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Default I talked to eBay today and it is bad news!!

This is about promoted listings, I called eBay today and tried to explain to the rep that paying 10-20% over the fee we are already paying is eating up the profit margin.

The guy had some bad news for me, he said eBay is building its "advertising" business and is aiming for 1 billion in ad revenue in the coming two years and kept encouraging me to use their ugly new service, I quickly realized they want to give more room for promoted listings so I asked him if that will be the case and he confirmed it


They are on track to adopting the Etsy model where half the results on the 1st page are promoted listings.



I think they know eBay is a ghost town and there is no way to fix it, they want to milk their sellers and maximize profits until someone makes a bid for eBay.
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With the current state of their advertising, I am getting 60% of the sales I used to get back in 2017. The bad news is that the 60% will turn into 30% in the near future :-/
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With the current state of their advertising, I am getting 60% of the sales I used to get back in 2017. The bad news is that the 60% will turn into 30% in the near future :-/
wow I wonder what you're selling...
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wow I wonder what you're selling...
Mainly cheap items with prices ranging between 10-50$.
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I am up almost 100% from a year ago on ebay and I do not use promoted listings at all.
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Default Re: I talked to eBay today and it is bad news!!

but look at it on the bright side ,the weaker ones will drop out first,thin out the sellers rank and the surviving ones will make a fair profit.
I always believe Ebay should thin out the rank of sellers by raising the barrier of doing business,as sellers make decent money,they are more inclined to offer better service,better packing,better shipping.
I cant believe some of the sellers using worn torn walmart shopping bag for wrapping,using envelope for 3D objects,not buying insurance when it is called for .
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Don't forget paypal fees also
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If you sell in a niche you don't need to do anything other than sit back and wait for orders to come in.
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Don't forget paypal fees also
Paypal will always take their cut
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I miss the good old days when buyers sent postal and money orders,some will even send cash!
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I miss the good old days when buyers sent postal and money orders,some will even send cash!

What destroyed eBay and drove buyers away from it is Chinese sellers and I am not exaggerating at all. Most of them have feedback scores of 96% and below which is a disaster for long-term customer attainment. They lie about shipping times and buyers end up having to ship items back to China should they decide for a return. All of this resulted in buyers not wanting to shop on eBay anymore.


They sacrificed long-term growth for short-term profits and we sellers are now paying for it, they keep changing the CEO as if he has a magical wand or something when the fix is plain and simple, it is a marketplace for god's sake, not a space shuttle
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WOW, just think how much better you'd have done if you had.
I cant imagine. I have 23 listings on the first page.... how much better could I possibly do?
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find more profitable products to absorb the ad revenue. At least that's something you can control.
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Of course 10-20% is eating into profit margins, my 3-6% is eating into profit margins too but I'm happy to pay it as are those in your sectors.

It is what it is and as we've discussed many times before, ain't going away any time soon.
the problem is, ebay populates the search results with garbage chinese crap, from sellers that are willing to pay 20-50% ad fees. They are not competing against me directly, but they still pollute the searches unless people type in very good keywords, and I'm not going to pay a crap ton in order to be shown above them. I can't afford that.
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I miss the good old days when buyers sent postal and money orders,some will even send cash!
Those were the golden days no middleman PP taking its cut...

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the problem is, ebay populates the search results with garbage chinese crap, from sellers that are willing to pay 20-50% ad fees. They are not competing against me directly, but they still pollute the searches unless people type in very good keywords, and I'm not going to pay a crap ton in order to be shown above them. I can't afford that.
The major marketplaces are blackmailing sellers into paying up for placement in search. They claim it is "advertising" and a kind of "promotion", but these words are just to sugarcoat the ripoff.


The FTC seems like they are preparing something for Amazon with regard to their promoted listings, raising fees on sellers and the misuse of 3rd-party sellers' data used to launch Amazon's own private label products.


I will be having a spiritual orgasm once Amazon is dealt with via the FTC, I've had hope in the past that the Federal Cartel Office of Germany will do something about it, but it turned out they are an absolute joke
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The major marketplaces are blackmailing sellers into paying up for placement in search. They claim it is "advertising" and a kind of "promotion", but these words are just to sugarcoat the ripoff.


The FTC seems like they are preparing something for Amazon with regard to their promoted listings, raising fees on sellers and the misuse of 3rd-party sellers' data used to launch Amazon's own private label products.


I will be having a spiritual orgasm once Amazon is dealt with via the FTC, I've had hope in the past that the Federal Cartel Office of Germany will do something about it, but it turned out they are an absolute joke
at one point 10-20% of my sales were from promoted. Now it's 80-90%. And I'm too afraid to risk getting rid of promoted listings now that I have them going, in order to test if it would still work without me paying an extra 7%
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but look at it on the bright side ,the weaker ones will drop out first,thin out the sellers rank and the surviving ones will make a fair profit.
I always believe Ebay should thin out the rank of sellers by raising the barrier of doing business,as sellers make decent money,they are more inclined to offer better service,better packing,better shipping.
I cant believe some of the sellers using worn torn walmart shopping bag for wrapping,using envelope for 3D objects,not buying insurance when it is called for .
wow even yankee agreed with you and he used to be annoyed by you...

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What destroyed eBay and drove buyers away from it is Chinese sellers and I am not exaggerating at all. Most of them have feedback scores of 96% and below which is a disaster for long-term customer attainment. They lie about shipping times and buyers end up having to ship items back to China should they decide for a return. All of this resulted in buyers not wanting to shop on eBay anymore.


They sacrificed long-term growth for short-term profits and we sellers are now paying for it, they keep changing the CEO as if he has a magical wand or something when the fix is plain and simple, it is a marketplace for god's sake, not a space shuttle
they need to hire a female CEO then things will get better...
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