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I listen to a number of reseller YouTube channels. One person preaches don’t use GTC and don’t use the “relist” feature but use “sell similar.” I thought that I’d give it a try and see what happens. I test it for almost 3 months and I must say I had a significant increase in sales (at least for this small seller) but it wasn’t a very good test because I also increased the number of items in my store from around 245 listings to well over 300. I also changed the kind of items I sold (I went from primarily hard goods to clothes because I am a snowbird in Arizona for three months and I have a Goodwill Outlet/Bins/Pay By The Pound here and I need to be able to get all my inventory back to Wisconsin in a couple of weeks). I am also doing free shipping for up to 8 ounces and buyer pays for anything over 9 ounces which I wasn’t doing before.
However, I was finding it difficult to keep up with relisting/sell similar and knowing what I “sold similar” since those don’t get automatically deleted out of your unsold category as it does with “relist.” So, with the new inventory and free shipping on some items that I have, I am going to try to relist with GTC and see what happens to my sales especially since we are supposedly coming into a little buying season with tax refunds on the horizon. For my first year of selling, I ONKY did “list it and forget it” as recommended by J&R. It was easy and effective, but with all of the controversy over it, I thought I change it up and see what happens. The jury is still out on the effectiveness and we’ll see what the next couple of months give me until we get into the summer slump.
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My experience was very similar to your own, I watched all those Youtube seller videos and decided to not use GTC because it supposedly would lead to worse search results. Once I got to around 400 items it became so obnoxious I decided to just go GTC and forget it. So far sales seem a little lower, but it could just be due to my product mix and increased competition.
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Same here. I switched everything to 30 days about 4 months ago. I have 1000+ items and it started to get very frustrating to relist multi items a day. I know it’s fairly simple to do, but I didn’t see an increase in sales. It’s not worth the hassle in my opinion. If I feel like listings are starting to get “stale” I’ll end 100 or so and relist them all at once.
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It also seems that if you “play around” with a listing, it helps, too. I readjusted some of my key words on about half of my listings the other day (put the most important words that someone might search on in the order they might search and I have had a number of sales in those more stale listings. So, I guess there could be other ways to accomplish the same results without the annoying relist/sell similar.
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Typically I have used GTC listings. Will try the end every 30 days and sell similar route. Have a little over 200 items and was surprised at the monthly ebay fees so cancelled my basic store. May go back to, as ebay wants to charge $60 for sell similars now. Sell mostly like new clothes. Just looking at ways to cut costs. Know that some of my items have a limited audience.
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I agree that at a certain level, relisting is an issue. This is why we went to SixBit last year, so that it would relist for us. This saved us the time we spent relisting to other tasks.
I also agree that changing things in the listing will help. We have seen that. It would be interesting to see someone that stays GTC what their STR is if they tweak their listings every 30-60 days: change keywords, change photos, change pricing.
It also really only helps on high moving items (clothes, shoes, etc.). Unique hard goods that have few active buyers will still be long tail, no matter what we do.
I would also say that to really get a good test, you need a baseline of about a year, and about a year with the change. It is hard to see if things are working if you are going into summer. Somehow, you have to remove the seasonality of your sales out of your test results.
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