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Ebay Store
 

OK here is the question for all you guys.

What are the benefits of opening an ebay store as opposed to my 1000/50,000 regular account.

Do I save money on Fees?
Do I get better visibility?
I do think you can put your store on vacation rather than deactivating all listing when I go on 10 day vacation.
Any and all feedback appreciated.
I have 4 accounts but only considering store for one of them. My acct that sells the most, but doesn't make the most money.

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The vacation setting is only available to those with the store subscription. For 20$ a month basic store it pays for itself because it saves you in fees.

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LOWER FEE,AUTORELISTING,cant think of anything else.
if you have a store,you buyer will be more enticed to see what else you have in store after he places one in his cart

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As for vacation settings, if your handling time is 3 days and you dont ship for 10, you will still get the defect even though you have the vacation setting on.

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Well that was pretty much the only reason I would have signed up as I retired and plan on traveling 12-15 weeks out of the year, thanks for that. I guess I will just have to cancel all of my listings when I leave.

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You can also prevent your items from being bought in the first place. I've used it a lot this year, with all the travelling I've been doing.

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Read what I said above this post.

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How do you do that?

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You can simply use the "hide your listings " feature with a store. Every item is removed from search which prevents any sales during your vacation. This feature is only available with a store and you'll be able to read all of the details on Ebay's help section as they have an entire article written about it. A must for all who travel.

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you can have items to be seeon but cannot be bought,go to store subscription features

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Select "hide listings" under vacation settings.

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If you're only wanting a store to be able to disable your listings whenever you want, why not just zero out all of your listings before you go on trips and save the $20/mo?

2 accounts of mine have store subscriptions and I've never really seen the point. They let you make a store which helps if you're trying to promote your own brand, but that's the only thing that's been even remotely beneficial to me. In my category I think the FVF's are the same with or without a store.. but maybe I'm wrong.

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That's a big NEGATIVE, ghostrider! :lol:

If the account sells much, it's needs to be at least a basic store. ~4% difference in fees for that category.

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Hard job .keep few good accounts is ok.

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top rated plus seller gets a 10% discount on FVF of item,not shipping,also free
Ebay shipping supplies.
why hide your items,you can show your items but buyers cant buy them,

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What??????

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I've never seen any difference on my invoices, and I'm almost always selling the same items on accounts with stores vs. accounts without stores. :noidea:

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Most of your items are bundled, throw that shiit in accessories>Mixed Lots and save 30% on your fees!

6.15% vs 9.15%

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I don't know if exposure would be the same, but I'll probably give it a try. :)

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Let's be honest, who searches by category?!

But you know ebay buyers... they do so some amazingly stupid things! :lol:

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I used to list coffee makers in industrial that basically had zero selling fees at the time. I would get limited at 5 sales on new accounts and get warnings on established accounts. Then, during those years, I could make a new account in 12 minutes and about $2.00 so I did not care much. Now, it is altogether different!

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I was figuring different (less popular) categories would rank differently in search, especially in such a saturated category where listings in the defacto accessories category are getting thousands of views a day. But I don't think I've ever tried that category, so I don't know.