Ebay-personal account to store-business

[choxaway77]

Hello there me again. how are you all? i have a question. How can i upgrade to a business account with a shopfront sub without migrating all current listings (while keeping all watchers and feedback) and incurring immediate charges? is there a way to suspend the listings and then activate them one by one under the business shop?

Thank you kindly

Sean

[game_raid]

It isn't possible to do as you require, when you change to a business there is small number of changes.

Business is displayed on your listings, feedback and about page.

Your address is in the about page and on all listings

You have to accept returns.

All your listings, feedback watchers stay as they are.

You could end all listings then relist once you're a business but that will lose all sales history, watchers on that listing.

[hugothecockapoo]

hi sean...you only have 31 listings...are you sure a basic shop would be needed?. Your 31 listings would cost you £10.85 plus vat per month...{31 x 35p}Shop fees for 250 buy it now £27.00 plus vat..PLUS 100 FREE AUCTION LISTINGS per month.

As to your question, just archive your listings then relist when you have your shop if needed....dont forget you need to upgrade your account to business selling...

[choxaway77]

Hello i had considered that however i actually have 93 listings but only 31 are showing up i think that is down to some being out of stock. i did not know you could archive a listing that is kind of what i was after, does it work? lol does it keep listing info?

[hugothecockapoo]

Hi Sean. Yes as far as I am aware they are available to realist for up to
90 days. ( could be longer)

[*vyolla*]

If you end a listing it'll stay in Seller Hub for 90 days, and you can choose to relist it at any time.

Unless you've enabled the out of stock option then once a multi quantity listing has sold out, the listing ends along with the sales history (with the out of stock option enabled you retain the sales history). I've no idea if this feature would have been available on a private account though.

[choxaway77]

Ta, i take it you need to end listing to archive it? if i end them will i not lose all watchers and such? 

also do you have to pay for a store up front?

[game_raid]

The out of stock option works on all accounts, it's a universal feature in the account selling preferences page.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/uas/selling-pref

You could zero all the quantities then add to reactivate the listing but would still get charged for the listing as its technically live but out of stock.

[game_raid]

Yes, you have to end, as soon as you end a listing it is finished, there is no recovery.

Yes, you have to pay the sub when you sign up, you really don't need a shop at the moment it will be costing you money

[lucy_farmer]

'The out of stock option works on all accounts, it's a universal feature in the account selling preferences page.'

Well, that's a bit of an encouragement by ebay for businesses to sell on private accounts isn't it?

Why would a private seller be 'out of stock'? we are supposed to neither stock nor re-stock!

Along with the ability for a private seller to have a 'shop' (which word is seen as almost interchangeable with the word 'business' by some) I can understand why some people think that doing business on a private account is perfectly acceptable and are pretty shocked when they appear on these boards to be told they're basically pirates ..

Why do ebay themselves offer 'private' sellers the opportunity to break their own rules and consumer law?

[choxaway77]

so there is no way to retain the listing watchers and sales with out incurring charges?

Ta

[tressygirl]

When you relist ,  any previous watcher who has their Site Preferences set to receive communication from eBay,  informing of an item previously watched is being relisted,  will be notified.

Not all members have this selected.

@choxaway77 

[game_raid]

I agree,

I guess it would be a programming issue, they would need to isolate the page so that section wouldn't work on a private account or redirect to another page with less options.

Not sure how easy that is but I would suspect it being a pain so they leave it as a universal feature on all accounts to save them the headache.

Some accounts it's already active, which confuses sellers because the listing hasn't ended, which causes a panic because they only had the one for sale, they don't realise the item is showing 0 available they just see a live listing in their account.

[*vyolla*]

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@choxaway77 wrote:

so there is no way to retain the listing watchers and sales with out incurring charges?

Ta

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You can't retain watchers.

You can retain sales history for multi quantity listings, which I'd say is pretty important.

Any charges aren't going to be much and, as advised by @hugothecockapoo you'd be better off without a shop subscription at this stage. It's something you could look at a bit later.

[game_raid]

I see you mention you have 93 listings as some are inactive, I would bite the bullet and change to a business and pay the shop fee.

Sales history is more valuable than watchers, each sale gives you a sales rank, the more sales the lower the rank which pushes you up the search, the algorithm will push these listings more over a listing that has no sales because they have a track record of sales, buyers basically want that item and the algorithm expects you to get further sales, this is what makes the site money, pointless having listings at the top that don't sell.

This is why it is recommended to try and stay in stock on items you sell, the longer out of stock the sales rank gets bigger so you lose positions in the search.

Of course there is other elements in ranking a listing such as price, returns etc etc.