allcash7
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posted on October 4, 2008 10:23:42 PM new
Hi. Any success yet on the 30 day auction? I'm curious if you who are using this new feature are having better success on the 30/GTC auction versus putting the item in your store. I'd appreciate hearing from you. TU!!
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allcash7
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posted on October 4, 2008 10:38:09 PM new
Hi, I am talking about ebay here in case my question was not complete. Thanks.
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davebraun
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posted on October 4, 2008 11:58:42 PM new
So far the 30 day fixed price offerings have been a complete waste of time. I believe it's eBays way of telling smaller sellers that they are not wanted on the site.
They are given low priority in the searches.
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ladyjewels2000
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posted on October 5, 2008 08:18:15 AM new
I've sold a few items in FP GTC but I had a increase in store sales last week. So my question would be did the GTC help the store? Maybe but it's hard to tell, it too hard to tell anything anymore since we never really know where we are in the search from day to day.
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pixiamom
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posted on October 5, 2008 08:52:43 AM new
Despite the weird search antics at the beginning, and given that eBay US feed to Google has stopped, my 30 day BIN have been doing fairly well and seems to give added exposure to my store.
[ edited by pixiamom on Oct 5, 2008 08:53 AM ]
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neglus
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posted on October 5, 2008 09:24:48 AM new
I think that ebay.com items are appearing on Google again. I think I remember reading somewhere that ebay started spending more on adwords again.
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http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards?refid=store
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wgonzales
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posted on October 5, 2008 01:51:46 PM new
I put a small percentage of items up on 30 day FP, most with "free" shipping, to see what would happen. I used the "free" ship, as I generally do poorly with the FP format.
First thing I noticed is that the hits on the counters have been much higher than I get either for store items or auction listings. More than double what I usually get over a 7 day period for a regular auction. This can't be a bad thing.
BUT all of the items I sold from the FP were to one repeat buyer, who probably would have looked through the store anyway.
It is possible that the added exposure has helped increase traffic to the store, but I don't really know if sales are doing okay because of this or for other reasons, such as just having the right items up at the right time, as my sales always seem to come (and go) in streaks.
When I search my free shipping FP items they have been coming up quite high, so the experiment will continue for another month or two.
Susan
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pixiamom
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posted on October 5, 2008 05:27:07 PM new
As a general rule, I put my more common listings at BIN and the choicer items I list as auctions. I broke that rule by listing a very choice card that appealed to a very limited market at $100 BIN, immediate payment required with free shipping & insurance (a price I would have been thrilled to get at auction). It sold within an hour and a half. I missed the upside, if there had been 2 anxious bidders, it might have sold for 3 times what I got for it. Those happy-dance auctions just don't occur very often at all lately- I'm more likely to sell things at opening bid.
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ggardenour
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posted on October 6, 2008 06:34:00 AM new
I agree Pix a happy dance moment would be nice.
I have done a few 30/fp nothing exciting. I have sold a few but it is hard to get excited about the .35 upfront AND the 12.5% on the back end.
$10.00 Sale price- Listing fee .35, FVF $1.20 $ .60 Papal fees = 20% to eBay
Millions to Meg and her cronies for running eBay into the ground PRICELESS.
That IS the mantra in todays market.
Give me 40 million. I can screw these companys up just as well if not better then any of these clowns.
Sorry got of the subject and onto the soapbox sorry.
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carolinetyler
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posted on October 6, 2008 08:35:34 AM new
I haven't made any sales on these fp listings, but I'm using them for higher end items that can be slow movers - and these aren't exactly flying off the shelves when the stock markets tanking every other day.
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pixiamom
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posted on October 7, 2008 11:34:03 AM new
I had someone buy 3 of my 30-day BIN and 26 of my store items today. 
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