Excelrye
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posted on March 23, 2004 08:58:45 PM new
I'm going to make this one brief. I posted a similar message in this forum around a month ago with some excellent suggestions may I ad!
I asked those who had/have Ebay Stores in this forum to tell me the pros and cons to opening an Ebay Store. Some of you though it was "The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread", while other though it was a total waste of time or a "Money Pit"!
Many of the resoponses echoed the same problem....that is trying to drive traffic to your store since Ebay won't promote your store in it's internal search engine. However I checked out my chief competition today and noticed he had all 360 of his auctions running through his Ebay store. Just for fun I decided to enter in relevant search terms for products we both carry.....guess what!
All his listings were displayed via Ebays internal search engine while he's paying $0.02 a listing and I'm paying a wopping $0.55 or $700.00 a month! I don't understand what the hecks going...can someone please fill me in?
Also does anyone know of some other ways to drive traffic to your Ebay Store, without having to run a "Freaking Google ad Campain"
Warmest Wishes,
RC
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Reamond
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posted on March 24, 2004 12:09:04 AM new
If you have a store all your auction listings appear in it too.
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gousainc-07
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posted on March 24, 2004 12:20:26 AM new
Starting in April 2004, items listed in Store Inventory format will be easier to find from eBay's main search. Instead of Store Inventory items being only searchable from the eBay Stores specialty site, customers will be able to find them from eBay's main search. In fact, if a search yields 10 or fewer listings from eBay's core site, Stores item will be displayed prominently.
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gousainc-07
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posted on March 24, 2004 12:25:48 AM new
It is hard to say you were mistaken in what you saw, since we do not have access to what you were looking at, but as Reamond subtly suggested. It may be possible you mis-interpreted what was in the other seller's "eBay Store" and what showed up in an auction search.
Right now, all of a seller's auctions are in his store, but the actual "Store" items do not show up in an auction search.
Respectfully,
Mike
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neglus
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posted on March 24, 2004 04:31:25 AM new
The items listed with "time left" column filled in are auction listings that appear in the sellers' "store" - the fixed price listings without values in the "time left" column are store items only and should not appear in the regular ebay search.
But who knows?? I swear sometimes my store items must appear in the search because all of a sudden I get a string of sales.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on March 24, 2004 05:57:38 AM new
It's simple, really. Your store items appear in your Seller List. Seller Lists are looked at far more often than most people think.
I just opened my eBay Store and have sold a number of store listings. Gotta put more stuff in it today.
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"The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: `If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping Up and Down.'" -- Rita Rudner
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neglus
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posted on March 24, 2004 06:33:34 AM new
My Seller list is over 3,000 items long...the only way anyone will find anything is through a "search" unless they have WAAAAAAAAAAY too much time on their hands!
I firmly believe that the best way to get people to visit your store is to run a lot of auctions and shamelessly promote your store listings in your auctions. I know my store sales increase in proportion to the number of auctions I am running. You might get the same results with a few high visibility listings. The point is, you have to get people to want to make the extra click because that is the ONLY way they will find you.
Just because you open a store doesn't mean that you will get people to look at it, any more than just opening a web-site will insure you will have traffic. The internet is a BIG place..you have to be a little creative in getting the store to work for you.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on March 24, 2004 07:22:10 AM new
neglus: Once someone gets to your store, isn't there a search box for just your store? There is for mine.
I may be unusual, granted, in that I have some customers who will buy (or at least consider) almost anything I list.
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"The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: `If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping Up and Down.'" -- Rita Rudner
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on March 24, 2004 07:36:02 AM new
My Seller list is over 3,000 items long...
I'm not sure why you think that is a deterrent to searching your list. It's not.
It took me 18 seconds to load your complete list (all on one page) of 3051 items on my definitely not state-of-the-art Compaq laptop with 1.4 ghz Athlon processor and cable modem. Searching on a specific string ( "Oregon" ) took less than one second after I hit the button.
That's more than acceptable to me, and I'm a demon for fast loading. One only needs to load your seller list once to search the whole thing, using a local string search rather than eBay's search.
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"The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: `If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping Up and Down.'" -- Rita Rudner
[ edited by fluffythewondercat on Mar 24, 2004 07:36 AM ]
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neglus
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posted on March 24, 2004 07:58:18 AM new
Fluff - what I meant was that in order to find anything in that mess of listings the buyers should use the search box. I try to make it a little easier for them in my regular listings by directing them to a specific search link related to the item they are viewing (ie: "see my other los angeles listings" - it's working well.
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neglus
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posted on March 24, 2004 08:24:04 AM new
Fluff - how do you select to see the items all on one page? I am going crazy trying to monitor my auctions with all the store stuff mixed in. I finally made my own seller search "auction" tab as my home page so at least I can see the auctions all at once. I still have to go to "My Ebay" to see the sales.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on March 24, 2004 08:39:55 AM new
Click "Search" on the top menu bar on any eBay page.
Click "By Seller".
Enter seller id and pull down the "Results per page" menu to select "All items on one page"
Click "Search" button
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Okay, now I've got your Seller List of 3,064 items. I use Internet Explorer's Find function (Cntl-F) to find what I'm looking for on your page.
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"The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: `If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping Up and Down.'" -- Rita Rudner
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