To promote listings or not, what works for you? Are you increasing %, unchanged or switching off?

[oceanartsnorthdevon]

With the new changes coming in on promoted listings where you "pay if your promoted listing is clicked" and sells within 30 days, causing some debate, was interested to see if other sellers use promoted listings, what percentage do you set, what type of promotion you use and what works for  you?  Do you sell without any promotion?  Promoted v's not promoted?  Have you recently switched them off with this announcement, will remain unchanged or increase rate?  If you have increased or switched off what are your findings? Would be interested to see. Will you be switching off when this comes into practice or remain the same? With all the changes here and ever increasing fees it is hard to know what to do for the best and what will work, if anything.

On another community chat someone posted their stats where they had recently switched off which was quite interesting, obviously a lot depends on what you sell and the market for it.  Post what you do, how it works for you and maybe show us your promotion/not promoted stats and the type of products you sell.

[pollythepink]

There is no point in promoting items, I find if I have seen an item to buy for myself I look at the details then if not suitable I just skim past it when I see it again . It's just the same photo repeated, such a pointless exercise. And your paying more for it.

[nigel_paul_wright7557]

Doesnt matter how much you promote an item, if the buyer doesnt want it then they wont buy it.

[oceanartsnorthdevon]

I have removed all promotions since June (except for around half a dozen items) initially sales fell off a cliff but steadied for a while and not much different to when all were promoted but still not back to where they should be a few years back.  These last couple of weeks sales have been dire and I did notice an anomaly with the organic traffic reading on 17/10/25 where apparently I had only 8 views - and Sunday just gone is showing 13 (although this could still be reporting?) . So don't know what is going on there?