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Just telling you what they’ve said. You can choose to believe it or not.
according to ebay, they’ve been doing that for some time now…I know it’s been mentioned in the past…
Jay, oh yeah, changelog would be great! And I agree, on ebay it seems right hand never knows what left hand is doing. It was only a few days ago the ebay return guy said sellers will be able to limit free return shipping to domestic at the end of June. I pointed out that TRS Plus was going to require free return shipping on June 1st—mentioned that it might make sense to have the two happen at the same time. He seemed kind of surprised and indicated they’d look at that.
So, until a few days ago, apparently the return team and the TRS PLus team had not coordinated about this, even though it had been announced in the Summer release.
Looks like they managed to get it squared away in time for this release, but it’s just amazing how much of a disconnect seems to exist at corporate LOL
05/22/2018 at 4:37 pm in reply to: Promoted Listings….how many of your listings sell through promoted listings #40700I’ve sold a fair bit through PL. I think it’s legit. One thing I’ve noticed is I’ve sold some stuff where my price is on the high side, maybe the highest, yet it sold. I think it’s because ebay shows PLs on a lot of pages besides just the regular search results page. So a buyer might be on a page where my PL is shown and there are no directly competing items. Buyer may make an impulse buy, without doing price comparisons. Also, keep in mind that the whole idea behind PL is to surface the item to a targeted buyer at the right time and the right place. That’s actually quite different from simply showing an item in search. It’s much more selective —the PL bot isn’t going to surface my item as a PL in a choice spot unless the bot thinks there’s a real good chance it will sell.
Jay, I agree that probably only a small percentage of buyers use the store home page. I’m not even sure the store home page can be found very easily by mobile buyers. So, yeah, it’s not terribly important to me…just seems odd that they make this change literally days before the Seller Release, they know people have been asking questions about it, and they provide absolutely nothing about it.
After all these years, I really should be used to it LOL
LOL—where did you do the search from Jay? Your store home page? Where was the search block? It used to be within the store homepage…now it’s at the very top of the page, just like the general search on other pages.
Is your store displaying Best Match as the default search order? Is it grid or list view as default?
If you click on Manage My Store, you can set those to the default you want. But unless something changed since yesterday, it won’t matter, because ebay seems to have decided grid and best match will be the default regardless.
Now, maybe that’s a glitch. Maybe it’s a test. Maybe it’s a change, I don’t know. What I do know is the Seller Release is completely silent about the change to the design—it’s as if it didn’t happen at all.
I’m not really upset with the design, I’m just bamfoozled that the Seller Release is treating it is if they haven’t done anything. They first released it a week or two ago, and it was so buggy—stuff was appearing in French and german and God knows what—that they rolled it back. People have been asking questions about it, so I naturally assumed the Seller Release would answer them, but….nothing.
Just very odd to me
try doing a search in your store from your store home page.
Just wondering if you guys have looked at your store homepages lately? You do know ebay changed them, right? And this release is damn near silent on those changes. I think I can live with the changes themselves, but I’ve never read a Seller Release with LESS detail before.
Jay, yep as to GTC…I’ve been 30 days, but this may finally push me into GTC because I’ve been running markdown sales. But under stores they also say coming in June will be more, I think they said Merchandising opportunities, which I assume but don’t know might mean other types of promos we can run…so I might wait on that. But it sure would be nice if they gave us a hint as to what that they are talking about.
Sonia, Ah, that explains it! Yes, I can see how how someone might conclude that—and agree, ebay could do a better job of explaining this. (Sad to say, over the years I’ve found myself saying that an awful lot—the company needs a few less tech people and a few more retired English teachers. LOL
Vintage, Some sellers use the bulk editor to increase their prices by a certain percentage, and then put them on sale. Just sayin’…..
Wait, are you saying the Monday involved was a postal holiday? Then, yes, you’d have till Tuesday. But otherwise, Monday is the first business day after the weekend, and if you said you’d ship within one business day, well, that’s the business day.
Ouch! Sorry to hear about the defects!… but how did you conclude you had till Tuesday? (I assume you have a one day handling time) If an item sells Friday, you have till sometime Monday to ship (and get the scan) because Saturday and Sunday are not business days, so you aren’t required to ship on those days. But if the item sells over the weekend, Monday is the first business day, and ebay clearly states must be shipped Monday and acceptance scan obtained Monday. ebay does give a specific time, but if your PO, like mine, closes for the day on Monday at 4, well, then I need to have it to my PO by 4 on Monday.
Oooh, fun site! Thanks! But…..yeah….a definite rabbit hole! I need to pull myself away and get back to the shipping LOL
05/20/2018 at 10:30 pm in reply to: New Catalog Based Search & Ebay's Re-Structured Business Model Plans #40495Sigilini, Thanks. Glad you found it helpful.
Jay, I honestly don’t know. CS reps have been known to be wrong, so it could be a change in policy or a rep who didn’t understand what he’d been told.
I’m hoping that the new Seller Release is this week or next, and I’m hoping they provide some clarity in the new release.And I think it could go either way
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