Yep, I know all this and the items I have listed a quite desirable.
I always add between 12 and 24 photos with background removed in Adobe Express (Online), which normally does a great job without shrinking photos (like some background removers do). I then manually crop all photos to either 1600x1600 or 1600x1200 in Corel PSP 2023, so end up with nice crisp photos decent quality photos, with white background that eBay say is preferable/desirable.
I alway add a good descriptive title with the relevant brand, model number and condition and use most of the 80 characters.
Descriptions are extensive for the more expensive items and concise and to the point for the sub £10 items. More importantly not AI generated generic garbage.
Something I don't do is offer is free postage.
That's so I can have an item cheaper than a similar item (with the overall being close once the postage is added).
The reason I do this is so that I can combine postage and easily refund any excess postage when multiple items are purchased, making the overall cost cheaper for the buyer.
I only sell singular items and never found a way in Seller Hub to automate combined postage on multiple purchases of singular items like you can with multiples of the same item.
Another thing I don't do is Promoted Listings as once you start to add to the item price to cover all the additional after sales fees, it make an item too expensive for buyers.
It also annoys me that eBay take a portion of the postage when promoting listings and that is on top of the usual 12.8% (before promos) they already take off the postage.
I have dabbled with Promoted Listings and Free Postage in the past and they only thing it did for me was to get watchers more quickley and like has been said before and in my experience "Watchers" are probably not interested in buying but instead, other sellers keeping an eye on similar items to what they have.
When I have sold anything in recent months it's normally been items that weren't previously bring watched.
I also understand that cost of living is a big thing now and know this has an impact on sales along with nicer weather coming and I expect this, as it happens every year but to sell nothing all of a sudden as soon as the 100% off promo finished just seems very odd.
