posted on September 16, 2001 10:48:45 AM
People are finding and buying stuff from my eBay store. How the heck are they finding the items??? I figure my store is buried somewhere on pg 9,203 or something, and I'm not advertising at all, yet their finding and buying stuff. How??? There's no store search functionality yet, is there? It has to be off my auction pages unless there's some other way?? Approximately 30 store items have sold in the past week although I'm doing zilch to drive traffic there. I only had a handful of store sales prior to this week, but this week store sales really started taking off. Only 2 specific types of widgets are selling, but still. What's going on??? I'm wondering whether even eBay screwups (eBay stores) are going to turn to gold???
posted on September 16, 2001 11:07:22 AM
Glad you have been seeing lots of activity. As to its reason, it is a mystery to solve. I agree it is unlikely to be someone finding your store buried in the midst of thousands of others.
Most likely it is coming from your own auction pages - did you write some copy telling people to check your store, or put some hard links to it?
I once had a rash of bidding on a series of items because a reporter had written them up as part of an ebay story. They were testing how fast items were described, then packed shipped and received. I only found out when I sent emails to the bidders (many were from the same general area) asking how they found me.
posted on September 16, 2001 11:25:46 AM
Nope, no copy in my auctions or any mention of my eBay store anywhere. I'm still sitting here scratching my head! Heck, if you asked me I don't even know where on eBay my store is located!
Wait a second, there is a store link that eBay inserts at the bottom of your auction listings automatically. You might be right, that must be the way. Is that a new link they've added?
