Selling for Valentine's Day

Hi! Can anyone help me with making my tool listings Valentine's Day specific?  My brnd name is elemen'tary design, I sell hand made screwdriver sets. Thanks, Justin

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Eek, don't add your personal details (name and home phone number) to any public forum. Scammers may notice it and now they can match your eBay ID to your real name and phone number and use that to call you and pretend to be from eBay/your bank.

 

Go back in and edit them out (hover over the circle with a downward arrow in it, top right of the message field).

 

The best way to make it searchable is to include 'Valentines Day gift' in the listing title, given that anybody seraching for a gift will use those words in a search.

 

 

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Never seen ebay make a fuss about an occasion that is known in some marketing circles as an "opportunity event", but maybe that's 'cos I never enter the site on the first page. I think the best you could do would be to paste a few love hearts over your images & explore any off ebay sites that might be publicising possible valentines day gift ideas on commision that could channel a few sales your way.

 

For the 28yrs of our happy marriage she has enoyed the delivery of an anonymous bouquet of flowers without fail on valentines day. Always delivered in circumstances that have taken her by surprise, whether casually left on the passenger seat of her car at work, or some random bloke in a suit of armour riding a tall white horse up to her while walking our dogs in a park. My personal favourite was the year I went to great expense & flew her old uni' roomate over from the US , who walked out of Heathrow customs carrying a huge bunch of Lillies from the "Silly Old Git".

 

We are both big believers in karma, what goes around comes around. She never does anything for me on valentines day, but she always repays her anonymous Beau, somehow, within the very next few days.

 

I have to say, if that included a personalised screwdriver, which to me looks suspiciously like an 'apprentice piece' . . . Then I'd chuck her through the nearest window & run off with something much younger & much healthier !

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Hi there,

Thanks for your response.

I think you misunderstood my enquiry.

I wanted to find out if there are things one can do to a listing to make it pop up as part of the special Valentine's Day gift list on ebay.

There is one, so I wondered what are the criteria for being shown on it?

Anyone got some knowledge?

Thanks!

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Do you mean this section:

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/bn_7006327240

 

I believe that this is put together by an algorithm, it features mainly high volume business sellers.

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Hi Vyolla,

Thanks for this, I did think that might be the case.
Any tips on how to make my product more accessible/visible/searcheable for
V. Day?

Thanks

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Elementary Design

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Eek, don't add your personal details (name and home phone number) to any public forum. Scammers may notice it and now they can match your eBay ID to your real name and phone number and use that to call you and pretend to be from eBay/your bank.

 

Go back in and edit them out (hover over the circle with a downward arrow in it, top right of the message field).

 

The best way to make it searchable is to include 'Valentines Day gift' in the listing title, given that anybody seraching for a gift will use those words in a search.

 

 

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Sorry!

Private info was erazed by the ebay team.

 

Thanks for your input, will do that!

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What about 'Unusual Valentine's Day Gift' or 'Alternative Valentine's Day Gift'.  I searched for 'Unusual Valentine's Day Gift' on eBay and there are listings with this in the title.  Not many - but that's what you want.

I also searched on another site that specialises in hand-made gifts.  One of the items I was offered was a 'coffin card'.  Hmmmm.  Certainly fits the 'unusual' and 'alternative' search parameter.

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Hahaha, very creative :)!

I have now added a sub-title: Perfect gift for Valentine's Day

We shall see if that has an effect...

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Good luck!!  I hope you're inundated with orders.

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