Whats the best way to keep your place on the EB page If you run out of stock ?

[Bradd]

Do you put the price up and wait untill you get stock in then drop the price back down ?

Or just end the item then relist it when you get the stock ?

I just recently hiked the price up because i didnt want to lose my sales history

When you just relist you have to start from zero sales history Do you get what i mean ?

[JamesNorth101]

A lot of people just put the price way up

[Bradd]

Originally Posted by JamesNorth101

A lot of people just put the price way up

I know and you still get people email you saying why have you raised the price three fold

[rsot]

Originally Posted by Bradd

I know and you still get people email you saying why have you raised the price three fold

All part of the business - don't necessarily have to reply.

[Sunspot144]

Originally Posted by Bradd

I know and you still get people email you saying why have you raised the price three fold

Had a guy shame me for doing this saying I was making it harder for the community to enjoy the hobby.

Are good til canceled listings not a thing with stealth?

[rsot]

Originally Posted by Sunspot144

Had a guy shame me for doing this saying I was making it harder for the community to enjoy the hobby.

Are good til canceled listings not a thing with stealth?

I use GTC listings on stealth - no issues there - REALLY depends on your product

[phaz0rz]

It's bad for your account metrics to raise the price dramatically and purposely drop your sales to zero. It also looks unprofessional (especially to your average buyer) in my opinion.

It's a lot better to just enable to "out of stock option" in your account settings then let the listing sell to 0 and remain out of stock until you're restocked. Using the out of stock option your listing stays active with 0 quantity so you don't lose all your "items sold" or listing watchers.

[Bradd]

Originally Posted by Sunspot144

Had a guy shame me for doing this saying I was making it harder for the community to enjoy the hobby.

Are good til canceled listings not a thing with stealth?

Hahahahahahaha

[Bradd]

Originally Posted by phaz0rz

It's bad for your account metrics to raise the price dramatically and purposely drop your sales to zero. It also looks unprofessional (especially to your average buyer) in my opinion.

It's a lot better to just enable to "out of stock option" in your account settings then let the listing sell to 0 and remain out of stock until you're restocked. Using the out of stock option your listing stays active with 0 quantity so you don't lose all your "items sold" or listing watchers.

Thats great advice ,.Just out of interest how far down do you go when you relist them again

[phaz0rz]

Originally Posted by Bradd

Thats great advice ,.Just out of interest how far down do you go when you relist them again

The longer you leave your listings sold out the more of a hit they take when you reactivate them in my experience.

As long as you don't stay sold out for more than a week or so it usually only takes a few days for a listing to regain the traction it had before selling out. Say you have a listing with 583 units sold, selling ~20 per day. You run out and the listing stays at 0 for a week while you wait on your next shipment. When you get more and add to the listing's available quantity, you may get 3 sales on day 1, 10 on day 2, and by day 3 the listing is just as active as it was before you sold out.

But if you were to leave the listing sold out for a month it would take a lot longer to regain it's traction, if it ever does.

FYI, all of the sellers on eBay you see with 10,000+ units sold are using the out of stock option. Even a company with the best possible supply chain setup sells out sometimes.

[Pandoras_box]

Originally Posted by phaz0rz

It's bad for your account metrics to raise the price dramatically and purposely drop your sales to zero. It also looks unprofessional (especially to your average buyer) in my opinion.

It's a lot better to just enable to "out of stock option" in your account settings then let the listing sell to 0 and remain out of stock until you're restocked. Using the out of stock option your listing stays active with 0 quantity so you don't lose all your "items sold" or listing watchers.

This is precisely what I was going to say, but you've stated it already, even more eloquently.

Originally Posted by rsot

All part of the business - don't necessarily have to reply.

A little something in me dies whenever I leave a repeat customer hanging.

[SaiJin]

Hmm for me even when I'm on vacation mode the search standing actually drops.

So I raise the price by 50-100%

[Bradd]

This out of stock feature sounds really good

If i know im getting stock in a weeks times il sometimes just put a longer delivery date to cover that period