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That must be going gangbusters for eBay then...

 

Has anyone tried it and more importantly, did it work?

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There have been several threads about offsite Ads.

Some reporting success, others not.

I think that in general, it very much depends on what your selling, as to how well it will work.

ie.  lots of single items, then forget it.

Lots of multi quantity items, then it can work.

 

If you have your own website though, I would advise spending the money there, rather than paying Ebay for more traffic.

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Yes, that is pretty much what I thought.  There would be no need for eBay to discount a product so heavily if it actually worked was the trigger for me starting the thread.

 

Like many others I completed my Tax Return at the end of last month and it highlighted just how far my eBay sales have sunk year on year for the last 5 consecutive years.  I am losing the will to carry on trying new things to be honest.

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Promoted listings is a bit of a con imo

i  a couple more views when I’ve used it

which is what I might have got anyway

didnt realise we have to pay vat on the fee as well if sold  ?  Rolls eyes 

 

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I don't use promoted listings, but have tried to get my head round them. It seems that once on the promotional treadmill it's very difficult to get off it. The pay per click models need a good level of experience as they seem to rack up large bills for the unwary and inexperienced users. 

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I am wary of pay per click -it seems that there is no incentive to get the right people clicking.  I suppose if you're selling something where you've got multiple quantities, it's beneficial to get lots of people looking at your item, even if it isn't something they actually want to buy.  But if you're selling one-off items, you only actually need one click - from the customer who will buy it.

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The issue with all of these things is that it generally just makes the cost of doing business way too high for legitimate business sellers.

 

Shop fees, final value fees, standard promoted fees, pay per click promoted fees, off site promoted fees, regulatory operating fee etc etc, where does it end ? 

 

For many businesses this all adds up to 30 - 50% of your sales revenue being taken by Ebay, that isn't going to work for the vast majority of businesses. 

 

In most cases it will end with businesses not being viable as businesses on Ebay, many are already at this stage and many have already gone.

 

I just don't get Ebay's obsession with sucking the life out of business sellers, in the odd case there may be a short term gain however in the longer term it is business suicide.

 

Anyway I shouldn't have posted this as I have accepted Ebay is a lost cause and I don't want to be negative on these forums.

 

Good luck to all.

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Your right, it does bump the cost of doing business up.

But to be fair, in some situations, it's a viable way of doing things.

So just because it may not fit you or me, it will fit someone else.

 

The crux of the matter is understanding what you are actually doing with these kind of things.

If you don't understand, then you are very likely to lose money using it.  It really is as simple as that.

I see so many sponsored listings that it scares me.  And I'm talking about things that I understand the pricing for (not clothing).  I see items selling at just around cost price, but top of search and whoever it is, must be losing money.  Unless it's off the back of a lorry.....

 

Ebay however is not a lost cause yet.  I understand that your going to be struggling at the moment, as an awful lot are.  But it's not just Ebay that's down, it's pretty much everywhere.  And probably much more highlighted for sellers like yourself, as you are selling items that are not "Must haves", but "like to haves".....

 

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By offsite ads, I guess you mean Google PPC

eBay does this for free. Two of my £200+ items were posted this morning. They 

are currently at the top of Google search in the sponsored section.

Currently have no PLs or PPC with eBay. 

 

So why they are asking sellers to pay for something that eBay do for free is beyond me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hi, I appreciate the market I am selling in isn't going to be flying in the current climate however the decline on ebay over the last 2 - 3 years is very much ebay specific, sales elsewhere have held up far better than on Ebay. A lot of the issues on here are very much down to Ebay and their decision making.

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Just this afternoon I noticed they've sleeked up the PL Standard and PPC on the bottom of the Template/Listings page, more of defined 'look at me' section with stats rather than the old toggle and set your rates

 

Looks like theyve found their cash cow?......

 

Edit - I use PL standard on some inventory

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