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[LAwoman]

Okay, got it, that help, thank you. When you’re adding priority, are you adding that as an option for the buyer and they pay additional? If not, are you adjusting any of your listing prices to compensate?

Oy

[LAwoman]

Maybe I misunderstood Ryanne… what I got from the podcast was that your offers with 1st class weren’t been listed as part of guaranteed delivery, and you had to go into the listings and switch them to Priority to be part of guaranteed delivery (or making Priority a shipping option). Please tell me I misunderstood. You would make my day. 😉

[LAwoman]

A follow up, food for thought:

I checked into the buyers FB left for others. Only 2, both negatives, both within the last month: one for me (‘Due to wretched packing, the item was damaged in transit. All corners crushed.’) and a remarkably similar feedback the other seller

I sent the buyer rare books; the other seller sent rare vinyl. He obviously wants to keep all of these items that were ‘ruined’. Still curious, I wrote to the other seller asking if this buyer contacted them first before leaving fb; upon attempt to contact to resolve the issue. The seller immediately replied: No, not at all, nothing.

Sure, there could have been damage in transit, I would have resolved the situation on some level (photos would have helped). But what is in the mindset of a buyer (who has 64 positive FBs from sellers, in total) like this??

The buyer lives a mile away from me… literally. I even have his phone number from a little googling. (don’t worry, I won’t contact him)…

I know this happens, I don’t take it personally. Just putting it out there.

[LAwoman]

Still haven’t heard back from the buyer. Strange. I posted the feedback response as suggested (they don’t allow you much room, letter-wise) and felt a little better. 😉

[LAwoman]

Thanks for the replies. I promised myself I would never be one of those sellers who would freak out about a negative fb… and yet, here I am. 😉

I sent the buyer a message (he lives about a 10 minute bike ride from me, weird) and have heard nothing back. I’ll keep you posted.

[LAwoman]

Don’t forget Paul Smith! Big seller for me, as far as sport coats blazers go. And they are very slow to sell.

[LAwoman]

Anything with an american flag on it. Striped, plaid, t-shirt, polo… no matter the size of the flag, could be there instead of the polo pony. Flags are in right now with RL stuff.

[LAwoman]

Thanks for the replies. And letting me throw my hissy fit. 😉

[LAwoman]

Hi…

I was referring to the number of my listings I chose for promotion. I tend to do things a bit haphazardly, I just went through my listings and looked for items that were:
1. Selling for (at least) $50
2. Up for at least a year, year and a half.

No great business chops, over here. 😉 I need to work on that.

[LAwoman]

Okay, 1st campaign finished, results:
Sept 21-30
19,172 impressions
540 clicks
4 sales = $214.10
Fees: $10.71

Mostly if not all one-off of pre-owned/vintage clothing.

Are these good results??
It would help if I had the total number of items promoted. I have to figure out how to find that….

[LAwoman]

That is very sweet of you to offer, Marjean. I will try and tackle it one more time, I suppose I should learn how to use excel in this business. 😉

[LAwoman]

Thanks Marjean… I downloaded the report. I’m not familiar with excel. I guess I promoted more than a handful. But I still cannot see the 3 items I sold through this process. There is a sold column, but it’s very confusing to me.

[LAwoman]

Promoted Listings Week Trial almost done.

Question: On the promoted siting page (views, clicks, impressions etc) it tells you how many PL you sold. In my case, 3. I click on the number 3, expecting the software to take me to the listings that sold under promoted listings… do I have to wait for an invoice to find out which listings actually sold under PL??

Thanks

[LAwoman]

2 questions

When I first used MM, I assumed that if someone was searching, for example, for a glass vintage bird Xmas ornament (and there are quite a few out there) that as they scrolled through the result, when they got to my listing they would see a line through the original price, the sale price in red, and some kind of ‘That’s 10% off…” or something like that (I only do % on sales) And if my sale price was lower than others, it would get a bump in the listing in general.
So, question #1. Is this going to change come with the fall changes?

I sought out advice (here and in other forums (not Ebay forums) about retroactively categorizing my Mens clothing section. For some reason I didn’t use sub categories when I started the store. Most advice I received (including here, it’s searchable I guess) was, to paraphrase, ‘don’t bother, no one looks at the stores anyway, just the items’ I have also read/been told that stores names don’t matter. So I just let it run itself and I’m doing it for the free listings and shipping supplies.
So Question #2. Was this advice all wrong?? Or half right?

Thanks for listening…. 😉

[LAwoman]

Thank you for the info…

My takeaway from the video mentioned earlier is that with this change, it does nothing for your search rankings, like MM did (I think?). At least it gave it a boost.

And… tell me if I’m wrong, that the rollout of MM/Sales event is much more focused on items, and directing traffic, to/in your store, rather than a specific sale item (MM)?

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