Guys, I was called out on my mistake and since I have not used the relist feature in a VERY long time, I was under the impression the item number was retained as it did quite some time ago. Not sure when this changed however I stand corrected as the item number does change on a relist. I did a test on this and in addition the views you had on the previous listing do not stay either. You do receive the "new listing" boost and tag just the same as sell similar. I will continue to use the end item/sell similar process as I have until I find that it no longer works. - Flippin Aint Easy
As a clothing seller I think it's important to re-list items you might have initially listed out of season. I list every item regardless of what season it is. Then delist/relist when their appropriate season comes around. This works for me and I've been on eBay since 2000.
I’m glad you posted your comment. I asked 2 resellers about listing out of season and they said they try to only stick with the current season. I was looking to list all that comes in and do exactly as you suggested. I sell girls clothes and I have over 8k in items but putting off listing season items only leaves a lot unlisted especially with new merchandise coming in weekly. Can you please tell me if it helps with your sales? Thank you for your comment.
Yes it absolutely helps with my sales. I normally re-list just before new season starts and drop prices 5% every month (after 90 days). Depending on the item I also might re-up the price to it's original price if was part of an earlier markdown and it's a desirable item.
Also I like to list everything even if it's out of season because it helps bulk up my sales for future months. As long as I have space for it, I list it. Plus keep in mind it could sell internationally it's always sunny or cold somewhere :)
@@angelashort7086 thank you so much for sharing this information with me. I have so many bins of clothes waiting for fall/winter to list because of the information from the other resellers regarding seasonal listing. Your way makes a ton of sense to me now that I understand more about how you de-list and re-list. I would love to buy you a cup of coffee or a cold beverage, lol. Wishing you many more sales and a prosperous future. Thank you.
You're welcome! Get those items listed. Don't let it weigh you down or cause a death pile that slows you down at the start of next season. You'll feel so good having inventory already listed that just needs a quick delist-relist! :)
Great advice. Only adjustment I would make is to NEVER delete items from Unsold. I permanently deleted 70+ items that way. I now do this but I leave the unsold listings sit there even after doing Sell Similar.
Right. It works and doesn't ban anything. Daily refinement thinks he's perfect and he don't even have a ebay store for crying out loud.... he needs to just stop. He's a whatnot seller that sells junk you won't make money on
@Miranda oh I get what he was trying to say. That you'll be shadow banned and to do your listings perfect the first time or your item won't sell. Both statements full of shit
I just came off of the RU-vid channel you referenced and started looking for any other info and your channel came up with this topic! Thank you so much for taking the time to make this information available. While I occasionally use some of the info on the other, I do due diligence in getting all perspectives. Your video was very informative and made much more sense to me. I have been on and off Ebay since its inception and have finally opened a store. Your information came at the right time and I look forward to implementing your strategy. Thank you!
I also wanted to comment on the charging for information. I recently started following a new reselling RU-vidr and noticed he went from 700 to over 3,000 subs in less than a month. Then, to my surprise, he now charges for various "membership" levels that you can join which offer various perks, such as contact via social media, members' only videos and live streams, and early access to videos, etc. Coincidentally, he is also a member of the group you mentioned that these major RU-vidrs founded that charges people for training, which won't be named here (the same ones you are referring to in your video) and then it dawned on me how he probably got all of his subs and viewers. This really took me aback, as I couldn't imagine charging people to watch my channel. I do what I do to help and entertain others, my full-time job is a reseller, and that's how it's gonna stay!
That’s a shame. I know of channels on RU-vid who pay for a service to build fake subscribers. In the end i think the viewer can see right through most of it.
I have a hard time listening to someone who isn't even selling on eBay anymore but is peddling classes on how to sell on the platform but that's just me 😉 There are tons of eBay sellers (like you) who are kind enough to share their first-hand knowledge it's just not necessary to pay anyone to teach you how. If I end a listing and sell similar I generally make some changes before re-listing that item (price, title, move a photo, etc.).
I am only watching his free videos and I owe all of my success to him. I'm a new seller with an amazing sell through rate. He may not sell on eBay at the moment but I for one am very grateful he is passing on his experience. I just don't understand why people have to throw shade at him. He is just trying to help us succeed. You don't have to become a member. There isn't any pressure to subscribe.
Yeah I call BS on that as I'm enjoying better than ever sales, and getting more offer opportunities by doing that process. I also use it as an opportunity to add/improve my listing. Simple as that. No "shadow ban" going on. I'm also sourcing higher quality "need" items instead of "want" items, and if I do find BOLO want items, of course I'm going to snag that deal. Great vid!
I’ve done this if I see I have a large number of watchers who squat on my listing for a long time (over a month). Usually that’s a sign of being watched by SELLERS, not buyers.
Lol. I used to watch similar items and see if they sell before me. But I've stopped that after realizing there's no rhyme or reason to how things sell. I've sold items for more money, and faster than the competition. But also vise versa.
I saw the video in question. I watched carefully. What I got from that is the following: delist and sell similar won't do you any good if the listing is not optimal to begin with. If a listing is lacking in key elements such as good photos, seo title, item specifics, and body of description, then delisting and refreshing it isn't going to help it if it was faulty to begin with. In another SEO class I heard that tweaking an item photo, even If just switching the order around; or maybe tweaking the title would make the listing appear new and not just recycled. Price is also a factor. Taking a moment to check the current rate for your items will help you know whether or not you have priced it correctly or it's out of the ballpark. So the bulk approach of ending and selling similar doesn't affect the specific changes a listing might need. I have found several bloopers after going through my listings with a fine tooth comb. Time consuming, yes. But doing a few a day doesn't take much time. One more thing. If you happen to have Multiples of an item, then using the Volume Discount feature and offering a discount for more than 1 item purchased can give you up to 10% in search. I heard that several times from Ebay directly. Since I sell dishes with a depth of inventory in each listing (ie 12 dinner plates, sold individually), I employ that feature with marked success.
@@Junkinsally LOL I watch daily refinement but only occasionally 😬 I’ve only been reselling this year. I had some a$$ brand men’s shirts because I didn’t know any better. One I ended and sold similar with new pictures and the other I just lowered the price. Both sold within a week. I still don’t know what got each to sell because one wasn’t even searchable by me when I looked. Glad they’re gone.
With sell similar, you can have an old listing that is perfect in every way, yet is stuck on the bottom of page 1. You can perform the end item/ sell similar on this item and it will receive a new item boost and temporarily show up higher on search than it would without it.
@@Junkinsally I'd rather not have crappy listings to begin with. And I don't concern myself with what others do to skate by. I was raised by a proud Marine who taught me to do things properly or don't do them at all. I like to challenge myself to get it right as a matter of course. No sweating involved.
End/sell similar works exactly as you described. I would add a couple of things to it. Be very careful not to delete the ended listings until you are absolutely sure all listings are activated. A couple of times, I got distracted and deleted too soon. The listings were gone.😢 Everything carries over into the "new" listing except the Sale Markdowns. You will need to do a new sale if you are using sales.
There is a way to keep the sales markdowns...Jon explained to me before but I'm not smart and couldn't remember. Hopefully he sees this and explains how.
There is a setting when you create the markdown sale that incorporates every new listing into your existing sale. The sell similar listings count towards this as well.
Thanks Jon for doing this video ! This proves wrongs the theory of Cassini not recognizing an item as a new listing unless you have changed something in the title . Thanks again for taking the time to do this .
We agree with you Jon - end and sell similar works for us - that other channel features a person banned from eBay for not following the eBay rules and another person who does not show his face ( the wizard of OZ) yep just believe them or pay $39.98 for their secret sauce
I end items that are ending on that day, and sell similar. I may lower the price, but I have also raised the price and it seems to have upped my sales.
The strategy really depends on what percentage of sales you get from eBay impressions versus off eBay impression. It will take 2 days up to a week for google to reindex a new eBay item so if a lot of your impressions and sales come from Google searches, you are effectively cutting those off. So it semi depends what your target audience is in how you structure your listing (white backgrounds tend to do better in google searches while colorful ones do better for eBay searches, google searches the item details automatically, ebay you have to check a box to search item details, google doesn’t always pick up item specifics, eBay does)
I never had any issues after ending listing to sell similar. I only do this once a month but 90 items at a time. As you said, the listing fee is the only caviat, I sell video games and those fees are more costly on my margins. Thank you for correcting the info as I do watch that other channel soemtimes and was really worried at first. I haven't done relist in a while and will try experimenting with that and compare to sell similar
Thank you. I have been on eBay for a long time but just sell out of my home here and there. I don’t have a store. It’s taking forever to sell anything and I think k it’s because I also do t sell hundreds of products. Maybe I better change up my game. Again thanks for this. I’m going to go “sell similar” now and see what happens
I do this all of the time; around 200 listings at a time (End and sell similar, not "relist"). I do it once or twice a week, but should probably do it more often. I also put a 10 percent promotion on the items at the same time. I always gets sales from it. REMEMBER: once you have completed the process of selling similar, and you are certain that your listings were submitted, you must go back to delete the ended listings from your unsold folder. If you don't, those ended listings are going to get mixed up with the next batch that you end!
I don't end a item and then relist with sell similar! If I have an item I know should have sold already many times over and had not. I permanently delist it from ebay. Then list it on another platform!!!
I only End Listing / Sell Similar for additional reasons mainly when I have blank description fields where eBay is requesting me to Add Recommendations. I'm down to my items where eBay is requesting as many as 5 Add Recommended. When I work through those, I'll be down to the 4's. Or if the item is old and I want to make any revisions, or bulk revisions.
I do relist not sell similar mainly because of my multiple quantities Somewhere down-the-line I think they changed the item number thing because I always get a different item number Also When you relist You still lose your watchers But eBay sends out the notification that the item has been relisted
Have ended/sell similar all of the items I have up over the last two days. Currently the impressions are looking the best they have been since I last did this. Currently it seems as if eBay buries my listings after 14 or so days if I don't do this..
Thanks for Video’ did do this in past but only now and again’ will start this weekly now- just ended 190 items and scheduled them to go live across the next 5 days to see how this goes when you drip feed listings live . Will let you know how it goes
I think the other channel wants to down play this because they want sellers to keep listing instead of working to sell items that may not have been popular or found,not necessarily a bad listing or one that has an error in it. It’s not about how many you can list in a day. Not everyone lives in a large metropolitan area where the most sought after brands especially clothing are common. It’s about getting your listings seen by as many buyers as possible who are not all looking for the most popular brands they are looking for many different prices and types of products. I’m not a robot and breaking it down to how many listings you can get up in a specified amount of time is not the right fit for everyone. I enjoy the process all of it and having built a website for myself in my prior career I know more than the average reseller about search results. It was natural for me to end and sell similar to get the stale listings back up in the search results on Google. Which also applies to Ebay search results. Is there a time to give up and just take them off and donate them. Use common sense. I really like your channel and your honesty. 😊
Why would ebay do anything about ending and selling similar since stores have set numbers of listings per month and lots of people use many of those listings up ending and selling similar some even go so much they pay insertion fees even with a store. Great video as always glad you kept the other channel nameless. Ebay hard enough and don't need any misinformation for sure. Not to say it isn't out of the realm of possibility but highly unlikely. Until next time keep grinding we all our!!!
Yes. If you think about the process where your fixed price item ends after 30 days, essentially this is an end item / relist which retains the item number and watchers. This is done so ebay can apply an insertion fee for each item every month. There is no penalty tied to that aside from using up one of your free listings.
I’m only 6 years into reselling and I can tell you that ending and selling similar has never done anything but sold some of those items shortly after ending and selling similar and generated sales of older items I had listed that didn’t even have views before I did that. I end and sell similar on 10 items a day and do it one by one so that I can change little things before selling similar.
I do sell similar and it works for me. I stopped doing bulk because even though I was careful with my ended listings a couple of times ebay doubled up on my listings so I do 1 by one edits now. Doesn't take a lot of time. I can easily find my listings in google search. I have over 5,000 listings as a hobby and love it. It does boost the store with more views and watchers.
The Sell Similar does work. My account is proof. I de-list and sell similar on several items each week. This refreshes my store. I just started doing this process this year and have been successful in selling several older items that have grown stale in my store. I have not been shadow banned. I did see the other video and was shocked and then went to look at my sales and found that this is completely untrue. Just try stuff and see if it works for you. I have 5000 listings and 10000 possible listings each month with my ebay store so doing this is not a issue.
I think that it is very honorable of you to stand by the free service that you provide, however, there is nothing wrong in charging for ''guidance'' on how to improve in any field. I have not come across any one of you (resellers) here on RU-vid, trying to rip anyone off, actually, some tells you right up front, "I got all the info on RU-vid for free, but if you want a much closer interaction, join my group for such and such amount. That doesn't sound 'fishy'' at all. Hopefully one day, you may consider the "professional trend'' teaching people and being paid for it. Great content, thank you for sharing.
FYI: end listing > realist does nuke the followers and watch count. I don’t think there is a way to retain them in either method - relish or sell similar. Also I wonder if this messes up third part cross listing systems... probably have to do this thru that platform. I’m testin treecat - which is in its early dev but looks promising. Relies heavily on CSVs.
I had been doing the end listing and sale similar for a few months consistently every day BUT interesting it’s been a week now that my sales have come to almost a complete zero!! I was thinking it was maybe due to mother’s day and that people we simply not buying but my sales are still dead at this time.
Just "Delisted Sell Similar " this past Friday, for 800 golf clubs concentrating on old stock 2 plus years in inventory , sold over 20 clubs of those that got relisted, my sales for clubs have been down but got a boost because of the relist , also nearly 100k boost in impressions , Soooo yep the theory is right !! Everybody stop relisting ,,, Please ! Don't get covered up by that big Black Blanket
There is a lag when you change things and that sometimes drives me crazy. I lowered prices and change from FREE Shipping to buyers pays and I got caught in between and the item sold at lower price but didn't update the buyer pays shipping usually a watcher snipes in with the price drop.
He has totally ended up to be a complete grifter. Isn't he still kicked off of the platform? He is completely off of my radar but as soon as you started talking I knew exactly who it had to be.
Thanks so much for reminding us about this end listings. I haven’t done it in a long time and will start doing it on a regular basis now. Thanks for all the great videos 😀 I guess the ones that have quite a few watchers you just go ahead and do it anyhow?
Cheap crypto miner here: I dont know what shadow banning is. I understand the idea of it. I do 300 to 600 sell similar every week. It always get a lot of people to look at my item and place it under watch and / or sales!! I agree with you. Ps.. i have a 10k free listing every month.
glad to hear this confirmed... I've ALWAYS done 'sell similar' (selling for over 10 years now) --- I didn't think of it as a hack - in fact, I always thought 'relisting' was probably not going to get me new eyes on my product when relisting as it keeps history of an item ended that never sold - so why would I relist an item 'as is' without doing something to change it??? ... so I NEVER use relisting... any thoughts on that?
I sold a couple 8 tracks with ending and selling similar. These 8 tracks were listed over a year ago. That guy is a grifter peddling his $39 a month Patreon subscription. They only thing he can show you is how to get permanently banned from eBay. Wholesaling without a paper trail should be his new channel name.
Did end and sell similar on 200 items May 1. On May 2nd I did more in sales in that one day than the whole previous week before. I dont do it all the time, though, so again......who knows.
I don’t watch ( ok I listened to it to hear what he said and i lol) people that aren’t even selling on EBAY. Looks like his money comes from his pay courses. There is soooo much how to resell videos on RU-vid and, they’re free!
I've been doing End/Sell Similar since day 1. I've tested it several times. If you stop doing it, your sales will drop. It's required if you want to maximize sales. I haven't tested it lately, but I'm sure it still has a positive affect. If sales get slower, then Ebay might as well just shut down! :P
What if you are not a store but selling as an individual. I didn’t see where it shows end listings. I see delete then a selection of reasons to choose from
Ebay is in the business to make money from sales...soumds crazy they would "shadow ban" and lose potential sales. He was just trying to shill sales to his listing company.
Great video, thanks Jon. I also have a Seinfeld Sceneit? DVD game 😂😂😂 that is my oldest listing. Have you ever played it? I haven’t but I’m a fan of Seinfeld.
If you just end and relist..your item number does change.. who started the myth that the item number remains the same..it does NOT you get a new number and it’s a new listing too. Humor me..take an item end it..check ebay item number..then just relist not sell similar. You will see a new item number..then sort listings to newly listed and you will see that item will say newly listed. So why spread the falsehood..? It’s the same result if you sell similar or just relist.
Leonard, I stand corrected. It has been quite some time since the last time I relisted. I can tell you with 100% certainty that keeping the same item number was indeed a thing with relist and it is no longer the case. I was wrong and I own it and I stand corrected. When you don't use a feature, it is easy to miss when changes are made such as keeping the original item number.
Thank you , I have not been making sales ever since the international update. Either way I just followed you and I hope it helps!!!! Will Let you know.
Here is something to try. Go in and opt out of international. I have heard for some this has a negative affect on their sales. Don't really know why. Here is what I have found so far. My sales on my secondary store (I am opted in) are very very slow as compared to the previous week. My main store I have opted out and have good sales. Worth a try.
I haven't tried "end item, sell similar" yet, but I have noticed if I list many items at once, I will start to get sales/offers/watchers on older items. There have been times after l added several new items that I would suddenly get sales on listings from 6 months to a year ago before any of the new items sell.
Can you do end listing/sell Similar everyday. For my store i have anywhere from 10-25 items that end regularly on a daily basis so I end them before midnight and then do the sell similar procedure the next morning. I am just curious - something happened in the last week and my sells are just down the drain.
I think daily on the same items is overkill since you get the new item boost for approximately 24-48 hours. I do it about once a week and that is what works for me.
Thanks for your videos! I was wondering….. how many times a week would you do this process? I notice that it does take away from my free listings. I am a small store. Thank you!
If you are not changing the title, ebay will see the duplicate listing and disallow the new listing. Now if you have made changes it can work. Because I am not making these changes in bulk, I delete first.
Jon, your technique could be a little more foolproof for this process, in the sense that you are exposing your listings to a greater chance of accidental deletion. Consider a different order to the process: go to active and sort by oldest (like you did), end 200 items, go to unsold, sell similar 200 items, go to active (make sure you're back to you original number), end 200 items, go to unsold, sell similar 200 items, go to active listings to make sure you have all of your listings back. If you're done with the process, go to unsold and delete, then delete again. By doing all of your deleting only at the very end, you have less of a chance of deleting when you meant to sell similar.
i am so glad i found your channel, i have a store with 20k items and my sales are down like frozen, i am going to make a lot of changes which you have suggested, i have only watched a few of your videos since i found your channel, if you read this message and have a minute to answer one question i would be very happy and that is that: about a year ago a buyer sent me messages on about 10 items and wanted them to put in a single listing for him, which i did and he bought them, i then ended those 10 listings and ebay sent me a warning, that i sold those 10 item off ebay which i did not, i just put them together in one listing for that buyer, ever since i do not end any listings on which i have had a question, did you also ever had anything like that ? because i am thinking to end my listings and relist them, but i am afraid that i would get my account down if i end hundreds of listings on which i have had recent questions, as ebays automatic system may think i have sold them out of ebay
Hello Jon , congratulations for your Channel from France. I'm not a very good english speaker but all your advises and recommandations are very clear for my french mind. i've a question , How often do you use end item and sell similar , once week, month ? thanks for your answer bye
Wow, that's. Je Ne Parle Francais. You do speak English quite well. I use this process once a week and I focus on Wednesdays/Thursdays to get that new item boost going into the weekend.
Question about changing handling time. I have one day handling time and need to change it to four days because of a trip. I cannot seem to change it The way I could for years. How is the best way to do this. I did not want to use time away.
Go into your business policies and change each of the shipping policies you have set up. Go into each one and edit them. Change the current handling time using the drop down menu to 4 days. This change will affect all listings using that particular shipping policy.
You should have a "time left" column on the right side when you check on your active listings. Click on where it says time left at the top and it should sort your listings.
Thank you Jon. Your video’s are always thoughtful and helpful. I have a small store and was selling several items a week. Suddenly, I have not sold anything for 2-3 week. I called an agent who looked at my record and said I was doing everything right, was Above Average, and my store looks great. She did not recommend any changes other than take a look at my competitors to see if they are doing anything different!!! Very confusing! Any suggestions for me? I am doing the end listing & sell similar, coupons, promotions at some level on most. I have lots of views and watchers. Just not selling! When I make offers, I take %25 off the item! Help….anyone!
I would strive to get to Top Rated as your account health is considered to be much better than above standard and does have an impact on your best match search ranking. I agree with scouting out the competition and emulate what they are doing however that can only take you so far because there is no way to know much about their account health (status) or even what rates they are promoting at. I would recommend focusing more on higher promoted rates over discounts. Incorporate the coupons and markdown sales when you can in addition to that and source things that give you room to do both.
I appreciate your thoughtful advice. I have never strived for being top rated, but will look into it. I do value what my buyers think of me, but so far, have a 100% positive feedback. I have always felt that if EBay feels I am worthy of Top Rated, they will promote me. As far as competitors,I only compete with myself!
eBay handicapped everyone when they started the "good till canceled" listing. Before, BIN (Buy It Now) fixed price listings were good for 30 days and that was a very effective strategy. Your items automatically ended after 30 days at which time you could tweak the BIN or send it to auction. I feel the change to "good till cancelled" was a less than honorable move, shall we say, that took advantage of lazy and uninformed sellers to create a situation where eBay has all these inflated listing numbers they use as a selling point to investors. Never ending a listing is like Walmart never clearing out seasonal or slow moving merchandise to make room for fresh inventory. From the retail perspective, "good till cancelled" is not beneficial.
Brian. I do it for listings that are about a week old, even the newer ones as these will get the "new listing" boost. It also helps to have 10,000 listings to work with. In the video I had recently done this on Thursday but I wanted to do this to show the process.
Yes. It is bad information being given out and many people know otherwise from hands on experience. That will usually cause people in the know to become upset and those who aren't sure to become confused.
There may be some truth to the shadow banning. I ended & ss to half my store on Thursday and had big fat goose egg over the weekend. Never had a problem before then. I really don’t know. Remains a mystery.
@@Junkinsally I’ve always done it at least twice a week. Just part of how I run the store. It could’ve been something else idk. Just raises the question.
I also decided to try the sell similar route. My daily sales turned into 0 sales for 3 days. I called eBay to complain. They said nothing they can do. But magically 2 sales after the phone call. Has been normal ever since I called.
@@biscuittbutt1 Yes, but don't we need watchers in order for eBay to give us the opportunity to send "offers to watchers"?, since we can't make those offers just any time we like.
I stopped watching the guy your speaking about. Do your research people and try different things to boost your store. Watch your impressions and you can see what it working. Sales good for me. Yes, sales have slowed but higher price items are selling for me and multiple purchases from buyers are a real thing and equals a nice profit.
