Promoted listing costs - what a con.

[berkshire-bazaar]

As a 20 year veteron of selling on ebay at various levels (£1m+ business to a hobby business), ive seen lots of changes.  What I am quite alarmed about is the costs of promoting your listing on effectively a closed site (ebay!).  Ive experimented and it makes little difference as to whether I put 15-20% promoted listing levy on an item, or just rely on organic search.  Ebay have effectively doubled their fees in a sneaky way with promoted listings, yet they release videos of how much they care about business.  Ive never seen such a hike in costs of sale on ebay as in 2023, and yet one of the most difficult years for business.  Instead of spending thousands running roadshows and giving out awards, just reduce  your fees and cap it at 10%.  I fear that the decline of ebay as a viable place to sell with just intensify.

[dave1976c]

I have just had the same experience with ebay. I shall never use promoted listings ever again. I refuse to pay anything to ebay in the future.

Please people reading this DO NOT use promoted listings the fees are way too high and just eat into any profits that you can make.

[dress-dolly]

I totally agree, after reading all the comments on here, l decided that I wouldn’t use it either. I have started selling on Vinted a few months ago, example one item that I am selling has 1 view on EBay in around 6 weeks, the same item is on Vinted with 669 views and 42 watchers - with no cost to list, the price you set is the price you get, buyer pays fees and shipping,, EBay is pricing itself out of the market and not doing their sellers justice.

Selling high end authentication items from time to time as I do, the majority of listings I see in my notifications are now counterfeits - up to 3/4 daily on the ‘paid for’ notifications alone, these items are all priced below the inspection price that is required for auth guarantee, even when these are obvious fakes nothing is done, frankly I am all but done with EBay now, I joined in 2002 and have an impeccable feedback reputation- EBay’s loss, not mine.