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Yes, very happy. I sometimes use their AI listing tool for new items. It saves all of my sold listings so I can relist an item if I find more or sell something very similar. Also good back up in case Ebay loses photos again or drops something. I will use it for COGS – I will need to move way from the Ebay spreadsheet because I sold more on Posh this year. Also I don’t particularly want Ebay seeing my COGS. If Nifty can’t auto delist an item that sold, they send an email to to alert me. I can run a check for duplicate listings. It does all of the dumb Posh sharing for me. It ends and relists all of my listings every 30-60 days on the platforms.
I did have one thing sell twice but I suspect that was user error. I also had something I couldn’t find and thought I might have sold but I think maybe I decided to throw it into the garage sale. On the whole it’s been very reliable and I wouldn’t be cross posting without software.
I feel like I’m getting a lot for the money. I wish there was a reliable way other than Terapeak to decide on prices. Then AI listing would be more valuable. I’m still doing sell similar mostly on Ebay.
BTW, I’m still posting on Pinterest, which is quick. I also kept using my under a pound flat rate which gets me Google hits. I get an average of about 9% of my clicks from outside Ebay.
Multi platform is great. Sometimes I successfully sell stale items on either Poshmark or Mercari, which also gets them out of my Ebay store (maybe helping it if stale stuff does hurt?). I crab about promoted Ebay fees but Posh is 20%, which is no joke. Also about 90% of my Posh sales are based on offers. Buyers are more comfortable negotiating on there. I’ve taken a couple of hits on brand new items just to get a little cash flow. If I use Nifty AI to start a listing I have it set to charge more on Posh than Ebay and Mercari.
My issue with the Ebay promoted fee is that I’m not convinced that I’m really getting anything for it and I’m apparently getting less for more money, further liquidated by some sellers going all in on pay to play.
There is a lot of chat among long time smaller sellers about sales being down. I just watched a video by someone saying they think it’s shipping costs combined with high volume sellers promoting at high general or priority because they can afford to do it. Ebay really needs to do something about shipping costs to attract more buyers.
The promoted fees don’t add up to a lot for me at this rate but I’m curious what will happen if I drop it. I stubbornly refuse to pay a higher percentage. I would if I had gotten most of my items very inexpensively but I also sell brand new items and sometimes pay up a bit for vintage.
Gemini says this:
1. The “2% Anchor” Camp (Estimated at over 60–70% of independent sellers) Following the 2026 “any-click” attribution rule change, massive cohorts of everyday sellers shifted their strategy. Because any random click can trigger an ad fee on an organic sale up to 30 days later, keeping ad rates high is a massive risk to margins.The Logic: Sellers use 2% as a “participation fee” to prevent the eBay search engine, Cassini, from burying their listings.
The Pushback: Platforms like EcommerceBytes note that eBay has been aggressively prompting sellers with notifications warning them that competitors are using “8% to 15%” ad rates. Despite this pressure, the community consensus on Reddit and eBay community boards remains clear: “Stick to 2% to survive the margin squeeze”
2.The “Dynamic & Priority” Camp (High-Volume Power Sellers)Large-scale retail sellers and liquidators frequently bypass the 2% strategy…
I guess I if most people are paying the participation fee then I’d better be careful not to drop it. I’ll be in no man’s land potentially.
I did find the traffic report. It looks like my promoted clicks are hovering around 13% while promoted sales are between 50-90%
I’m thinking of quitting promoting. Sales on Ebay are tough. Some podcasters are only promoting after the item has been listed 30 days, but Ebay sends me messages bugging me to promote and there is no way to filter out listings by staleness that I am aware of. I don’t feel like I’m getting anything by promoting at 2%. My click through rate on promoted listings is .1%. So I feel like they must be showing it at the very bottom of impressions – a page never looked at. I can’t find the old traffic report I was using to see the % of promoted sales and promoted clicks. Can you even see what % you are paying a fee on now?
PS. Ebay I do believe needs a shake up. Ryan Cohen is immature and not the guy but I’d love to see Ebay get acquired by a good tech company or just get better management with less waste. When the age of agentic AI shopping comes, I hope Ebay is a beneficiary.
Nifty AI. I’m going to try to list more with their AI feature this fall.
I agree I haven’t done very well on Ebay since January. I’m kind of a boom and bust lister and I feel like changes were likely made in January that hurt my visibility. During the first three months I could see that I was getting fewer promoted clicks for my same low percentage. I refuse to go higher. I’m going to stop promoting now on brand new listings. Nifty doesn’t promote when they relist so I can do it manually then in bulk as they get refreshed after 30 days.
I think I mentioned that I have Nifty refresh my listings very often now. I think it helped on Ebay after I changed it to every 30 days (from 90 or 60 before). My guess is that they are really pushing down stale listings. I haven’t been good about updating my old ones.
Good luck @Mycottage. I’m stuck at 5-10 down. There’s no getting around joining a gym and burning it off unfortunately. It has been stubbornly hot here and we don’t have central AC so not super motivating but we are taking walks here and there.
Crosslisting was awesome for me. I’m not sure about Depop. I’ve heard that people are pretty frugal and service is not good. However, I had two sales on Ebay I’ve had to cancel very recently after the software has been super reliable. I think it might have been me doing something wrong.
I used to not watch much tv for many years but I watched Making a Murderer and it made me think of the old podcast discussion.
Yeah, I don’t think Ebay has kept up well with the rate changes, which isn’t surprising. I don’t pass on my discount and charge calculated above a pound. Ebay charged two of my buyers $20 to go coast to coast on 2 pounds and I only paid $10. Nice, but I feel like I’m probably losing sales. I’m not going to change the weight to 3 pounds for a few reasons, including that the listings are cross-posted. There are so many changes going on it makes you apprehensive about doing anything to create a loss on shipping. However, I’m still monitoring my under-a-pound $7.49 and I seem to be doing ok. Except for needlepoint kits, most of my stuff goes to urban areas.
I’m not sure Mercari has kept up either but then that’s on them. Most of my Mercari listings are Fed Ex Economy.
Ok so the 3-4 pound rate is helping to move some old listings out! I’m not having a ton of sales but seem to be doing ok with my 7.49 flat rate under a pound. Only losing on a couple of sales and ahead on a few. I wish Ebay would show the fee (or not charge one) on your shipping.
Oh yes I am seeing this now. 2 ounce package today CA to RI $8.40. Yesterday I saw people in Facebook groups talking about this and so I upped my up to a pound flat rate to $7.49. Will keep watching. Currently having more sales on Posh but I’m about to photo and launch a bunch of drafts.
Yes, Ebay was late to chime in on this issue leading to a lot of speculation. I’m holding my under a pound flat rate at $6.99 for now but will definitely keep an eye on it. The 3 pound rate is looking pretty good. I tried to go through and move all of my larger items to Fed Ex business policy but should make sure I didn’t miss any. The DIM weight change is craziness. I probably won’t be picking up any more serving platters and things like that.
Correction: Dim weight still won’t apply after 7/12 under a cubic foot.
Just a quick update. I tried changing my software setting to update listings more than 30 days old on Ebay. I do think it may have helped a little bit. There are still more stale listings, so I guess it does so gradually.
Thank you. Ironically Ebay did pick up a bit this week after I posted this and started my weekly sale. I figured out what I was doing wrong on the custom view tab. I still can only look at 3 months at a time but I was able to go back if I cleared today’s date as the end date.
My impressions are WAY down in the last three months. Ebay is 63% of my sales for the year, and surprisingly that is the same percentage as for the last three months. So that would suggest that my lack of listing and other economic factors /pricing is perhaps lot of the issue. I have had to make much better discounts to get the sales I am making on Ebay, pulling all the strings. I’m TRS, have flat rate shipping under a pound, running my weekly permasale, making offers (sometimes 33% if an old listing). Looking back through my sales it does not seem as though the extra photos needed on my listing quality report are a dealbreaker. Overall, I am selling less stale inventory (even with a deep offer) on Ebay but some is selling off on Poshmark. Mercari is pretty dead overall.
I am definitely getting fewer promoted clicks since the attribution change in January but more promoted sales. If that’s true to most sellers who kept the same rate then I wonder if someone could successfully challenge the fee structure. It’s smart to not promote at first and then do it when you end and sell similar but I kind of just like keeping it simple. Should change this since it would be simple to add after the software refreshes.
I read that Ebay sales overall are doing better than a lot of small sellers like me are reporting. It’s focus categories so maybe the live sales are providing a boost? The notifications are annoying. I saw a commercial on HBO (10 seconds) and it was almost nonsensical.
@mycottage we don’t have a seller circle here either. I’ve been looking at Facebook groups, which is 90% of the people with soft sales and 10% of the people lashing them. Not many people looking at their traffic reports but some anecdotal evidence that Cassini likely changed in January along with the promoted fee change.
