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Has anyone seen this? Someone on one of the Facebook groups mentioned she received an email from ebay, telling her that ten of her items are in customer shopping carts, and promising if she lowers the price by 5%, ebay will send them an email. (I assume “5% or more” is meant.)
ebay has promised to use its data to help us, and this seems like a good use of that data. I’d be glad to markdown some stuff if I knew an interested buyer would be notified…might make the sale, might not, but I’d be willing to try….
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There was a screen shot, but I think it was just the top of the page, didn’t include details. I got the impression the email included a list of specific items, because she said before she could make the changes, one of them sold LOL (which does hint that maybe it was in someone’s cart).
Hoping I get one of these at some point…
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Cool. Its difficult to comment on these kinds of things unless people provide real data and proof.
If eBay really is doing this, it’d be a very new thing for them. But then it brings up the “hack” buyers can do. Load up items int their cart, and then wait for the email that says its all discounted 5%.
Free money if you just wait x days.
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Jay, Yes, people brought up that hack on the thread, some seemed to think with Amazon especially, that if they just wait they’ll get a discount. I think this may be different in that only some ebay sellers will actually take ebay’s advice and reduce, so buyers really won’t have much assurance, any more than Put it on a watch list and wait for the price to go down. For our kind of stuff, buyers know there’s a risk: wait too long, and maybe someone else buys it. If it’s the only one on ebay, buyers may learn not to wait LOL
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Okay, so we just received an eBay message exactly as initially described.
Here’s a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/n8ciQ
“Lower the price by 5% on these items in shoppers’
carts, and we’ll email them to say their deal got better.”Lists the specific items that they want us to discount by at least 5%.
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MrsKensington, Not that I know of. I do wonder though, if enough sellers use this, will they start putting the info in Sellers Hub? I think it’s possible, but not sure they will. First, because judging by many posts I’ve seen on the ebay boards and FB groups, a lot of sellers will refuse to do it. And second, because , on the opposite end, some sellers might go overboard, discounting again and again so that ebay keeps sending the emails, but buyers can get tired of that sort of thing. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
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I dropped the prices by 5% on seven items as suggested. It made no difference whatsoever.
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