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Something is seriously wrong with that. grrrrrrrrr
eBay needs to slack up on the fees.... if they would just give us the freaking gallery for a nickel that would go a long way towards making me list more often.
greedy little boogers.
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I listed 18 items for 15.30 - does that mean I got a better deal
The gallery fee is the one fee that really steam my shorts also.....but they were right about one thing - less people are using it now, it better mean my closing prices go up or I'll be one of those not using it too.
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Gallery should be free. Ebay would reap the benefits from that little move. Get a store and save money. You could have paid the expenses for the month and loaded it up for pennies.
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Stores are a waste of money since with the new search store items will rarely appear if ever in search. You have to run a bunch of auctions and hope someone looks in your store as well.
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Originally Posted by mysteriouscutie
Stores are a waste of money since with the new search store items will rarely appear if ever in search. You have to run a bunch of auctions and hope someone looks in your store as well.
She's right on target.
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What she said.
Originally Posted by mysteriouscutie
Stores are a waste of money since with the new search store items will rarely appear if ever in search. You have to run a bunch of auctions and hope someone looks in your store as well.
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Originally Posted by mysteriouscutie
Stores are a waste of money since with the new search store items will rarely appear if ever in search. You have to run a bunch of auctions and hope someone looks in your store as well.
OK, I must be dense, but how does the new search work that results in less views for the stores?
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Sharronn
I'll try to share what I understand about how this change in search has a negative impact on Store.
Some time back eBay made a change so that when someone did a search and 20 or fewer listings were shown in the results from the main site then items listed in Stores that matched the search were included in a box below the main site items presented to the customer.
This was a compromise between not including Store items in search and/or always including them.
So Store items showed when there were 20 or less regular listings, a number eBay picked.
Store owners seemed to agree that after the above change was introduced their traffic and sales increased although the increased traffic was very dependent on the type of item you offered in your Store.
For example, high end Waterford Crystal was almost always added to the search results when a customer was specific about a particular vase or bowl because few such item were listed as auctions or fixed priced offerings on a weekly basis.
If the potential customer opened the Store listing there were usually the header and other links inviting them to visit the sellers entire list of Store offering for Waterford and resulted in an expanded amount immediate and future sales for the Store owner.
It was also a good tool for sellers to check regular listings and Store listings for price and presentation comparisons on more unique items.
If the Store listings was a more common item and search results showed more than 20 auction or fixed prices listings on the main site then it would not show.
eBay staff spoke of this as a real advantage to Store owner when it was introduced and Store sellers seemed to agree. More so if the Store owner offered less common items and did a good job including key words in their title and/or description.
As recently as Jan. 05, when the fee increases were announced for Store owners, as much as 300% on some FVFs, the eBay Store Team made a point that additional value would be given to Store owners as an offset for higher fees.
Two expanded benefits were repeated, time and time again, by eBay staff.
One was an increase in the referral credit from 50% to 75% of FVFs. As the program is not functioning well, do to tech problems, 75% of nothing is not proving to be much of a benefit.
The other often stated expanded benefit was that eBay would include Store items in searches when main site listings totaled 30 or less (rather than the previous 20 or less)
Bottom line, Store items would have more exposer because they would be shown more often, as the threshold for excluding them was increased 50%.
Now with the "enhanced" search there will be more items shown from the main site, even if they are not directly related to the search terms, and less occasions when Store items will be included. Likely even less exposer than under the old 20 item rule.
So, Store owner feel they were promised benefits as an offset to substantial fee increases, effective 2/18/05, and less than a month later these benefits were negated and they are actually worse off than earlier, from an exposer point of view, while paying higher fee.
"Higher fees and less selling opportunity" so what's new? And the beat goes on.
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Actually it used to be 10 or less and they changed it to 20 or less with up to 30 store items being shown, but other than that yep, that's about right.
I closed my store early this morning after listing all of my inventory for the 1/2 off fixed price sale. I listed so much stuff that I snuffed all of my competitor's store items from showing. lol I love it. This dude has been creating phony ids and killing off my listings over and over again for the past couple of months and ebay's been letting him get by with it. He opened the store to compete with me. karma lol
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$1 to list, thats our problem, hell some of our crap only sells for $6 or so.
we scaled back our auctions big time, most stuff doesn't even make to ebay, and if it does its only listed in our ebay store.