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

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 ?

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

A lot of people just put the price way up

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

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

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

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

Are good til canceled listings not a thing with stealth?

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

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

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

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.

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Hahahahahahaha:uk:

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

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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.

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


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

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

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

So I raise the price by 50-100%

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

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