Increasing Your Sales On eBay is Simple - Yet Many Ignore It

Right OK let's clear this up as it's quite simple (and harsh at the same time) if eBay are asking or intimidating you to do something you DO it, no negotiation, no choice as your business to make your own decisions for that business if the other option is to negatively impact you account or business then it's NOT a choice. Best price, Best listing, accurate and neat, FREE Postage, FREE returns, give the buyer everything they ask for if they want FREE dinner with it then you give it to them lol (maybe not the free dinner but it does feel like that)

Thank you for putting on these videos. I started in October 2023 and I can use all the help / Advice I can get ❤

What is Algorithm, please explain? I’m new to eBay and researching the best way to sell on eBay?

What is algorithm? How does it work. I’m a new be to eBay , doing my research and am trying to understand algorithms before I put anything on my site. Please help 😊😊

Makes sense

Ebay algorithm is a trip man. I used to sell a legit item, kept raising the price higher n higher n higher, kept selling. Pretty soon it was so expensive, buyers were getting pissed off when it arrived because for some reason the started thinking it was a whole big item when it was only a sample. Thats all it ever was, samples of an item. Clearly titled, descripted, pictured. WHen the price was super high, they would automatically think it was a whole big item and since thousands had bought it when it was cheap, the item showed thousands bought it, so buyers would just buy it before reading. So many people started buying the item, it just took off like crazy with a bunch of non readers. Then I would also put 2 for the remaining quantity so then most buyers would buy the last 2. Then the buyer was really really pissed that they bought 2 when it arrived. LOL. Super wierd, I was breaking no rules, ebay usually would side with me. Algorithm loving it some how. It pushed my item to the top of ebays pages. I had 97% positive rating, that was the only item that was super crazy at my store.

What do you do for living?

I know what's causing me not to get positive feedback on items sold on eBay, (and I have 100% positive feedback and am a Top-rated Seller) is: I sell high-end jewelry and eBay has decided that any New jewelry over $500 should go to their eBay authentication station in California and Then On to the buyer, which takes at least 2 weeks on average (and this was before the Christmas season) and when it really comes down to it, the majority of buyers have no patience.. and they want their stuff yesterday.. and how soon they get their jewelry is more important to them than the item being authenticated. So, ever since eBay started this authentication process, I receive maybe 1 positive feedback out of 10, whereas I had no problem receiving positive feedbacks before. And, in regards to item specifics, the majority of item specifics are lame... over half what eBay requires for item specifics is ridiculous, like having to tell the buyer which part of the ear the earring is to go into... seriously?! I just don't bother with item specifics.. it's like eBay thinks we're dealing with children!

ebay is dead

Hey Jon,
Thanks for your dedication to this platform, well appreciated. Selling is hard enough without a YOU TUBE channel Great Information 👍

You are wrong. eBay has a way of putting a spotlight on your store and then taking it off. It’s easy to just sit here and say people are doing things right to sell and then crying about it, but that’s not always the case. I research everything before i list, price competitive and fill out all specifics. I go days with no views watchers or sales then all of a sudden start selling between 10-15 things a day and then it stops again as fast as it started. That’s not organic. Been going on for three years now

I am good example. Ebayer, Etsy and my own website. I sell hoodies,tees,polos and tanks. Custom stuff. Sales generally around 300k a year. We make all stuff, no middleman! Sales have dropped big time the past 6 months. eBay the biggest hit. Conclusion is the economy. Been in business since 2003 so really know the market. I have had to go to the local market to compensate for the hit. Meaning screen printing for the local businesses.

Why promote for 10% ? Just make the item cheaper by 10%.

My total selling expenses are around 25% which includes shipping labels, ebay fees, and sales taxes. This does not include shipping supplies, returns, warehouse rent. Sometimes I feel like I'm working my ass off for somebody else.

Thank you.

I agree, I wonder if the person left off promoted listings for a month what the difference would be. Probably not nearly as good.

Promoted may work if the item is demand at that moment, is priced right and no bulk seller gets better promotion. So when you turn promoted on you may get some good sales for a while until you run out of items that meet that criteria.

I'm selling Surgical and Medical Products all over the world.. but it's quite difficult to get international sales your tips help me to boost sales

I disagree that we should be willing to play the game. That only leads to more antics. I have completely stopped promoting and have received more sales than when I was promoting everything. I still have some listings promoted but all new listings are going up with NO promotion.

Two problems besides economy of course shipping and past week the app has been having serious issues with the bar code to the point where sometimes you cant even get into the sales screen.

eBay is Over. It's that simple. The ship is sinking. So ebay charges more n more fees. And sellers seem to beg for more...
So yep all those folks saying it's a race to the bottom.. yep.
Also I do nothing ebay wants. Nothing. Fight every return.. No promoted listings. None.
I sell $1000-2000 a month.
I'm not here to make ebay rich.

So promoting my listings while wearing red underwear will help my sales? Got it!

He turned it off for one day and then back on, keep up. I does work with some seller's just like going in and moving photo's around on old listings still works. Any activity in your store works, it always has. Listing 10 or 15 a day doesn't matter if you have sellers selling hundreds of sell similar each night. Why bother listing at all if I can make it look like I listed 400 last night what is my little10 new listings going to do? If you live in an area that has great items to pick-up, high-priced items and give ebay 50 percent of each sale then you will do better on ebay. If you are in the middle of the country smallish town, you find what you can, Mercari is the place to sell on. You can consistently list and have sales on ebay and pay up to 25 percent in fees and still have no sells on ebay. At some point you have to question is this still the site for you. My answer is no it's not, I get a much better deal on Mercari, I can waste my time on ebay and get one or no sells per day or list on Mercari and get three sells in one day and keep more of the profit. Ebay has lost buyer's do to scamming seller's and now it's losing seller's due to poor management. The ap wasn't working this morning, all the glitches and back stabbing it is no longer worth it.

ebay wasn't showing peoples items for 3 weeks straight. they don't give a fuck about you. and all these idiots telling you to list every day are stupid.

Example: I listed a "ragdoll" (keywords plus more), didn't promote it. Searched "ragdoll" a bunch showed up. (Not mine) Went to someone's store that sold a "ragdoll", clicked on more like this. A bunch showed up....but not mine. Went back and promoted mine at 2%, waited awhile to give ebay a chance to catch up. Mine still didn't show up. Promoted at max suggested. Will check tomorrow to see if mine shows up.

Good morning John !!! Great video as always. For the record, I’m wearing red underwear everyday 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That was a funny comment on your video. Thanks for always being so transparent with us. 🙌🙌

Good video 😊

I’ve noticed on the small value items eBay would charge more to promote than what the item is wort(.

Jan 2022 I had 415 listings. All promoted from 4%-5% and I was making $50-$80 a day. My 90 day intake was $9,500. Now I have 605 listings. All promoted from 12.5%-20% and now I am lucky to make $20 a day and my 90 day intake is down to $7,000. I sell comics, vintage clothing, vintage knifes, and other collectables. Stuff that actually sells. Very odd how fast sales are dropping off.

In the eBay app under payments, none of the links are working. For instance charges and payments, payouts, on hold, ect. They all give me the same message, ALERT SERVER RESPONSE IS NOT VALID. is yours working. I updated the app. EBay for business was contacted over 3 hours an nobody cares to respond at all. Anyone else having this?

Slow sales fall partly on Sellers, but also partly on EBAY. Constant "Updates", and Glitches, ARE taking their Toll on Sales. A couple weeks ago, there was over 6 hours, the Search Feature, kept giving Errors. There are many other times, with other Ebay issues. You wouldn't want your CAR, to be as unreliable as Ebay is.

Approximately how many listings do you have up? Ballpark figure is fine.

Great Video as always thanks for the info

just wounding if anyone knows why ebay doesn't use google for a search engine. i have no idea how that works but im assuming google has something the same or better then cassini

All good points Thanks Jon

I am constantly going back and looking at my listings to see if I need to make adjustments to something title, price etc. Pricing can change monthly on items and what started competitively can all of a sudden put you on page 30 next month due to market fluctuations. With promoted I only promote items there are tons of similar ones to mine. If I am selling something there are only 4 of on ebay I feel there is no need to promote. It is no different than a regular store, things must be done to maintain it and keep it fresh and up to date including clearing out the old stuff. But this summer ebay has had a lot of problems itself making it that much harder to figure out.

Just reopened my account after long period of time. Starting from scratch, but I'm actually happy about that. Clean slate as they say. Thinned out a lot of things from old inventory and I'm being very picky about what I'm restocking with. If items aren't in near new condition or a vintage item I know a lot about, I'm just not going to buy them. Listing same or next 48 hours, so that I won't have that death pile to deal with has become very important to me as space has become an issue as well. May God bless you all mightily.

The international shipping program thought is wrong because it happens for domestic only listings as well especially anything military

It's proprietary info, and the engineers ain't gonna give away that info. It could maybe lead to hacking it i.m.o.

I searched for my items! No results. So i changed words...bingo. but thats rediculous

So do you recommend opting out of global shipping? You claim that it worked in your favor..but may not for Everyone. Just wondering is all thanks Jon .😎👋

To each their own its their items its their prices its whatever. I think account health is important point you hit. I think ppl will sell what they want to sell myself included. I've run down from 1k items to 800 items trying to sell higher ASP items and better sell through rates. But need to get rid of what I already have. I do this part time avg 6 sales or so a day. More on the weekends. I do promote at suggested rate unless high demand low listings item with good sell through than i promote much lower bc if only 3 and I have 1 of them I will just adjust promoted down and price down to sell faster. I know ebay has alot of issues and can watch 100 reseller channels with all the theories and what to do. Just make sure if you selling on ebay you understand its far from perfect far far far far and sometimes even seems broken. Which it really is...🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 But sell what you want just make sure its promoted and priced right and something ppl have bought in last 90 days and acct health is very important. Ship on time have item available so you not canceling out of stock. Describe item even if smallest flaw note it. So no Item not as described cases. If part time like me have fun with it watch all the channels you want will quickly learn which ones to sub to like this one and which ones to avoid bc nothing like your selling experience. Turn this on turn this off stop promoting wear red underwear was funny but on the same level. If anyone had the 1 answer they would be so rich and busy they couldn't and wouldn't even make you tube videos and why would they bc they figured out the 1 thing to make every reseller successful its never gonna happen.

I generally do better when I wear CLEAN underwear!😎

Good message...

I have been promoting my listings and I used AI in my listings my sales are picking up 🥰AI for handbags is awesome!!!!!