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Hey @Zach that is awesome. You can get free advertising on Pinterest and it’s super quick.
https://imgur.com/a/ebay-traffic-gone-jJ0xNCD
Ouch! All of my 800 listings had 27 views total yesterday, ebay sent a whopping total of 10 of those from search. Zero sales for 3 days. ugh.
I refunded the buyer and now I’m losing my TRS because Ebay said it was an item out of stock without the buyer even complaining. I tried to appeal and it got declined. Sucks.
I’ve decided to phase out general promoted like you did. It feels like things can’t really get much worse saleswise. I have been listing again, but have some outside Ebay stuff going on so not a ton. Today should be pretty good. Still need to finish my bookkeeping this weekend as well.
@jaepete thanks! I think I only get credit for a new account opening. The code is RETRO_DECOR
Ebay is on some sort of government compliance kick and it seems to be causing some technical issues. Some podcasters were reporting that listings without country of origin were being hidden, including from domestic buyers. Another reported she checked with Ebay and that was false. My listing impressions are down by 50% this past week. A whopping 32% of my clicks are coming from external sources, while that usually runs around 6%. Something is definitely up. I only had two sales on Ebay this week, and zero until I started running my weekly sale. One of these is missing from the order page for now, which as been reported as a glitch. On the other they have a new bubble about hazardous materials.
Promoted listings clicks are still down in the teens. I don’t want to pay extra for lousy placement so I will probably phase out promoting via nifty as an experiment and see what happens.
At least one podcaster is reporting a disappearing package out of the bin as well.
I upped my general promotion rate on Sat to 3.1%. If I’m still seeing clicks in the teens this month I think I’ll phase out promoting or just turn it on (maybe higher for used, stale items). Things are a little bit skewed because I haven’t been listing, but I should get back to that by next week.
@clarity wow that’s not good. I had one want to cancel after I dropped off and it finally got a scan a couple of hours after I told her I had dropped it off the day before. In the second instance, it never got a scan and it wasn’t delivered. It’s been weeks. Unfortunately, regular people are not aware that they are not giving scans right away and are doing fewer scans. I did also notice things are taking longer to arrive in some cases, even though the Christmas rush is over. Yesterday I have apologize for making my postal guy scan all of my packages in. He said there are card sellers in our neighborhood that bring in like 50 items.
@jaepete that is a cool bag.
Sales are dreadful this week for me on all accounts. I haven’t been listing much but still.
PPS. If anyone is newly joining Poshmark, please let me know. I get to become a Poshmark ambassador level 2 if I refer someone after six months.
PPS. If anyone is newly joining Poshmark, please let me know. I get to become a Poshmark ambassador too if I refer someone after six months.
Ps. they also have depop and mercari. I don’t have clothing for depop so I haven’t done that. My old buried Mercari listings have been refreshed by Nifty AI. Just that alone probably pays for the software.
@ryanne I use Nifty AI. I waited to find out which was the best cross posting software. I have spotty internet here so I went with Nifty AI, which I believe is only one of the two working from the cloud and not your computer. It’s been very reliable so far with delisting when something is sold. If they have a glitch with that they will email you to alert you. It’s not the cheapest but amazing software. I will use it to store my cost of goods starting with this year’s listings. It’s pretty liberating to get out from under Ebay’s algorithm and I think they tend to have younger buyers. However, Posh fees are higher and about 80% sells on offer. I have my offers automated. The Nifty AI listing tool is much better than Ebay’s but sometimes sell similar is faster still than using it for vintage or weird items. I’ve sold about $5000 on Posh already, more than enough to pay for the software. I wish I had done it sooner. It feels so great when something sells there that’s been listing on Ebay forever. Some of it I think has to do with their great shipping rate – $6.49 for up to 5 pounds! I think it’s only $10? (or $10 more) for up to 10 pounds (seller needs to upgrade the label).
