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Revenue
Mercari
$30.72
Poshmark
$467.00
eBay
$512.70
Total $1,010.42
Not a bad week of sales for mid-January. Poshmark was good last week and then got very quiet this holiday weekend, at least in terms of sales. I turned on the auto 10% off listing on the software. Got tired of doing it manually. I have started working on organizing the garage unlisted area and tiding up shipping supplies. It’s a big job that will take a while. I’ve been good about putting up a listing or few on most days in January so far. I was lucky to score some big wire rolling racks for bins at an estate sale about 65% off the Costco price. This will help keep the boxes from getting crushed and also allow for higher storage. Still trying to get on my son’s car back in the garage.Also this week I listed 7 items on Facebook marketplace and 5 of them sold right away. This was stuff from my booth decor and large art work. One I got free at the curb. I will definitely list the large art on Facebook as I work on the garage and I’m no longer picking that up. Maybe even the medium size art as well.
Purchased some RA clearance but that will be done soon. Have not been out sourcing much and it was not good when I did look. So that’s helpful. Plenty of stuff around here. This week I am listing my grandma’s mardi gras stuff in lots that has been here forever and a day under our bed. Got sidetracked from the linens.
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Store review update. Had the same guy, he was great.
Looking at my numbers, he mentioned that the items I had on flat rate shipping under a pound had started moving better. We discussed going in and changing more stale things under a pound to that shipping policy. I’m a bit nervous about using a flat rate 2 pound – if it’s high enough to cover me, then I feel like I might lose West Coast buyers.
He suggested not putting vintage 70s until the end of the title. He was stronger on that today than at the last meeting. That will be an easy way to refresh old listings as I often put it at the front. Again, the 6-7 photos thing – I didn’t spend much time going back over old listings.
He liked that I tried the coupon, though I had not done the newsletter. They recommend doing the newsletter every 30-45 days and a coupon every 30-60 days. He suggested freshening my store displays every 30 days – traffic page shows I had over 300 visits to the store in the last 90 days. I will likely keep that seasonal though. Over on the social media page, he showed me you can create Instagram posts there. My Pinterest link had also broken. He reports that after 8-10 social media posts sellers see results.
I didn’t use his clearance category suggestion. Even though some old stuff had sold on other platforms (which really may have helped my velocity, though he didn’t confirm that), he still wants me to try refreshing a few old items and putting them in a clearance category. I would then change the view from Ebay categories to my homemade store categories. I tried to get him to reveal something about stale items dragging down your store, but he didn’t really latch onto that.
I also talked with him about the new promoted attribution rules. He said he wished they would have done a more gradual rollout of that. He said I was smart to keep promoting. I told him I would consider on some older used items using the 6-7% but I wasn’t sure that would really give me much more exposure. Without directly confirming this, he basically said keep as is.
I also told him that I was going to set the software to refresh listings every 90 days once the oldest ones are caught up. He stuck with the party line and said Ebay doesn’t want you to do that, and the party line is that 90 days is the “sweet spot” for selling a listing. The Vegas rep was much more direct though.
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I spent some time redoing and consolidating my Ebay store categories. Everything was a hot mess in the wrong category and I had created a few that aren’t really a big part of my store.
I also have my shipping policies all cleaned up. I sent out a newsletter to all of my groups with a sale announcement. Hard to tell if that helped or not but I had a few sales since then. I also listed too.
Working on sorting unlisted inventory today.
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@ChristineR: Thanks for the store info
To check your store traffic, go to ‘My eBay’, find ‘Store’ at the top, and select ‘Traffic’ from the dropdown.
A quick look at my traffic report showed some surprisingly good numbers—about 50+ views per week. It’s a bit of a bummer that the history only goes back 31 days; hopefully, eBay improves that and offers more history soon.
With those numbers in mind, it might be time to put some work into the storefront instead of just doing the bare minimum. Switching from standard eBay categories to custom store categories would make sense too. I wonder how many categories we can use that way?
Does anyone have a link or a name for a fantastic-looking store? Some high-quality examples would be great to review for inspiration.
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31 days is a drop down. You can also see last week, this month, this quarter and this year…although ,this early in the year, some of those aren’t going to be very useful.
Some of is had been asking ebay to give us store traffic reports for a long time, but they only gave them to us when they started ebay Store Ads….since those ads are Pay Per Click, they needed a way to show us view numbers (ads and non ads).
We’ve also been asking for more granularity for store traffic (where is it coming from? Off ebay?, ebay?, etc, and what are they looking at? How many click on a store video, for example?)
But since none of that actually ties in with ad campaigns, I suspect we will never see that kind of reporting.
ebay announced changes to Store Ads on Jan 14th, with a link to try the changes, but the link still goes to the old page, and it appears none of the changes have actually been released, even though it is now ten days since the announcement. I’ve asked about this on the Selling Board, and my questions were forwarded to the Ads Team by the Community Team, but so far, The Ads team hasn’t seen fit to explain why nothing has been released.
The interesting things is, buried in the announcement are hints that ebay may be making some changes to stores, but it is completely unclear.
I’m hoping to get an answer sooner or later, but “later” seems more likely. LOL
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My store front isn’t great and I don’t look around in others’ stores. It was easy to create except that I manage it on desktop and got lazy with adding photos that I didn’t grab from stock listings since the rest are in my phone.
I think you can have up to 300 categories. I have just made the number that makes sense for my types of items, about 14 categories for 850 unique listings. I feel like it may have been better to create subcategories under vintage vs modern but I’m not going to get into that. I’m not sure how that would look on a phone.
Interestingly, the Ebay reviewer could not see my traffic page. He had me look and tell him. I was surprised how many hits if it was just 30 days. It is super rare for people to use the shopping cart and buy multiple items.
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Hey forum! I decided to pause my store with Time Away for the weekend due to the messy weather here in the southeast—I’m worried about getting those Monday scans on time and don’t want to risk my shipping metrics.
I’m making the most of the downtime by creating new custom categories to give my store front a more curated feel. My stats showed 50 visitors on Friday, and I need to take advantage of this traffic and turn those views into sales. It’s definitely time to take things up a notch!
Has anyone else found that better category organization helped boost your sales?
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@timo this is my store link. https://www.ebay.com/str/retrodecormore I totally revamped my categories and considering further dividing with subcategories. I really need to scare up some better featured photos. I’m not making a video, which is the last step to “complete your store.” I created my logo and my banner for free on Ebay. The simple banner doesn’t look great on desktop but looks good on mobile.
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@ChristineR: Your store looks awesome. Thanks for sharing the link. There are no specific improvements to recommend. If you have changes in mind, you can try to schedule time periodically to keep it fresh. Perhaps a quarterly review after that since you have seasonal items.
As to my store: eBay is pushing visitors there so my intent is to make sure they have a better chance to find an item to purchase.
I followed your lead and knocked out some store category updates, switching the whole storefront over to my custom categories. I also took the time to refresh the billboard image, my About me statement, and the marketing banner along with all the category images. I decided to skip the video for now too. So, it is still a work in progress, but the plan is to jump back in and review everything periodically to keep it from getting stale.
Paraphrasing: eBay recommends regularly updating store content for relevance and search visibility, even if the core brand story remains consistent. This includes refreshing branding and descriptive elements such as seasonal store descriptions to reflect current inventory or promotions. Reviewing the About tab and the first 160 characters of the store description periodically ensures the use of current keywords, as this content is indexed by Google. Updating the billboard and logo is also suggested if they no longer align with the brand or current items being sold.
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Store newsletter results – announcing sale:
Your summary
Nov 01, 2025 – Jan 30, 2026
868Total reach
46.43%Open rate
1.5%That is probably me opening it. LOL. Unfortunately it sent this multiple times for some reason. I manually went in and canceled it.
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Sales really dropped off since last weekend so I started a 5% extra off coupon with my 15% off sale.
Also in news this week on Ebay, Ebay and others are threatened by agentic AI shopping because they will lose their leverage to make us pay extra for listing placement. So they are blocking that traffic. https://www.valueaddedresource.net/ebay-bans-ai-agents-updates-arbitration-user-agreement-feb-2026/
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