ive been selling items on ebay for many years. I just decided i want to get more involved with selling items on ebay, i want to focus more on it and post more items. I opened a ebay store which costs $15 per month. Since then it seems like sales have been worse. i was wondering if there are any free documents on how to suceed with a ebay store or just something that can give me some advice. thank you
I have the same problem. The reason is because people use ebay.com to search for items not stores.ebay.com which is why your sales have fallen. The stores idea was just basicly an option for you to actualy have a website. so its basicly just your site, ebay dose not promote it unless someone searchs on the stores site, which dose not happen very much. I have an ebay business book somewhere around the house, but its probly old and out dated and wont give any usefull tips. There are alot of ebooks going round intitles ebay- guide to succese etc.. but im afffriad i have no idea if they can help. If you find anything please give me a shout. thanks
thanks for the replies. yes i will continue posting my regular auctions and i also will make a duplicate auction which will basically be just a store item. From what i gathered, you can make just a store item which can have a large quanitity and 30day auctions. i dont believe those listings have a listing fee, just a item sold fee.
I am an eBay Powerseller for one of my businesses. Here's the short answer: You need to research the competition for your item(s). See which fo their auctions are running when during the day. Note their prices for both the item and shipping and try to look for times during the day where your items will be without much competition, up against higher priced competitors, etc. Then write out a schedule to run 20% of your total products on any given day. Use your top 50% selling items in these auctions. For example, if you have 40 products, you should be running about 8 of therm per day. Your auction listing should direct buyers to yiour eBay store to by multiple and/or different products. Watch your competitors, they will see you and adjust. It can be a marathon dance contest kind of thing.
thanks for the tips jrbiz. but i have to admit, you left me a little puzzled. im not sure what you mean when you say run % of your products during the day. i know my competitors have their auctions running 7 days at a time. thats the normal auction length. and so do i. im not sure how you meant that statement. how do i run my auctions around my comeptitors??
A seven day auction period is best used for a 'one-time', non-specified value item in which you want to have buyers bid the price up in a true auction style listing. However, if you have an eBay store, this is for items that you wish to sell over and over and in large volumes, if possible, so I assume that is what you want to do, or you would not have bothered to set up an eBay store. So, since the default search sort order is by the ending time of the auction and most eBay buyers never change that sort order, the sooner your auction is ending, the higher it will show up on search results from buyers looking for what you havew to sell. So, if you are trying to sell volumes of your products, you want to sell them on a daily auction and run them seven days per week. Yes, this costs seven times as much, but with properly researched timing and a competitive offer, you should see a similar increase in sales (and profits, of course.) There may be something about your product(s) that causes everyone to use the longer-term auction periods, but a good reason does not come to mind.
I don't remember where I read that people on ebay prefer buying from regular members than powersellers and such. I remember it said that the powerseller sign, etc. made them feel they were buying from a store or a corporation, so they'd prefer buying from regular members. If I were you, I'd remove the powerseller icon (if you are a powerseller) and close your store to see if your sales go up.
I have never heard this and find it hard to believe. Powersellers get their icon for having a certain amount of sales the past 90 days and a high positive feedback rating. In my experience (and I am an eBay Powerseller) the only thing that buyers look for from a seller is his/her feedback rating. Since Powerseller status is based on Feedbacks, I cannot see how it would hurt a seller.
I had an ebay store and the sales were nothing to write home about. I would run a one day auction everyday starting at .99 to get people to see my listing. Then it shows more items available from my store at the at the bottom and I would get a few sales from that.
eBay stores died a death for many sellers the minute eBay said that store items would no longer appear in the normal search return lists.
I was a Powerseller for 4+ years, recently closed all my stores! Want Tips? 1. Leave ebay ASAP, and try affiliate marketing 2. Close store, go Basic 3. If you decide to stay and feed the feebay monster, at least close your Paypal account and accept only CCNOW.COM. You will reach Powerseller status more faster because Paypal cannot freeze or lock a damn thing IF things are going well Damn $15 bucks a month for a US store?? if i open a store here in Europe it cost me €1 a month and can still sell worldwide. It looks like FEEBAY decided to screw its own US people.... b well.......... nuthing new there... Goodluck, you gonne need it,
Its getting harder and harder to make money on ebay. There fees are going up and items are selling for less. The ebay stores are at the bottem of the page and not everyone looks at them.