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Thanks! Will subscribe.
When you relist as sell similar, doesn't your items get new locations?
I'm a new seller and started off with a bang and then summer hit and nothing. You explained more than anybody I have listened to. So easy to understand. Thank you for all your time
When my sales slowed when the war broke out, I took the extra time I had to fill in all the recommended item specifics. There were thousands. What a boring and laborious task. However, I believe it helped. And what I also discovered was that I had hundreds of listings that eBay threw into the wrong category when they did their adjustment in October. Those listings were most likely as good as invisible.
Some people will say that buyers don't search by these specifics. They may be right. But what you've said, Don, is something I've always suspected: eBay may bury the listings that they don't feel are as "complete." In fact, why wouldn't they? It's an algorithm. It's designed to play the odds on matching buyers with sellers.
I'm now in a habit of refreshing my listings every week, and definitely see an uptick in sales. Full time reselling means full time work on your business. Thank you for the reminder that we all need. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and look forward to watching your next video.
Do you end sell similar on all items or how many? Do you get sales straight away or after a day? How much did it increase your sales roughly?
I do that everyday but not seeing any improvement wonder why
I always love the vintage commercials at the end! 🙂
I have actually tried to do this a number of times & it's made no difference at all. My main problem with selling anything on eBay is the lack of views, there are very few buyers compared to a couple of years ago. I looked the other day at random things, and a couple of years ago on eBay with say women's shoes, there was page after page of sold items in that category for that day. The other day I checked & it had 1 page with the same date. eBay needs to start getting people back to the platform, as some sellers will only stay on eBay so long as the buyers are around. Thank you, Don. Charles in the UK
@@showgirlsaroundtheworldada4484 Tried that so many times, but nothing is still working even now. I think that sellers have left and are not coming back to buy as buyers. eBay needs to do something before everyone leaves the site.
I think Whatnot is putting a dent in our sales. Unfortunately that’s where I source now plus yard sales.
You're extremely thorough and organized. Thank you!
This was great Don, I think you covered this earlier in a video, but it’s a great succinct refresher. Appreciate it, I’m sure going to try this, the sales are pretty flat for many of us. Thanks again!
Don, thanks once again. We just completed doing this and sadly wasting four hours as opposed to listing. We did this back in October as after that horrible update and it worked great. Last week we noticed a drastic decrease in sales since November and began to wonder why. This video was incredibly helpful and timely. On our to do list will be a weekly repeat of this process and more if needed. Starting with the older listings as oppose to highest price was very helpful. Convinced more than ever now that ghosting is taking place. After finishing this process a few sales occurred with the older items and many more offers. Will now commence a two day sale. You're the best.
Thanks for being a great resource for other resellers such as myself. Great tips as always!
You are such a great teacher!! Thank you, great content!
Thanks so much for actually walking us thru. I was going to ask you to do this. Thank you!!
This will be great data and I appreciate you showing the results! I’ve been slowly adding the recommendations and oh boy it’s a long process but I bet it does have some affect on where your listing falls. Great video! New subscriber 😊
Thank you for the honest information. I greatly appreciate your channel!
Thank you for sharing. I refreshed a few of my listings and after two weeks of no sales, I have finally sold something. I stopped listing because we are in the process of moving. After watching this video, I decided to refresh a few listings just as kind of a test and sure enough it worked.
I kid you not this really really works... I had an item that was sitting there for about 3 months with like 3 views, but everyone else's was selling.. So I did exactly what you said I ended it and "sold as similar" i did that lastnight at like 1:30 in the morning, and when I woke up about 8:30 ..it had sold!! 😊👍 Thanks so much for this great tip! Also some of my other items that I sold as similar and ended now have more views in one day than they have had in 3 months! Thanks again! 👍👏😊
This video was so much fun!!! Thank you
Your comments about 13:20 are pure gold. Some items I've had on for a very long time. Not getting views, promotions aren't working. I will begin to create 'Sell Similar' and see what happens. Appreciate the advice! Will subscribe.
Great tips. I agree about the possible ghosting. The end sell similar works, just started doing it
Super helpful video Don. Thank you.
Looking good Don. Thanks for the video!
Another terrific video with great content. Thanks very much.
As a follow up to yesterdays comment pertaining to four hours on "sell similar" refreshing. Just "do it", it has worked once again. In less than 24 hours, we have sold a few items that were being ghosted, no doubt about it. We have just sent out nearly 100 offers since completing the refresh process. These are similar results when this was done at the end of October, early November of last year. Don, you're the best. Thanks for providing actionable content.
OMG! This worked , thanks so much for sharing 🙏
Thank you so much. Very good information!
I'm going to give this a try. I always have regular sales however the majority of the stuff that sells on eBay is the the newest stuff listed within the past month. I used to think it was because I have been doing a better job of buying items that people want but always found it strange that the items were moving on Poshmark that had been on eBay for a year.
Thank You for your very helpful information.
Thanks for sharing Don I will try that 😊
Thank you for this video. I thought it was just me with slow sales. I checked last years sales and March was my slowest month. I had a big jump in April and then it leveled out for the summer.
I felt like my sales was horrible for the first quarter this yr, however looking back to last yr my sales are up 43% over first quarter last yr. So I am not doing as bad as I thought!! Keep trying, keep listing, its the best we can do!!.
All good advice. Didn’t realize the recommended fixes may be important.
I do the same with sell similar, works great! Thanks Don!
Thanks for sharing Don
Im happy to find your page thanks
Excellent video, thank you.
So good to see you again. When you first start does Ebay give you support on sites to use on your computer. Do they need to item like on a software offer you software to list your
Thanks a lot for this, it helps a lot my eBay store.
Thanks for video and information
Thanks - we only have 39 listings - ended, then sell similar and within 5 minutes we had a sale!
Hi Sir many Thanks i will Try this Way because my items are not selling from a more then a month i will do it tomorrow morning
One thing to be careful with on ending & sell similar are those where you are selling multiple quantities or have variants & some of that has sold. What happens is that is relisted at the FULL quantity you started with. So if you have a listing where you started with 10 items & have sold 3, if you forget to adjust the quantity down to 7 when you relist it as sell similar, it will relist at 10, not 7. (if you still have your full quantity available, then there are no issues)
Same is you have 5 variants & have sold 2, all 5 will be relisted.
So what we do is end these types of listing separately from the rest & then individually save as draft & then edit as needed (qty can be edited much easier than if your have variants & can be done on the sell similar screen).
This caught me out a while ago, but now I double check my quantities before resisting, Thanks for the tip
Great advice
Great 👍 thank you 😊
This technique of selling similar works best if your listing new items daily, even if it's only a handful of listings a day. Selling similar does not count toward listing new items. It's only helping refresh your already listed items. The combination of listing additional items in your store and selling similar on older items you already have listed is where the magic happens.
Sorry but you are wrong on Sell Similar not counting as a new listing. It 100% DOES count as a new listing, and towards your free or included listings. We also always list new items, but the Sales and Markdown is what really pushes our sales.
@@TheAuctionProfessor I understand it shows as a new listing, but the impact of a actual new listing vs refreshing on old listing is not even close. Doing both is best practice in current times. Don't get me wrong, I do get sales from sell similar refreshing old listings. People think that they can just get away with only refreshing old listings by selling similar and not listing new items based on videos like this and when it doesn't work they don't understand why.
Videos like this? I never said Not to list new items as well, but rather the opposite. Even in the comment you are responding to I CLEARLy state we list new items as well. I state that ALL the time, and have NEVER stated not to. Maybe you didn't watch the whole video nor read my comment?
@@TheAuctionProfessor Absolutely, I'm a big fan of yours and your philosophy on reselling. Been watching since 2018. I know you list tons everyday and been doing sell similar refreshing since October 2021. My point is viewers that don't watch your vids regularly only hear what they want to hear. They look for the easy path of something like only selling similar listings already in their store and not listing new unique items as well. Sure they may get a few sales as well but that one two punch is what is most important these days. Nothing against you, just reiterating the importance of doing both to the commenters. People miss that part all the time. You're the best Don.
I fill in as many item specifics as I can, but there are so many ridiculous ones, especially with jewelry. I roll all of my listings through sell similar. I tried a sale once, in the category in my store that sells the most, and did not sell a single item in that category during the sale.
Hi thanks for the tips, I have some sold items on my active listing so I have to go in manually n pick the sell simular listings. Any way to clean them off of there. Also I went in n ended first then went into ended and picked items then went to sell simular. Works the same correct. Thanks Cindy
I just ended and did sell similar on 2600+ listings then activated 30% sale on 2200+ of them. I have a couple questions. Do you have video showing traffic growth based on this method? Also is it possible to end/sell similar on more than 200 listings at a time? Thank you Don! I've followed you for a while but I think this might be my first time commenting. I love the way your videos are always clear and quick to the point without bs! Please keep up the good work!
I have ended and sell similar and just relist … no sales and I get views and some even sell. 👍🏻
..hey buddy, I'm new to this (with loads to purge -thanks to Spring!)... can you have a print on demand and a standard account in one? ' also, what do I select when im offered three choices for 'cookies'..??!
I've tried the "end listing, sell similar strategy" on 200 listings at a time and it did nothing different that I noticed. But last night I did that with only 10 things and 3 have sold since. Crazy! Haha
i feel like if you mess with too big of a % of your items at once it just hurts you
thank you very much❤
Nice tips.
Hi Don , I was one who encountered a problem as I have been doing this pretty often. Here is the caution I learned. I was in the stage of sell similar, and I did not do the step of checking to see if my sell similar had actually posted. I deleted the dups. There was a glitch and I lost 50 listings. So double check before delete!
I did the exact same thing and also lost 50 listings. Did you get them back?
Hey what’s the best time of day to list?
Hi Don,
Thank you for helping us out here in Reseller land.
Im one that has had 3 sells in 2 weeks. Before I had a at least sell everyday. The end listing & sell similar doesn’t seem to help me, I do it everyday. There must be something going on. Being a reseller is fun, if u make sales 😬😱
Lack of buyers on the eBay platform is what the problem is, compared to a couple of years ago eBay has much fewer buyers looking for items.
Ever since the last update sells died.
@@charlesforeman9438 I think Ebay has lost more sellers than buyers.
@@antiqueguy6397 Yes, but these sellers are the buyers too, once they leave the platform many won't come back to buy items.
Good vid thx
Thank you
Thanks Don better to run sales shorter periods of time for algorithm?
Hi what about the listing content different size and colours when I deleted and sale similar is the quantity will list back with the remaining or as first time list before sale thank you
If I end up listings with watchers-then sell similar them all-Question is do items with watchers still have those watches or watchers erased by system ?
Should we items with watchers end- then sell ones similar? Any thoughts and suggestions?
Hi, I appreciate your tips. Unfortunately I do all of your tips. Have been daily for years. I get a ton of sales a day half of the time, then the other half where’s there’s close to nothing. Any idea why this could be happening? I added all my item recommended specifics, de list, sell similar, bulk revise listings, go in and individually revise listings. Respond immediately to customers, leave immediate feedback list at least 15 new items a day. I do all this everyday without fail. I’m at such a loss
Make sure you put up plenty of items for pick up ONLY and cash payment ONLY. That way ebay is on the short end of the deal, if you know what I mean.
? If you do not have a store will refreshing my listing create a listing fee for the unsold item?
Do you refresh the entire store? Or just some items? What’s the most effective way to refresh the whole store?
how do you make sure you don't list the same thing twice..I know ebay will block a duplicate listing, but it might let it through if the price is different. any tips to avoid having to cancel a sale due to double-listing?
I spoke to ebay about slow sales, they said the issue is more sellers are issuing promoted listings and this has caused many existing sellers to contact them regarding such slow sales. Good luck everyone xx
Buyers don't like going on ebay much anymore. Ebay needs to bring buyers in
i wonder why. probably because many sellers are selling used junk for way over retail price. do they seem to think they can use the old scheme/scam of blaming it on inflation? ebay was supposed to be a flea market where you can get a used item at half the price. not anymore. most people buy new on amazon because its cheaper, you get real warranty, and you dont pay for shipping. the sellers thought their customers are stupid. now it's costing them everything. once you lose a customer, you lose them on the entire platform forever.
Ever end up with a duplicate of a listing after doing sell similar? That happened to me, so delete after?
Do sales only work if you have a lot of followers? I have the first tier of EBAY store, so I do not have that option. I am wondering if it is worth it if you only have a handful of followers right now? Thanks for help from anyone who knows.
Great video, a bit over my head. Anyway you could do a video on how to bulk end listing sell similar, say for 100 items at a time? Please and thank you
I already have several that show the whole process step by step.
How do you get your seller hub to look like that? Mine I have to do one at time. I do have the free account
I'm small but recommended is not effecting sales (not hidden)
When you end listing & do sell similar, do you only end items that have been listed for a specific amount of time? I was told it’s best to only end & sell similar items that have been listed for 6 months or more! The rational I was given Is that anything less than 6 months will impact your analytics negatively. I’m wondering how it makes sense to list & leave items until they do sell…if your paying .35$ for each listing every month & then an additional .30-.35$ when the item sells your potentially ending in the red or at a loss every time it takes awhile for your item to sell. The only way I can see to offset this is to list every day so those items that do sell quickly offset your losses. I’d appreciate your thoughts. I do agree that items w/o complete item specifics get ghosted by eBay in searches!
it worked the first few weeks but sales have severely tapered down as the weeks progressed (now on my 4th week of doing this). Other youtuber/ebayers have said the same has happened to them
So you run that sale for 3 days. Then, in 3 days, you will run a different sale on a different group of items? If I’m understanding, you pretty much run a sale constantly, but will be different items and then recycle through the whole store?
How do you feel about doing sell similar on the items ending soon that ebay will relist. Do you think it is better to do the sell similar or does it actually hurt not letting ebay relist and process these from time to time.
It’s definitely better to relist them yourself bc when eBay does it, it doesn’t move it back to the top it just restarts the time
How much do pay in listings each month?
what if you don't have a store?
My impressions/ page view charts bear this out. In the days following those numbers doubled at least. Watching to see how it goes back down to baseline. While I had a few sales clearly linked to sell similar / sale generally my sales didn’t follow. That’s on me as many of the older items that languished in the first place did so because they niche or just not quality items. I may run an experiment to focus on clearly quality pieces that have been out there for a while and track the results. Lesson: There is no substitute for quality items. This technique won’t work miracles with lower demand collectibles.
💯 and ebay gets more like that every day, gotta have sought after items, thats all there is to it. Gone are the days of being able to sell almost anything.
Do you do free 30 days shipping and return?
I hate resetting the start date of items with sell similar
If this is true, and I am not saying it is not, it means that eBay is actively preventing sales on their own platform. They are purposely hurting buyers, sellers, and themselves. That is just mind boggling....
You think eBay would ever catch onto this and start eliminating the ‘refresh’ from sell similar items?
will this affect if my item as variety?
Regarding the recommended item specifics...SOME OF THEM JUST DON'T PERTAIN TO MY ITEM!!! Ebay is pretty stupid sometimes.
One question: I end listings but instead using Sell Similar as you mentioned as just do Relist,, does this works the same? Thanks!
No, it does not work the same. Sell similar posts the item as a new listing for 24 hrs and gives it a new item number. Relist keeps all the old data and does none of what sell similar does.
I use alternative websites to boost sales.
Unfortunately most if what I sell just so happens to be high end trading cards.
So ebay is the most trusted.
Also sell similar.
What if you have several or more Watchers? Should you end/sell similar those as well?
You'll lose your watchers but if they haven't made the purchase it's likely they aren't going to.
Does End and Relist work or do you need to do a sell similar?
You have to sell similar. Relisting won't refresh your listing but sell similar will. It will give you a new item number like it's a brand new listing.
Do you still end and sell similar, if your item has a watcher, watchers?
Yes if they are old watchers. Meaning any offers sent or received have been expired.
I know this is a year old but can you dive more into your pricing 3 x perceived value. Thanks
One concern I have is if I end all my listings and then sell similar, I then lost the date of when I actually listed the item. So, when I try to create a sale on items, say, over 120 days, I can't remember or see what is what.
That's one reason we put our location numbers in our titles. We can instantly see what something was listed by our number so it doesn't matter that we lose the list date on eBay.
I put the listed date at the very bottom of the description along with the item location.
Just use the item sku. I put the date I purchased, the date I listed and the inventory information there.
If I try to do a copy on the previous sale, it tells me the item numbers don't match anything. Because of selling simular they have all changed. So, how do I do that without haveing to start everything all over again?
Yip, I got that also. I ended up just making a new sale.
Thanks, how often do you advise to do sell similar
please help me!!!! my sales went from 2300 to 2600 a week ..consistently for 8 months ...and then BAM! overnight, nothing and it's been two weeks. I'm so angry
I tried the end listing idea and eBay charged my bank over $49!!!! Not a good decision for me...I don't get it!
I started my Ebay store in 2018, I've just been selling off mostly collectibles and toys. I had good sales the first few years, and I've only had a few bad issues with buyers. I still dont understand why people dont leave feedback no matter what i do, but oh well.
I have noticed my sales go down drastically, and even when i send offers, they dont pay for several days, or they counteroffer a rediculously low amount :(
I try to keep my listings refreshed, and i send coupons and have sales....i still get messages asking if I'll take less, and shipping costs are higher, so I'm trying to at least break even on profits....
Its all been very frustrating just for the past year trying to make any money at all :(
Sorry for the rant, but i dont have anyone to talk to about this stuff :(
Keep strong and don't give your stuff away. You know it's worth. Stand your ground.
I’m getting buyers complaining about MY shipping costs. I’ve found that buyers think I can control those costs. I try to explain the things I CAN control with shipping and what I cannot, but I’m not sure it always computes. My husband told me he once thought sellers could rip him off on shipping! Anything I ship to California (from MO) is a fortune and let’s face it, we all get lots of CA sales. Anyone have any suggestions?
If I list an item where the buyer pays shipping, and the weight and shipper are figured, then the cost will depend on the buyer's location from you. If you have a store and buy the shipping label on eBay you will get a discount off what the buyer pays. Of course, the buyer pays more if it's Priority rather than First Class, if using USPS. I have several multiple item listings that are "free shipping", and I figure the cost into the price. Yes, sales to California are a little more for First Class. I accept sales from Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands too, and get quite a few, and they always will cost me more, but I can still use First Class USPS, and I have the cost figured in. On larger items or ones that weigh more than a pound, I always specify Priority Mail, and have the buyer pay shipping. Sometimes I use a flat shipping charge on a listing, like $10 or $15, as long as I know it will go for that or less, and that way the buyer will know anyone pays the same.
Cool
My sells are way down right now.
What do you mean ….3X price structure?