The Christmas Decorations are up in my eBay shop
17/12/2008 at 13:25
I’ve been far too busy to put up the Christmas decorations at home and they’ll probably not go up until this weekend, but I’ve decorated my eBay shop .
The good news is that it didn’t take me any time at all – the guys at Frooition offer a service where they’ll decorate your eBay shop for you, and what’s even better when you’re ready to take them down they pack the decorations away and restore you shop back to it’s normal appearance in the New Year.
The Frootion Xmas graphics pack is just one of the options available for Frooition eBay shops, they’ve added in a whole suite of Frooition Extras to allow your buyers to shop by Size, Price or Brand. You can select extras you want to transform your eBay shop tailoring it to exactly suit the type of products you sell and the type of buyer you want to appeal to.
I quite like the seasonal changes that are possible with my eBay shop and yes “Sandwich Lady” is still there, but now she’s got a tree on her desk 
whirly says
1:30 pm on 17/12/2008
It’s been a while since you had your shop juiced up by frooition, have you noticed a steady increase in business which you could attribute to the new design?
Jimbo says
1:36 pm on 17/12/2008
& only £70.00 a pop!
katakitty says
1:37 pm on 17/12/2008
She really should be eating a mince pie !
northumbrian says
1:40 pm on 17/12/2008
she should have finished her lunch and be stuffing the turkey now
Chris Dawson says
1:42 pm on 17/12/2008
#1 To be totally honest I have say that this year has had SO many changes it’s almost impossible for me to attribute sales to any single one. Almost as soon as my Frooition shop was implemented eBay tested SIF in search visibility, had a summer long free Gallery offer (and later in the year made it free forever), had a fee promotion in Tech categories for over a month, and then when that ended totally revamped the entire fee stucture scrapping SIF in favour of 30 day BINs not to mention introducing the new Search and Best Match.
I’d love to be able to put a figure on it, but I can’t. However from a purely professional viewpoint the graphics alone would be worth the cost to me, the ability to choose a Star item and Top Five items definitely increases sales for those product lines and the overall image is professional and contemporary which suits the products I sell.
Chris Dawson says
1:44 pm on 17/12/2008
#2 But re-usable graphics for next year…
whirly says
1:51 pm on 17/12/2008
#5 I thought that after asking but it was to late
Imho the design definitely suits technology products.
northumbrian says
2:06 pm on 17/12/2008
Could I put it another way chris
if you were paying the full price would you still use it
Jimbo says
2:25 pm on 17/12/2008
& Chris what if Christmas is cancelled next year?
Chris Dawson says
2:29 pm on 17/12/2008
#8 Yes – I’ve already renewed my Frooition subscriptions for another six months (and paid for it). It’s no secret that in the past I wasn’t exactly complimentary about Frooition shops (or Creativebay as they were in the old days), but I was wrong – they’re darn good!
The secret is as with any design you get out what you put in, and if you ask for an over the top design they’ll give you one, or if you ask for an elegant minimalist design like mine they’ll do that too. I like minimalist and in some ways it’s harder than full blown graphics, but it’s horses for courses.
If anyone’s thinking about a design from Frooition or elsewhere I’d recommend thinking about your customers, and don’t add every last graphic that you can just because you’re paying for it – sometimes less is more
#9 You the Grinch or summat?
whirly says
2:39 pm on 17/12/2008
#8 Norf, they have a great big frooition advert on the home page.
Can’t see Chris doing a George Ratner just yet
Although I have been after that big ad space for sometime, maybe it’s time the frooition boys buggered off for a bit so I can advertise my Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr/June…Sales
northumbrian says
3:13 pm on 17/12/2008
I like minalmist too! I dont have a design or graphics at all from any body or anything
takes me all me time to put the full stops and commers in
lol
northumbrian says
3:16 pm on 17/12/2008
if christmas was cancelled next year there would be so much lack of expense, so many policemen, firemen ,nurses doctors,
and social workers with time do other things than pick up the pieces from alcohol abuse and family rows,
christmas would never happen again
Eddie says
4:03 pm on 17/12/2008
Ohhhhhhh your so 2007 Northy !
Its periods and comma’s now, not full stops and commers
Get with it man!
northumbrian says
4:11 pm on 17/12/2008
Periods?
I am listing on ebay not having a sex change
John Pemberton says
4:32 pm on 17/12/2008
#10 any Tamebay promo’s with Frooition welcome
Neil says
9:34 pm on 17/12/2008
Frooition will let you host the graphics yourself, we do this and can change the graphics on the shop as often as we like for free.
Chris Dawson says
9:42 pm on 17/12/2008
#17 Ohhh will they? I didn’t know that! Mind you, if you saw my attempts at creating graphics you’d know why Sue’s banned me from doing any for TameBay and the same advice probably holds true for my eBay shop
Kate says
9:51 pm on 17/12/2008
#14 & #15 saying “periods” instead of “full stops” is just an Americanism, nothing modern or “with it” about it! I’m British and I speak British English so full stops it is.
Board_Surfer says
10:10 pm on 17/12/2008
That and you can only use periods once a month.
And even then its a pain (allegedly).
Board_Surfer says
10:11 pm on 17/12/2008
hmmm me thinks the edit facility may be malfunctioning.
Adam says
4:01 pm on 19/12/2008
I didnt know you could host your own graphics.
It would be good to be able to have control over it yourself.
P.S. i had the xmas package last year! Forgot it this time around!
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/SupplementCentre