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What’s the issue with international buyers combining shipping? Is this when you use the Global Shipping Program?
I’m leaning toward switching to 2-day handling as well. I’ll probably still ship 95% of orders the next day, but it would be nice to skip a day every once in a while and just scavenge.
(1) Since I started on Etsy about a year ago, 17% of my orders have been for multiple items. It’s a good platform for cross-selling since Etsy really emphasizes shops and guides you to look at other items from the same seller. This probably works better the more focused your shop is.
(2) I don’t think I would ever notice it if they did. But I doubt they’d heavily promote brand new sellers who may not be prepared to handle a large volume of orders.
(3) They do provide stats on this. The vast majority of my traffic comes from within Etsy.
Promotions definitely work on items that don’t have multiples. I use them that way all the time.
The stats eBay gives you on how much a Sale Event increased your sales seem to be bogus if you don’t have multiples, so maybe that’s what the eBay rep meant. But the promotions themselves work just fine.
Promtions Manager makes the “save up to XX%” banner at the top of your listing page, and will try to cross-sell people on other sale items, as seen here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/All-American-921-21-Quart-Pressure-Cooker-Canner-/271948827109
Retro Treasures, I’m seeing the Weekend Sale promotion on your listings now.
Setting up a discount sale in Promotions Manager doesn’t actually make any items discounted. You have to use Markdown Manager to create the discounts. Then you use Promotions Manager to create a “sale event.” The sale will contain only items that you discounted in Markdown Manager AND that meet the criteria for your sale.
On the other hand, if you create a shipping promotion in Promotions Manager then that *does* actually make the shipping discounts happen.
Even by eBay standards it’s a stupidly overcomplicated system, but it does seem to work well once you actually get it set up right.
