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If the item arrives late, ebay will provide the buyer with a coupon (out of ebay’s pocket). I suppose one could say that provides some incentive for sellers to use Free Shipping.
This is the sort of thing that I suspect is much more helpful for sellers of multiple item listings. I feel pretty much the same way about spending a lot of time on SEO in general. With multi-item listings, you can test the effectiveness of this stuff with some degree of certainty, but with one offs? I could change the order of the words (or the words themselves) and if the item sells….does it mean I finally had the right title, or does it mean simply that the right buyer showed up now? Very hard to say. I must also ask: is it worth the effort? It’s one thing to devote time to this for a listing that might ultimately result in 100 sales; it’s another thing to devote the time for a listing that will result in one sale.
Jay, Have you ever invited an ebay employee to be on the podcast? I think if you can narrow down the topic a bit and provide a time frame (fifteen minutes, half an hour, whatever), you might be surprised at their willingness to come on the show.
I read her book when it came out, and actually remember her as the topic of many posts on the old ebay Clothing Board. She began with vintage clothing, and was not very popular with many of the other sellers in part because she would take a vintage ankle length skirt and turn into a mini-skirt…popular with her target audience, but an affront to the purist vintage sellers.She also used live models who were clearly part of her target demographic…this gave her a competitive edge over many of the other vintage sellers.
Like many former scavengers, she eventually realized that to make serious money she needed to add new merchandise as well….can’t remember if she started doing that before or after she left ebay.
To this day, there are people who can tell you why (in their opinion) she was a terrible seller. Of course, she’s worth millions and they aren’t…and as Donald Trump has demonstrated, as long as you have millions, a few bankruptcies in your past don’t matter much…
The book presents her side of the story, and obviously, there’s another side of the story too. But one thing I’ll say: she had no lack of energy and determination.
adnauseum, I believe ebay has said that store level is NOT a factor in the Best Match search order.
I finished a roll of the ebay tape today, and started a new one…and noticed that the newer ones I ordered have larger print and bolder colors….and the roll does seem to work better with my tape gun. Not sure if they made a real change or just a cosmetic one…
Yeah, this is confusing. Here’s the deal: There are TWO different but frustratingly similar rules. One is what I call the On Time Delivery Seller Performance Standard. That’s the one that requires the timely acceptance scan (with two back ups: if the acceptance scan is not timely, but delivery shows it was on time, OR buyer says it was on time, then ebay will accept that. But otherwise, you need the scan.)
The other is the TRACKING requirement. That’s the one that was recently changed in the Spring Update…on time tracking must be uploaded 90% (soon to be 95%) of the time for TRS status. THAT is the one that allows you the extra time to print the label. It does NOT require an acceptance scan within the handling time, but does require a scan of some sort anywhere along the route , which is just to verify that the tracking number is real.
I’ve been told this works, but have never tried it. Tell your buyer that you are going to mark the sale “Unpaid” in My EBay, but they shouldn’t worry…you’ll change it back to “paid” when its time to send it, and then wait to send it until the time requested.
HI, I contacted the site a few days ago and asked….ebay made them close it down, citing privacy concerns.
Or try Swedish.
The 1720 date is not one I would connect with the Pennsylvania Dutch, and neither the deer nor the horse is one of their typical motifs. Also, the guy in the pantaloons looks more Old Europe than Pennsylvania Dutch.
I’ve always thought an antique mall or flea market would be a good setting for a TV comedy series…just sayin’.
Yep, I remember the Lovejoy series..had a number of the books too…don’t know where they are now…but I enjoyed the series. Will have to try the Jane Wheel series. Going to help out at our local Library’s Annual Auction tonight, so I’ll check to see if they have any copies available….
Just to avoid any confusion: Best Match, Ending Soonest, etc….those are NOT filters. They are “Search orders”. If a search term brings up 100 results under Best Match, it should bring up 100 results in Ending Soonest…the same results, in a different order.
eBay filters are found on the left side of the Search Results page. The available filters depend to some extent on the category (or sub-category) the buyer has chosen, but basically they will show a subset of the unfiltered search results. So if a certain brand of mens shirt has 100 results in Best Match, and the buyer now filters for “red” as a color, there might be only 20 results. And the buyer can display them in his chosen order by using the search order…best match, ending soonest, etc.
ebay has said that participation in the Delivery program will NOT effect Best Match (in other words, it is not part of the Best Match algorithm). It will only matter if the buyer uses the filter.
ebay has 20 million listings already promised to the program (presumably by large sellers). My guess is, Large Sellers of new merchandise will jump on this program , because they will see the value in it. Most of us are really competing with other small sellers of used items, and I think, initially at least, small sellers won’t embrace the program the way large sellers will. Which could give a significant competitive advantage to those who do opt in.
