I Set My Promoted Listings to 100% on eBay…Here’s What Happened.

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Don’t try this at home. It’s pointless to promote your listings on ebay at 100% and it simply makes no sense to do so, ever unless you are trying to do some extreme hands on research as i try to do here in the video. While the video is a bit rough (this was a tough one for me), I learned quite a bit from this experiment and I share my thoughts and findings of this very small sample size.
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@happyandjoyful7916 2 года назад

What a fantastic job! This video sets the gold standard for deciding how to use promoted listings. I haven’t seen anything like it on Utube. What is so heartwarming is that you offer this information for free! You have such a kind heart John. I’m getting sales but I’m struggling so I increased the rate to 10% which has helped. You are so right about promoted listings being just one component. Also along with excellent photos and price, increasing the number of listings and being consistent every day along with refreshing my store with ending older listings then sell similar has helped. You’re a natural teacher John. I’m cheering for your continued success on Utube. We need people like you! You can be helping people put food on their table with having the dignity of being self sufficient by your videos! Thank you so much! 👏👏👏👏😊

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

Thank you for your kinds words of support! It is very much appreciated.

@happyandjoyful7916 2 года назад

@@FlippinAintEasy You certainly deserve it! 😊

@KingStr0ng Год назад

The fact that you can even *select* 100% is the problem. Insane.

@FlippinAintEasy Год назад

Right? Why is over 50% (that is still way too high) even an option?

@ermeriodsassperini 4 месяца назад

Lol

@SiliDili 4 месяца назад

How about they let us put it over 100% so that we can pay ebay for the privilege of selling on their wonderful and totally not glitchy website that definitely didn't lose hundreds of my product images a few years ago.

@RigginTheRod010 2 месяца назад

Right that's insane. They hope someone will slip up

@Tejaneaux-ic8dp 2 месяца назад

Then you just sell product for 200% !!!!

@dgarreis 2 года назад

Great video. Pretty sure your the first that has tried this on the YT. I had all my stuff at 5%. I took them all down to 2.1% last week. Going to go back and do each individually this week and set new rates. I do believe title and first pic is the key. Once again thanks again for the info.

@Robert1546_Sea 2 года назад

What happened to your sales when you took them down to 2.1%? Did you notice much of a difference?

@dgarreis 2 года назад

@@Robert1546_Sea Yes a little. So after doing this I took everything back up to the suggested rate like 7-9% just to see. Sales really about stayed the same so now I have taken everything back to 4%. I do believe it helps if you do suggested but do not think it pays for itself at the higher rate. The product is really what is going to make the sale.

@jenniferdeland4026 6 месяцев назад

I am a small retiree, seller. When I used "dynamic promoted " ad rates, I was selling more items which were in the $145 price range. I was enjoying the validation of the sale. The ding ding ding of the one armed bandit feeling. Most items I had purchased for $5 to $20 max. But when I really drilled down on my cost of goods sold which didn't include my gasoline or hours worked, my profit was dismal. And my profit goal for the item was usually in the negative. Advertising and fees was eating up all the profit. So, the ding ding ding when I drilled it down was a "dong" instead. I take really good and plentiful pictures. I really focus on the title. I list daily. I jump through every eBay hoop but I feel like I am a drone for eBay. Like fishing, it is more fun when you are catching than fishing. But not if the bait is more costly than the catch.

@travispreble Год назад

"I'm trying to learn" I felt that. There's a lot going on behind those eyes.

@criticalmassiveenterprise 2 года назад

Casini is very complicated & the best match algorithm is based on SO many different factors besides promotion rate. The "job" of the algorithm is to provide the customer with a selection that makes them think they got a good bargain and fair/fast shipping that makes them want to come back to the platform. Casini also is based upon data gathered from the user doing the search. Maybe you are at 100% promoted listing, but I'm a buyer whose sales conversion rate is much higher on listings with free returns. In that case, Casini might be more apt to show me free returns listings above some other listings that would seem like a good fit based upon my purchasing habits. Fill out all the item specifics, price competitively, have a good return policy & fast shipping & your item WILL sell; as long as it is desirable!

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

I tend to agree with what you are saying yet even with what you laid out there are still so many other factors that Cassini considers in this very same search ranking.

@kristenlegg4223 4 месяца назад

It’s like when google spam calls you to promote your business on google searches if you just pay them $500!! Ok so what about when you call the next guy and they also pay for you to do that google?? Oh, well we promote theirs… exactly.

@charleskendall3839 2 года назад

You don't get top listing because they are selling multi - units with proven sales on their listing. All those in the top slots for jeans have converted over 50 times some over 200 times. So, these listing were much more profitable for eBay and are boosted for successful conversion. I'm guessing your item ranked higher than any item that was a single listing and no sales on it.

@thorazine0076 2 года назад

good answer

@mCblue79 Год назад

I've always wondered what would happen with 100% promotion. Thanks for the vid mate. Soon as I can clear my ebay stock im out. Ebay is dead, sadly.

@knitix 2 года назад

Throw those items on FBMP with a good price. They will sell. Also from making and selling handmade items I can tell you eBay LOVES one of a kind listings. I have a lot of buyers with 0 feedback. That tells me that some of my items are unique enough to bring new buyers to the site. I totally stopped promoted listings.

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

That's a good idea!

@SMack-mj2bp 7 месяцев назад

I have to disagree with going with eBay's suggested promoted rate. Price comes before that, which you video pretty much proves that! Thank you for putting your $ on the line for knowledge sake! I'm exploring other marketplaces after two months of 90% drop in sales. Although I do believe most of the downturn is economic / seasonal related.

@StaceNyourFace Год назад

I did the promoted listings deal for one month, and it was a total rip off. I sold approx. $1200 in items, paid $350 in promoted listing fees, $250 in regular ebay fees, and $350 in shipping costs, leaving me only $250 in profit...which doesn take into account the cost of goods sold. I am sitting on WAY YOO MUCH inventory, so I wasn't TOO bothered by the lack of revenue. Right now I'm just trying to get rid of some of the bulk. I think that I sold more items than I would've without using the promoted listing option, but the fees they are charging are ridiculously high. I removed the promoted listings after that one month and business slowed a little, but then things picked back up due to the holidays.

@colt5189 Год назад

What, did you set promoted listings to something like 25%?

@StaceNyourFace Год назад

@@colt5189 No, it was around 6% I think.

@DougBenoit 2 года назад

I think it really depends on what you're selling. Most of my items are games and DVDs, and some have lots of competition. I price similar to sold comps and found an increase in sales for a while after I started promoting at the minimum 2%. My sales have slowed since but it may just be the summer slowdown.

@mikeshepard3827 Год назад

I've been using promoted listing for 18 months. Starting out i used what Ebay suggested, after a few months I cut that in half and the results are almost the same.

@ACDC4LIFE 2 года назад

I just canceled *ALL my promoted listings with the new higher postage rates profits are getting smaller & smaller on eBay … I also turned off the best offer feature I only sell used household items if items don’t sell there going in the donation bag.

@Yazzie101 2 года назад

When I turn off promoted I get 0 sales.. so I know I need it 🤷🏻‍♀️ all depends what we sell.. I sell nothing original..

@ACDC4LIFE 2 года назад

@@Yazzie101 - I’m fortunate that it’s a secondary income but I’m not catering to Ebay‘s greed & low ball offers i price my items cheaper then similar items if they don’t sell they go to the flea market or donation.

@earlgendron4893 2 года назад

I always thought the percentage is just what number of searches it will show up in, and had nothing to do with where in the placement it is

@shinestorm1 2 года назад

This is correct. Being 100% doesn’t mean at top of every search ever it’s not a competition of what rate to get you higher but rather gets in front of more people

@stephaniemitchell5372 Год назад

eBay has responded to this with item specifics is most important, but I think it goes hand in hand with a good title

@Soul_Reaper9000 2 года назад

I appreciate you doing this. I thought about doing it so glad you did it instead 👍👍

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

I enjoy learning and this was fun. I honestly did not mind of those items sold or not and was fully expecting them to. Thanks for watching!

@sherricramer3648 2 года назад

T his is incredibly interesting!! Thank you for doing this work for us and sharing your results.

@orlandominichiello Год назад

It's a crapshoot listing on EBAY, they want every fee from A to Z and we take all the risks. I rarely list unless advanced sales lookup shows good price. Thanks for doing that experiment. For a good title would it not be simple to check advanced sales and compare.

@davidhooper3118 Год назад

I like the work you have done to help I think it is to late the boat is going down

@designerentywayllc7055 Год назад

Well now we know why the going rates are so high 😂😂thanks guy.

@FlippinAintEasy Год назад

This video was made many months ago. Well before the promoted rates have gone up. lol

@designerentywayllc7055 Год назад

@@FlippinAintEasy promoted listings going rates have been going up for over a year, please let’s not lie here. You know your video “experiment” actually costing more to sellers than you will make from the views on this video. I understand content creation but I understand eBay and it’s algorithm more than you think I do, we are not all newbies. Some of us have sold millions on the platform and can assure you that you are hurting more than helping by doing a 100% promoted. That particular category will not be the same to sellers who do the bare minimum 2% for at least 10 months until the system forgets your experiment. God forbid others watching your content try this and now screw up all categories. I did give you the view 👏🏾

@MsBeautylive 2 года назад

Yes!!!! Is all in the title !!i don’t promote my items before !!and i make a test on changing my title several times on a item until it pop up on top ,before i change it it wasn’t showing at all! After test it showed up and sell the next day!!!!!is all on the title people !!!fix yours titles!!!

@taduncan6614 2 года назад

If you have an item that no one wants ... you could set the promotion fee to 1000% and it still would not sell. Try listing something that sells well and promote it at the suggested rate and see what happens. Lastly ebay doesn't just base the algorithm of where a listing appears based on promotion alone. There are about 8 other parameters used in the algorithm.

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

Your correct. I did mention that at the end of the video that in my opinion the title is the most important aspect closely followed by price, photos, and Promoted rate. I intentionally used dead items for this experiment to see the affects of an extreme promoted rate. As mentioned in the video I noticed a 10x increase in impressions. Even then my item was not interesting enough or at a low enough price point to get the sale.

@carltonleggett8222 2 года назад

I have run promoted listings on all of my 1500 listings for more than a year. I use the suggested rate plus 1 to 2% over that amount. I keep up with my fees for promoted listings. My average fee is running about 4.7% of my total sales. This is because items sometimes will sell without be assessed a promoted listing fee. Paying only 4.7% is not bad in my book when I am using the suggested rate plus a percent or two. Sales are consisted and my impression rate is running about 125,000 daily. Not sure if this is good or bad.

@countrickter 2 года назад

sounds like you found the sweet spot. carlton. I think the fees are now a part of the ebay game. its hurts to give up profits but we have to do what works for us.

@onemanstrash8233 2 года назад

So impressions are the times it comes up, whether first or 100th when the buyer searches and views is when they actually click on it...Right??

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

Once the listing comes up on a buyers screen it’s an impression. Whether by search results or when ebay shows similar items to the buyer. A page view is when they click on your item.

@onemanstrash8233 2 года назад

@@FlippinAintEasy Thanks! I had no idea! We sell on eBay and I learn so much from you guys!

@jerryriner1891 2 года назад

Cassini is not a traditional search engine. It is a RELEVANCE ENGINE. No one searches for promoted listings; therefore, promotions are irrelevant. Also, eBay cannot mandate what off-site search engines do with your listings - promotions then, can only function on the eBay platform.

@justinebatez6052 2 года назад

I find promoted listings pop up in Google searches for an item. Therefore grabbing the people not using EBay regularly.

@zacatkinson3926 Год назад

I would only use items with huge promoted listings if the item isnt well known like really rare and specialized, really rare. Jeans is still a common item and ebay has thousands of jeans listed its impossible to be on page 1 as they might be using promoted listings and have better SEO metrics with Cassini

@LoveMyRottweiler1 4 месяца назад

I just turned my entire store on too promoted listings. Around 400 items to 2% promoted listings, and I must say I have seen a increase in sales. 2% is not a lot $2 per $100 and most of the items that I have sold promoted sold near full price. It's been about two weeks, we will see how things go from here.

@Chopper894 2 года назад

Excellent and interesting video. .. I wonder if it needs more time to take effect as SEO does. Many of my ebay listings show on the first page when googling without promoting, but I am in a specialised niche. Try googling your stuff.

@Ir-of4zn 2 года назад

Question: If I can find my item on Google...does that mean it is highly ranked? I don't know much about SEO.

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

I find there is usually a 1 day lag from changes made on eBay. If you start a sale this morning, you wont really see the effects until tomorrow. I figured 2 full days was long enough to see what was happening.

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

As for items on Google, if your item meets Google's requirements (white background), has most item specifics completed and it meets the buyers criteria, your item has a chance to show up based on competition and likely the promoted rate you are using.

@Chopper894 2 года назад

@@FlippinAintEasy yeah I sell sewing machine parts photographed on a white tile. Looks stunning.

@ariebary Год назад

Keep in mind that when you search for Jeans it showed 400,000 listings. That clearly plays a factor because the algorithm values clickthrough rate as well as ad rate.

@carolecoggins8063 2 года назад

I have just listed my first item on eBay. What is an impression?

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

An impression is every time eBay shows your listing to a potential buyer on their screen. While mostly through search there are other times eBay will show your listings to buyers.

@arnolduk123 2 года назад

Looking great man! Thanks for doing this experiment, was insterested to see the results. I've also noticed unrelated search items appear at the top of a search list, always a seller with huge ratings and sales. Are the promoted listings also shown in the similar items banner list on pages of other items that a buyer clicks. for instance, a buyer clicks on a listing for jeans and then other promoted listings are also shown on that same page ? also what results do you get when the search category is changed from Best Match to something else ? I think items with free postage are given more priority in the search list as some buyer use this to filter down their searches.

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

I believe you are right, the listings shown at the bottom of another listing or even after they have bought our item eBay likes to show our competitors items. These are all external search results and I believe that most of them are driven by having promoted listings enabled

@Sandman60077 7 месяцев назад

Promoted basically just means you'll show up on the first page. It doesn't mean you'll be the 1st spot. The order is random.

@sundaywhiterabbit7679 Год назад

Any buyer using ad blocking apps won't see either of your listings when you promote them.

@FlippinAintEasy Год назад

This was an issue a couple of years ago. I believe this was fixed.

@LilyCat1973 2 года назад

Thank you!

@travispreble Год назад

I don't think promotions work unless you have a good title and price too. For years whenever I search for things on Amazon and eBay I would always skip right past the promoted listings and always search by lowest price first. I think it's a learned habit from Google search where all the top sponsored pages are never what I'm looking for. So I assume that all the promoted listings will not be what I'm actually looking for. I usually search pretty specific things unless I'm just doing research on a product. Yt if I'm doing research I'm not looking to buy. Then I'll find what I want and know exactly what it's called. Then I'll search the internet for similar and better priced things and if I don't find it I'll come back to eBay and search for that exact title which should always bring it up.

@Tundra455 Год назад

I’m new to selling on eBay and my first sell the guy is sending me use my email I’m new to eBay. I should never do this correct?

@kaseone6896 2 года назад

Dropping all my promoted listings now

@EvanBoivin-p5x Год назад

I thinks its because of the number of sales that the item has so if it has something to do with your search and has a lot of sales it will probably pop up at the top especially if it is promoted no matter by how much.

@teestjulian 2 года назад

I've been told by other resellers that have been doing this for 10-15 years, be sell on eBay... do not use eBay's promotion option, that it doesn't work. I sell three times more on Mercari, than I do on eBay

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

I’m seeking quite a bit on Mercari myself. To be honest, promoted rates matter more for certain categories than others. I have one store where I find useuse promoted listings at all based on the kind of items being sold - collectibles for example.

@deanelliott169 2 месяца назад

I always sort by lowest price which I think skips promoted listings.

@ceciliawade Год назад

IMO I think promoting my items hurt my sales; I actually made a sale without the promotion, and like you said promotion is too over hyped.

@DougBenoit 2 года назад

Did you do a Google shopping search for your items?

@chrisandedina 2 года назад

Very strange. You would expect that at 100% it would be the top listing. I promote all my listing at 3% as most of the items I sell are plentiful like toys and video games. For me alot of it is price driven, good photos and title all helps. Also maybe the item details

@rosspercussion Год назад

i wonder why eBay doesn't to sponsored keywords like Amazon

@FlippinAintEasy Год назад

They do. It’s called Promoted Listing Advanced.

@rosspercussion Год назад

@@FlippinAintEasy cool I’ll have to check that out. Is there any benefit of doing promoted listings instead of advanced promoted listings?

@jjslibrary Год назад

I assume ebay wants to make the most money possible, so I'm guessing the higher placement items are items that are selling quickly and often. If they're getting more money but they aren't sure if the item will sell, they'll probably put the fast sellers above the promoted listings.

@paulsavidge8847 2 года назад

I think what we ( collectively ) are looking at here is maybe the wrong thing. I can tell you from testing very few sales come from "promoted" from the main listing page. The place you want to be looking at performance of a promoted listing is the "Other Sponsored Items" listing on a competing items product page. I a bit more than believe there is no difference in a promoted listing based on its value. a 2% and a 30% are one in the same. I can tell you with a great amount of certainty that 90%+ of my promoted listings comes from competing items product pages. So its a matter of Photo, Title, and Price that wins the day!

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

Promoted plays a role just as the other things you mentioned. Ebay will have you believe it’s the most important aspect of a successful listing and I would disagree. It is right up there with good price, titles and photos but you need to do well in all areas. I can say however the more you promote an item the more impressions you will see on a listing as my experiment showed a 10x increase in impressions.

@paulsavidge8847 2 года назад

@@FlippinAintEasy I promote any and every listing I have at ( now ) 2%.15% of ALL my sales comes from Promoted listings. 95% of those sales comes the "Similar Items" section of a competing items product page. I use a pixel tracking technique to see and track this stuff. I think end users are so conditioned to bypass "Ads" / "Promoted" within a serp that the Search reult listings are a waste of time to even track or consider. But the positioning of the "Similar Item" block being right below the Product images and before the product description etc...is an unfair advantage to those that understand Image, Title and Price.

@DarrenHottinger Год назад

Very good info!

@monicadavis4901 2 года назад

I'm a new seller and very confused lol! However, as far as my titles go, I put myself into "toddler mode"(I worked in retail for many yrs, thats the way I had to learn to look at customers when I was explaining something)and did my title from that point of view of describing it, funny as it sounds, as soon as I changed title on 2 items, they sold immediately..no my titles don't make sense, but it works!!

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

The key is finding what works for you and keep doing it.

@jimmtech 2 года назад

Daily refinement has done numerous shows saying sellers spend WAY too much time trying to get perfect pictures. Item demand, price, title, and seller feedback are much higher on the list than great photos. IMHO.

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

It’s very hard to justify giving up on an additional 10-15% of traffic driven by external Google searches all because I follow Google shopping guidelines (white background in my photos). Photos do have an overall importance however I’m finding there are a number of factors including the ones you mention that determine your best match search rankings for a particular listing.

@andyreyno5215 2 года назад

Hi Jon it's Andy i have a question for you or anyone out there I have 30-day free returns on my items I have someone that but something got it sent me a message that they made a mistake and bought the wrong stuff and that there's sending it back I might still on the hook for shipping?

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

Yes. With free returns they could say they changed their mind and you with be on the hook for the cost of the return label.

@ronu7313 Год назад

Sponsored means squash I've seen these listing all the way to bottom page, so it means you give them less than the promoted rate is, LOL

@robotbobusa2479 Год назад

I wonder if you would have clicked on the items that showed up before your items with you promoting them at 100% if the stores you clicked on would have been stores with large volumes of sales. what I'm starting to hear all across RU-vid and other sources is that eBay has started only promoting bigger stores and not really worried about the small stores anymore because for the amount of money they're spending daily for advertisement they will do better showing big stores that have the best ratings and the best prices before they show anything else. and basically they started promoting listings so just so they can make extra money off of everyone now because they know as soon as people's sales dropped that they will be willing to try out promoted listings to try to make more money in turn eBay makes more money.

@michaeldenzer6024 2 года назад

Not a big fan of this. But I'm like you trying to learn. They relist my items after there all sold. Then I have to explain and cancel. I do free returns too. But that's getting frustrating lately. Asked ebay to fix website, but nope. Ain't happening. They don't have a option for for when sellers make mistake in returns to return wrong item sent and to send correct one.

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

These glitches keep happening and there is not much hope in eBay fixing these issues anytime soon. Unfortunately we have to navigate around these things.

@superiorbeing95 8 месяцев назад

Ebay is becoming unusable for small businesses, it went from my main avenue of sales to being a promotional tool, now it's becoming difficult to even justify using it as that. Nearly everything they do, every change they make creates more work and cost to the seller. Their site is just a rats nest of links, the worst organised website I have ever seen. The navigation is positioned all over the site in no real logical layout.

@cnoles5641 2 года назад

It’s just a way for EBay to “chance” that your items sells and they make more money.

@whysoserious867 2 года назад

I've always felt that it's just a money grab I really don't think there's much of a difference between 2% and a 100% as far as traffic goes In all honesty I wish everyone would just quit using promoted listings because it's pretty much just a way For eBay to get more fees out of us

@egeniojaramillo9048 2 года назад

Of course 2% and 100% would matter. If everyone had 100% and you had 2%, everyone would be seen before yours

@paulsavidge8847 2 года назад

@@egeniojaramillo9048 This is absolutely not true. I could show you instances with my own testing where the 2% listing listed before a 10% listing. The value of boost has no effect in terms of "rank" I would almost argue that "Promoted" listings are placed in a "rotator" regardless of value

@paulsavidge8847 2 года назад

Have you ever run ads on Amazon, Etsy or Facebook/Instagram? you pay by CLICK. eBay you only pay if the click converts. In the realm of online Ad spend... eBay Promoted Listings are under-valued... how could you NOT just put in the 2%? it is an absolute deal in terms of getting added attention to your listing.

@TorranceJPlaylist 2 года назад

It's all a money grab it's bs..I seen some of my items on the first.page of eBay without promotions an dthis is just cause my photos and titles are great...and these are items that have thousands of similarities...it's trash

@paulsavidge8847 2 года назад

@@TorranceJPlaylist This is the part that most dont understand... Promoted listings for with the exception of possibly giving you a second listing DO NOT effect search listings. The "Advantage" is the "other promoted Items" on your competitors listing page - that YOUR better images, Better Title, and Better pricing for a lack of a better term STEALS that sale and makes it yours - Sure its a money grab.. it should be YOUR money grab.

@Yazzie101 2 года назад

I tried 50% once it didn’t do a bloody thing! 🤷🏻‍♀️I wasn’t even in the search.. people with huge stores were ahead of me .. I was top rated plus they had bad reviews ! So that’s when I knew it was the big stores that are running eBay!

@adammonahan687 2 года назад

I do between 2 and 3.5 percent on all 250 items I have listed and I can always find my items in the top 10 usually sometime 15 but always first page.... weird how ebay picks and chooses. Do you list and ship daily and respond to your customers on time? Ebay likes activity

@heavensentssmokingchannel9847 2 года назад

@@adammonahan687 eBay shows you your own listing when you look it up you have to do it from a different device that’s not logged into your account to accurately see where you appear.

@adammonahan687 2 года назад

@@heavensentssmokingchannel9847 yup I'm logged into my father's account on a seperate phone thats wifi only for listing his items ( that I get 20 percent of ) never been my account once. I check my items on his and his items on mine.

@Chicago48 2 года назад

Flippin you should try to "sort" from lowest price to highest price and see if your items show up.

@DrTiwade 2 года назад

@@adammonahan687 correct. They want new items everyday.

@theeasterbunny8308 2 года назад

If everyone one does it then nothing really changes in rankings except ebay grabs more fees. Well done ya'll.

@egeniojaramillo9048 2 года назад

LOL "more fees". That's a strange term for them making not only 100% of the sale price, but also 12% on top of that for normal fees.

@doubletrouble5026 2 года назад

@@egeniojaramillo9048 It's another version of race to the bottom. I've started doing suggested rate capped at 10% and I'm making wayyy more promoted sales (yesterday 90% promoted sales). However, I'm getting much less than I'd have liked, and have good quality items. However the Price dictates. Ebay is a "get way less than you want" platform.. in so many ways.

@downtownlife 2 года назад

I think promoted listings doesn't just bump you up in the overall listing for the category. Instead, your item is more than likely to show up in the " suggested other items" list that appears towards the bottom of someone else's listing to give the buyer the option to instead buy from you. Just my thoughts, not fully confirmed.

@colt5189 Год назад

I have to say, I think it's gross that ebay puts other people's items in your listing. It's not just bad taste, but confusing to look at. Ebay took a real simple listing layout and made it all complicated to where it looks like spaghetti thrown on the wall.

@queenbee9581 2 месяца назад

Im just tired of the guessing games. I bust my butt to make optimized titles, fill in all the item specifics, make good photos and descriptions, promote at suggested rates and STILL struggle to make enough to pay my bills. The old days of "list it and forget it" are definitely gone.

@michellehartman2657 2 года назад

I'm on the brink of giving up on ebay. My sales have come to a screeching halt. I stopped doing any promoted listings a few years ago when ebay charged me a promotion fee on two items that I literally never promoted. I am a part-time seller and for the past few years I made enough profit every single month to fully cover my rent. It helped me save up for a house, which I bought last September. Right now, I'm feeling more and more blackmailed/held hostage by ebay and I don't appreciate it. I can't keep giving them more and more of my income. I love selling on ebay. I love reselling. But I'm not OK with being forced to give them an additional 2% (minimum) on top of what they get already. In another year two, when ebay has enjoyed the extra income from the promoted listings, they will come back and demand a minimum of 3%, and so on. It will never end.

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

I understand 100% where you are coming from but what is the alternative? Ebay is still a viable place to sell and still make money.

@michellehartman2657 2 года назад

@@FlippinAintEasy I agree ... that's why I'm on the "brink" and not full-on giving up. As I said, I love selling one bay, and I love reselling in general. I'm still considering options, and in the meantime (attempt) to continue to sell on the platform.

@lamadeandfound7594 2 года назад

@@michellehartman2657 I understand what you're saying regarding Ebay and I also feel the same way about Amazon. However, I am trying to launch my own website and I can tell you the advertising fees to promote my site and do all the leg work is stressful, expensive, and time-consuming. It actually made me appreciate how little I have to do to make sales on Ebay. No matter what you do, there is a cost of doing business. I'm okay with paying the extra promoted fees because it is still a lot less than what I have to spend on Pinterest, Facebook etc. Sometimes the grass isn't always greener is what I'm starting to learn. Peace! :)

@WillmobilePlus 2 года назад

I mean, what are you selling where you have no sales? You certainly arent being "blackmailed/held hostage by ebay ". You likely, like a lot of recent newbies, started selling back around 2020, got that massive rush of sales for two years listing virtually any old thing, and now find out that you never pivoted, while you are doing stupid gimmicks like "promoted listings". Like why on Earth do you people do that nonsense unless you are selling mall brand clothes and common Target brands, or do goofy stuff like "free shipping".

@sundaywhiterabbit7679 Год назад

1. List 2. End listings and sell similar, edit listing. 3. Send offers to buyers 4. Send coupons Will produce more sales

@wandagreer9144 2 года назад

I discovered not to trust promoted listings a long time ago. Once upon a time, eBay would tell me that the same item had a different recommended rate. Same category, same price. But the amount they wanted on one item was 4.2% while the same item same price would be 5.6% (examples). So I don't trust the recommended rate.

@marthas.4456 2 года назад

I noticed this also. The rates are varying wildly in the same categories!!! I don't know how ebay picks the 'recommended promotion rate'. I also believe the promotions don't work every time. I have got days, when I barely sell anything and just can't get any interests.... But the next day I will have lots of sales and the two days are similar - that means the weather was same, both days are working days - basically no difference.

@drmminc192 Год назад

There are two things in play here. eBay will promote your listing ….but they also demote listings that get lots of views but no sales! 100% will get a ton of views but if no one buys really soon after the listing start it will move down the search list

@antiqueantique7786 Год назад

@@drmminc192 Solution. End listing. Wait an hour then sell similar and tweak the photos and title. I get pretty good results with this.

@palillo2006 2 года назад

Personally it is a combination of a lot of things. Sell through rate and properly pricing an item supersedes promoting. Next in line is a good title with good pictures. Promoting listings is just an added benefit. I only promote things that are in competitive categories like clothing or if an item has a lower sell through rate

@biffboffo 2 года назад

I don't use promoted listings because that strategy doesn't fit my category, but I love stuff like this experiment.

@wesmuntz8797 2 года назад

It is my understanding that promoted listings have little to no affect your placement in search results but are rather placed in the "Similar Promoted Items" section when viewing a competitors listing. They also appear in sidebars etc.

@jarvisgrenn2788 2 года назад

I agree. I don't think it's like website SEO and Google. I think it just puts it in "ads" near "similar items"

@paulsavidge8847 2 года назад

eBay goes back and forth with this.. currently if youlook at the Grid format, you will see the top 4 listings are generally "Promoted" listings - much like Etsy as a commerce example or Google within search haveing ads on top. Again eBay goes nack and forth with this.. this time around has lasted a while - longer than it usually does. I can say from MY experience, that being in the top 4 with a "promoted" listing is not boosting my conversion rate.

@joecamerer2865 2 года назад

great experiment. I've done an experiment with listing identical items for the same total price with free shipping versus buyer paid shipping and the lower base price buyer paid shipping got twice as many views and sold faster despite being the exact same total price. I will have to check out your other videos, this one was very interesting.

@J0hnnyTheKid 2 года назад

Just a ebay strategy that will backfire on them. Just imagine all the scammers that are going to use the promotion tool. Best match should always be specific to top rated sellers or plus in my opinion. Already, I see counterfeit items as the top search on eBay smh they never learn 🤦

@JeriDro Год назад

My sales have fallen dramatically since the Corona Virus.

@daurgo2001 2 года назад

My expectation is that your perspective of how the promoted listings work may be mistaken. I think the issue here is that putting 100% doesn’t automatically mean that your time is always at the top bc I think eBay only ‘slots’ a few promoted items PER search. Imagine if we had to scroll through thousands of promoted items before looking at any organic results? You’d be bombarded with items that you may not truly be interested in. So how do they control it? They control it by only having one promoted item for every 10~ items in a search, then, what they do is calculate a proportional ‘show rate’ for what item gets shown in that slot based off of what their % paid into it was. In other words: If 100 people put items at a 2%, and you put your item at 100%, that would give a total of ‘300 percentage points’, in this example, YOUR item will only appear 1 in 3 times due to eBay having to show other advertised items as well, but your item will just appear much more often than any other random item. I’d also suggest ALWAYS including BIN OBO rates. Allowing people to make offers makes it so that someone need your price point might offer something that is reasonable to you and you can make that sale. The item appearing two times also goes to show that things work the way I described them above. Basically, your item can be shown ‘organically’ once, and if it’s being promoted, may appear in the ‘promoted’ slot that eBay puts aside for advertising.

@darciabel5133 2 года назад

There is another part to promoted listings to also check out. When you click into a listing with a similar product, under their listing you should see a section called similar sponsored items. This is a good placement to be, if the listing they are looking at is not exactly what they want, people will scroll through those other suggestions. I have done it myself when looking for an item.

@nemod3338 Год назад

Most people look for better prices. I never do what you have suggested, because if you use filters to find local merchants (excluding overseas ones), suggested sponsored ads will contain nearly all overseas merchants, I do not want to buy from. This feature is made by ebay on purpose to defeat filters. Also, you will never defeat straight from china prices if you are a merchant.

@TheSteveBoyd Месяц назад

In 2024, if someone clicks on the 100% promoted listing, doesn't buy it, but then goes on to buy ANYTHING ELSE IN YOUR STORE in the next 30 days, you will be charged that 100% rate. It just goes to show how they continue to push the boundaries between fees, and theft.

@kolacjaprzyswiecach3798 3 месяца назад

Let me tell you something from my experience. I have a habit of setting a few items as promoted in my ebay shop. These items appear on the first pages of ebay. And customers show interest in them and visit my shop out of curiosity if there are other attractive products. Unfortunately, I don't make any money on the promoted items and only use them as a way to attract customers to visit my shop.

@unique11585 2 года назад

Hi my sales was rock bottom and Traffic was all in Red, then I promoted all 1100 listing at 2% and my sales Increased Dramatically. Thanks for the Info

@nemod3338 Год назад

The way eBay is set up, the only way to get more sales is to REDUCE THE PRICE! simple as that. A lower price will appeal to more potential buyers, than an inflated price (which needs to cover the advertising). If you use promotions, you simply give money to ebay. By lowering the price you give money back to your buyers. Multibuy discounts are usually a good practice.

@MichaelMyers5678 5 месяцев назад

We need a new competitor site; one that puts its sellers and customers first. We all need to make a living and Ebay need to understand, without us, they would be dead in the water without paddles. We make them what they are, not the other way around.

@River.dolphin Месяц назад

Look at the absolute brain rotting trash that goodwill sells on their page for thousands of dollars. Feebay will do just fine without us… and if you build a competitive site, they will spend tons of money to ensure your site will never take off.

@deankoch7305 Год назад

Sounds like that ebay is selling stuff for themselves. Or some employees are cheating the system to promote their items.

@52ponybike Год назад

Some of my store items are promoted at 2%, the MOST I would ever go. I've since stopped promoted because eBay, in their infinite greed, take 12% of every item I sell. That 12% INCLUDES item price plus shipping plus tax! HTF can they legally do that?! I sell exclusively in 'Motors', NOS and extremely clean used motorcycle parts and ZERO Chinese crap. I also sell new and slightly to heavily used motorcycle and snowmobile manuals. During the pandemic, my sales went thru the roof. I guess because some states had lockdowns, my state had none of that. People were dying right and left, at least 5 in my small town of 3500. Anyway, no more promoted listings! I'll be making big changes to my store items, deleting many and grouping like items for another seller to purchase and resell. It takes a lot of work to list and describe to a T each item because they all require a different description and/or category. Currently, I have under 200 items listed when in reality I could easily have a 100,000. Such is the life of a hoarder. First time watching a video on this channel and... I like it so I'll subscribe even though we don't at all sell in the same category.

@Mosessousa1 2 года назад

Shite product, shite price, equals shite results, even if you list 1000 items a day…end of story

@olivecracker1 Год назад

Lmao. Nothing quite as good as brutal honesty.

@TJJohnson92 2 года назад

I am like 90 something percent positive ever since Ebay rolled out that PPC/Advanced Promoted listings beta about a year ago they took the spot light off the standard,once upon a time I could legitimately have 1%(maybe up to 9 but nothing higher) and basically every sale would be promoted then at "some point" all of a sudden absolutely nothing(even as high as 40% promoted rate). I don't use them anymore for the most part since the only time they actually do tend to give me search impressions is when I either just list an item(where you already get the new listing boost so that doesn't make sense)and SOMETIMES when I turn them on(because I'm insane and sometimes will start a new campaign just to see if something has changed and they work this time around lol). Plus there was a time just recently(more so on my main account)where like all of the impressions just came from non search spots(AKA spots nobody really cares about or even see if it's at the bottom of the listing's page which still counts as impressions,clicking YOUR OWN STORE even counts as impressions lol).

@creightonjason 2 года назад

every sale would be promoted then at "some point" all of a sudden absolutely nothing - That happens to me, I thought I was paranoid

@drmminc192 Год назад

I firmly believe that EBay has predetermined a limit to how many sales they think you can handle before the quality of service deteriorates. At that point nothing you can increase sales. Promoted listing will do nothing if applied to all listings. If you apply it to the things you really want sold it will help you sell those items at the cost of not just the extra fees but also other sales you would normally get but are now “demoted” due to the increase elsewhere!!

@craigwinans1948 2 года назад

I see that double listing a lot when I'm searching items. To me, your promoted test proves promoted does nothing for you. 100% should have been the top of the list no matter how bad the item is.

@rdnretiredatlast4918 2 года назад

Wow, thank you. This was really fun to watch. Thanks for taking us along for this experiment, and thank you (as always) for the advice / guidance. 😁

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@ausgamecollector Год назад

Promoted listings are bs.. If you promote and a buyer watches, even if you de-promote and that watcher buys(even a yr later) ebay STILL CHARGE the seller.

@谢春晖-k4t 2 года назад

100% promoted does not make any sense,ebay knows it is a test, ebay engeneers or the algrorism are much smarter than us. you promoted 100% ad,but buyers do not know the money will be coming to ebay's pocket,buyers do not buy your item,one of reason may be your price;I guess the price is much weight in this point.if you give the buyer 50% discount,I am sure your dumbell will be sold soon.so I use the promoted with the discount, some percent of money to ebay pocket,and some profit to the buyer,in this way,the buyer will buy your items,so that ebay will help you promote your item in the platform;in this method,we ,as the sellers,sell out the item,earning some money.the buyer,receiving some discount,pay us,they have the item with a lower price,and ebay,seeing the order being made,they have the promoted fees,so we ,three parts, get what we want to earn.

@Beyondinstrumentals 2 года назад

I find that promoted listings ruins my click through and sell through rates due to high impressions . Now that I switched it off its slowly increasing again

@TheMonkeyThrifter 2 года назад

Thanks for the content extremely interesting article. Seems to be a waste of time promos at a higher rate. Cheers from Pete in The UK.

@thebluetarp 2 года назад

Ok but eBay does not show us the total view count of a store item any more! And not does eBay show us the original listing date of a store item. So it’s now very hard to know what items have been in the store for a long time?!

@bigskyflipper4084 Год назад

I really thought this would help but I find out in my store some work some don't but I wasn't at 100% just 1% and 2%. Just a mystery. Thanks for the video and info. I feel will keep doing what I'm doing for now. Thanks again for the info and keep doing what your doing

@thequickerflipperpickerupp6281 2 года назад

The Sony headphones have a better looking picture than yours. Something too consider.

@ermeriodsassperini 4 месяца назад

100% of $25 is only $25. Try listing those same jeans at $2,000 at 100%

@donkeykong1234 2 месяца назад

you're obviously better off just donating at some point.

@sundaywhiterabbit7679 Год назад

My sales are fine. ZERO promoted listings.

@christinerobinson890 2 года назад

I don’t look at my dashboard too often, but it appears that about half of my sales are sold on promotion.i list very item at 2%. It’s silly when you have a unique item, but I do it for consistency and to get rid of the line items on my sold page. I think you and Don at Auction Professor May be over analyzing this. You only get charged it under certain circumstances, and the item may not have sold without it. A sold item at 12% commission is better than unsold items at 10% commission. My sales really started picking up in August, for no apparent reason, and I’m pleased. I think my meager 2% helps sales. Thanks for doing the experience. That was clever.

@FlippinAintEasy 2 года назад

I use prompted listings on my main account for most of my listings and it works but I think ebay has sellers feeling it is more important than the basics. In think it is another component in the equation right up there with good title, price and photos.

@UnbridledFinds 2 года назад

Like 75% of my sales if not more are promoted. I do whatever they suggest and it's never more than 5%. My overall shop performance is great

@ducthien3148 Год назад

I am a new seller so when I post products for sale I don't get ads, can anyone help me how can I get ads?

@brentbradley6711 3 месяца назад

Another money squeeze by ebay..........rip off

@duncanvr7567 Месяц назад

Did you look where the items were found from a mobile phone view? Because mobile search is completely different than a PC view. I tried to find my store items on a mobile phone and it was not showing a lot of them at all. I'll always stick with 4% on most my items and no promoted at all on more expensive items. Of course the higher you promote on a few items will increase your over all views on your other items. So for a few dog items yeh maybe 20-30% is needed for some sellers to get their other stuff selling.

@FlippinAintEasy Месяц назад

@@duncanvr7567 only PC for this experiment