promoted listings

[stripydrunkenmonkey74]

Hi , what are the advantages of a promoted listing.. I have seen the butten to promote my items for sale but i do not know what it entails, how my goods will be promoted and what it will cost... Any help would be appreciated. 

[roger_roger_over_and_nowt]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sellercentre/grow-your-sales/reach-more-buyers/promoted-listings

[pillarboxred]

All my listings for the last couple of months have been Promoted Listings. I have no idea what good it does. It means that I am making less when I sell an item but I might have sold nothing without it.

[stripydrunkenmonkey74]

thanks for the advice folks. Much appreciated

[ile136yz]

I 'Standard Promote' my listings at a low percentage (I'm only charged a fee if the item has been clicked on by this Buyer). 

For some reason I am getting low views on Promoted this month, but getting views & sales on Organics. 

It seems that there is a glitch with my items being promoted at the moment.

[leon9503]

I can give you some additional insight from a buyer, I never buy from Promoted Listings as there's no need for me to, I know what I'm looking for and can find it with a search, I know EB manipulates the search results but if you've been buying as long as I have it's not an issue.

IMHO the only advantage is for EB with more fees being paid, if people are looking for what you sell, they'll find it.

[stripydrunkenmonkey74]

Thanks for the advice.. I decided to opt against them. Cheers again for your time.

[tcwho23]

Personally I consider it a scam but as a seller it's one you have to swallow or your 5 pages deep in the lisings and never get your products noticed. eBay are getting greedier and greedier and just keep coming up with additional ways to rake money from you. When you look at you sellers account it shows a "breakdown" of the money you've made. That's a joke it doesn't inlcude your postage fees, tax etc, yet eBay constantly pushes you to include free shipping, they constanly hound you to reduce your prices and hound you to death to pay thier ever increasing fees. I mean what even is a regulatory operating fee?? It' s nothing more than yet another eBay grab.  As an example, I sold a necklace at £7.99 Ebay fees of varing magnitude (which eBay on jewllery say your fees are varible on that catagory, so it could well be more they take if they feel so inclined) and costs, postage and cost to make (not including labour) comes to £4.67 leaving £3.32 of which HMRC will take 67p,  now leaving £2.65 and this is on a niche product, most costume jewllery you can't sell at £7.99, but if you read your summary, eBay like to claim you've made £6.63 Not even close mate try nearer a third of that. eBay will rob you blind, problem is they're all the same.

[stripydrunkenmonkey74]

thanks for the reply.Ita a nightmare. The whole selling on Ebay is no where as pleasurable as whay it used to be when i sold a lot of items in the past.  I had not sold on ebay for ages and i am sure that Ebay did not charge fees on the postage in the past. I have lost out on nearly every parcel sent recently as ebay not only try and set your postage at as cheep as possible but also do not take into consideration an items value (that obvioulsy needs to be covererd in postal insurance) ,just the parcels size. IF i do try and slightly raise the postal cost you then get hounded by buyers accusing you of trying to rip them off despite seeing the costs on the parcel when it arrives AND bidding on a item with a clear stated postal cost. Ebay do not seem to take into consideration costs on postage equipment such as jiffy bags, bubble wrap and tape etc that of course need to be purchased.   What started out as what my lad thought was a great way to sell some of his pokemon graded cards and make him some needed money has left us out of pocket and dumfounded with the fee amounts.

[tcwho23]

Be VERY careful what you say on here. I made my feelings known about ebay earlier in this post, since then I've gone from  30,000-40,000 promoted views daily and several hundred actual views per day to virtually zero on both since I posted my negative opinion and obviously that's had a huge impact on business, don't tell me it's not rigged on here.