Promoting your items on ebay?

Buster_Danog

Is there anyone here who regularly sells the same item, or similar items and has used any of ebay's promotion tools. The only thing I really use is the gallery photo as I believe it stands out a bit, but there are services where you can pay to have a big ad of your product come up in certain catagories, and such like.

Has anyone tried these services and if so, have they made any difference to your sales?

I remember paying £10 to have a 3g mobile advertised in a "featured listing" part on the top of the page. I think I paid £10 for that and got well over the odds for the phone although that was Christmas time and there may have been a bidding frenzy.

~cleo~

i regularly sell the same products - i was only using the gallery feature, until one day i was looking through similar products to mine and saw someone using lovely templates and i purchased a couple and im sure it has improved my final prices well worth the investment of £3 lol :rotfl:

windswept

I have had a featured listing going since saturday, not one sale as yet.:o
so that was probably a waste of £13.00, it's on a 10 day listing but it wont get on the front page of the main toy category till at least half way through the 10th day. there are only 3 featured listings in my sub-cat too.
I haven't had as many lookers to the featured one as I had for the one in my shop inventory (till I removed it). don't understand that at all?
I have 5 different listings running in different sub cats, it's not a specific category, it's so hard to judge where to put it as all the cats. are very full.
they won't even get noticed for a couple more days, that's why I thought the featured was a good idea! they are a totally new thing in this country so people wont even be searching for them by name.
if they don't sell my hubby will throttle me for ordering 100!

Buster_Danog

I hope you have some luck then windswept. I think it's a brave decision to order 100 of anything, because the competition seems to be so stiff on there.

Cleo, I design my listings using HTML so if you are talking about how your page looks then I seemt o be doing the job already. That doesn't change the fact that orders are eratic. I can have 13 or 14 in one week, then the next week I might have 3 or 4 with a lot of effort. That has happened a few times since I started advertising on ebay and I have never figured out why.

apprentice_tycoon

windswept wrote: »

I have had a featured listing going since saturday, not one sale as yet.:o
so that was probably a waste of £13.00, it's on a 10 day listing but it wont get on the front page of the main toy category till at least half way through the 10th day. there are only 3 featured listings in my sub-cat too.
I haven't had as many lookers to the featured one as I had for the one in my shop inventory (till I removed it). don't understand that at all?
I have 5 different listings running in different sub cats, it's not a specific category, it's so hard to judge where to put it as all the cats. are very full.
they won't even get noticed for a couple more days, that's why I thought the featured was a good idea! they are a totally new thing in this country so people wont even be searching for them by name.
if they don't sell my hubby will throttle me for ordering 100!

Would it help to put one listing of the new toy in somewhere like the 'weird stuff' subcategory of collectables, you could move one of your listings over for free for a day or so to see if it gets any views and move it back again if it doesn't.

windswept

Franco78 wrote: »

I hope you have some luck then windswept. I think it's a brave decision to order 100 of anything, because the competition seems to be so stiff on there.

Cleo, I design my listings using HTML so if you are talking about how your page looks then I seemt o be doing the job already. That doesn't change the fact that orders are eratic. I can have 13 or 14 in one week, then the next week I might have 3 or 4 with a lot of effort. That has happened a few times since I started advertising on ebay and I have never figured out why.

I ordered so many because I sell at events and show too, even if they dont sell on ebay, they will sell , they are "novelty" type things that sell well at events .
I have also put the price a bit high on ebay, just to see if they sell, I can reduce them to £ 9.99 if I need to, cheaper listing then as well.
I'll be able to try markdown manager, haven't seen it in action yet, if anyone has, can you chuck me a linky please?

jasmineswhiskers

windswept wrote: »

I have had a featured listing going since saturday, not one sale as yet.:o
so that was probably a waste of £13.00, it's on a 10 day listing but it wont get on the front page of the main toy category till at least half way through the 10th day. there are only 3 featured listings in my sub-cat too.
I haven't had as many lookers to the featured one as I had for the one in my shop inventory (till I removed it). don't understand that at all?
I have 5 different listings running in different sub cats, it's not a specific category, it's so hard to judge where to put it as all the cats. are very full.
they won't even get noticed for a couple more days, that's why I thought the featured was a good idea! they are a totally new thing in this country so people wont even be searching for them by name.
if they don't sell my hubby will throttle me for ordering 100!

I think that if you're a business seller then all singing, all dancing ads suggest a professionalism to what you are doing. For example I bought a branded Kettle last month (the seller sold all sorts of new kitchen goods) and a well designed ebay shop was appropriate and what I would expect. However if I am interested in a private sellers item then for me it works the other way round. I would rather see a simple honest listing with a clear photo and description. Nothing flowery or fancy. Suggests it's just someone trying to get rid of something they no longer want. Of course this is a bit of a generalisation and I judge listings on other criteria too.

Jakejakejake

I put my o2 sim cards on featured listings ususally once a month..... but never again - Last time only sold 5, and lost £8! Was very strange as i usually sell 30 each time.. Oh well, you win some you lose some Ay!!

Flexible_Friend

This seller has used Markdown Manager ... looks OK to me.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/JAS-Designer-Lingerie-World_W0QQfsubZ0QQsclZQ2d1QQtZkm