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Listing on Ebay, lower price or free post

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  • Belenus
    Belenus Posts: 2,756 Forumite
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    You could research sold listings and see if you can discern a difference between free postage and charged postage success.
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  • soolin said:
    se2020 said:
    Do a few test runs,
    List the same item twice with both options and see which sells first.

    Just remember to end the 2nd if the first ones sells.
    You can't do duplicate listings on ebay. The system either stops you, or else hides one of them.

    You could try it with 2 similar items, list one with and one without free postage but both totalling the same, and see if one sells better than the other. If you repeat that with a few similar items you might see a pattern emerge.
    You can just change one or two words around in the item title and it lists both fine. 
  • se2020
    se2020 Posts: 553 Forumite
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    Or just add an A & B or 1 &2 to the titles.
    Then they should both appear equally in searches 

    I think the ebay search results lists free postage items higher so that might be part of the reason for better sales on those listings
  • soolin
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    I’m not convinced that similar items aren’t also demoted down the listings, on my business account I sold a number of identical widgets in different colours, so I’d list say a quantity of blue on a single listing , then a quantity of red then yellow etc. the first colour listed would outsell all the other colours combined, then when that colour ran out, the 2nd colour started selling. If I searched for my widget via a different account they were spaced far apart on best match , with even one or two colours not showing at all until after the ‘other’ suggestions that eBay offer.

    I am now consolidating my listings so have all the widgets on an MVL so buyers see one listing , all the same price, and just choose the colour. Virtually all the colours sell in fairly equal numbers , except for one colour which is not popular at all. 
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  • I list with free postage and factor it into the starting price. It stops the whingers who think bubble wrap etc. grows on trees from marking you down for over-charging or not sticking the stamp on straight etc. It might cause a problem for business sellers in getting people to buy multiple items, but my stuff is random house clearance so that rarely arises.
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