more sales as they get more visibility per product. You'll see sellers say, "I made a new store" and its doing better really than my old one that has heaps of product. Yep, that's the weighting. New sellers come in and are thrilled getting all these sales but then see them complain as they seem fall off... Yep, thats all the weighting. A new seller will start with highest possible weighting and have to. They have to because if it were "Start at the lowest" the weighting would be suppressing visibility to large extent. There's no magic about it at all. Now sellers who are the "anchor sellers" at eBay gonna be treated differently. Amazon used to call them Anchor Tenants who tend get "The Buy Box" if product is available in categories whereby a Category Manager enables the vendor to qualify for that visibility (feature). In fact Amazon's faced litigation due to it whereby consumers pay too much in compare to vendors not owning "The Buy Box." It is NIGHT AND DAY over there and likely at eBay as well. Back when I sold at Amazon I was accidently gifted the Buy Box twice and literally every 1.5 minutes a sale rolled in. It was INSANE. At eBay the top 25-35% of vendors are going to be authorized chain in one area or another be that "Authorized Reseller", "Authorized Liquidator" etc etc. They make the hay just as is the case at Amazon. I know three of them one is Dell Authorized reclamation, the other the largest fantasy wargaming entity at eBay and another that sells fasteners (screws, nuts, bolts etc). You'll NEVER hear them complain about their sales... Now the last one selling the fasteners have saw $400,000 in drop since Temu came hard unto the scene. But point being those vendors have a "Hard short circuit" on the weighting so they are always getting great visibility as they bring home the hay $.
Selling for 4 years and I never did the relist similar method but man has it exploded my sales now. Maybe because I wasn't as consistent about listing every day but now if I don't have time to list new items, I just end and sell similar to keep my store fresh.
Thats what's dope about having a big store...you don't have to list often. Last time I listed in my 4,000 item store was day after black friday and I still sell every day because there's just soooo much to look at. Just List Heavy and forget it!
When I do end-sell similar I will quickly scan my listing. I have found on numerous occasions that important stuff in the original listing was missing. I add important specifics back and hit list
What happens is new listing go in front the browse queue it's that simple. Sure many more people search than browse but the browse queue at any enterprise level web site has multiple points at which it may preview no matter if it's commerce or a large news site. People don't take time to learn at the least the basic behind technology how can they expect to best leverage it? eBay has features like save searches, they have demographic purchasing habits on every user and considerably more. They'll have "Flood control" code towards vendors that like do that stuff. Sellers generally speaking are so wrapped up in product, processes and more understandably so that they never learn how and why things work but instead try pull rabbits out of hats as explanations.
@@PabloDiabloTreasures Flood control is essentially listing in mass or relisting in mass to try and push higher product and/or vendor visibility. Flood control is used all over enterprise level webs and search engines, social media on and on. There are different types and reasons across webs, search engines etc for using software controlled access to various assets... I moniker it all under "Flood Control" because that's what it amounts to for the laymen to be able take in and comprehend versus the actual wide variety of software mechanisms and causations to restrict what people, automation and such try do with data and sites. For example eBay sometime back began measures to reject "Bots" (automated software code) from accessing eBay assets... This too is a form of "Flood control."
What gets me is when the new sellers call themselves "Full time" Resellers and they have a few hundred items Total and list 5-10 a day. What do they do all day? 10 listing take what 20-25 min. Guess full time has different meanings nowadays
Selling on eBay ultimately boils down to simple mathematics and probability. The more items you have listed, the greater your chances of making a sale, especially if you enable "Make an Offer" and consider the demand for your items. However, you don’t need high-end brands or the most in-demand products to succeed. The truth is, almost everything sells on eBay-eventually. It may take months or even years for some items to find a buyer, but patience is key.
One of the biggest challenges with eBay sellers is the desire for a quick buck. Many haven’t realized that selling on eBay is a long game, not a sprint. This impatience is what has led to the "race to the bottom" in pricing. If you want better sales, focus on maintaining fair prices and stop undercutting your fellow resellers. Collaboration, not cutthroat competition, will help sustain a thriving eBay marketplace for everyone.
Well yes and no IMHO. "The Race To The Bottom" is what put Amazon as the #1 undisputed king of third party sellers points of sale. Back in the day I coded a re-pricer for Amazon and it was deemed too aggressive by the company. I was able to continue using it but they told if I tried resell it they would remove my API keys. Pricing matters. Walmart exploded into the #2 spot in eCommerce as they demand low price from vendors or they'll hide listings. Temu annual revenues rivaled eBay's in a mere two years all due to pricing.
I'd not be surprised if some point in time all this FaceBook, eBay, Shop Safe Act on and on aside that the site mandate price drops which some of the Business To Consumer (B2C) venues back 20 years ago did. Actually rather surprising eBay has not but it is an "Open for all to sell" venue whereby those B2C's were not, they were mostly requiring vendors be authorized be that Authorized Liquidator, Authorized Surplus Vendor, Authorized Wholesaler, Authorized Distributorship, Authorized Reseller all quite different legalese.
They required price drop because their venues get "clogged up" if you will with stale product and of course the vendors want get it gone so they just keep relisting against those SKU's. End up in time with stale product chewing the visibility of fresh product and that costs sales. eBay NO DOUBT has several algorithms that will deal with stale product and those various program code bases will be at least semi-focal and very focal categorically. For example in say Media items (Games, DVD's, Books, Music etc) its likely they've code there blanketing all media. However in say moderate to high end watches or womens apparel its far more likely to be focal and a VERY DIFFERENT code base and objective of that software code.
This is where sellers *THINK* product is not being shown or in Amazon terminology, "Surfacing." Amazon does surface product, you could see it clear as day with the re-pricer I'd wrote. I could set SKU's to get competitors product via both the API (which limit result counts) but also it could actually scrape the product web page. See stuff disappear and reappear. eBay doesn't do this, I've tested. But they do handle "Stale Product" and without seeing the actual program source code I can't get all too specific but surely all the traditional mechanisms are in place. Those same mechanisms are in place at many enterprise levels websites where lets say "The Product" is information not physical hard goods.
What most all of them have in common is "weighting" and many factors go into that "Weighting Score." It's not ALL THAT DIFFERENT from computer driven wargaming engines whereby data such as unit type, strength, battle experience, fatigue, terrain such as swamp, road, mountain top, lines of sight and more all play into that "Weighted Score" of the unit.
With eBay as an enterprise "Data Venue" they have a plethora of variables that will play into "My listings" weighted score and that score is going to "dynamic" just as is the case with that strategy wargaming engine. Vendor performance, product flooding, pricing, age on site (how stale is it!) on and on and on. There are likely perhaps one hundred or more variables that will play into that final weighted score. That score will affect product ranking towards upsell, cross sell etc of consumer indexed searches. Promoted listings basically "Short circuit" that weighting adding to the "Weighted Score" by a vendors wanting pay more for visibility. Yet that visibility is FOCAL tied to the search, not casual browsing nor upsell, cross sell etc. You have to use ANOTHER type of promoted listing expense to enter into those potential targets. None of this is anything new its just sorta new to vendors at eBay.
Now you'll hear of sellers with heaps of different products and those who've perhaps hundreds and one might think the vendor with heaps of product would have advantageous sell through compared to the smaller dataset. Not the way things tend to work and the reason are the sales performance ratios much like how say a Walmart or even Amazon looks at real estate. At Walmart the sales floor is the main asset as without it can't display product same same online be it hard goods or information in enterprise datasets. Walmart measures floor performance statistically across regional assets aka: NY, Mass or South and North California. They measure quarterly down to store level.
So a seller with 10,000 items with a click through, sell through etc rates of a lower ratio than that seller with hundreds of items the seller with less may well have a better ratio than the bigger guy resulting in "Higher value weighting" and they get more sales as they get more visibility per product. You'll see sellers say, "I made a new store" and its doing better really than my old one that has heaps of product. Yep, that's the weighting. New sellers come in and are thrilled getting all these sales but then see them complain as they seem fall off... Yep, thats all the weighting. A new seller will start with highest possible weighting and have to. They have to because if it were "Start at the lowest" the weighting would be suppressing visibility to large extent.
There's no magic about it at all. Now sellers who are the "anchor sellers" at eBay gonna be treated differently. Amazon used to call them Anchor Tenants who tend get "The Buy Box" if product is available in categories whereby a Category Manager enables the vendor to qualify for that visibility (feature). In fact Amazon's faced litigation due to it whereby consumers pay too much in compare to vendors not owning "The Buy Box." It is NIGHT AND DAY over there and likely at eBay as well. Back when I sold at Amazon I was accidently gifted the Buy Box twice and literally every 1.5 minutes a sale rolled in. It was INSANE.
At eBay the top 25-35% of vendors are going to be authorized chain in one area or another be that "Authorized Reseller", "Authorized Liquidator" etc etc. They make the hay just as is the case at Amazon. I know three of them one is Dell Authorized reclamation, the other the largest fantasy wargaming entity at eBay and another that sells fasteners (screws, nuts, bolts etc). You'll NEVER hear them complain about their sales... Now the last one selling the fasteners have saw $400,000 in drop since Temu came hard unto the scene. But point being those vendors have a "Hard short circuit" on the weighting so they are always getting great visibility as they bring home the hay $.
Selling for 4 years and I never did the relist similar method but man has it exploded my sales now. Maybe because I wasn't as consistent about listing every day but now if I don't have time to list new items, I just end and sell similar to keep my store fresh.
Thats what's dope about having a big store...you don't have to list often. Last time I listed in my 4,000 item store was day after black friday and I still sell every day because there's just soooo much to look at. Just List Heavy and forget it!
Zero sales today (Friday) guess Top Rated seller don’t mean squat 🤬
This is awesome
When I do end-sell similar I will quickly scan my listing. I have found on numerous occasions that important stuff in the original listing was missing. I add important specifics back and hit list
This guys sold items makes my ebay store look luxurious lol
I think the algorithm is it gives you free promotions when it sees you listed a bunch of new items.
What happens is new listing go in front the browse queue it's that simple. Sure many more people search than browse but the browse queue at any enterprise level web site has multiple points at which it may preview no matter if it's commerce or a large news site. People don't take time to learn at the least the basic behind technology how can they expect to best leverage it? eBay has features like save searches, they have demographic purchasing habits on every user and considerably more. They'll have "Flood control" code towards vendors that like do that stuff. Sellers generally speaking are so wrapped up in product, processes and more understandably so that they never learn how and why things work but instead try pull rabbits out of hats as explanations.
@msunites2977 and what is this flood control exactly?
@@PabloDiabloTreasures Flood control is essentially listing in mass or relisting in mass to try and push higher product and/or vendor visibility. Flood control is used all over enterprise level webs and search engines, social media on and on. There are different types and reasons across webs, search engines etc for using software controlled access to various assets... I moniker it all under "Flood Control" because that's what it amounts to for the laymen to be able take in and comprehend versus the actual wide variety of software mechanisms and causations to restrict what people, automation and such try do with data and sites. For example eBay sometime back began measures to reject "Bots" (automated software code) from accessing eBay assets... This too is a form of "Flood control."
I remember the old Jiffy Pop. Usually 30% of the pop corn ended up burned. 😮😊
some listing might have issues theoretically if ebay uses multiple servers and some server with your listing(s) has issues.
Do you do offsite promotions? I bet that gets spendy?
I do
I got robbed by pay per click on google years back in a brick and mortar business….haven’t dared try them cause of that I think lol 😂
What gets me is when the new sellers call themselves "Full time" Resellers and they have a few hundred items Total and list 5-10 a day. What do they do all day? 10 listing take what 20-25 min. Guess full time has different meanings nowadays
If somebody makes 100% of their income from doing it, the amount of time they spend on it doesn't really matter. That's their full-time income
I noticed payments are not going through .. sales are vanishing without payment! 🤷🏻♀️ I give ..
probably a buyer sent out a bunch of offers and then went with somebody else's accepted offer and left yours unpaid
Lol eGayyyyyyyy
those are "cool" items? More like lame.