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04/07/2019 at 10:50 am in reply to: Items Showing As Out-Of-Stock When Only One Was Available To Begin With? #59842
*UPDATE*
I called eBay about this because it continues to happen, and we don’t want relisting fees for items we never had more than one of (and it messes with bookkeeping)
They said this is a known issue and they are working on it, so be sure to check what is listed in your “Out-Of-Stock” items on your active listings page of the dashboard, and let eBay know your account has been affected, if it has.
The rep told me we could go ahead and delete those items once they had our account info and added our account to the report.
This seems to have happened after they switched everything to “Good Til Cancelled” but I don’t know if it’s related.
We have several Native American art pieces listed and haven’t had any issues. Could it be the category you are using? What categories have you gotten that error with?
04/01/2019 at 11:47 am in reply to: Tips needed for selling a large number of Lilliput Lanes! #59497We’ve had some luck selling specific pieces for good money (several hundred dollars even without the box and deed.) Since they are made in the UK I imagine they are saturated there already. Definitely worth considering selling in the US market, or any market outside of the UK and also worth going through what you have and seeing what pieces are valuable and selling them one their own, and putting the others in small lots (or, as Jay said, just donating those)
We started a sale today. We put items with more than one watcher and within a certain price range on sale and sold three items – two were big sale items. It has worked when we do it that way. I do agree about the best offer thing — there are some items (not all!) I’d like to be able to turn it off on if they are on sale.
I did an update to this post here: https://www.scavengerlife.com/forums/topic/update-to-missing-dimensions-and-shipping-policy-changes-post/
Apparently, there has been an issue with dimensions going missing when items relist/sell similar.
thanks – we use GarageSale for listing, and it won’t allow me to list without dimensions. It gives a error and it has to be checked and added.
Our listings end after 30 days and we sell similar through eBay on the desktop, so something must have changed between the original listing and ‘selling similar’
yeah – it is crazy – has me nervous now!
I am actually curious about the service and if there is any value/worth to using it; most of what I find when I try to research it is people rightfully upset with *eBay* for allowing it and I can’t find anything out about the company itself…
I didn’t realize your post was about this, Ryanne and I just posted a thread about it – we had a promotion alert on our dashboard and I wrote about the process we went through last night and are still trying to sort out today
07/04/2018 at 3:38 pm in reply to: eBay apologizes for technical issues that "may have impacted" sellers #44470yes – this was on our seller dashboard under Seller Announcements. I agree, everyone should be able to see it.
This may be related to the post I just shared here. Was wondering what “technical issues” they meant
those are lovely!
This is what has been bugging me especially since they are making a point of telling us that if our listings aren’t mobile-friendly we risk them not being pulled into searches. So we are being penalized for something that is an issue on their end if we don’t do it and don’t make the fix ourselves.
I’m glad it was an easy fix (once we found the bulk-edit) and I’m glad it worked for you.
One thing to keep in mind: you have to always click “save” after you click the fix it button. On my laptop the save button falls below the fold on my screen and I kept missing it and thinking I was making the change only to realize I kept forgetting to click save *head desk*
We mostly do measurements and condition info – pointing out things for the buyer to notice/be aware of. I’m still not at the confidence level to just point them out in photos. We also repeat some of what is put into item specifics.
I’m trying to get faster at listing and descriptions do slow me down, but I feel like until we are at a high-seller level I need to rely on as many potential ways to get relevant views as possible (without keyword stuffing)
Good news for those who are dismayed about having to manually fix all of their listings:
It can be done via bulk edit.
After we started manually fixing things last night, we decided to do a search and see if there was an easier way to fix them.
Randy came across this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_O8K5m1kgE which shows how to bulk edit your listings to fix it by adding a code snippet – it’s the snippet that is added when you click the fix it button and you can copy it from the comments for adding into your descriptions.
I was curious if it would affect those that had already been fixed, since they’d now have the code in it twice. I tried it on two listings and it didn’t make anything look wonky or messed up and the mobile checker came out good with nothing to fix on them.
>>”I do wonder how many people buy from eBay’s website on their phone vs the app.”<<
I’ve been curious to know this too, Jay, so I did some Googling and found this very surprising stat in this article:
“U.S. mobile is still largely a browser based world as mobile browser audiences are ~2X larger than app audiences across the top 50 U.S. mobile web properties.
As shown, the median browser audience (across the top 50 U.S. mobile apps as of July 2015) has grown at 61% per year, while app audiences have grown at an average of 51% per year.
Said another way, mobile browser audiences have grown 1.2x faster than mobile app audiences off of a 1.8x larger base.”
Your M-Commerce Deep Dive: Data, Trends and What’s Next in the Mobile Retail Revenue World
I guess I live in a bubble – I use apps for everything when a store has one when it comes to shopping on my phone and wrongly assumed everyone else would too.
Goodness, was I wrong!!
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