Another tip. 26:27 minutes in. Use your computer to do this process but instead of clicking between unsold and active just keep your app open on your cell phone and once you relist your current batch of 200 hundred then refresh on your app(cell phone) to make sure they went and are active. You should still be in your unsold tab on the computer and at this point you just delete the 200 unsold listings because you know they where updated because you seen that they where on your cell phone. This should help save about 10 minutes for you. This part is very important because you don’t want to accidentally delete 200 hundred of your listings before they push back to active. I did this in the being and they where gone. I never went back and relisted them (they are just lost in my inventory system now. Lol) hope this little tip helps as well.
@@hayfro Thanks for this great hack! Is there a reason they need to get deleted from the unsold tab? Can't they just live there as a back-up in case something was missed somehow?
My plan is to list 10 and “reset” 10 every day. The way I was taught to do eBay is after 30 days discount 10% 60 days discount 20% 90 days discount 30% all the way until six months where you are basically liquidating. And the idea was that you do not want an item in your store more than six months of course, with a few exceptions like high value vintage long tail items. Now I’m thinking why should I discount 30% or 50% when I can just reset the item maybe even increase the price and possibly raise the promoted % by a bit? It’s kind of like a help me help you kind of thing with a eBay. I’ll raise the price and pay you a little more but please get this item sold. I honestly think it has worked better doing it like this than reducing items to 60-70% off.
thing is even if you reduce it 90% if eBay is NOT showing your item its not going to sell Period! that is what this is all about eBay stopped showing sellers items 6 months ago
I just happened upon your video. I have watched other TH-camrs on this subject. Yours was the most detailed one. Thank you. I am going to try it and just see what happens. Thanks for your information.
Thank you so much!! I did the reset on our 1000 item ebay store. The 1st time, 40 items in 4 days. Then it stops dead again. 2nd time, 40 again. Items from ages ago, too. Amazing! Much appreciated!! Kate
awesome. are these resent resets? reason I'm asking is my one stores resets have been muted but if you are having success recently or if you did these resets weeks ago. thx.
I have about 650 items in my store and just ended and sell similar 500 listings. Also am running a 15% markdown and raised my prices by 10%. eBay has been abysmal this month. Going on day 6th with no sales. Yet Mercari I get daily sales with the same items and same price on eBay. I’m not trying to turn my store into a multi million dollar operation just want 1000 a month consistently.
Same here more or less. I almost surpassed my all time high this month which is a decent month typically. Oct Nov Dec Jan are the best ebay months if you have new product.... But then sales plummeted & got some buyer fault returns on top of that. If I was taking home 800 net profit my expenses are so low that that would have a huge compounding effect for me. Do all my own maintenance on everything I own.
Thanks for the tips. We're getting good ones that we'll be trying out. All tips that have worked consistently over time are what we're trying to discover and share.
yep i think that's all every seller wants is consistency unfortunately eBay is not the place to find that right now don't know if we will ever have that again on eBay but im just glad i diversified 2 decades ago and yes if the same items i have on eBay are selling on the other 10 platforms and my own website then I know its not me or any other seller its the Platform and until eBay comes out publicly and admits that all the issues since April have been there fault and there either too cheap to fix it or to lazy then we ae just stuck with eBay as it is
@@bennystratton7734 Sadly, I think they done screwed it up and don't know how to fix it. And that's a problem. My diversity of platforms is really helping me with the problems they've caused but none are as good as eBay when eBay actually works. I do hope they figure it out, but in the meantime, we have to do whatever we can and share it. This issue they've caused is really hurting a lot of people who depend on the income. I estimate conservatively I've lost $2000 in sales per month on eBay since April. That's one hell of a punch.
Hey! I watched your video and decided to test it when I got home from work. I had had a $0 sales day on ebay. I had $160 sales on Posh. It was 7 CST when I started the process. 5 hours later I had 21 offers to send. I NEVER have more than 4 offers to send at one time!!! And writing this at 5am, I had 2 sales overnight. This might be a game changer if you have a store subscription with enough available listings.
Great job! doesn't it prove that the buyers are there, literally waiting for our items, they just can't for whatever reason see them. we shouldn't be having to do this to get sales, it's kinda ridiculous in my opinion, but I'm thrilled you got sales. Wasn't it crazy how it felt like ebay of 5 years ago?
Ebay has changed something. I found some of my listings with only 1 view in 6 months The item was priced correctly and has good demand. My theory is the new sales promotion fees concept is burying my listings if i dont pay
Back in the day eBay used to let you set your listings at different time lengths. I would use the 7 day listing as my items would get exposure at the beginning of the post and when the item was getting ready to end. Now we only have the 30 day option. I also think eBay has taken away some if not all the exposure at the end of the 30 days. I believe that Cassini favors new listings and that is why you are seeing such great results. I will be interested to see if the favorable results last over the course of a couple of months. Great video. 👍
This concept…it’s like people have lost touch with where their funding come from..,my city is the same way…absolutely hate the people in town and verbalize it loudly when they can..,,lie and gaslight everyone…but I’m handling that bs…lol
Ty. We recently started “Found Treasures” on EBay and will give your input a shot. Thank you for sharing and now we subscribe to your channel here in Oklahoma.
All of these are symptoms of a grossly under-qualified leadership at eBay. As buyers (and sellers) began leaving the platform leadership had the choice to invest in buyer and seller retention and marketing to attract new buyers and sellers. Sadly, they chose to manufacture profit while the actual business shrunk by increasing fees, incorporating payment processing and the worst of all "promoted listings". Short term result, eBay corp nets a profit. Long term result, buyers leave the platform because they are receiving non-search related "promoted" search results (I'd leave too if a can not find what I'm looking for). Also sellers leave because "promotion" results in a reduced margin and as mentioned sellers can not find your items that they would otherwise purchase.
Why is it working? I think ebay give preferred placement for new listings and high sell rate. I worry after 30 days the ESS metrics will change the stats within your store and sales will slowly revert. That was our experience over the summer. Cant wait to see long term results.
Item specifics are so important. As the AI search engine improves, if you don’t have your listings optimized, you will be left behind. I still use end and sell similar but it is not like it was. I’m interested what happens in week two and three of this process. I think you are getting a boost because you have so many listings with poor titles and item specifics that for now these will sell due to the initial boost of sell similar but your store is filled with too many non optimized listings for this trend to last. Doing the bare minimum is not a way to sell on eBay.
There are actually a lot of things Jeff and I are working on other than just this method. This method DOES allow you some time to work on other aspects of your business, whether it be fixing listings' specifics, titles, etc. It gives you sales, and thus, income that's been lost with whatever it is eBay is trying to do (they won't say). As an aside, the way the search engine still works (as it has for over two decades) is that it searches your title and description. If your item specifics are already there, then specifics are redundant info. If eBay has created a system that ONLY searches item specifics while ignoring title and description, then the managers responsible for that change should be fired. Last year I moved and had to shut down my store with 3400 items in it for four months until I could move my inventory 200 miles up to the new location. I decided to add a LOT of item specifics as I brought things up. It didn't change my sales as the specifics were already in the description and title. So, I experimented with templates, putting "See Description" for all my required specifics (I deal in books and records, so these would be title/author, singer/album). My sales didn't dive because of this and my listings could be found. Why? Because the specifics were in the title and description already and putting them in for a third time was a waste of time due to the redundancy. This gave me a lot of extra time to list and not change the patterns I've had for 20+ years. My observations are that again, if the item specifics are in the title and description, you don't really need to up various things in your item specifics. But, it's a great idea to go through and rewrite the title if you feel something isn't right. Fix the price. Look at your description. I went through and looked at other record dealers and changed about half of the way I write my titles and it's helped sales. I didn't change anything in the item specifics. Jeff is going to be including info we're working on in future videos, things that work, and more importantly, things that don't work. It's nice seeing what people are writing so we can take notes and test things out. I want as many diverse sellers on eBay as possible as sellers attract buyers. We're losing too many and that's not good for everyone long term.
@@JLStanton1968 I agree with this. It's maybe 1 out of 50 items will see a boost from item specifics, but most items the title search works & possibly descriptions as well. Very empty sections of ebay see no boost at all from item specifics, course you don't really need a boost when you're the only one selling a particular thing, it's in ebays best interest hands down to show yours.
Here's something I'd love eBay to answer. When exactly will they have their AI worked out? When will they have anything worked out? Until then, we gotta do what we gotta do in order to survive. That includes fixing a few listings every day if possible, but adding new listings that are correct from the start is more important in my opinion. And whether we like it or not, cross listing to either Poshmark or Mercari is most likely necessary, as well as selling some items locally via Facebook, Craigslist, or local sites instead of on eBay (due to shipping costs, potential scammers on eBay targeting those items, etc). I do wish eBay would be forthcoming about what it is they're actually trying to accomplish so we can adjust accordingly. If they're not going to do that, they'll continue to see sellers going under and buyers leaving the site for greener pastures. eBay will never be able to overcome the loss of those who are cross listing now, or the growth that other sites are receiving due to the poor management of the platform that's been displayed since 2020 at eBay. I sure wish they'd make a change so the platform can be revamped via common sense.
I think ebay is overestimating it's avg seller. if they make selling too complicated they will lose many sellers in my opinion. selling doesn't have to be this difficult. I get what you are saying about bare minimum, but ebay is making selling unnecessarily complicated these days.
@@JLStanton1968 like getting 2 birds with one stone little by little someone with 20,000 listings can have worked on there items specifics again as the saying goes rome was not built in a day
If you have so many items like a basic store, you can't do that without going over and being charged for it. I tried and had to contact eBay because I wasn't getting sales, but paying a basic store fee, and Then was almost charged a great deal over my basic fee. Make sure you only do it to your limit of items you can list for the month. I guess if you can afford a premium store, then it might work, but if someone hasn't got there yet to that point, then they need to be aware of this.
Search is crazy on eBay right now. I can search for the same thing multiple times and get different items available each time. It no longer looks for the exact words. It looks for similar items. Before I could search red wagons and get 10 hits for red wagons. Now I see 1000 hits for red / blue / green wagons / wheel barrows / cars. I can put “wagon” to trim it down but most users don’t know to do that. Hurts calculating sell through rate too.
makes it impossible to comp when out sourcing and I fear the buyers are having a horrible experience and not finding what they are looking for despite it actually being there.
@@hayfroit’s kept me from purchasing a few items ….if I search for parts for a specific vehicle and it shows me everything but the parts for the vehicle I entered…why on earth would they set it up like that? I have a Chevy not a Toyota! Lol….I’ve read in many comment threads of this AI managed searches and so on ended up costing their company so much more money and problems that eventually drove the company under…this AI bs is a lot of bs and a waste of time and money
@@32rohodelete 200 listings in bulk. Go to “unsold”. The same 200 will be there. Then bulk “sell similar” to all of them. Make sure they are active again then delete the “unsold”
It’s end item first, then go into the ended item area tab and check off the items for sell similar. You can also adjust price by a penny, add key words into the item specifics, etc.
I make it a point to end and sell similar every morning. The routine has boosted sales. And I utilize the eBay Socials tab. I also run commercials in story form on Instagram, as well as post adds on Instagram and Twitter. I have seen a significant boost in page views since doing these. Thanks for this video.
Thanks for the tips. Jeff and I are working on figuring out actual marketing techniques we can do that will boost views. The key is views. I used to be a professional gamer. Looking at what eBay did with their April update, it killed half my views (and thus, sales). My job as a gamer is to say, the rules have changed, what can I do to get that other 50% back? This technique hasn't brought back all the views I lost, but it has helped tremendously keep my 4200 item, 24 year store from becoming unviable. With the increase in customer interaction, adding marketing techniques will then give you small percentages back out of the 50% ebay took away. But it's about doing the right marketing and interaction. The wrong can take away percentages. That's why we're asking people to share their experiences that work so that we can fix some of the problem presented, as eBay has proven unwilling to do so. Thanks for the info.
I wish i could do this so bad. But i have 880 items in my store and only have a basic store which has 1000 free listing per month and its .25 per listing that goes over. Any suggestions or tjink doing only 100 at a time would help?
until you bump up to a premium unfortunately there isn't really anything to be done. the insertion fee just isn't worth it. maybe ramp up your listings to get to 1000 and hopeful the extra sales you make with more listings can help you get to the next store subscription?
Bumping up to a premium for a month would cost you around $43 extra. Instead of giving eBay 10% via promoted listings, take it down to 2.1% and get the premium store for a month. Then do the resets. I'm pretty positive you'll get more than your $43 back. Let us know if you bump up. And no, I wish you didn't have to do this and am not being paid by ebay to talk people into moving up (yes, there are some who will think so, so staying ahead of it). Keep us posted and good luck.
i'm going to say no because my chart still shows it's getting organic and promoted impressions after I end/ss. let me think upon this and address in an upcoming video.
The whole ecommerce economy is down. Online and offline retailers are NOT doing well at all. (store closings, down stock prices)And the market is saturated with online sellers, everybody and anybody is selling online. I run into new people all the time in the thrift stores. Plus remember some of the big name brands like Lululemon are doing buy-backs so their merch isn't on the thrift racks. EBAY has an outdated metrics system. Likes, follows, watches don't matter.
I’d agree but the problem with eBay was whatever they did in their late March early April update. From one day to the next after the update, I lost 50% of my sales which doesn’t happen without interference. It’s like I was driving through the intersection and got hit by eBay running a red light light. My car didn’t work very well after that. And eBay blamed it on me, not their running the red light. It would be nice if there was any honesty coming from eBay as to what they did and what we’re supposed to do to overcome it.
I have been ending and sell similar for 6 months but only on those ending that day. Tomorrow Ebay is lowering my status to below standard. Starting today I am going to try my entire store and see if the store level effects it or not. I will report back.
Would you mind sharing what the factor(s) is/are that has led ebay to say they're lowering your status to below standard? Is it Sell Through Rate or low sales? Thanks. Sounds painful whatever the reason. 😒
@@Patricia.resells I have experienced ebay relisting sold items. They sell again if I don't catch them. I also had some in the past from cross listing to other platforms and forgetting to take them off ebay when they sold. They count for a year so the 3 I had this month put me .1 over the 2% allowed. It will take 2-3 months to recover from because they do not show your listings and you drop to last page. If this doesn't help I will be quiting ebay.
Running a storewide sale every two days seems to help some, even if its only 5% sale, every couple days I believe your listings should rank higher towards the end of the sale, so that helps get views and people get a small discount as well. I do think your idea is interesting and I may try this. It does make sense, the listings will be "brand new again" so they will be new in the feed again so I can see why it would work.
I do know what you mean though, I have some nice items and still sales are slow, so its not my inventory, people just are not spending much right now, between the wars in the news and the dollar getting systematically destroyed, yea its bad. Alot of people are hurting for money, inflation and high interest rates are killing everyone's budget. Its no joke, its getting real as they say.
I agree delete and sell similar is good, but if I delete 2600 listing and relist every 4th day its gonna cost a fortune? I'm on a mid level store so not all my listing are free anyway... I'm uk based if that makes a difference?
I’m testing out some stuff that I heard on a couple of other reselling channels. If it ends up working I’ll make a video talking about it, but so far I haven’t seen any improvement.
Well I came back to finish watching this video. I’m on a different level than most people who might watch this video. My current monthly limit is 86000 listings or $950,000. I recently started my store over because I wanted to do it differently. I don’t promote anything because when I tried it my sales instantly disappeared, and didn’t come back until I stopped promoting.
I end and list similar every day. If today is October 18th, I go back and relist the items I listed on August 18th. So this way no item in my store goes more than 90 days without being reviewed for title, pics, details, price etc, and then ended and sell similar with any needed adjustments.
it's possible. but it's also survival mode so you need to do what is best for your business and it really depends on how much of your sales is repeat business. if it's a lot. maybe just reset once every 2 weeks or once a month.
How do you end and sell similar for an entire store in 45 minutes? I have about 675 listings. I would love to reset. We have had items for 18 months that I would love to get vies and sales from.
read the description part of the video. jack gave a detailed explanation. if you do it please share your experience & anything you learned for the community. ty
End, then sell similar, and after making sure the items you did the sell similar are live, you erase the old listings. It’s in the description for easier reference. Thanks for the question.
I'm ending and starting promoted listings every 24 hours. I promote at trending plus 10%. My average sold promo fee rate is 19.45%. I've sold $5,286 in last 30 days
before you do watch this video. trust me. just watch it. he shows his stats and he is a good seller and freakin hiliarious as well. th-cam.com/video/KCsdM72VGBk/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=PrimoKimo he has been doing this ess since june and has some interesting facts.
This is by far, the worst year on eBay. I’ve been selling 16 years. It’s getting so challenging to get compensation for your time and money spent. I’m completely considering stopping. I NEVER thought I could stop. The sales are just not there! All the changes to eBay. I miss the good ole days.
Just so you know, it's not you....When eBay made its changes, I lost 50% of my sales overnight. Yes. One day. It didn't come back. Through our research, eBay's change cost us views. The percentage of views they took away equal the percentage of lost sales. So, anything you can do to increase your sales is a start that you can build off of. If you can't improve your views, a lot of other stuff really doesn't matter as the change might to so small that it's within daily variance. So, if you magically snapped your fingers and all 4000 of your listings had the perfect title, description, and item specifics, but you didn't promote or promoted at 2%, would you see an increase of say, 25% in views? I believe the answer is no. If you see a 3% increase, that variance is within daily ups and downs and might not have correlation with the changes. This is the only thing we've found that blows up your views unlike anything else. BUT, we do suggest doing better with new listings (item specifics, description, title, though many item specifics aren't needed or add to increases in sales for the time spent filling them out) because, as someone pointed out, eBay may continue to go in the item specifics direction and if they do, you'll have to add them later. But my feeling is, don't blow up your routine of listing just to take a month to fix everything. Also, take 25% of your items and fix them. Keep stats to see if they're 25% or so of your total sales (put an asterisk on the title to keep fast track). If the fixes didn't increase their sales by 15%, then it's probably a big waste of time. Lots of things we're finding are waste of time through our testing. Jeff will be addressing these over the coming weeks as we get more info.
@@JLStanton1968 great idea about fixing 25% of the actives you can also put that X or asterisk in the SKU section of the listing when editing the listing
bottom line about ending/sell similar is that your item will show up under newly listed AND anyone who has searches saved will be alerted to new items being posted. Those two are definite.
I've been end/sell similar for over a year now. I divide my total listings by 30 the end everything ending each day and relist the amount I came up with when dividing by 30. This way I'm always getting new listings, even if they are not actually newly listed items, every day. Also I never have to worry about going over my free listing amount limit.
Good idea, but not everybody has big enough free listing allocation. I've tried that before, but it was very short lasting, like you've pointed out (3 days). A lot of views are outiside views. There's no way to tell if these are proper views, or bots indexing new webpage. Some of the are bots, that's for sure. Question is how many. Looking at graphs, the only thing that bothers me, is the fact that number of sales has not grown nowhere near to page views graph. Specialy on your main shop. Let's see how will it develop over days. I'm in the position that 14 days is absolute minimum to say if something is working, or not. What you've said at the end makes more sense. DO it in batches to get smaller but longer lasting boost.
Hey Pete, I want to thank you for the work you're doing. It's helped us take a look at things as we're working on them and avoid pitfalls. What we're trying to do is show people something they can do if they have the allocations, along with variants if they don't have as many as we do. Jeff's store and mine are 4000+ item stores and we have premiere subscriptions, meaning we have 10,000 regular listings and 50,000 extras thanks to covid (this was a great thing eBay did for the sellers here in the US and for eBay's bottom line). We can do 10 resets a month, and as many as 12 if we wanted to. If a person has a 50,000 item store under a premiere subscription, they should end/sell similar at least 5000 every three days and get that boost, which will go up proportionately to the percentage of the items listed. Anything that gets views is a win situation. If I end up with 5x the views (when you take the averages over three days, this is about what we're getting versus not doing it) and get 2x the sales, it's a win. What's more, we now have customers we didn't have before that we can engage with, send out coupons to when they've left positive feedback, etc. If after say, three months we've increased the number of new customers who have bought from us, we'll have more success sending out direct coupons for instance. I do expect there to be some correction, but as a gamer, I have 60,000 listings I can use every month, 55,000 that are going to waste. In gaming, you use your resources up to win the game. This technique has a lot of variations we can try in conjunction with other techniques (fixing listings, etc). We need a collective effort due to our not getting any help whatsoever from eBay. It's as though they don't really care about retention of sellers or buyers these days. It would be nice if they got a board in there who was. Bottom line, we have to survive long enough for whatever change will inevitably come. In the meantime, I'm cross listing to Mercari to increase by percentages my changes at sales. I've also opened up a booth at the local antique mall. Jeff does a LOT of sales on Facebook marketplace. I have groups I've created on Facebook as well in order to make up my losses. But damn, I sure would love the working eBay back. The one that used to show my items to those who searched for my items. Again, thank you good sir. We appreciate everything you do. If possible, can you make a video that shows what you've tried that you feel doesn't work? That's probably more important than what does, so we can quit chasing our tails.
Thank you for doing this and taking the time to talk us through!!! 👍 I’m glad you picked up polish Pete’s saying about the freezer! The one I picked up explains eBay is when he said ITS LIKE A FART IN A BROKEN LIFT… meaning elevator 😂😂😂 I rolled laughing! I’ve kind of being doing this reset but adding item specifics and if I do 10 -15 day it helps! I will try this again .. before it worked but then stopped .. I noticed adding item specifics I got more views on items .. like instead of 2-3 it’s 35 -40!
I did ended 400 listings last night and sold similar. Plus I also scheduled listings to go out over the night for each hour. I went from 3 orders to 15 orders this morning. I saw this video and then I took a nap and had a idea to try. I have been doing this for 24 years and have never seen it so bad. I need to sell my inventory so I have more room for new stuff. I am sold items that were 2 years old today doing this. Also cross listing is a must! Good luck to everyone.
Of course there is an issue with buyers not seeing items. Iv been harping about this since last Nov when i started reselling on a 6yrs ebay account. What i was seeing and still seeing is, 90% of my 600 listings get ZERO VIEWS over the course of a few days. And this means if the user is not seeing my items they aint going to be buying it. As i tell all these other looser Ebay Guru's is YOU CAN LIST THE BEST BRANDS IN THE WORLD BUT IF NOBODY IS SEEING YOUR ITEMS IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT YOU LIST CAUSE AINT NOBODY GOING TO BUY IT! I get sales when Ebay decides to show my item. That may take a day or 30 days but usually my sales have resulted from 1 visitor. This means that the moment my item was shown it results in a sale. Hence the reason why my click though it high. Cause when they see it they buy it!
You’re going to want to “end” the listing, not “delete” it. Just wanted to clarify for newer sellers so you don’t accidentally lose your listing so you can still sell similar.
@@hayfrono worries, just wanted to mention it. Guess what I’m doing today? I’m refreshing my entire store! I have the listing capacity to do it and I’ve tried so many other things to help my store with very little to show for it. I’m hopeful this will rejuvenate my store. Thanks 👍🏻
Well you have to end in order to delete. That being said, I wonder if deleting your unsold listings helps the algorithm not to realize you have used sell-similiar to put it back up for more of the same🎉🎉
You just need to be careful doing your full store depending on what level store you have. If you have a lower level store and you end/sell similar to mass number of listings, you may go over your limit of free monthly listings and then be charged an insertion fee for every listing you go over. Question, did you end all listings including the ones you had watchers on or did you leave those active?
i try to leave the watchers, sometimes they get deleted by accident lol. it's not a perfect science or solution but we are working with what we have. this is the only thing we have found that actually helps our sales.
Hey Jeff, I went and took the plunge and did my whole store. I will be having a video coming out either late tonight or tomorrow showing my results I'm already having. It's very impressive.
Hello thx for the info... I think a partial driver of this phenomenon is the way folks shop. I sell and buy full time on eBay in the collectables vintage audio space for the past 15 years over several stores. As a buyer I have 15 or so bookmarks of deep searches that I refresh every 5- 10 minutes for 6-8 hours 4-5 days a week..ALL are sorted by "Newly Listed" About offers.. I don't accept offers until close to the end of the 24 hour period. When a buyer makes an offer they see how many competing offers there are thus motivating them to up their offer. cheers :)
I'm an older gal, so ok to roll the eyes at me :). This reminds me of the Poshmark Daily Closet Sharing. Is using a VA like Posher VA (which updates sales about to turn over each month listings) doing the same thing automatically as this Reset? I've been thinking of getting it as Surfs Up always recommends it. Just trying to understand.....
Thank you. I thought I was the only one thinking eBay end/sell similar is the same as Poshmark sharing. Only difference is eBay charging for each listing. Got to pay to be first in line with eBay.
Thanks for this great video! I reset my ebay listings (131) and have already sold 8 things overnight including many of my more expensive and niche listings that have been listed for months. I'll make sure to do this kind of a reset fairly regularly to test that it isn't just a one off.
Coming back to say - Do this - Whatever you want to do, do and try this. Try with some additional promoted listing percentages if you have it in your margin+ even 2% lower price. I had 50+ items sell between 10/16-17-18-2023 which some were on the website for 2+ Months and once I made changes, I sold half my store in three days. Dunno why it works but it does.
can you elaborate on this strategy...I'm having a hard time understanding what you want me to try and I'm definitely open to trying anything that gets sales.
@juliedubois5650 Sorry I didn't mean in bulk no. I guess depending on the product. Ive had success with ending, and sell similar individual items that had been lost in ebays gray space. The refreshment of the item gets more eyes, and the price could more or less not matter as much. Remember it's not all buyers on ebay looking for the best deals. Alot of people with companies not considering a budget just searches what they need then buy it
Thank you for this video and being positive instead of negative. Giving a solution instead of always talking about the negative side of it. Everyone can guess at what is happening, but honestly no one knows. Could be eBay or Not., but why not just keep pushing through and working your business. Again thanks for the positive Video...
The Leather Key Chain King is a great guy and always positive when we talk (except when it comes to lowballers.....). We're working on some marketing techniques that will help attack and keep buyers, whether on eBay or other platforms. The key is to get back as close to the pre-April Update eBay did which began the slide for a lot of us, while not having to kill ourselves doing it. What that involves is sharing information that DOES work, as well as pointing out information that DOESN'T work. I believe the latter is more important, as by sharing, we don't follow in the path of testing that's been done already. We have to survive whatever it is that's going on and hopefully at some point, eBay lets us in on it. But until that time, let's make ourselves better sellers, whether on eBay or elsewhere. I personally would love to keep to eBay and Mercari for that kind of platform, as well as my Facebook Groups I created (more sales posts in groups) and my Antique booth (lower priced items that aren't worth listing on eBay, like cds, cassettes, and records below $5). Here's hoping the platform improves in the coming year. Thanks for the comment.
thanks for this comment and I agree about the outlook. being negative will always get you views but what's the point. don't get me wrong, sometimes we get stuck in the quagmire of a situation, especially when things seem overwhelming, and believe me we have all been thru the ringer these past 6 months with ebay. Jack and I are just trying to find anything that helps us get thru this and report it to the community
I wish eBay would tell us "we were working on THING A and it caused some sellers handling time to change. Please check your handling time to make sure its correct." I've used 2day handling time for like 2 years. I recently discovered that all my listing were at 4 day handling time. While it's not the biggest deal in the world it would have been nice to know that I needed to adjust the handling time back to 2 days. I can confirm that you now need to pay for the basic store. I used the free store for years and my sales dramatically declined. To the point where my pay outs were less than $20 for the week. The Minute (Literally) that I started paying the $23 a month I started selling over $100 a week. (I'm just a super part-timer) The same listing that sat in my free store for over a year either sold or started getting some views.
Interesting. When did you notice the sales started to be so low? Wondering how your experience and observations fit with the calendar of past Ebay updates and the April sales crash many sellers experienced.
I had opposite. Sales were great. Felt it was time to upgrade to a basic store. After that my store died. Horribly. Tried running a sale. Not a single sale. Freaked me out. Called Ebay and yelled at them. Boom. 2 sales. They drive me insane.
@@meticulouselectronics But you said you used the free store for years and your sales dramatically declined then when you paid for the basic store boom instant sales. So when was it your sales declined or other words when was it you signed up for the basic store
I have been an eBay reseller for 28 years now, since its inception. I have never seen such misery in all of my life. Lol In the past I have ran six different stores and now currently am down to one which is my newest store.
All my life I have been the type of person who learns more from watching something being done, than reading how to do it. I do not know if is because I am dyslectic but I would tend to say that reading comprehension is not my strong point. I can not believe that I sat through 39 minutes with no visible example of what to do. ( an example: I applied for a job that I had no knowledge or qualifications to do. Luckily I got an interview and when asked why I should be hired with no experience, I replied that if I was shown how to do the job I would learn it in a day. The interviewer gave me a chance, had another employee show me how the job was done, and the next day I started . I made no mistakes and within a year I became a job site supervisor.) Some people just learn better through visual stimulation and I would venture to guess that there are others out there just like me. Thank you for your time in this matter.
There are several videos on YT of how to end/sell-similar in bulk. SarahStylesLLC channel has a short/simple video where she walks through the process. The video is from 8 months ago and starts with "FASTEST Way To End And Sell Similar..."
I only have 200 listing dont want anymore! retired ! I take the stuff to the flea sell it for cheap all cash no issues im fine with it i sublet space at a record store sell thru there too i do 2 record shows which make more thrn ebay without the fees stick a fork in ebay they shot their own foot ....lol lets not get into the promo scam smh
I understand your point about page views but this makes me think Ebay Is broken. I have to wonder if this means sales are down on ebay or there are so many listings that after a few days that your listing just doesn't have any views. I thought promoted listings were posted to fix this issue. I am very nervous as a seller if I will make a profit next year. ebay may not be worth my time or energy if it is this broken.
Did it last night. It worked. I kinda knew as I have been doing it for just a few items every week and could see it helped but after doing the whole store set a record for views, Sales going back up and multiple offers. Thanks
3/4 of our 15 million impressions are from promoting but it is only 1/3 of sales. Need the sales but more directed promoting and better search placement are what I want and pay for.
This THEORY has been around for years and years.. 1 big thing at that rate most sellers will run out of available listings then start getting charged .25 insertion fees. reworking listings and pricing is the best way IMO
This is something that will work for stores in the 6000 and under listings category as it still takes time and those people with huge stores won't have the time to do their entire store (though they can do percentages and should). Let's say you're below a premiere store, which might give you 1000 listings a month at what, $27.95? The next highest is premiere at $75 if you're paying monthly which gives you 10,000 listings and 50,000 extras. That's a $47 difference. If you go up to a premiere store and pay $47 more a month, and with the extra listings can do this and improve your sales by double, that should more than make up for the difference. Also, we're seeing that you can go in at a lower promotion rate to get the sales, and that would justify going to premiere status. And you wouldn't ever have to worry about running out of listings.
@@alabamaflip2053 The difference between a basic and premiere store isn't much. If I were under 1000 listings, I'd go to a premiere. One thing I did do and will be bumping it up in short order is create a second store. I've been taking notes and eventually Jeff will be able to do a show on how to open a second store, the pros and cons. As soon as I hit around 500 listings, I'll get a premiere store as the costs are really miniscule for what you get and you do get a $50 coupon, or $16.67 back per month if you look at it that way. I've been a professional gamer for a long time and owned a game store for over 7 years. In gaming, you utilize ALL options and read the rules, make them yours. This is one of those things you can do where a little bit of money spent actually gives an immediate return versus over promoting.
I really like this idea and the data backs it up. However, I would be out of free listing allotment within 5 days. I would need to increase to an anchor or enterprise store. Larger stores will need to have great inventory management and a lot of free listing allotment to take advantage of this.
Just do 200 at a time your oldest stale items that have zero views that’s what I’m going to do. I did this with five items a couple nights ago and one of them sold within minutes after it had sat there for three months with not one view. I’m convinced. And the way I see it if an item has zero views in two or three months what do you have to lose anyway?
@@rick9705 One technique for those who have the listings to do so, but not enough to do full resets like we do is to take your 200 to 400 highest priced items and do them. Use up all your listings every month, or close to it. You paid for them, use them. And what you said, what do you have to lose?
my thinking for larger stores like yours do 4k batch in one cycle, then another 4k the next, etc, rinse repeat. I heard what you said about it feeling "messy" and that may prevent you from doing it and tbh, I dont like having to do that, but for now it's working and I want to ride that wave to see how long it lasts and if there are ways we can optimize it. as you well know we are all in survival mode and part of me is resentful that we as sellers are in this situation at all.
You know this kind of makes sense of why my sales have been slow. I was refreshing my entire store every week and I thought that that was too fast as my store got up to 2000 listings I started slowing it down so it was refreshing over the period of a month but my sales completely dropped off over time and I just did not put two and two together
Ive been doiing this for over 3 month. I basically do it every 4-5 days. Any items that I may have watchers on, I end and sell similar on those after any offers I have sent out on those have expired. Most of my sales come from sending out offers, so getting new watchers is the key to selling.
Exactly. Do you feel impressions are garbage as we do? I really hated when eBay started pushing them as their metric to show that it's not them, it's you. If I have 1000 impressions on an item and no views, that's eBay putting an item in a search that wasn't searched for, creating an impression. Views are all that counts.
@JLStanton1968 This doesn't always result in a huge amount of sales every time. It does give you more page views which leads to sales. Don't be discouraged if this doesn't always work, just keep doing it.
@@MattsHouseOfSportsCards I did it the entire month of June and there were some bad days, but overall, I dramatically increased sales due to more views. I had a no sale day yesterday for I believe the first time doing these tests. But I also had a $120 sale yesterday that the person won't pay for until Friday (person on vacation who saw the 'new' listings and had to jump on it). Even without any sales yesterday, my sales are more than double since starting the resets again. After a month, people will see that their sales and new customer base went up. We're working on marketing techniques to upsell or at least get repeat business from these new buyers. But without the reset, we wouldn't have them or the sales it generated. So, at the end of the day, I won't be discouraged by a poor reset cycle. The reset Jeff and I did early Monday morning didn't have the desired affect. James over at My Boring Reseller Life keeps track of the downtime on eBay servers. I think when we reset like at 1-3am, eBay may have been at a downtime, resulting in fewer views and sales. Jeff just did a reset, which I'm going to do (a day early) to wipe away that bad reset. He's already getting sales and more views than Monday's early morning reset. This is why we feel that in the US, you should do it between noon and 3pm depending on where you're at. In the west, we can do it earlier to capture those buyers in the east sitting down to do some browsing after work. Those in the east need to wait until 2 to 3pm their time as they want those in the west closer to normal business closing hours. You want your best views to be happening right at prime time (530pm to 10pm).
@@JLStanton1968Impressions also include Ebay inserting your listing on another seller's View Item page and on the page the buyer sees after purchasing another seller's item (the latter being one reason for buyers canceling sales right after they paid because Ebay shows them the same or better item the buyer decides they prefer). Since impressions are part of what Ebay gets paid for by sellers opting in to that level of promoted listings, Ebay is stuffing impressions everyplace they can.
Nice idea but... If my math is correct, ending all listings and selling similar every 4 days is about 28 times a month. If you have 1000 items in a basic store subscription that is 28 times x 1000 free listings or 28000 listings per month. The per listing fee without bumping up to the next store level comes out to $6750 (27000 x.25) in listing fees! This method may work great for higher tier stores with plenty of excess/unused free listings but I am not about to give eBay any more money on a store upgrade to the next level on a slim hope that this store reset idea might generate more sales. If not, I am locked in for a year and eBay laughs all the way to the bank.
Jeff, his wife, and I have 4000+ stores. On day one, we reset. On day 4, we reset again, making it day one. This means we reset 10 times a month, or use 40,000+ listings. We have 60,000 total with our subscription. So, the fourth day is actually a day one again. Go over the calendar, starting on the first, and put Reset every fourth day and let me know how many times you reset. It should be 11 times actually. Now, a premiere subscription cost $47 more per month than a basic, but give you access to the same number of listings. If you increase your sales by double and let's say that's worth $500 to $1000 to you, it's worth it to go up to premiere if you can. Outside the US and Canada, some can't. Now, for those outside the US, if they have spare listings, go ahead and use them on your highest priced items every now and then to get a boost there.
Ebay has been in denial for more than 10yrs that there is a DIFFERENCE in what motivates buyers/shoppers of OOAK type items as opposed to the motivation of people searching for typical retail items (even used). ... It's comparing apples to oranges. Combine that with their consistent level of embarrassment over the nature of these 'garage sale' items on their site (which is what made them the e-commerce giant they used to be).... and you have leadership literally devising a system which undermines the success of it's own paying subscribers and eventually themselves as well.
A few years ago when the changed up categories and three so many things into the same category, friends who specialized in super niche lost all their browsers because of all the crap they had to wade through. There were buyers who just wanted to see vintage Halloween. But after the change, they had to contend with old Halloween, new Halloween, old Christmas, etc. The browsers said screw it. And to think someone was given the green light on this idea. My niche niche dealing friends lost a lot because of this. I’m 200 miles north from where I was back then and the dealers up here cite that as a big turning point as well. With the 3rd quarter report about to come out, I suspect (and hope) that Jamie will be retired soon so we can get someone in the CEO position who understands retail. His visions on what works are some of the biggest nightmares to visit the platform and only continue to get worse. He came in saying I need three years and they gave him nearly four. The quarterly reports speak to his performance. Sellers can’t afford a fifth year in this three year process.
Item specifics - it works with my store.because of the narrow niche - I use templates that have the item specifics set up. and include some prime searche specifics peppered in that do not directly correspond with the item
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Just found you, subbed and reset my store, I have been doing this on old items that I have had listed for over a year, but just did the entire store. Excited to see the results.
how large is your store? excited to hear about your results! you should see massive increases in page views and people adding items to watchlists so you can send offers.
Did the reset at noon mtn time today. I have just a hair over 900 listings atm. Within the first hour after I got 3 sales. Yay! Traffic did go up on page views. We’ll see how much more i get out of it in the next days. Thank you for the tip I hope it continues to work for us all. 😊
I will tell you why the end and sell similar works. Anybody following that type of item will get an email that tells them the number of those items that are new for the day. That’s one reason that it works and will continue to work as long as that is true because if people are getting advertised through their emails. I’ve been ending and selling similar every single day for over a year I only do a few at a time I’ve tried a lot of different things I’ve never tried my old store I may try that now.
After I watched your video on bulk editing my store without making any changes, I went ahead and tried it It took a little bit but now my sales are way up. I'm going to do it again soon
It seems like this “wakes up” your store. I just did it an hour ago on 100 items. Many watchers and have already sent out 5 offers. In 1 hour! I will let you know how many sales I get
I am 8:27 seconds into your video and I knew you where going to say delete and sell similar. I delete 2000 listings every 2 days and sell similar on those same listings. I have about 6200 items so this process gives my inventory a fresh look and I know people are seeing post items because they sell after words not a ton of them but a good 5-10 of them due that have been in my store for years if that makes since. If you need my statistics to help go along with y’all’s let me know and I can forward them. Also there is one more thing I have don’t and my sells have increased by 8 percent in the past 6 days. Amazing.
Also I guess I should have added this. I have been doing it since April and you know how every quarter eBay does something to there system, like change this add that etc. well I think that has affected this process in the last quarter because as it did help it is nothing like this quarter. This quarter seems to have been massively better so not sure what they did internally this time but it has helped in my opinion for us doing this process.
Hey thanks for this comment and yes, please forward anything you feel like sharing and don't mind me sharing on the channel to hayfrosells@gmail.com ~jeff much appreciated.
Hi Jeff, All that you have said in this video are things I've said to myself time after time and discussed with others. This video popped up in my feed today and I'm grateful because now I don't think I'm crazy. I've actually used that "wall" reference in my thoughts and conversations. What I've been doing which helps too is high promotions for a few days to generate views and then later going in and stopping all promotions. I've thought myself that there is some kind of a glitch that's causing the total lack of ANY life in regard to my store. I'm going to start tomorrow with your ideas because I know they will work. Thank you very much for all your insight. I'm only sorry I didn't see this video back when you first posted it. I'm subscribed now. Yay!! I'll let you know how it goes. PS: I noticed the big change when they started the advanced paid promotions campaign.
hi audie. welcome. this is a channel that calls it like I see it and right now ebay is letting down it's buyers in my opinion with their cash grab promoted listings. I will say the reset hasn't been as effective as it used to me. Jack and I believe ebay has done something to make it less effective as that was the only "hack" or simply put the only thing sellers could do to get some sales. definitely keep me updated on how it goes via youtube comments or my email is in the bio and feel free to connect with me there. I've even actually spoken to make viewers here if you ever wanted to connect and share ideas. the one good thing about youtube is community and I work closely with a lot of people who are trying to figure out ways to keep up with the algorithm, although it's really pathetic that we can't just list and do what we've always done. sometimes I think this is all too much what ebay expects us to do to get sales.
Much of the view increase on new listings is from resellers. Only sales matter! I end and sell similar before 30 days because I will be charged a listing anyway. After a few weeks you can gauge which items need a price reduction simply based on # of views.
I would disagree as our tests show a doubling of sales and a lot of other factors. I specialize in 78rpm records for which my views aren’t coming from resellers as most of my 2500 78s are one ofs. As Jeff pointed out: eBay Views, External Views and promoted views went up Watchers went up. Offers went up Number of sold items went up All the metrics that equal increased sales went up. And of course, sales did go up. The boost wains every day and tends to return to normal on the fifth day with the fourth day after a reset being slightly higher than without the boost. That’s why we reset on the fourth day. To get the momentum. If you have the listings to do ten resets in a month, then do it once and see what your numbers are two hours after your reset.
I thought about doing that as well. Just waiting until your item is about to end maybe one day prior. I just sold a whole bunch of items last night that had been listed around 60 days. It was very weird because three or four items that sold all relatively close to each other within an hour. The SKUs were within 10-20 item numbers and I normally list between 5 and 10 a day. Some of the stuff going on with eBay it’s just bizarre and unexplainable. I had sold one item in 48 hours and then suddenly sold six items in about a two hour window yesterday evening. Why? I pulled three of them out of the same box. Super strange stuff going on.
But yeah, as of now I do want to let my items at least have 60 days maybe I will do the reset on the 89th day and test that a bit. So maybe mark down 10% after 30 days mark down 20% after 60 days and at the 89 day reset bump promotion maybe 2% and do it over again. I mean, aren’t we all guessing? 🤦♂️😂
@@rick9705During testing, we’ve found that marking things down might work, but only if you get the visibility. Jeff and I aren’t running sales, instead we’re working on something Jeff came up with which is once you’ve received positive feedback from a customer, go to the shipped sales tag and give that customer a coupon and thank them for buying that product. Takes next to no time at all and you’re dealing with someone who has had a 100% positive experience with you. Jeff sells comics in his listings and I sell records and books. Let them know they can bundle. Talk to the customers. Engage with them once you’ve got them. But again, it’s about views and getting them. This is the most immediate thing we’ve found to get views. There are a lot of other things that will help make the sell once the person is viewing your item (accurate descriptions, quality items, great pics, titles, price). And after the sale, there are things you can do that might increase your chances of retaining that customer. Jeff and I are going to be researching things that work and those that don’t. We as a community need to share what works and what doesn’t do we can save time on the bad and confirm the good. What sucks about this eBay problem is we’re getting no help from eBay and because of that, we’re losing millions of hours a day grasping at straws instead of listing, sourcing, selling, etc.
Although this video is probably better than 99 percent of ebay videos related to this, and although I think you're most likely right about pretty much everything, I wish everyone would quite making these videos. Completely understand why they're made, and I'm not hating. But unless you work for ebay, or have deep inside knowledge of exactly how all their systems work AND in what direction the company is trying to move towards while using those systems to do it. In other words I'm so sick and tired of seeing all this anecdotical evidence. You said "no speculation" but this is still 100 percent speculation... Three stores statistics over what, half a year? that's not even remotely close to the amount of numbers you need to even make a hypothesis let alone enough to go tell the world on youtube that it works. Its worked so far for you, this doesn't make it a matter of fact. Sure, try things out and see what works for you and if it does, go for it. That's what every successful business does. One more thing, I think impressions are more important than you think, or they at least help tell part of the story, I think they're far from being a worthless number. More Impressions, More Views, More Sales, it's all important. You said the biggest or main issue is people can not find the listings, they're "buried, hidden" or whatever else you said. Well if they were on someones screen somewhere, then they had the ability to click on it right there, its not missing. I just don't get why this has turned into trying to be rocket science but then using the same scientific method they tried to use on us for Covid, you know, the ol' we know what we're saying, you better listen or else and then when asked for numbers they couldn't every give you the ACTUAL numbers it was just a guess... Same thing here. No content creators work for ebay, have ever coded software for ebay, or have been in a meeting room helping make decisions they think will be best for the ebay in the future. Nor has anyone done ANY type of massive data collection and then analyzed all of that data to come up with a theory. My two accounts, my sisters dogs account, and the 6 people that complained today on an ebay group is simply not even a fraction of a fraction of the amount of data you need to make a reliable statement, other than if you're telling yourself you think X, Y, Z and not putting it on youtube as the gospel. This video has a lot of good knowledge, and for the first time watching I have nothing against this creator, I just think the guessing games need to stop all together, or more so the matter of fact statements made on stats, that albeit are accurate, are not enough to repeat as a virtual guarantee fix. The only thing I will guarantee, is that for however many stores this worked for you on, I guarantee I can find just as many stores that it would have no effect on. Also, if i just replaced your 4,000 listings with 2,000 listings of airpod pros and 2,000 of (insert name here) literally any Milwaukee fuel tool, you wouldn't even have time to THINK about ending and relisting because you would be so busy shipping out orders.
you had me at "I think you're most likely right about pretty much everything"...lol but seriously, this has brought out some people who have been doing this since april and june with numbers to support this actually works. I don't claim to know the science behind it or for how long it will but we are trying to find something "that works" instead of simply speculation with no concrete action plan. it's like I'm damned if I do or damned if I don't here. many people have done it and seen results in the comments and have actually felt good about reselling again.
Just curious if you can tell me where to get those 2000 AirPods and the fuel tools. Pretty common in that number, right? Oh, and 2000 iPhone 16s. Have you tried the reset? Based on the people responding, it’s helping them make sales. I had sales before eBay did their April update and my sales went down 50% in one day and stayed there. Do I know why eBay did what it did? Nope. Do I know what their plan is? Nope. What I do know is I lost 50% of my business overnight. A business on eBay for 24 years. If eBay doesn’t want me as a seller, they could let me know and I’ll move to other platforms (actually have) and do what I did for eBay. And that would be 13,000+ sales, 100% positive feedback, and a metrics rating that puts me in the 99.5%+ top of eBay sellers. Of course eBay doesn’t want me or others like, otherwise they’d tell us, right? Whatever it is that eBay is trying to do, if it’s making money for their stockholders, they’re not doing a very good job of it. If it’s about sales, again, not a very good job. And in regards to the 2000 AirPods, why would anyone sell them on eBay with such low profit margins on new ones? I mean, you’re going to have a hell of a time sourcing 2000 used ones at a good price, let alone new ones. New ones are going to run you what at wholesale? How much are you going to have to pay in promoted listings, let alone final fees? Will you even have a margin after those fees? And will it allow for you to purchase yet another 2000 AirPods? As for Milwaukee tools, I worked at Industrial Supply in Salt Lake City for years. We dealt in Milwaukee. Are you an authorized dealer? If you are I can understand the tool comment. If you’re not, your wholesale has to be pretty high and again, with the eBay fees, there’s not much room for profit. Especially with all the authorized dealers and secondary dealers. I’m finding it hard to believe you’d have the margins to compete. Anyway, it would be nice if eBay didn’t make changes that kill our businesses overnight. I can’t imagine that was the plan. But they did and I believe it was accidental. But they aren’t talking. With millions of partners, you’d think letting the people who do the bulk of the work might deserve an explanation. Some guidance so we have a clue and don’t have to turn ourselves into detectives and scientists to save our businesses. But here we are, without leadership from eBay. If eBay isn’t going to help, then we’ll do it ourselves, even if it means leaving a platform dying before our very eyes. I don’t know about you, but losing over 25% of your users in four years probably wasn’t part of the plan. Seeing sales drop for around four years probably wasn’t part of the plan either. If killing eBay while making us suffer is the plan, they’re doing a great job. Anyway, if you can find the half this doesn’t work for, I’d like to hear from them. Reason? I’m a detective and scientist and would love to add their stats to the stats. Do the work eBay isn’t sharing.
Did it yesterday , got an offer in 2 hours on a huge card sales views down 30% over last 60 and 90 days been so slow. THANK YOU FOR THIS , GONNA RESET AGAIN IN 4 DAYS
There’s a way that you can sort by watchers and then sort by time ending in the watchers will go at the end and then you can end do the process and ideally keep the watcher. Sometimes I end up deleting them anyhow on accident.
Jeff, his wife, and my stores are Premiere level and we get 10,000 along with 50,000 extra listings. All three stores have around 4200 items. The listings we have allow us to do 11 resets every 30 days without running out of listings. Something we weren't aware of was that eBay doesn't do the same thing for people outside of Canada and the US (I think they should), as there isn't a medium store level between smaller and huge stores overseas. I would say if you have spare listings every month, do resets on your most expensive items to give them a boost. Every little bit helps. If you have the listings, use them.
Oh, and another question you said towards the beginning of the video that we need to do this starting tomorrow not today. Why is that? I’m currently only about halfway through your video so you may answer this later on in the video but I wanted to ask before I forgot. Thanks.
It's because when you delete, sell similar, it shows as a new listing towards the top of the page search and buyers think they can get the item before anyone else does and think it wasn't sitting around forever on eBay with no interest.
Great video great idea Jeff. Definately a quick survival mode fix for listings and could definately help ALOT of sellers from dipping or staying low in sales :)....Only one caviat this will only work for USA sellers, as we in the UK only get 1500 listing free per month for an equivalant premium store :( So we could only action this system (staying within the free allowance) if we only had 50 listings
@@hayfro there are literally only 3 store options for uk. Basic Store = £27 (250 free listings), Featured=£77 (1500 free listings) and Anchor store=£437 (unlimited free listings) So I have Featured store so I pay almost £100 ($122) a month for 1500 free listings
@@JLStanton1968 there are literally only 3 store options for uk. Basic Store = £27 (250 free listings), Featured=£77 (1500 free listings) and Anchor store=£437 (unlimited free listings)
I am also curious. In your video notes you have the notes from the gentleman that you’ve been talking to and he shares stats from May and June. It’s October, if he’s been doing it since then what are his numbers now?
Jeff shared my numbers in the video. But here's an update. I'm going to include today even though I have around $150 in sales pending that haven't been paid for yet. I'll give you the stats from October 10th through the 18th in regards to increases: Views are up 574.6% versus prior time period eBay Page views are up 196.2% External site views are up 1000%+ (it only goes up to 1000%) Quantity sold is up 80% Impressions (still a garbage statistic ebay likes to use because it's big) are up 298.1% Organic Impressions are up 679.9% Promoted Impressions are up 38.7% Top 20 search slot impressions (at 12.7%) up 693.8% My sales in the past four days haven't been great, but I'm up 49.3% (I was up around 130% in the first four days of our test). I do have at least $150 I'm waiting for payment, which would drive this stat up a bit if the buyers come through soon. I promote at 2.1%. My selling costs are at 15.3%. I deal in rare records and books, specializing in Mormon literature (I live in Idaho and can source them over a 400 mile corridor along I15) and 78rpm records (though I do sell a LOT of vinyl in my antique booth and other sites). I've been on eBay for 24 years, have sold over 13,000 items, have 100% positive feedback, and according to eBay, I'm in the upper 99.5% of sellers (which used to mean something when it came to placement and visibility). If you have any other questions, please ask as I want to be as transparent as possible when it comes to the experimenting we're doing. With eBay being silent on everything they're doing, we need to crowdsource this and hopefully get our views, and thus, sales back. Hope this helps.
Thank you all for sharing good information if I can figure it out only been doing this since May 10th 2023 you all have a blessed day in the name of Jesus Christ
9 years on ebay and never had an issue with sales. I have been doing end/sell similar since 2016. I the beginning, we didn't have as many free listings, so I didn't do as many. I even paid for quite a few to keep the plan going. (.10) Today, with so many free listings, I do around 100 each day in my 500 listing store. My yearly sales are up over last year by 22%. Current ASP is $98. August 2023 was my best month ever, by a lot. Some days are so good, it is overwhelming for me. Then the next day only 2-3 sales. Overall, with all the ups and downs, still doing great.
The issue I have with end and sell similar is my listings with multiple quantities. If I sell 1 item on a listing and end and sell similar, it relist it at my original amount of items making my inventory off 🤦
I don’t know if you said or not but are you using promoted listings still or putting items on sale after you reset them? I do this for items older than one month but I started to realize that the “new listing” bump falls off sooner than a month so I was starting to do it at around two weeks old listings to get that new listing bump. Smart :)
i ended and sold similar about 10 items...within mins i got several different watchers and sent offers. I have had the best sales in the last 10 days from April. Not great but a big improvment. I also sold more items that were Not promoted.
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Another tip. 26:27 minutes in. Use your computer to do this process but instead of clicking between unsold and active just keep your app open on your cell phone and once you relist your current batch of 200 hundred then refresh on your app(cell phone) to make sure they went and are active. You should still be in your unsold tab on the computer and at this point you just delete the 200 unsold listings because you know they where updated because you seen that they where on your cell phone. This should help save about 10 minutes for you. This part is very important because you don’t want to accidentally delete 200 hundred of your listings before they push back to active. I did this in the being and they where gone. I never went back and relisted them (they are just lost in my inventory system now. Lol) hope this little tip helps as well.
Hadn't thought of that. I rarely use the eBay app but have started to use it for messaging customers who have questions and want pics.
Brilliant! Damn I live for hacks like this. I feel for you about your lost inventory. I’m sure I have quite a few lost items myself but 200 hurts lol
@@hayfro Thanks for this great hack! Is there a reason they need to get deleted from the unsold tab? Can't they just live there as a back-up in case something was missed somehow?
My plan is to list 10 and “reset” 10 every day. The way I was taught to do eBay is after 30 days discount 10% 60 days discount 20% 90 days discount 30% all the way until six months where you are basically liquidating. And the idea was that you do not want an item in your store more than six months of course, with a few exceptions like high value vintage long tail items. Now I’m thinking why should I discount 30% or 50% when I can just reset the item maybe even increase the price and possibly raise the promoted % by a bit? It’s kind of like a help me help you kind of thing with a eBay. I’ll raise the price and pay you a little more but please get this item sold. I honestly think it has worked better doing it like this than reducing items to 60-70% off.
thing is even if you reduce it 90% if eBay is NOT showing your item its not going to sell Period! that is what this is all about eBay stopped showing sellers items 6 months ago
I just happened upon your video. I have watched other TH-camrs on this subject. Yours was the most detailed one. Thank you. I am going to try it and just see what happens. Thanks for your information.
Good luck. Please let us know how it works. If you have any questions, please ask.
You are so welcome! Keep us updated.
Thank you so much!! I did the reset on our 1000 item ebay store. The 1st time, 40 items in 4 days. Then it stops dead again. 2nd time, 40 again. Items from ages ago, too. Amazing! Much appreciated!! Kate
awesome. are these resent resets? reason I'm asking is my one stores resets have been muted but if you are having success recently or if you did these resets weeks ago. thx.
@@hayfro Did them in last 2 weeks
Do you make changes or just end and sell similar??
I have about 650 items in my store and just ended and sell similar 500 listings. Also am running a 15% markdown and raised my prices by 10%. eBay has been abysmal this month. Going on day 6th with no sales. Yet Mercari I get daily sales with the same items and same price on eBay. I’m not trying to turn my store into a multi million dollar operation just want 1000 a month consistently.
Same here more or less. I almost surpassed my all time high this month which is a decent month typically. Oct Nov Dec Jan are the best ebay months if you have new product.... But then sales plummeted & got some buyer fault returns on top of that. If I was taking home 800 net profit my expenses are so low that that would have a huge compounding effect for me. Do all my own maintenance on everything I own.
Thanks for the tips. We're getting good ones that we'll be trying out. All tips that have worked consistently over time are what we're trying to discover and share.
is this the first time you've done that amount of end and sell similar?
yep i think that's all every seller wants is consistency unfortunately eBay is not the place to find that right now don't know if we will ever have that again on eBay but im just glad i diversified 2 decades ago and yes if the same items i have on eBay are selling on the other 10 platforms and my own website then I know its not me or any other seller its the Platform and until eBay comes out publicly and admits that all the issues since April have been there fault and there either too cheap to fix it or to lazy then we ae just stuck with eBay as it is
@@bennystratton7734 Sadly, I think they done screwed it up and don't know how to fix it. And that's a problem. My diversity of platforms is really helping me with the problems they've caused but none are as good as eBay when eBay actually works. I do hope they figure it out, but in the meantime, we have to do whatever we can and share it. This issue they've caused is really hurting a lot of people who depend on the income. I estimate conservatively I've lost $2000 in sales per month on eBay since April. That's one hell of a punch.
Hey! I watched your video and decided to test it when I got home from work. I had had a $0 sales day on ebay. I had $160 sales on Posh. It was 7 CST when I started the process. 5 hours later I had 21 offers to send. I NEVER have more than 4 offers to send at one time!!! And writing this at 5am, I had 2 sales overnight. This might be a game changer if you have a store subscription with enough available listings.
Great job! doesn't it prove that the buyers are there, literally waiting for our items, they just can't for whatever reason see them. we shouldn't be having to do this to get sales, it's kinda ridiculous in my opinion, but I'm thrilled you got sales. Wasn't it crazy how it felt like ebay of 5 years ago?
Yes! It's been a couple of days and traffic is still pretty good. I feel like the biggest change was in organic traffic, not promoted.
Ebay has changed something. I found some of my listings with only 1 view in 6 months
The item was priced correctly and has good demand. My theory is the new sales promotion fees concept is burying my listings if i dont pay
Back in the day eBay used to let you set your listings at different time lengths. I would use the 7 day listing as my items would get exposure at the beginning of the post and when the item was getting ready to end. Now we only have the 30 day option. I also think eBay has taken away some if not all the exposure at the end of the 30 days. I believe that Cassini favors new listings and that is why you are seeing such great results. I will be interested to see if the favorable results last over the course of a couple of months. Great video. 👍
Listings still get a small boost with GTC at the end and at the begining of each renewed 30 day cycle
Let’s hope that the mafia is smart enough to realize that our best interests is in their best interest. We are literally trying to make them money.
😂😂 the mafia!!
This concept…it’s like people have lost touch with where their funding come from..,my city is the same way…absolutely hate the people in town and verbalize it loudly when they can..,,lie and gaslight everyone…but I’m handling that bs…lol
Ty. We recently started “Found Treasures” on EBay and will give your input a shot. Thank you for sharing and now we subscribe to your channel here in Oklahoma.
keep us updated to your progress. ty
All of these are symptoms of a grossly under-qualified leadership at eBay. As buyers (and sellers) began leaving the platform leadership had the choice to invest in buyer and seller retention and marketing to attract new buyers and sellers. Sadly, they chose to manufacture profit while the actual business shrunk by increasing fees, incorporating payment processing and the worst of all "promoted listings". Short term result, eBay corp nets a profit. Long term result, buyers leave the platform because they are receiving non-search related "promoted" search results (I'd leave too if a can not find what I'm looking for). Also sellers leave because "promotion" results in a reduced margin and as mentioned sellers can not find your items that they would otherwise purchase.
Impressions with no click through pushes your items down in search. Ebay holds the seen but not clicked against your item.
anything else?
Why is it working? I think ebay give preferred placement for new listings and high sell rate. I worry after 30 days the ESS metrics will change the stats within your store and sales will slowly revert. That was our experience over the summer. Cant wait to see long term results.
How often did you reset your entire store this summer?
Item specifics are so important. As the AI search engine improves, if you don’t have your listings optimized, you will be left behind. I still use end and sell similar but it is not like it was. I’m interested what happens in week two and three of this process. I think you are getting a boost because you have so many listings with poor titles and item specifics that for now these will sell due to the initial boost of sell similar but your store is filled with too many non optimized listings for this trend to last. Doing the bare minimum is not a way to sell on eBay.
There are actually a lot of things Jeff and I are working on other than just this method. This method DOES allow you some time to work on other aspects of your business, whether it be fixing listings' specifics, titles, etc. It gives you sales, and thus, income that's been lost with whatever it is eBay is trying to do (they won't say).
As an aside, the way the search engine still works (as it has for over two decades) is that it searches your title and description. If your item specifics are already there, then specifics are redundant info. If eBay has created a system that ONLY searches item specifics while ignoring title and description, then the managers responsible for that change should be fired. Last year I moved and had to shut down my store with 3400 items in it for four months until I could move my inventory 200 miles up to the new location. I decided to add a LOT of item specifics as I brought things up. It didn't change my sales as the specifics were already in the description and title. So, I experimented with templates, putting "See Description" for all my required specifics (I deal in books and records, so these would be title/author, singer/album). My sales didn't dive because of this and my listings could be found. Why? Because the specifics were in the title and description already and putting them in for a third time was a waste of time due to the redundancy. This gave me a lot of extra time to list and not change the patterns I've had for 20+ years.
My observations are that again, if the item specifics are in the title and description, you don't really need to up various things in your item specifics. But, it's a great idea to go through and rewrite the title if you feel something isn't right. Fix the price. Look at your description. I went through and looked at other record dealers and changed about half of the way I write my titles and it's helped sales. I didn't change anything in the item specifics. Jeff is going to be including info we're working on in future videos, things that work, and more importantly, things that don't work. It's nice seeing what people are writing so we can take notes and test things out. I want as many diverse sellers on eBay as possible as sellers attract buyers. We're losing too many and that's not good for everyone long term.
@@JLStanton1968 I agree with this. It's maybe 1 out of 50 items will see a boost from item specifics, but most items the title search works & possibly descriptions as well. Very empty sections of ebay see no boost at all from item specifics, course you don't really need a boost when you're the only one selling a particular thing, it's in ebays best interest hands down to show yours.
Here's something I'd love eBay to answer. When exactly will they have their AI worked out? When will they have anything worked out? Until then, we gotta do what we gotta do in order to survive. That includes fixing a few listings every day if possible, but adding new listings that are correct from the start is more important in my opinion. And whether we like it or not, cross listing to either Poshmark or Mercari is most likely necessary, as well as selling some items locally via Facebook, Craigslist, or local sites instead of on eBay (due to shipping costs, potential scammers on eBay targeting those items, etc).
I do wish eBay would be forthcoming about what it is they're actually trying to accomplish so we can adjust accordingly. If they're not going to do that, they'll continue to see sellers going under and buyers leaving the site for greener pastures. eBay will never be able to overcome the loss of those who are cross listing now, or the growth that other sites are receiving due to the poor management of the platform that's been displayed since 2020 at eBay. I sure wish they'd make a change so the platform can be revamped via common sense.
I think ebay is overestimating it's avg seller. if they make selling too complicated they will lose many sellers in my opinion. selling doesn't have to be this difficult. I get what you are saying about bare minimum, but ebay is making selling unnecessarily complicated these days.
@@JLStanton1968 like getting 2 birds with one stone little by little someone with 20,000 listings can have worked on there items specifics again as the saying goes rome was not built in a day
Sell Similar gives the listing as "new listing" in search results and higher ranking at least for the first day.
If you have so many items like a basic store, you can't do that without going over and being charged for it. I tried and had to contact eBay because I wasn't getting sales, but paying a basic store fee, and Then was almost charged a great deal over my basic fee. Make sure you only do it to your limit of items you can list for the month. I guess if you can afford a premium store, then it might work, but if someone hasn't got there yet to that point, then they need to be aware of this.
Thanks for the content! Will give your suggestions a try.
Wow it's been over 5 months since the reset!! Time flies 😢
END/Sell Similar then delete the item
Search is crazy on eBay right now. I can search for the same thing multiple times and get different items available each time. It no longer looks for the exact words. It looks for similar items. Before I could search red wagons and get 10 hits for red wagons. Now I see 1000 hits for red / blue / green wagons / wheel barrows / cars. I can put “wagon” to trim it down but most users don’t know to do that. Hurts calculating sell through rate too.
makes it impossible to comp when out sourcing and I fear the buyers are having a horrible experience and not finding what they are looking for despite it actually being there.
@@hayfroit’s kept me from purchasing a few items ….if I search for parts for a specific vehicle and it shows me everything but the parts for the vehicle I entered…why on earth would they set it up like that? I have a Chevy not a Toyota! Lol….I’ve read in many comment threads of this AI managed searches and so on ended up costing their company so much more money and problems that eventually drove the company under…this AI bs is a lot of bs and a waste of time and money
what do u mean by 'delete sell similar'? are you meaning to say 'end sell similar'? I confuse?
Thanks that was my question also?
@@32rohodelete 200 listings in bulk. Go to “unsold”. The same 200 will be there. Then bulk “sell similar” to all of them. Make sure they are active again then delete the “unsold”
It’s end item first, then go into the ended item area tab and check off the items for sell similar. You can also adjust price by a penny, add key words into the item specifics, etc.
@@hollyp4579 okay gotcha! thank you
I make it a point to end and sell similar every morning. The routine has boosted sales. And I utilize the eBay Socials tab. I also run commercials in story form on Instagram, as well as post adds on Instagram and Twitter. I have seen a significant boost in page views since doing these. Thanks for this video.
Thanks for the tips. Jeff and I are working on figuring out actual marketing techniques we can do that will boost views. The key is views. I used to be a professional gamer. Looking at what eBay did with their April update, it killed half my views (and thus, sales). My job as a gamer is to say, the rules have changed, what can I do to get that other 50% back? This technique hasn't brought back all the views I lost, but it has helped tremendously keep my 4200 item, 24 year store from becoming unviable. With the increase in customer interaction, adding marketing techniques will then give you small percentages back out of the 50% ebay took away. But it's about doing the right marketing and interaction. The wrong can take away percentages. That's why we're asking people to share their experiences that work so that we can fix some of the problem presented, as eBay has proven unwilling to do so.
Thanks for the info.
@@JLStanton1968will you eventually give us an update on these marketing strategies ?
I wish i could do this so bad. But i have 880 items in my store and only have a basic store which has 1000 free listing per month and its .25 per listing that goes over. Any suggestions or tjink doing only 100 at a time would help?
until you bump up to a premium unfortunately there isn't really anything to be done. the insertion fee just isn't worth it. maybe ramp up your listings to get to 1000 and hopeful the extra sales you make with more listings can help you get to the next store subscription?
@hayfro that's what I figured. Thank you for the quick response though. Subbed.
Bumping up to a premium for a month would cost you around $43 extra. Instead of giving eBay 10% via promoted listings, take it down to 2.1% and get the premium store for a month. Then do the resets. I'm pretty positive you'll get more than your $43 back. Let us know if you bump up. And no, I wish you didn't have to do this and am not being paid by ebay to talk people into moving up (yes, there are some who will think so, so staying ahead of it).
Keep us posted and good luck.
lol at us working for ebay. @@JLStanton1968
@@hayfroHeck we all work for Ebay.
Hi New Subscriber. Would you please tell me what percentage you do promotions and do you promote half, a quarter or your full store? Thank you.
3.1 on my store. 5.1 on maria's store. full store
I promote at 2.1% to stay slightly above those doing the minimum. I feel that you have to do at least 2% sadly, to be seen.
Hey there, question please, when you end to sell similar, what happens to your Promoted Listing Campaign? Does it go away or not? thanks
i'm going to say no because my chart still shows it's getting organic and promoted impressions after I end/ss. let me think upon this and address in an upcoming video.
The whole ecommerce economy is down. Online and offline retailers are NOT doing well at all. (store closings, down stock prices)And the market is saturated with online sellers, everybody and anybody is selling online. I run into new people all the time in the thrift stores. Plus remember some of the big name brands like Lululemon are doing buy-backs so their merch isn't on the thrift racks. EBAY has an outdated metrics system. Likes, follows, watches don't matter.
I'm starting to sell off of Craigslist.
I’d agree but the problem with eBay was whatever they did in their late March early April update. From one day to the next after the update, I lost 50% of my sales which doesn’t happen without interference. It’s like I was driving through the intersection and got hit by eBay running a red light light. My car didn’t work very well after that.
And eBay blamed it on me, not their running the red light.
It would be nice if there was any honesty coming from eBay as to what they did and what we’re supposed to do to overcome it.
Me as well and fbmp
@@JLStanton1968 Yep me too!
@@Chicago48 Yep me too!
I have been ending and sell similar for 6 months but only on those ending that day. Tomorrow Ebay is lowering my status to below standard. Starting today I am going to try my entire store and see if the store level effects it or not. I will report back.
Would you mind sharing what the factor(s) is/are that has led ebay to say they're lowering your status to below standard? Is it Sell Through Rate or low sales? Thanks. Sounds painful whatever the reason. 😒
@@Patricia.resells I have experienced ebay relisting sold items. They sell again if I don't catch them. I also had some in the past from cross listing to other platforms and forgetting to take them off ebay when they sold. They count for a year so the 3 I had this month put me .1 over the 2% allowed. It will take 2-3 months to recover from because they do not show your listings and you drop to last page. If this doesn't help I will be quiting ebay.
Running a storewide sale every two days seems to help some, even if its only 5% sale, every couple days I believe your listings should rank higher towards the end of the sale, so that helps get views and people get a small discount as well. I do think your idea is interesting and I may try this. It does make sense, the listings will be "brand new again" so they will be new in the feed again so I can see why it would work.
I do know what you mean though, I have some nice items and still sales are slow, so its not my inventory, people just are not spending much right now, between the wars in the news and the dollar getting systematically destroyed, yea its bad. Alot of people are hurting for money, inflation and high interest rates are killing everyone's budget. Its no joke, its getting real as they say.
Turning off promotions seems to give a boost too, I need to do a bigger test on this to see the full effect.
Turning promoted listings off while doing these resets you mean ?
I agree delete and sell similar is good, but if I delete 2600 listing and relist every 4th day its gonna cost a fortune? I'm on a mid level store so not all my listing are free anyway... I'm uk based if that makes a difference?
i wouldn't recommend doing it past the point where you pay for listings.
I’m testing out some stuff that I heard on a couple of other reselling channels. If it ends up working I’ll make a video talking about it, but so far I haven’t seen any improvement.
Give this one run and see if it works. Check all your metrics (expect impressions) ahead of time. I'd love to hear what it did for you.
please let us know what you've tried that doesn't work so we don't waste our time trying that out. thanks in advance.
Well I came back to finish watching this video. I’m on a different level than most people who might watch this video. My current monthly limit is 86000 listings or $950,000. I recently started my store over because I wanted to do it differently. I don’t promote anything because when I tried it my sales instantly disappeared, and didn’t come back until I stopped promoting.
Do you have to do them in bulk listings or can you do it individually with same result?
He said around 45 minutes for 3,000 items so I’m sure bulk works
Can do up to 200 at a time
@@Find.list.ship66 yes
I end and list similar every day. If today is October 18th, I go back and relist the items I listed on August 18th. So this way no item in my store goes more than 90 days without being reviewed for title, pics, details, price etc, and then ended and sell similar with any needed adjustments.
Have you always done this or started doing this because of changes at eBay that took away views? How has it worked for you?
Thanks for the comment!
Oh, and how many items do you generally run in your store?
And to no surprise you still didn't respond typical human
I sell in a niche and have followers that get a daily email from eBay with my new listings. Do you think this will irritate them? (Thx for the info)
it's possible. but it's also survival mode so you need to do what is best for your business and it really depends on how much of your sales is repeat business. if it's a lot. maybe just reset once every 2 weeks or once a month.
Glad you are finding success with this but my dude, FIX YOUR TITLES. I have to think that would bring you success as well
How do you end and sell similar for an entire store in 45 minutes? I have about 675 listings. I would love to reset. We have had items for 18 months that I would love to get vies and sales from.
read the description part of the video. jack gave a detailed explanation. if you do it please share your experience & anything you learned for the community. ty
700 items would take about 12 minutes.
Do you end the listing or delete it? and than sale similar
End, then sell similar, and after making sure the items you did the sell similar are live, you erase the old listings.
It’s in the description for easier reference.
Thanks for the question.
When doing these resets do you promote at a high % ?
i talk about my percentages in the video that is dropping in about 15 minutes. I give my exact figures as well as markdown % sales.
@@hayfro ok perfect 👍
@@juliedubois5650My % was 2.1, the lowest of our three stores.
Watchers get a link to your new listing.
is anyone doing any promoted rates with these resets?
I do 2.1%. I believe Jeff was in the 3% and his wife Maria around 5%.Maria’s store is a Canadian one while Jeff’s and mine are in the US.
I'm ending and starting promoted listings every 24 hours. I promote at trending plus 10%. My average sold promo fee rate is 19.45%. I've sold $5,286 in last 30 days
I dropped mine to 2.1 percent with my reset and I've gotten 8 sales. I'm thinking of trying all non promoted on a future reset
@DarthThrifter I was thinking the mass reset should be enough then maybe after a few cycles promote the ones that still don't sale
before you do watch this video. trust me. just watch it. he shows his stats and he is a good seller and freakin hiliarious as well.
th-cam.com/video/KCsdM72VGBk/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=PrimoKimo
he has been doing this ess since june and has some interesting facts.
Shout out @Taylor Exchange this is a staple of his ebay store strategy he’s been talking about it since I’ve followed him.
i will check out his channel. thanks for the recommendation.
This is by far, the worst year on eBay. I’ve been selling 16 years. It’s getting so challenging to get compensation for your time and money spent. I’m completely considering stopping. I NEVER thought I could stop. The sales are just not there! All the changes to eBay. I miss the good ole days.
you and me both.
Just so you know, it's not you....When eBay made its changes, I lost 50% of my sales overnight. Yes. One day. It didn't come back. Through our research, eBay's change cost us views. The percentage of views they took away equal the percentage of lost sales. So, anything you can do to increase your sales is a start that you can build off of. If you can't improve your views, a lot of other stuff really doesn't matter as the change might to so small that it's within daily variance. So, if you magically snapped your fingers and all 4000 of your listings had the perfect title, description, and item specifics, but you didn't promote or promoted at 2%, would you see an increase of say, 25% in views? I believe the answer is no. If you see a 3% increase, that variance is within daily ups and downs and might not have correlation with the changes. This is the only thing we've found that blows up your views unlike anything else.
BUT, we do suggest doing better with new listings (item specifics, description, title, though many item specifics aren't needed or add to increases in sales for the time spent filling them out) because, as someone pointed out, eBay may continue to go in the item specifics direction and if they do, you'll have to add them later. But my feeling is, don't blow up your routine of listing just to take a month to fix everything. Also, take 25% of your items and fix them. Keep stats to see if they're 25% or so of your total sales (put an asterisk on the title to keep fast track). If the fixes didn't increase their sales by 15%, then it's probably a big waste of time. Lots of things we're finding are waste of time through our testing. Jeff will be addressing these over the coming weeks as we get more info.
@@JLStanton1968 great idea about fixing 25% of the actives you can also put that X or asterisk in the SKU section of the listing when editing the listing
This comment has unfortunately aged extremely well… challenges continue and we couldn’t agree more with what you’re saying!
I know what you mean.
bottom line about ending/sell similar is that your item will show up under newly listed AND anyone who has searches saved will be alerted to new items being posted. Those two are definite.
I forgot about the saved searches part. Thanks for pointing that out.
I've been end/sell similar for over a year now. I divide my total listings by 30 the end everything ending each day and relist the amount I came up with when dividing by 30. This way I'm always getting new listings, even if they are not actually newly listed items, every day. Also I never have to worry about going over my free listing amount limit.
how many listings do you have total?
@@hayfro currently a little over 1900 listings.
I have 5000 listing I will trying this. I hope it works. I went from 15k a month to 5k😢
@@lesman3019 I misstated something. Relist should be sell similar. Then end the original listings that were sold similar.
Good idea, but not everybody has big enough free listing allocation.
I've tried that before, but it was very short lasting, like you've pointed out (3 days).
A lot of views are outiside views. There's no way to tell if these are proper views, or bots indexing new webpage. Some of the are bots, that's for sure. Question is how many.
Looking at graphs, the only thing that bothers me, is the fact that number of sales has not grown nowhere near to page views graph. Specialy on your main shop.
Let's see how will it develop over days. I'm in the position that 14 days is absolute minimum to say if something is working, or not.
What you've said at the end makes more sense. DO it in batches to get smaller but longer lasting boost.
Hey Pete, I want to thank you for the work you're doing. It's helped us take a look at things as we're working on them and avoid pitfalls.
What we're trying to do is show people something they can do if they have the allocations, along with variants if they don't have as many as we do. Jeff's store and mine are 4000+ item stores and we have premiere subscriptions, meaning we have 10,000 regular listings and 50,000 extras thanks to covid (this was a great thing eBay did for the sellers here in the US and for eBay's bottom line). We can do 10 resets a month, and as many as 12 if we wanted to. If a person has a 50,000 item store under a premiere subscription, they should end/sell similar at least 5000 every three days and get that boost, which will go up proportionately to the percentage of the items listed. Anything that gets views is a win situation. If I end up with 5x the views (when you take the averages over three days, this is about what we're getting versus not doing it) and get 2x the sales, it's a win. What's more, we now have customers we didn't have before that we can engage with, send out coupons to when they've left positive feedback, etc. If after say, three months we've increased the number of new customers who have bought from us, we'll have more success sending out direct coupons for instance. I do expect there to be some correction, but as a gamer, I have 60,000 listings I can use every month, 55,000 that are going to waste. In gaming, you use your resources up to win the game. This technique has a lot of variations we can try in conjunction with other techniques (fixing listings, etc). We need a collective effort due to our not getting any help whatsoever from eBay. It's as though they don't really care about retention of sellers or buyers these days. It would be nice if they got a board in there who was. Bottom line, we have to survive long enough for whatever change will inevitably come. In the meantime, I'm cross listing to Mercari to increase by percentages my changes at sales. I've also opened up a booth at the local antique mall. Jeff does a LOT of sales on Facebook marketplace. I have groups I've created on Facebook as well in order to make up my losses. But damn, I sure would love the working eBay back. The one that used to show my items to those who searched for my items.
Again, thank you good sir. We appreciate everything you do. If possible, can you make a video that shows what you've tried that you feel doesn't work? That's probably more important than what does, so we can quit chasing our tails.
Thank you for doing this and taking the time to talk us through!!! 👍
I’m glad you picked up polish Pete’s saying about the freezer! The one I picked up explains eBay is when he said ITS LIKE A FART IN A BROKEN LIFT… meaning elevator 😂😂😂 I rolled laughing!
I’ve kind of being doing this reset but adding item specifics and if I do 10 -15 day it helps! I will try this again .. before it worked but then stopped .. I noticed adding item specifics I got more views on items .. like instead of 2-3 it’s 35 -40!
I did ended 400 listings last night and sold similar. Plus I also scheduled listings to go out over the night for each hour. I went from 3 orders to 15 orders this morning. I saw this video and then I took a nap and had a idea to try. I have been doing this for 24 years and have never seen it so bad. I need to sell my inventory so I have more room for new stuff. I am sold items that were 2 years old today doing this. Also cross listing is a must! Good luck to everyone.
Yeah, when stuff isn’t selling, we start to run out of room for fresh inventory
Of course there is an issue with buyers not seeing items. Iv been harping about this since last Nov when i started reselling on a 6yrs ebay account. What i was seeing and still seeing is, 90% of my 600 listings get ZERO VIEWS over the course of a few days. And this means if the user is not seeing my items they aint going to be buying it. As i tell all these other looser Ebay Guru's is YOU CAN LIST THE BEST BRANDS IN THE WORLD BUT IF NOBODY IS SEEING YOUR ITEMS IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT YOU LIST CAUSE AINT NOBODY GOING TO BUY IT! I get sales when Ebay decides to show my item. That may take a day or 30 days but usually my sales have resulted from 1 visitor. This means that the moment my item was shown it results in a sale. Hence the reason why my click though it high. Cause when they see it they buy it!
You’re going to want to “end” the listing, not “delete” it. Just wanted to clarify for newer sellers so you don’t accidentally lose your listing so you can still sell similar.
yep. my bad. had a lot of my mind and I will clarify on the follow up video hopefully tonight.
@@hayfrono worries, just wanted to mention it. Guess what I’m doing today? I’m refreshing my entire store! I have the listing capacity to do it and I’ve tried so many other things to help my store with very little to show for it. I’m hopeful this will rejuvenate my store. Thanks 👍🏻
remember to share how the results go. good luck! @@naznow
@@hayfrowill do!
Well you have to end in order to delete. That being said, I wonder if deleting your unsold listings helps the algorithm not to realize you have used sell-similiar to put it back up for more of the same🎉🎉
You just need to be careful doing your full store depending on what level store you have. If you have a lower level store and you end/sell similar to mass number of listings, you may go over your limit of free monthly listings and then be charged an insertion fee for every listing you go over.
Question, did you end all listings including the ones you had watchers on or did you leave those active?
i try to leave the watchers, sometimes they get deleted by accident lol. it's not a perfect science or solution but we are working with what we have. this is the only thing we have found that actually helps our sales.
Hey Jeff, I went and took the plunge and did my whole store. I will be having a video coming out either late tonight or tomorrow showing my results I'm already having. It's very impressive.
awesome mike! cue the monkees "i'm a believer"... haha I don't have your end scene creativity. :-p
@@hayfroJeff, my new video is up. Hope everyone enjoys my experience with the eBay reset!
Hello thx for the info... I think a partial driver of this phenomenon is the way folks shop. I sell and buy full time on eBay in the collectables vintage audio space for the past 15 years over several stores. As a buyer I have 15 or so bookmarks of deep searches that I refresh every 5- 10 minutes for 6-8 hours 4-5 days a week..ALL are sorted by "Newly Listed" About offers.. I don't accept offers until close to the end of the 24 hour period. When a buyer makes an offer they see how many competing offers there are thus motivating them to up their offer. cheers :)
I'm an older gal, so ok to roll the eyes at me :). This reminds me of the Poshmark Daily Closet Sharing. Is using a VA like Posher VA (which updates sales about to turn over each month listings) doing the same thing automatically as this Reset? I've been thinking of getting it as Surfs Up always recommends it. Just trying to understand.....
Thank you. I thought I was the only one thinking eBay end/sell similar is the same as Poshmark sharing. Only difference is eBay charging for each listing. Got to pay to be first in line with eBay.
your doing this for youtube , NOT for ebay , 40 minutes , for 3 minutes info
Thanks for this great video!
I reset my ebay listings (131) and have already sold 8 things overnight including many of my more expensive and niche listings that have been listed for months. I'll make sure to do this kind of a reset fairly regularly to test that it isn't just a one off.
Coming back to say - Do this - Whatever you want to do, do and try this. Try with some additional promoted listing percentages if you have it in your margin+ even 2% lower price. I had 50+ items sell between 10/16-17-18-2023 which some were on the website for 2+ Months and once I made changes, I sold half my store in three days. Dunno why it works but it does.
can you elaborate on this strategy...I'm having a hard time understanding what you want me to try and I'm definitely open to trying anything that gets sales.
Consider raising prices as well. I've been having weird results by ending selling similar while actually raising the price.
ty for reminding me of this strategy, I've heard others from others. @@DrewM86
@@DrewM86raising prices in bulk after you do the sell similar ?
@juliedubois5650 Sorry I didn't mean in bulk no. I guess depending on the product. Ive had success with ending, and sell similar individual items that had been lost in ebays gray space. The refreshment of the item gets more eyes, and the price could more or less not matter as much. Remember it's not all buyers on ebay looking for the best deals. Alot of people with companies not considering a budget just searches what they need then buy it
Thank you for this video and being positive instead of negative. Giving a solution instead of always talking about the negative side of it. Everyone can guess at what is happening, but honestly no one knows. Could be eBay or Not., but why not just keep pushing through and working your business. Again thanks for the positive Video...
The Leather Key Chain King is a great guy and always positive when we talk (except when it comes to lowballers.....). We're working on some marketing techniques that will help attack and keep buyers, whether on eBay or other platforms. The key is to get back as close to the pre-April Update eBay did which began the slide for a lot of us, while not having to kill ourselves doing it. What that involves is sharing information that DOES work, as well as pointing out information that DOESN'T work. I believe the latter is more important, as by sharing, we don't follow in the path of testing that's been done already. We have to survive whatever it is that's going on and hopefully at some point, eBay lets us in on it. But until that time, let's make ourselves better sellers, whether on eBay or elsewhere. I personally would love to keep to eBay and Mercari for that kind of platform, as well as my Facebook Groups I created (more sales posts in groups) and my Antique booth (lower priced items that aren't worth listing on eBay, like cds, cassettes, and records below $5). Here's hoping the platform improves in the coming year.
Thanks for the comment.
thanks for this comment and I agree about the outlook. being negative will always get you views but what's the point. don't get me wrong, sometimes we get stuck in the quagmire of a situation, especially when things seem overwhelming, and believe me we have all been thru the ringer these past 6 months with ebay. Jack and I are just trying to find anything that helps us get thru this and report it to the community
I wish eBay would tell us "we were working on THING A and it caused some sellers handling time to change. Please check your handling time to make sure its correct." I've used 2day handling time for like 2 years. I recently discovered that all my listing were at 4 day handling time. While it's not the biggest deal in the world it would have been nice to know that I needed to adjust the handling time back to 2 days.
I can confirm that you now need to pay for the basic store. I used the free store for years and my sales dramatically declined. To the point where my pay outs were less than $20 for the week. The Minute (Literally) that I started paying the $23 a month I started selling over $100 a week. (I'm just a super part-timer) The same listing that sat in my free store for over a year either sold or started getting some views.
Interesting. When did you notice the sales started to be so low? Wondering how your experience and observations fit with the calendar of past Ebay updates and the April sales crash many sellers experienced.
I had opposite. Sales were great. Felt it was time to upgrade to a basic store. After that my store died. Horribly. Tried running a sale. Not a single sale. Freaked me out. Called Ebay and yelled at them. Boom. 2 sales. They drive me insane.
@@meticulouselectronics But you said you used the free store for years and your sales dramatically declined then when you paid for the basic store boom instant sales. So when was it your sales declined or other words when was it you signed up for the basic store
@@Patricia.resells you need to read my comment again.
Ebay sucks.
I don't know anyone who is filthy rich off ebay.
Wait.. I know one!
GOODWILL! 😅
You forgot Jamie, after he gets fired.
I have been an eBay reseller for 28 years now, since its inception. I have never seen such misery in all of my life. Lol In the past I have ran six different stores and now currently am down to one which is my newest store.
All my life I have been the type of person who learns more from watching something being done, than reading how to do it. I do not know if is because I am dyslectic but I would tend to say that reading comprehension is not my strong point. I can not believe that I sat through 39 minutes with no visible example of what to do. ( an example: I applied for a job that I had no knowledge or qualifications to do. Luckily I got an interview and when asked why I should be hired with no experience, I replied that if I was shown how to do the job I would learn it in a day. The interviewer gave me a chance, had another employee show me how the job was done, and the next day I started . I made no mistakes and within a year I became a job site supervisor.) Some people just learn better through visual stimulation and I would venture to guess that there are others out there just like me. Thank you for your time in this matter.
There are several videos on YT of how to end/sell-similar in bulk. SarahStylesLLC channel has a short/simple video where she walks through the process. The video is from 8 months ago and starts with "FASTEST Way To End And Sell Similar..."
I only have 200 listing dont want anymore! retired ! I take the stuff to the flea sell it for cheap all cash no issues im fine with it i sublet space at a record store sell thru there too i do 2 record shows which make more thrn ebay without the fees stick a fork in ebay they shot their own foot ....lol lets not get into the promo scam smh
I understand your point about page views but this makes me think Ebay Is broken. I have to wonder if this means sales are down on ebay or there are so many listings that after a few days that your listing just doesn't have any views. I thought promoted listings were posted to fix this issue. I am very nervous as a seller if I will make a profit next year. ebay may not be worth my time or energy if it is this broken.
Did it last night. It worked. I kinda knew as I have been doing it for just a few items every week and could see it helped but after doing the whole store set a record for views, Sales going back up and multiple offers. Thanks
3/4 of our 15 million impressions are from promoting but it is only 1/3 of sales. Need the sales but more directed promoting and better search placement are what I want and pay for.
This THEORY has been around for years and years.. 1 big thing at that rate most sellers will run out of available listings then start getting charged .25 insertion fees. reworking listings and pricing is the best way IMO
This is something that will work for stores in the 6000 and under listings category as it still takes time and those people with huge stores won't have the time to do their entire store (though they can do percentages and should).
Let's say you're below a premiere store, which might give you 1000 listings a month at what, $27.95? The next highest is premiere at $75 if you're paying monthly which gives you 10,000 listings and 50,000 extras. That's a $47 difference. If you go up to a premiere store and pay $47 more a month, and with the extra listings can do this and improve your sales by double, that should more than make up for the difference. Also, we're seeing that you can go in at a lower promotion rate to get the sales, and that would justify going to premiere status. And you wouldn't ever have to worry about running out of listings.
@@JLStanton1968 Smart. Very smart!
@@alabamaflip2053 The difference between a basic and premiere store isn't much. If I were under 1000 listings, I'd go to a premiere. One thing I did do and will be bumping it up in short order is create a second store. I've been taking notes and eventually Jeff will be able to do a show on how to open a second store, the pros and cons. As soon as I hit around 500 listings, I'll get a premiere store as the costs are really miniscule for what you get and you do get a $50 coupon, or $16.67 back per month if you look at it that way. I've been a professional gamer for a long time and owned a game store for over 7 years. In gaming, you utilize ALL options and read the rules, make them yours. This is one of those things you can do where a little bit of money spent actually gives an immediate return versus over promoting.
😂😂 IT STILL SOLD 😂😂 That made me laugh so hard!!! Thank you for this video, going to give it a try! 😘💋
I really like this idea and the data backs it up. However, I would be out of free listing allotment within 5 days. I would need to increase to an anchor or enterprise store. Larger stores will need to have great inventory management and a lot of free listing allotment to take advantage of this.
Just do 200 at a time your oldest stale items that have zero views that’s what I’m going to do. I did this with five items a couple nights ago and one of them sold within minutes after it had sat there for three months with not one view. I’m convinced. And the way I see it if an item has zero views in two or three months what do you have to lose anyway?
@@rick9705 One technique for those who have the listings to do so, but not enough to do full resets like we do is to take your 200 to 400 highest priced items and do them. Use up all your listings every month, or close to it. You paid for them, use them. And what you said, what do you have to lose?
my thinking for larger stores like yours do 4k batch in one cycle, then another 4k the next, etc, rinse repeat. I heard what you said about it feeling "messy" and that may prevent you from doing it and tbh, I dont like having to do that, but for now it's working and I want to ride that wave to see how long it lasts and if there are ways we can optimize it. as you well know we are all in survival mode and part of me is resentful that we as sellers are in this situation at all.
You know this kind of makes sense of why my sales have been slow. I was refreshing my entire store every week and I thought that that was too fast as my store got up to 2000 listings I started slowing it down so it was refreshing over the period of a month but my sales completely dropped off over time and I just did not put two and two together
Ive been doiing this for over 3 month. I basically do it every 4-5 days. Any items that I may have watchers on, I end and sell similar on those after any offers I have sent out on those have expired. Most of my sales come from sending out offers, so getting new watchers is the key to selling.
Exactly. Do you feel impressions are garbage as we do? I really hated when eBay started pushing them as their metric to show that it's not them, it's you. If I have 1000 impressions on an item and no views, that's eBay putting an item in a search that wasn't searched for, creating an impression. Views are all that counts.
@JLStanton1968 This doesn't always result in a huge amount of sales every time. It does give you more page views which leads to sales. Don't be discouraged if this doesn't always work, just keep doing it.
@@MattsHouseOfSportsCards I did it the entire month of June and there were some bad days, but overall, I dramatically increased sales due to more views.
I had a no sale day yesterday for I believe the first time doing these tests. But I also had a $120 sale yesterday that the person won't pay for until Friday (person on vacation who saw the 'new' listings and had to jump on it). Even without any sales yesterday, my sales are more than double since starting the resets again. After a month, people will see that their sales and new customer base went up. We're working on marketing techniques to upsell or at least get repeat business from these new buyers. But without the reset, we wouldn't have them or the sales it generated. So, at the end of the day, I won't be discouraged by a poor reset cycle.
The reset Jeff and I did early Monday morning didn't have the desired affect. James over at My Boring Reseller Life keeps track of the downtime on eBay servers. I think when we reset like at 1-3am, eBay may have been at a downtime, resulting in fewer views and sales. Jeff just did a reset, which I'm going to do (a day early) to wipe away that bad reset. He's already getting sales and more views than Monday's early morning reset. This is why we feel that in the US, you should do it between noon and 3pm depending on where you're at. In the west, we can do it earlier to capture those buyers in the east sitting down to do some browsing after work. Those in the east need to wait until 2 to 3pm their time as they want those in the west closer to normal business closing hours. You want your best views to be happening right at prime time (530pm to 10pm).
@@JLStanton1968Impressions also include Ebay inserting your listing on another seller's View Item page and on the page the buyer sees after purchasing another seller's item (the latter being one reason for buyers canceling sales right after they paid because Ebay shows them the same or better item the buyer decides they prefer). Since impressions are part of what Ebay gets paid for by sellers opting in to that level of promoted listings, Ebay is stuffing impressions everyplace they can.
I almost never get sales from sending offers
Nice idea but... If my math is correct, ending all listings and selling similar every 4 days is about 28 times a month. If you have 1000 items in a basic store subscription that is 28 times x 1000 free listings or 28000 listings per month. The per listing fee without bumping up to the next store level comes out to $6750 (27000 x.25) in listing fees! This method may work great for higher tier stores with plenty of excess/unused free listings but I am not about to give eBay any more money on a store upgrade to the next level on a slim hope that this store reset idea might generate more sales. If not, I am locked in for a year and eBay laughs all the way to the bank.
Jeff, his wife, and I have 4000+ stores. On day one, we reset. On day 4, we reset again, making it day one. This means we reset 10 times a month, or use 40,000+ listings. We have 60,000 total with our subscription. So, the fourth day is actually a day one again. Go over the calendar, starting on the first, and put Reset every fourth day and let me know how many times you reset. It should be 11 times actually.
Now, a premiere subscription cost $47 more per month than a basic, but give you access to the same number of listings. If you increase your sales by double and let's say that's worth $500 to $1000 to you, it's worth it to go up to premiere if you can. Outside the US and Canada, some can't.
Now, for those outside the US, if they have spare listings, go ahead and use them on your highest priced items every now and then to get a boost there.
Ebay has been in denial for more than 10yrs that there is a DIFFERENCE in what motivates buyers/shoppers of OOAK type items as opposed to the motivation of people searching for typical retail items (even used). ... It's comparing apples to oranges. Combine that with their consistent level of embarrassment over the nature of these 'garage sale' items on their site (which is what made them the e-commerce giant they used to be).... and you have leadership literally devising a system which undermines the success of it's own paying subscribers and eventually themselves as well.
A few years ago when the changed up categories and three so many things into the same category, friends who specialized in super niche lost all their browsers because of all the crap they had to wade through. There were buyers who just wanted to see vintage Halloween. But after the change, they had to contend with old Halloween, new Halloween, old Christmas, etc. The browsers said screw it.
And to think someone was given the green light on this idea. My niche niche dealing friends lost a lot because of this. I’m 200 miles north from where I was back then and the dealers up here cite that as a big turning point as well.
With the 3rd quarter report about to come out, I suspect (and hope) that Jamie will be retired soon so we can get someone in the CEO position who understands retail. His visions on what works are some of the biggest nightmares to visit the platform and only continue to get worse. He came in saying I need three years and they gave him nearly four. The quarterly reports speak to his performance. Sellers can’t afford a fifth year in this three year process.
@@JLStanton1968 🎯🎯
well put....I couldn't have said it better. it would serve them to remember their roots and not be embarrassed by them/us
loooool. retired.
Item specifics - it works with my store.because of the narrow niche - I use templates that have the item specifics set up. and include some prime searche specifics peppered in that do not directly correspond with the item
The economy is in the crapper, when gas and oil are up this high it causes everything to go up in price, everything has to be trucked or driven by boat, plane, train, delivery van or whatever, the consumer gets it tenfold by everything having to go up in price, think of all the things that gas or oil is used for, people just simply can not afford to spend extra right now, most are saving for Christmas and wont have much extra, when supposed wages go up the employer has to raise prices to compensate for that also, this is what is going on!!!
TRUMP 2024!!!!!!
Just found you, subbed and reset my store, I have been doing this on old items that I have had listed for over a year, but just did the entire store. Excited to see the results.
Please share your results each day if you can. It helps us figure out the percentages of what works. Good luck!
how large is your store? excited to hear about your results! you should see massive increases in page views and people adding items to watchlists so you can send offers.
@hayfro I have 650 items listed. I started it 40 minutes ago, sent out 2 offers, and my page vies are up by 52 already.
@@hayfro I've been averaging between 120 and 190 views a day.
what did your page views end up being for the day? @@BKVendingFlipping
Did the reset at noon mtn time today. I have just a hair over 900 listings atm. Within the first hour after I got 3 sales. Yay! Traffic did go up on page views. We’ll see how much more i get out of it in the next days. Thank you for the tip I hope it continues to work for us all. 😊
I will tell you why the end and sell similar works. Anybody following that type of item will get an email that tells them the number of those items that are new for the day. That’s one reason that it works and will continue to work as long as that is true because if people are getting advertised through their emails. I’ve been ending and selling similar every single day for over a year I only do a few at a time I’ve tried a lot of different things I’ve never tried my old store I may try that now.
By the way, page view went up +30% ebay overall, external page range from 1%~75%, that 1% was my vintage store but in ebay, it is 50%
After I watched your video on bulk editing my store without making any changes, I went ahead and tried it
It took a little bit but now my sales are way up.
I'm going to do it again soon
Tomorrow, can you let us know if your views are up 10-13x for today? Thanks for the update.
It seems like this “wakes up” your store. I just did it an hour ago on 100 items. Many watchers and have already sent out 5 offers. In 1 hour! I will let you know how many sales I get
it's like a shot of adrenaline in your store. right?
I am 8:27 seconds into your video and I knew you where going to say delete and sell similar. I delete 2000 listings every 2 days and sell similar on those same listings. I have about 6200 items so this process gives my inventory a fresh look and I know people are seeing post items because they sell after words not a ton of them but a good 5-10 of them due that have been in my store for years if that makes since. If you need my statistics to help go along with y’all’s let me know and I can forward them. Also there is one more thing I have don’t and my sells have increased by 8 percent in the past 6 days. Amazing.
Also I guess I should have added this. I have been doing it since April and you know how every quarter eBay does something to there system, like change this add that etc. well I think that has affected this process in the last quarter because as it did help it is nothing like this quarter. This quarter seems to have been massively better so not sure what they did internally this time but it has helped in my opinion for us doing this process.
Hey thanks for this comment and yes, please forward anything you feel like sharing and don't mind me sharing on the channel to hayfrosells@gmail.com ~jeff much appreciated.
Do you promote at high % doing these resets ? Or it generates good results without even promoting ?
Hi Jeff, All that you have said in this video are things I've said to myself time after time and discussed with others. This video popped up in my feed today and I'm grateful because now I don't think I'm crazy. I've actually used that "wall" reference in my thoughts and conversations. What I've been doing which helps too is high promotions for a few days to generate views and then later going in and stopping all promotions. I've thought myself that there is some kind of a glitch that's causing the total lack of ANY life in regard to my store. I'm going to start tomorrow with your ideas because I know they will work. Thank you very much for all your insight. I'm only sorry I didn't see this video back when you first posted it. I'm subscribed now. Yay!! I'll let you know how it goes. PS: I noticed the big change when they started the advanced paid promotions campaign.
hi audie. welcome. this is a channel that calls it like I see it and right now ebay is letting down it's buyers in my opinion with their cash grab promoted listings. I will say the reset hasn't been as effective as it used to me. Jack and I believe ebay has done something to make it less effective as that was the only "hack" or simply put the only thing sellers could do to get some sales. definitely keep me updated on how it goes via youtube comments or my email is in the bio and feel free to connect with me there. I've even actually spoken to make viewers here if you ever wanted to connect and share ideas. the one good thing about youtube is community and I work closely with a lot of people who are trying to figure out ways to keep up with the algorithm, although it's really pathetic that we can't just list and do what we've always done. sometimes I think this is all too much what ebay expects us to do to get sales.
I think my problem is when selling custom shirts is that i only have 80 up.
Much of the view increase on new listings is from resellers. Only sales matter! I end and sell similar before 30 days because I will be charged a listing anyway. After a few weeks you can gauge which items need a price reduction simply based on # of views.
I would disagree as our tests show a doubling of sales and a lot of other factors. I specialize in 78rpm records for which my views aren’t coming from resellers as most of my 2500 78s are one ofs. As Jeff pointed out:
eBay Views, External Views and promoted views went up
Watchers went up.
Offers went up
Number of sold items went up
All the metrics that equal increased sales went up.
And of course, sales did go up.
The boost wains every day and tends to return to normal on the fifth day with the fourth day after a reset being slightly higher than without the boost. That’s why we reset on the fourth day. To get the momentum.
If you have the listings to do ten resets in a month, then do it once and see what your numbers are two hours after your reset.
I thought about doing that as well. Just waiting until your item is about to end maybe one day prior. I just sold a whole bunch of items last night that had been listed around 60 days. It was very weird because three or four items that sold all relatively close to each other within an hour. The SKUs were within 10-20 item numbers and I normally list between 5 and 10 a day. Some of the stuff going on with eBay it’s just bizarre and unexplainable. I had sold one item in 48 hours and then suddenly sold six items in about a two hour window yesterday evening. Why? I pulled three of them out of the same box. Super strange stuff going on.
But yeah, as of now I do want to let my items at least have 60 days maybe I will do the reset on the 89th day and test that a bit. So maybe mark down 10% after 30 days mark down 20% after 60 days and at the 89 day reset bump promotion maybe 2% and do it over again. I mean, aren’t we all guessing? 🤦♂️😂
@@rick9705During testing, we’ve found that marking things down might work, but only if you get the visibility. Jeff and I aren’t running sales, instead we’re working on something Jeff came up with which is once you’ve received positive feedback from a customer, go to the shipped sales tag and give that customer a coupon and thank them for buying that product. Takes next to no time at all and you’re dealing with someone who has had a 100% positive experience with you. Jeff sells comics in his listings and I sell records and books. Let them know they can bundle. Talk to the customers. Engage with them once you’ve got them.
But again, it’s about views and getting them. This is the most immediate thing we’ve found to get views. There are a lot of other things that will help make the sell once the person is viewing your item (accurate descriptions, quality items, great pics, titles, price). And after the sale, there are things you can do that might increase your chances of retaining that customer. Jeff and I are going to be researching things that work and those that don’t. We as a community need to share what works and what doesn’t do we can save time on the bad and confirm the good. What sucks about this eBay problem is we’re getting no help from eBay and because of that, we’re losing millions of hours a day grasping at straws instead of listing, sourcing, selling, etc.
Although this video is probably better than 99 percent of ebay videos related to this, and although I think you're most likely right about pretty much everything, I wish everyone would quite making these videos. Completely understand why they're made, and I'm not hating. But unless you work for ebay, or have deep inside knowledge of exactly how all their systems work AND in what direction the company is trying to move towards while using those systems to do it. In other words I'm so sick and tired of seeing all this anecdotical evidence. You said "no speculation" but this is still 100 percent speculation... Three stores statistics over what, half a year? that's not even remotely close to the amount of numbers you need to even make a hypothesis let alone enough to go tell the world on youtube that it works. Its worked so far for you, this doesn't make it a matter of fact. Sure, try things out and see what works for you and if it does, go for it. That's what every successful business does. One more thing, I think impressions are more important than you think, or they at least help tell part of the story, I think they're far from being a worthless number. More Impressions, More Views, More Sales, it's all important. You said the biggest or main issue is people can not find the listings, they're "buried, hidden" or whatever else you said. Well if they were on someones screen somewhere, then they had the ability to click on it right there, its not missing. I just don't get why this has turned into trying to be rocket science but then using the same scientific method they tried to use on us for Covid, you know, the ol' we know what we're saying, you better listen or else and then when asked for numbers they couldn't every give you the ACTUAL numbers it was just a guess... Same thing here. No content creators work for ebay, have ever coded software for ebay, or have been in a meeting room helping make decisions they think will be best for the ebay in the future. Nor has anyone done ANY type of massive data collection and then analyzed all of that data to come up with a theory. My two accounts, my sisters dogs account, and the 6 people that complained today on an ebay group is simply not even a fraction of a fraction of the amount of data you need to make a reliable statement, other than if you're telling yourself you think X, Y, Z and not putting it on youtube as the gospel. This video has a lot of good knowledge, and for the first time watching I have nothing against this creator, I just think the guessing games need to stop all together, or more so the matter of fact statements made on stats, that albeit are accurate, are not enough to repeat as a virtual guarantee fix. The only thing I will guarantee, is that for however many stores this worked for you on, I guarantee I can find just as many stores that it would have no effect on. Also, if i just replaced your 4,000 listings with 2,000 listings of airpod pros and 2,000 of (insert name here) literally any Milwaukee fuel tool, you wouldn't even have time to THINK about ending and relisting because you would be so busy shipping out orders.
you had me at "I think you're most likely right about pretty much everything"...lol but seriously, this has brought out some people who have been doing this since april and june with numbers to support this actually works. I don't claim to know the science behind it or for how long it will but we are trying to find something "that works" instead of simply speculation with no concrete action plan. it's like I'm damned if I do or damned if I don't here. many people have done it and seen results in the comments and have actually felt good about reselling again.
Just curious if you can tell me where to get those 2000 AirPods and the fuel tools. Pretty common in that number, right? Oh, and 2000 iPhone 16s.
Have you tried the reset? Based on the people responding, it’s helping them make sales. I had sales before eBay did their April update and my sales went down 50% in one day and stayed there.
Do I know why eBay did what it did? Nope. Do I know what their plan is? Nope. What I do know is I lost 50% of my business overnight. A business on eBay for 24 years. If eBay doesn’t want me as a seller, they could let me know and I’ll move to other platforms (actually have) and do what I did for eBay. And that would be 13,000+ sales, 100% positive feedback, and a metrics rating that puts me in the 99.5%+ top of eBay sellers. Of course eBay doesn’t want me or others like, otherwise they’d tell us, right?
Whatever it is that eBay is trying to do, if it’s making money for their stockholders, they’re not doing a very good job of it. If it’s about sales, again, not a very good job. And in regards to the 2000 AirPods, why would anyone sell them on eBay with such low profit margins on new ones? I mean, you’re going to have a hell of a time sourcing 2000 used ones at a good price, let alone new ones. New ones are going to run you what at wholesale? How much are you going to have to pay in promoted listings, let alone final fees? Will you even have a margin after those fees? And will it allow for you to purchase yet another 2000 AirPods?
As for Milwaukee tools, I worked at Industrial Supply in Salt Lake City for years. We dealt in Milwaukee. Are you an authorized dealer? If you are I can understand the tool comment. If you’re not, your wholesale has to be pretty high and again, with the eBay fees, there’s not much room for profit. Especially with all the authorized dealers and secondary dealers. I’m finding it hard to believe you’d have the margins to compete.
Anyway, it would be nice if eBay didn’t make changes that kill our businesses overnight. I can’t imagine that was the plan. But they did and I believe it was accidental. But they aren’t talking. With millions of partners, you’d think letting the people who do the bulk of the work might deserve an explanation. Some guidance so we have a clue and don’t have to turn ourselves into detectives and scientists to save our businesses.
But here we are, without leadership from eBay. If eBay isn’t going to help, then we’ll do it ourselves, even if it means leaving a platform dying before our very eyes.
I don’t know about you, but losing over 25% of your users in four years probably wasn’t part of the plan. Seeing sales drop for around four years probably wasn’t part of the plan either. If killing eBay while making us suffer is the plan, they’re doing a great job.
Anyway, if you can find the half this doesn’t work for, I’d like to hear from them. Reason? I’m a detective and scientist and would love to add their stats to the stats. Do the work eBay isn’t sharing.
Did it yesterday , got an offer in 2 hours on a huge card sales views down 30% over last 60 and 90 days been so slow. THANK YOU FOR THIS , GONNA RESET AGAIN IN 4 DAYS
Do you worry about loosing your watchers?
There’s a way that you can sort by watchers and then sort by time ending in the watchers will go at the end and then you can end do the process and ideally keep the watcher. Sometimes I end up deleting them anyhow on accident.
doesn't ebay you 1000 free of fees listings each month, so if you sell end and similar so often you will end up paying large fees. Right?
Jeff, his wife, and my stores are Premiere level and we get 10,000 along with 50,000 extra listings. All three stores have around 4200 items. The listings we have allow us to do 11 resets every 30 days without running out of listings. Something we weren't aware of was that eBay doesn't do the same thing for people outside of Canada and the US (I think they should), as there isn't a medium store level between smaller and huge stores overseas. I would say if you have spare listings every month, do resets on your most expensive items to give them a boost. Every little bit helps. If you have the listings, use them.
@@JLStanton1968 I just tried it out only on the clothes category to see how effective it is.
Oh, and another question you said towards the beginning of the video that we need to do this starting tomorrow not today. Why is that? I’m currently only about halfway through your video so you may answer this later on in the video but I wanted to ask before I forgot. Thanks.
Because I knew I’d be dropping the video late at night. Best to do the rest after 9am up to 6pm
My question is if you delist sell similar won't our store limits become a problem. We only have limited amount of free listings. Curiously
Items speciifis were not a problem before, I don't see how fixing them now would make any difference
It's because when you delete, sell similar, it shows as a new listing towards the top of the page search and buyers think they can get the item before anyone else does and think it wasn't sitting around forever on eBay with no interest.
there is nothing to lose by trying this method. By the way, I'm also full time ebay seller for about 8 years
Great video great idea Jeff. Definately a quick survival mode fix for listings and could definately help ALOT of sellers from dipping or staying low in sales :)....Only one caviat this will only work for USA sellers, as we in the UK only get 1500 listing free per month for an equivalant premium store :( So we could only action this system (staying within the free allowance) if we only had 50 listings
How many listings do they give you as a premium store in the UK?
What if you went and bought the next higher store? What would that cost compared to your current store?
@@hayfro there are literally only 3 store options for uk. Basic Store = £27 (250 free listings), Featured=£77 (1500 free listings) and Anchor store=£437 (unlimited free listings) So I have Featured store so I pay almost £100 ($122) a month for 1500 free listings
All these store prices do not include 20% VAT
@@JLStanton1968 there are literally only 3 store options for uk. Basic Store = £27 (250 free listings), Featured=£77 (1500 free listings) and Anchor store=£437 (unlimited free listings)
I am also curious. In your video notes you have the notes from the gentleman that you’ve been talking to and he shares stats from May and June. It’s October, if he’s been doing it since then what are his numbers now?
Jeff shared my numbers in the video. But here's an update. I'm going to include today even though I have around $150 in sales pending that haven't been paid for yet. I'll give you the stats from October 10th through the 18th in regards to increases:
Views are up 574.6% versus prior time period
eBay Page views are up 196.2%
External site views are up 1000%+ (it only goes up to 1000%)
Quantity sold is up 80%
Impressions (still a garbage statistic ebay likes to use because it's big) are up 298.1%
Organic Impressions are up 679.9%
Promoted Impressions are up 38.7%
Top 20 search slot impressions (at 12.7%) up 693.8%
My sales in the past four days haven't been great, but I'm up 49.3% (I was up around 130% in the first four days of our test). I do have at least $150 I'm waiting for payment, which would drive this stat up a bit if the buyers come through soon.
I promote at 2.1%. My selling costs are at 15.3%. I deal in rare records and books, specializing in Mormon literature (I live in Idaho and can source them over a 400 mile corridor along I15) and 78rpm records (though I do sell a LOT of vinyl in my antique booth and other sites). I've been on eBay for 24 years, have sold over 13,000 items, have 100% positive feedback, and according to eBay, I'm in the upper 99.5% of sellers (which used to mean something when it came to placement and visibility).
If you have any other questions, please ask as I want to be as transparent as possible when it comes to the experimenting we're doing. With eBay being silent on everything they're doing, we need to crowdsource this and hopefully get our views, and thus, sales back.
Hope this helps.
Thank you all for sharing good information if I can figure it out only been doing this since May 10th 2023 you all have a blessed day in the name of Jesus Christ
Same to you!
9 years on ebay and never had an issue with sales.
I have been doing end/sell similar since 2016.
I the beginning, we didn't have as many free listings, so I didn't do as many. I even paid for quite a few to keep the plan going. (.10)
Today, with so many free listings, I do around 100 each day in my 500 listing store.
My yearly sales are up over last year by 22%.
Current ASP is $98. August 2023 was my best month ever, by a lot.
Some days are so good, it is overwhelming for me.
Then the next day only 2-3 sales. Overall, with all the ups and downs, still doing great.
so it works ?
May I ask what kind of items you sell to get an ASP of $98? I'm around $60 and stuck.
Still didn't answer the question
Thanks for sharing! I will implement on Friday. 😍
Please keep us updated!
The issue I have with end and sell similar is my listings with multiple quantities. If I sell 1 item on a listing and end and sell similar, it relist it at my original amount of items making my inventory off 🤦
hmmm. this is something I will need to look into
I don’t know if you said or not but are you using promoted listings still or putting items on sale after you reset them? I do this for items older than one month but I started to realize that the “new listing” bump falls off sooner than a month so I was starting to do it at around two weeks old listings to get that new listing bump. Smart :)
i ended and sold similar about 10 items...within mins i got several different watchers and sent offers. I have had the best sales in the last 10 days from April. Not great but a big improvment. I also sold more items that were Not promoted.
Thanks for the insight. All that matters is improvement and gaining new customers, like it was before the April update.