Competitor ads on posting

[jelliboy]

Does anybody else have a problem with the fact that on postings at the top, E bay display items from competitors under the heading "You may also be interested in these". I find this very annoying as I have paid to advertise my items and not those of my competitors

[jonatjonatjonat]

Agree, its annoying.

But to clarify something - what you've paid to list your items. The advertising space is completely separate and as you can imagine is a significant revenue generator for eBay.

[jelliboy]

As a business I have a shop with soe 300 listings. I also pay to promote
my listings. I agree that it is probably a good income generator for
E-bay but promoting a competitorsitems on my listing seems to be a
conflict of interest.

[jonatjonatjonat]

If you promote your listings - do you think your competitors are saying the same thing?

[jelliboy]

No Idea. Maybe they are too complacent to query it. In the last year my
sales have gone down the plughole and I am looking at everything we do

[the_book_seekers]

So many sellers promote in various different way that ebay has had to find somewhere to actually promote them and unfortunately our listings are considered by ebay to be fair game.

[coyotetower]

It's annoying and unethical. Pay to play now. Surprised they don't have a feature that allows u to steal the actual sale from a competitor for 50%.

[coyotetower]

Ah but from what i gather the ads we're on about here are eye wateringly expensive. Pay per click which used to be min 2p. Now its min 20p and of course they gonna keep upping that. It's like the 90s all over again except not profitable.

[messier44000]

On my you-tube channel I get paid from all the advertisers on my content / pages.

You-tube gets 55% of the revenue

I get 45%

But on here

You-tube gets 100% from advertisers paying for PL

Seller gets 0.00% . Even if the click from your page leads to a sale from the advertiser.

[jonatjonatjonat]

Yes they were the ads I was referring to

[jelliboy]

Everything about e bay is eye wateringly expensive now. Frankly it is no
longer worth the hassle and we are looking very hard at wether it is
worth continuing