Offering Multiple Quantities on eBay
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Chuck writes:
I’ve run into a situation where I have access to some product people order over and over and over.
I’ve perused eBay and ran across a listing where the seller had it set up where the buyer could select order quantities right there in the eBay listing.
For the life of me I cannot figure out how to replicate this.
I’m sure with your experience you have heard of this type of thing.
How do I do it?
I’m assuming Chuck wants something like this…
To enable the multiple quantity feature, simply select the fixed price selling format and enter an appropriate number in the Quantity box:
That’s all there is to it.
If you’ve got a question for me, feel free to drop me a note.
Are You Promoting Other Sellers on Your eBay Listing?
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A letter to AuctionBytes a few weeks ago warning sellers that eBay was displaying links to my competitors’ auctions on my listings had me concerned. I immediately tubed up my listings and was relieved when I found that this issue was apparently not impacting me.
It wasn’t until I wanted to make a quick check on my listing description from my work that I discovered that eBay conveniently does not display competitors listings to me (on my auctions) when I’m logged in. Here’s what the bottom of the listing I PAID FOR looks like after I’ve logged out:
Pretty sneaky if you ask me. I’m always logged in when I look at my listings.
How to Stop Promoting Your Competitors
To opt-out of this click on My eBay and log in if prompted.
Click on the on the “Account” tab and select “Marketing Tools” from the menu that appears.
Next, click “Promote Similar Items” from the menu on the left and opt out.
In subdued text, eBay tries to subliminally inform the seller the gravity of their decision:
By declining this option:
- You’ll be missing out on reaching thousands of eBay buyers who are interested in items like yours
- Your items will only be displayed on pages and emails directly related to your listings
- Items from other sellers will not be displayed on your listings and emails related to your items
Of course eBay wants you to think you are missing out on cross-promoting your items on other seller’s listings, but read the fine print:
Items are chosen based on popularity–the items in the same category most watched by buyers.
So, unless your listings is one of the five most watched items in your category, you’re really not getting any additional exposure are you?
Of course, if your listing does garner a lot of watchers, it would be prudent to opt back in to this program. Until then, count me out.
Earlier in the fall I experienced a rash of unpaid bidders. It gets really frustrating when an auction-style listing closes at a higher final bid price than I expected but the high-bidder does not come through. While I can send a second chance offer to the next highest bidder, completing the the unpaid bidder process takes a long time. By the time it is resolved, the runner-up bidder has either made a purchase from somebody else or lost interest in my product. All you can do is relist and hope for another bidding war.
However, I recently discovered that you can edit your account preferences to insulate yourself from habitual unpaid bidders. Here’s how: Read more
How to Market Your eBay Listings on Twitter
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Twitter is all the rage these days and many sellers are successfully using the social media tool to market their eBay listings. In fact, eBay sellers were promoting their listings at a rate exceeding 1200 “tweets” an hour yesterday. It follows that the rest of us eBay sellers might want to join in, but, as with most things, to do it effectively, it’s not as simple as it looks.
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read other users’ messages called “tweets.” Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user’s profile page. Users may subscribe to other users’ tweets—this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers. Read more