I was selling at a flea market once and someone bought a Pyrex lid without the bottom dish. I totally thought how am I going to sell a lid without the dish, and then someone came and bought it. They told me their lid broke and they needed a new one. As they walked away, my Aunt said, "There is a lid for every pot." From then on, I learned that for the right person, anything can sell. I have sold some unbelievable things, at flea markets, and on Ebay. With millions of users on Ebay, stuff should be selling all the time. If it is not, it could be their algorithm. I am done with all this. I'm going to have a yard sale or go to the flea market. The time invested on Ebay is not worth it. You did a great video !!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!
Thank you. I’m serious. Try cross posting some of those items over to Mercari. I’ve sold 140 items in just over a month on Mercari. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.
@@FlippinAintEasy After I posted to you, one of my Ebay items sold. Algorithm worked on Sat !!!!!! Thank you for your message. I will try it. Thank you for letting me know. You are helping lots of people!!!!!!
A Pyrex lid!! I didn’t even know my Pyrex bowls had lids until I accidentally stumbled across the lids-only online. I purchased them and am so happy to have them.
I'm on track for a July that is 50% better than July 2021. Last year, April and May were my best months of the year (stimulus checks), while this year April and May have been been my worst two months so far. I thought I was in for a long slow summer, but it has turned around since springtime. I'm very consistent with listing and I don't run any sort of promotions or coupons ever (for my niche, it just doesn't make much sense). The solution for me seems to have been fixing older listings. Aside from listing every single day, I have been re-optimizing older listings, which includes fixing keyword hierarchy and re-shooting photos. This feels like a lot of wasted energy at times, but I have to remind myself that the real wasted energy was creating the original non-optimized listing, and that energy was spent long ago. I look as these fixed listing as new listings, even though my store isn't growing very much for the effort. However, it's not about growing your store, it's about growing your sales.
I usually have around 10-15 different sale markdowns running at all times. Duration on each is from 3-7 days so every day there are a couple of them ending. This is where I use the end/sell similar procedure. Then I restart various sales. After that I go to Promoted Listings and tweak the percentage a little. Next is sending out offers and leaving a few feedbacks. I also find simply looking at some of my listings or other sellers similar listings seem to awaken the algorithm. This is like when a buyer asks a question about an item, then it sells a few minutes later to someone else. Just doing my shipping seems to stimulate the algorithm. Activity.
Their algorithm is so screwed up. What works for some may not work for others. Every single time I have run a sale in the past, my sales tank and often get no sales at all. I have tried running sales numerous times and will never use them again as it has the complete opposite outcome of what should be happening. I do use promoted listings though.
I have learned running short term sales works best. Like 2 days or 3 and end most on Sunday nights. I have 11 different sales running now at various percentages. What happens is hours before a sale ends watches are notified the sale is ending and they will buy. I use the filters to determine which items have the most watchers and numbers of days items are listed.
Go, Jon!!!! It’s awesome to see how your channel is continuously growing; I’ve been here since the very beginning. 🤩 I always knew that once people had found your channel, they would get to appreciate the tremendous effort that you have put into this endeavor. Personally, I have learned a lot from your experience. You’ve always shared great info with your audience selflessly. Also glad to see you so excited! 😎 Thank you so much!
My first time watching. Video starts at 6:25 or later. I prefer shorter and to the point without repeating info and long explanations. Don’t hate me!😅🤣 Other than that, I really enjoyed your video and will watch more! 🎉🎉🎉
Sorry, I may not watch any more videos for the same reason. Too long-winded. Could have been done in 5 minutes. There are so many videos on RU-vid. There is no way that I can devote 16 minutes to each one that piques my interest.
Another great video. Any idea on a situation we have encountered. Sundays now are zero sale days. No matter what we do, Sundays are zero sales. And we have another thing, most days we get no more than 4 sales. Used to get 10 to 30 sales a day now very very rarely will we pass 4 sales. This is with almost 9000 store items
Is it maybe the economy? Have you tried to lower your prices to below competitors? How's it going now, 3 months later? I noticed that sales do drop off in summer.
I’ve made some minor changes with promotions, sales and coupons and sales have stayed steady. Also you have to remember that it takes the algorithm 3 days to catch up after any changes that are made
Ebay changed the rules - they obviously dont want to keep the smaller sellers so they are just kicking us to the curb. (unless you pay them off....with extra$$$ in "promotions"). Sad.
I just started my Ebay store last month after starting on Etsy( which I had bad experience with).Made 2 sales which was exciting but haven't made any in past few weeks. Could be slow season and mixed inflation. All my items have value to collectors. My inventory is at 30 items and want to keep increasing. I figure its all learning at this point in the game. I think good reviews at 💯 percent is gonna also drive sales and build trust with customers.
Thank you, Jon, My store is still having a gazillion glitches. Hopefully it will come back soon. I have a very old store and large store, and it's glitch fest right now. One glitch after the next, but hopefully whatever eBay is working on will clear itself up soon. I'm doing all the things that you are doing, and it's still very slow. :( Today I started another markdown sale and the sale wouldn't complete. I have been doing everything you said, but sometimes eBay just goes down and problems seem to alternate between sellers. I'm so glad your store is doing good right now!
I run seven day auctions on everything I sell on eBay first. Everything that doesn’t sell on auction, gets put into my store with a buy it now price. I’ve done this for over 20 years. What are your thoughts on auctions verse buy it now in general? Have you done a video on this?
I know you didn’t ask me but I find alot of items sell stupidly cheap on auction. Certain toys and books do better but clothing is fairly bad on auctions imo
@@dgh5223 the only opposite of this would be some vintage toy lots. People will bid sooo high on some like my Britains horses and knights figures from the 70s
I decided to try a different tactic. Rather than give eBay 38% of each sale total...I completely turned off all promoted %. I ended all listings and using the sell similiar feature I put back up all my listings. I waited a day and made no other changes. I turned on a markdown sale for 40% off my entire store. I decided rather than give eBay more money I passed that savings onto the buyer. After 5 hours the sales started pouring in. Too bad eBay is having shipping glitches and will not allow me to print a label now. I reached out to every buyer to let them know eBay is having glitches and I will print the label just as soon as it is fixed. I have 3 hrs 45 mins to get to the PO. Today I am so over eBay and all their BS every single day. I waste more time jumping through eBays clown hoops rather than listing and maintaining my inventory and paperwork. EBay is no longer going to get any extra money from me via promoted listings. I'd rather lower the price to benefit my buyers.
@@FlippinAintEasy That's what I was thinking but sometimes I make up stuff in my head that's not true. I actually think a better pricing strategy is what I need to focus on after this 2 day sale ends. I reached out to eBay on Ebay for business on FB and never received a reply back. Not surprised. A friend who is knowledgeable in IT stuff came over and we cleared my cache, cookies, & browsing history & rebooted my PC and my phone a voila...suddenly I was able to print labels again. Maybe it's time to upgrade my PC & phone. Who knows. The glitches this month are out of control.
@@ShelsBellesAndWhistles Your point of replacing your computer might be true if it's fairly old. Or making sure you are using ebays preferred browser and it is updated. I use Chrome and rarely have glitches. With all of the changes to the code ebay is making, an old browser/computer could cause problems.
@@Phoenixlightning369 eBay has been a dream the past 4 weeks now that the Fall updates are in place. I have had no glitches for 4 weeks. But I also am using eBays standard promotions on all my items. Pay eBay and you definitely get more sales.
I always use promoted on 100% of my listings. Anything under $20.00 gets promoted at 10% out of the gate & anything over $20.00 gets promoted at suggested out of the gate. My organic sales to promoted sales is about 70/30 respectively so it doesn't really make a difference on my average PPI & I get those extra sales. As for running sales, I set up all of the sales that I'm going to do at the beginning of each quarter so I never have to worry about it and always have sales/coupons/combined shipping discounts going. Don't forget to use buyer groups too especially if your a nich store.
@@woodyhayes7402 yes and yes, still maintaining a 45-50% margin. Again it’s only rough 30% of my sales that sell promoted. When they sell organic my margin jumps to almost 60% so when I average it out at the end of the day my margin is right around 45-50%. Example, I sell alot of my items at $15+$6.50 shipping, average cost of shipping is $4.50 and if it sells promoted at 10% then I make $9.20 profit. Now multiply that by 15-20 sales per day and thats pre-tax profit. Edit: my average cost of goods is $3 so you can plug that into the ebay fee calculator to see. I also sell a lot of items at $17, $18 and $19. Also, I sell mens pre-owned clothing. At the end of the day the only thing I’m concerned about is cash flow, items sold and profit. I don’t care how much money I give ebay, I don’t care about returns and I don’t care about negative feedbacks. This is a business and my job is to deliver good items at a good price as quickly as possible and have great customer service and thats what I worry about. Far to many people go down the rabbit hole of “giving ebay to much money” or “ebay already takes enough”. Usually those sellers have really crappy stores and put in minimal effort and thus get minimal results.
@@lsgsrob2102 - Thanks for taking the time to give a detailed response. I'm definitely not agreeing with you 100% though. Cost of goods and fees to do business are the NUMBER #1 reason(s) businesses fail. You doing more work for less profit is NEVER A GOOD BUSINESS MODEL....EVER! A set rate of say 10% commission should never go up. Charge 10% and as prices/markets go up so does the gross profits of say Ebay. Same with Governmental taxes...we should never have a taxation rate that goes up. Commission like taxes are not levied for more profit, but more control by the rulers. I wish you success, but the only way to negate commission increase is to also increase fees. Don't believe me? Call a business bankruptcy Attorney, get a free consultation and they will tell you the same thing.
Jon that’s old age .. welcome! 😂 I forget the simplest of things I do daily !! My slow time is Nov dec.. 🤷🏻♀️ Sales are so up n down that to get any sales it’s taking huge hours online to hustle sales! Few other sellers I’ve talked to have said the same.. can list and sit back anymore!!!
Yeah so basically knock down sales , coupon discounts and more percent for promoted listings. You must be picking up items for virtually freeif you willing to do this week in week out!
Just a comment. I will never run a markdown sale or coupon campaign for more than 3 days at a time. What is interesting is that I won't necessarily sell items in the sale categories but my sales pick up for other items. When the sales end is when I get a big boost in sales.. always.
My sales are definitely up from last year. Summer 2022 has been great for me and hoping it continues. I always try to get new/used items in weekly so that I have new items to list weekly. I think positive feedback really helps with sales and how eBay relists any unsold items. In the past month, I have sold approximately 50% of items that appeared on eBay 2-3 weeks after initially listing them
eBay business is 100% about making $$. They have discovered if they offer promoted listings and add a 12% premium they make the listing visible. Same item (exact same item) not ran thru the eBay promoted listings becomes invisible. When you look at your traffic history the promoted item will always have significantly more visibility. The promoted item sells and eBay collects an additional 12%. Total fees eBay collects is approaching 25%. I use the promoted listing, add the premium to the price and it sells. My exact item not promoted is still there. Same item and customer pays 12% more.
IMO we should research essentials stuff which sell or not. I'm glad my inventory is gone cause I'm going vacation next month when I get back started all over again.
I do markdown sales all the time every month and zero promoted listings. I’m in the sports card market. Sales are slow given it’s summer and the economy but I’m still selling several items a day. When things seem bad and down keep listing.
Good info. Thanks. I retired last year and started buying estates and storage auctions. I'm a one man show and have been steadily trying to increase my store daily. I'm up to almost 1,600 items listed but sales are slower than ever. 😢 Went from 8 to 10 sales a day to 1 to 2 sales every other day...😮
Same here dude luckily enough i just got mine fixed with the help of a professional expert! Called Lyft_techz who helped me when i was desperate and i think he can help you too, i suggest you send him a request.
I’m in the slow sales boat. It hurts to sell electronics for dirt cheap and not make a profit. I don’t mind MSRP or slightly below for unused stock but the only way I was able to move my inventory was to take semi low ball offers. I’ve been on eBay since 2017 and the times have changed. I am a fair negotiable seller but sometimes I’ll accept a slight lowball.
I think sometimes we see MSRP (or near it) as where our items need to sell for. Even with new stock most items will not sell close to full MSRP unless there is big demand for that item. Otherwise I have found you will normally get about 60-75% retail and sometimes less than that. What I do is focus on what I’m into the item for and try to get the market price (ebay solds) for that item. If after some time I have not sold the item I will turn on Best Offer and accept offers that will bring be at least 3x my cost. I will only go lower than that if I am just trying to move a dead item. As for fixing sales, I have found there isn’t one thing you can do to fix your sales but instead doing a collection of things with your listings and your account to be successful. I hope things pick up for you.
Keep your prices high er, everyone should , making the avg prices higher all over the board showing buyers that the price it is, is the price it is. Buyers will buy at that price then
I was having the same type of issue. I had weeks where I sold $8, $25, $12 lol. Keep in mind I'm a weekend warrior reseller with a regular 40-60 hour a week job, so my time is limited. I removed all of my items that got ZERO views over the last 60 days and I re-listed inventory that removed from eBay a long time ago. My last four weekly payouts were $163, $224, 254 at $114. My guess is that I removed all the clutter listings that weren't even being looked at and listed new "fresher" items. I can understand that, have you ever looked through someone's store and they have 10 pages of items? By page 5 you get bored and click off the page...you potentially missed 5 pages of items that you may have wanted, why did you leave the page? You were forced to look at items you (and no one else) cares about. By getting rid of the clutter items and getting the items on pages 5-10 closer to pages 1-5 you might increase the views and the sales. In my case, it seemed to work.
That is good information. It confirms to me if you have a higher store sell through rate (getting rid of bad listings will improve this), it has an effect on the other items you are selling and I suspect you get a higher best match search boost.
My sales tanked 4th quarter 2021. I ended all my listings and sold similar. I list a minimum of 5 new listings a day and keep new listings saved as drafts so I always have new listings ready even on days I don’t work. All new listings have every item specific filled in as much as possible. I also ship lightening fast and keep up with feedback. That all jump started me again. Recently I started asking friends and family to rate my store because the algorithm probably favors stores with feedback too.
Search by item number 1st ...then you need to search with exact search words. Depending whether or not you pay for a subscription or not storefront, your listing may be in the bottom.
I only want 200 a day. 1700 listed. Had multiple no sales days in the last month. I don't do salvage just collectibles. Trying hard but considering getting a job tland shutting down ebay business. Hope Christmas is better.
Thanks Jon. I usually run sales a couple times a week and run them a week at a time. I find it generates some sales. This week has been ok. Not great but ok. Nothing yet today (Friday). Did 7 listings so far today but working on a few more.
Ok, what happens if everyone does the promoted listing, then there will not be anyone being promoted, all will be in the same, just like it was when no one was promoting listings. Please comment on this. Barbara
Your right. When the bar keeps getting raised it becomes the seller who is willing to pay more IN THEORY who will be at the top. However, if you watch the video I referenced when I set 3 items at 100% promoted, you will see these items did get a boost in search but were not at the top for similar items. Promoted listings will not take a bad or incomplete listing and put it to the top no matter how high you go. It is just another component in the equation that helps to determine your best match search ranking.
Hi John, Thanks for the video. I'm in my fourth month of selling on eBay. I have a store subscription, a really nice storefront, and a very good about story. I have over 800 products listed, yet my sales are less than 30 per month. My VA, say's that it is a waiting game and that I need to build up customers and reviews. I have about 36 reviews so far all of which are 100 percent positive. The products I sell are general products with good titles, descriptions, and photos. I even have the minimum promotions activated as well. However, my sales are still super low. What am I doing wrong? Please advise.
Hello sir, I have an issue regarding eBay new seller. So, I list so many item and it’s sold. Also, provide tracking number. Because every time I got notification get a new task example : mark as a shipped. And provide tracking number. I did but tracking number is not moving forward. I called the USPS and Ebay help. I can’t resolve the issue. Do you have any idea! What’s going on. Every time they show the task I just complete. Plz if you know anything share me 😢
Sellers need to realize there are different types of buyers: those who pay top price and those who don't, and there's a lot more who don't. So if sales are slow it's because the top buyers aren't there.
Rightnow I'm trying not to spend alot of money on items to sell. I'm spending only a little bit of especially since i don't have over 100 listings on ebay. But i am still going out and sourcing to grow my listings on the side and making them as drafts. In the beginning of October im going to start listing those saved drafts about 2-3 per day and slowly increasing the drafts i lists towards the holiday when people are mostly on the Internet buying gifts. That's my plan.
I have specialty items that I'm want to sell, I've worked my fingers to the bone to get started, but now I'm scared, so scared of failure. I've got to do it now because I have so much invested
Ok I am sorry, English is my second language, so I did not grasp the main idea, how he did fix his sales? What exactly he did to improve his sales? I need this advice so much, but I listened and listened again, and not sure what the fix was, still. Thank you in advance.
At the end of the day you can have all the bells and whistles, buy now or promoted items if people do not have the money they won’t buy we are in a worldwide recession and a cost of living crisis plus many many sellers are all selling the same things
Hi I have a question about markdown sales - after one ends do I need to wait a certain amount of time before the same items can go on sale? Thanks, for the info in your video!
good video Jon, but I do wander about glitchy eBay playing a roll in the number of sales. I have a coupon on all of my items in my store, use best offers and send out offers and coupons. Talking 25 to 30% off all items and still sporadic sales. The reason I bring this up is using best offer and coupons some of my customer's don't realize you cannot make an offer and then use a coupon. So when I accept an offer I sometimes have to explain to new buyers you cannot use both coupon and best offer. With that said I have has some buyers state they did not see my coupon code. This was a shock since I have coupon on all of my items. So would eBay hide the coupon code from certain buyers?
Maybe they just didn’t see the coupon but it was there. Just like when you clearly write something about the item in the listing and the buyer doesn’t read it.
Welcome to the group Nadine, Jon's channel is 1 of the best on Ebay, its informative and he doesn't brag about his 5000 dollar weekend sales, he teaches us how to increase our sales, so maybe 1 day we can brag on our big weekend on Ebay. And we have a great group of people here😸
John, I’m a new resale I look on my computer I can’t find out how to do a sale can you help me? I have 80 items in my store, and I get only one sale a week.
When you go into your seller hub there should be a marketing tap that you click on and find the dropdown menu that says "promotions". You create your markdown sales there provided you subscribe to an ebay store which in my opinion is a must have for most sellers.
Morning Jon, agree on your comments on Ebay rates, I'm starting to think of Ebay like having to use an attorney lol, don't like paying them, but I'd rather have 80% of something then 0 of nothing. Finger's crossed that you find great stuff at the G sales 🤑🤑 All have a great weekend😸
No sales in 5 days in my eBay store with 1500 items mostly new an great prices feedback excellent I use to have up 20 orders a day . eBay says my account is fine 😮 I don't even get views . Can anyone advise which platform mostly new disney and snoopy etc. Thanks Billie
Im not so concerned about the fee but why a fee on shipping ? We have to buy shipping and supplies why charge me on my shipping charges im new so weird to me lol
On the pc go into your seller hub. Click on the marketing tab. On the left side you should see “markdown sale”. On the next screen you will see a blue button “create a promotion”. On the bottom of the menu select “sale event + markdown”. Set up your sale. Please note you need a store subscription to use this feature.
I have never ran a markdown sale on eBay. I do spend $50 or more in my store on buy it now items and get free shipping. I usually have about 5 to 8 sales a month, which isn’t that great. So when you’re saying a markdown sale, are you saying a certain percentage off of anything in the store flat out across the board?
@Susan Miller I just ran 30% off for 2 weeks and my sales didn’t increase hardly at all. So now I’m promoting at 7% and that seems to have increased sales by about 35%. And went back to spend $50 and get free shipping. Seems to be better for me...
They don’t work because people want it free or cheap. I have ran mark down sales every weekend now for several months. Not one person took advantage. They let it expire and then try to lowball through a message. 4K items, all new and name brand. I have 20percent off coupon run for two weeks. I have two scheduled markdown sales scheduled for next week. Not sure why if people never take advantage.
I gotta say that most ebay youtube channel hosts annoy me. So far you seem genuine and not annoying so I think I'll check you out for a while and see how it goes...
Ebay caps sales and it doesn't matter if you have the lowest price or even if you promote at 30 percent. We know this because we can double our listings and our sales won't even budge 10 percent over the next 90 days. The math will always show the truth. On many accounts, even if sellers increase their promotional rate, their average monthly sales will still revert back to their capped level over the long term.
This is why i moved to a higher ASP model. I’m getting relatively the same number of sales but at a higher price point. Been going strong doing this since Feb.
You just nailed it on forgetting about mark down sale. I have just realised that why some months sales are down compared to the months which items are on mark down sales. Thanks for this
I thought you could only do a markdown for 14 days and then had to have a 14 day break? Or is that just the UK? Or is everyone just ignoring that little notice in the fine print? Thanks
That's certainly not a thing here in the USA. It is best to run shorter sale durations and I max mine out at the end of the month then start another right away (when I don't forget. lol)
For me, my current goal is to see and average of $500 per day in my sales summary. Ebay includes shipping in this figure. Let's just say 50% margin, that would equal out to $250 per day in profit or $7500 per month over a 30 day period.
@@Find.list.ship66 You should be thinking the opposite. I had my first Mercari sale last week which got forty times the views it got on eBay (46 views to 1 view on eBay). Mercari right now has LESS competition than eBay and listing is super easy compared to eBay. Just have to get used to waiting three days after delivery to get paid if no problems arise in between.
I understand the idea of letting ebay keep the 20%...but where does it end? all the nickle and dime-ing us to death cant keep going up because sooner or later it wont be worth selling because you cant command a price high enough to end with any profit.
This is a confusing time to be starting an Ebay business much less just survive the changes. Any great tips appreciated!!! Get a wild hair and just leave you best tip. Maybe this could be a new seller resource hidden in a video comment section...just kidding but I really do need all there help I can get. I'm working on getting the report downloads to download in the correct format. ... ugh!
I've recently started watching your videos and have subscribed. Love your content. Question on your markdown sales...do you put your entire store on sale, and what % do you use? Every month the same?
Thanks for the sub. Yes, I do use them. Normally I do 5% to keep the algorithm happy. Currently for the summer slowdown I have done 15%. I do my sales month to month and i notice when i forget to reinstate a markdown sale my sales go in the tank.
Hi thanks for your videos. Im a subscriber. Question please : I have an item listed on ebay. It sold on facebook. Now i still have it listed on ebay. * I dont want sales to slow. * Should i End Listing with Reason "Item no longer available", "price is wrong", etc. ? * Should i revise it with a new item to make a new listing without ending it ? Thanks. Anybody knowledgeable please reply soon.
I can explain to everyone what is likely happening, at least what my best, educated guess would be: Sales are down across the entire economy because of the massive inflation and job loss hapening across America. Let's say total sales are down 30% across Ebay Ebay is not going to evenly distribute that 30 percent reduction across all their sellers. Ebay will protect their best sellers and they will take more than a 30 percent reduction from their weaker sellers. So, if you aren't a sales leader within your category on Ebay, you will see a disproportionate reduction greater than 30 percent in your sales.
1 sale PER DAY for every 100 items listed is about the average on ebay for an everything store from my observation. If you have a 1000 item store that would be about 10 sales a day give or take.
I'm not sure I completely agree. I have an item on ebay right now. The same item sells daily for $90 to $100. Have my price set at $75obo and have had 12 views in a week. I think that ebay is just burying listings that are not promoted.
Do you think putting the title description in all caps hurts or helps a listing? I know all caps is considered as shouting, but my reasoning for doing it is to make the listing stand out.
I think the most important thing you said here is customize it to suit your merchandise. I have sold part time on Ebay since about two years after they started. I could look at everything in a category in an hour with dial-up. Things have changed a lot since then but knowing who you are trying to sell to has always been the most important thing. My customers are getting a great deal and I rarely accept offers and never run sales. Every store is different so research people who seem to have similar stores. If I used all caps my customers wouldn't buy. They would assume I don't know what I am doing.
eBay specifically recommends against this practice, so the algorithm is probably penalizing your search placement to a degree. Honestly, you're not really converting any extra sales with this tactic. I assume that the people who use all caps are old and don't know how to type very well, so they just leave the caps lock on out of laziness.
Thank you for this video, I set up a 10% sale today and 12 hours later I have three sales and views on half my listings that where zero 😮 Thanks for sharing!
Has anyone contacted you about the Ebay glitches going on right now. I just got off the phone with Ebay. Can't ship, they are aware of this, can't leave feedback don't think they know this on. Barbara
The glitches are plentiful. I read on the eBay sellers forum that many are having problems with shipping. I didn’t have this issue but I did have an issue with uploading photos into new listings where they would just spin and not load.
Sounds like most sellers are selling crap no one needs like clothes, and shoes. Shoes are bad to resell because manufacturers are on Ebay with wholesale shoe prices. Don't sell nothing you can buy local. Like anyone can buy a PS5 today at a store or a pair of Nikes.
