If you use AdCommerce and direct buyers to a specific listing it isn’t counted as an “impression” as they didn’t appear in search results.

Also, by using eBay’s Adcommerce scheme couldn’t you infact be damaging your visibility by increasing the number of impressions?

At one time it seemed like just about anything could be sold on eBay. A dodgy photo, A description in Purple capitals & terms like. No time wasters – if it doesn’t arrive call Royal Mail & you could still get a sale.

Don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard for so little in 30 years. If it still works for you that’s great, but for some things it’s become more effort than it’s worth. I have to question whether some folk are living on pure cash flow rather than making a sensible profit. Short term that works well during a tough patch, but long term it’s a recipe for disaster. I’ve seen it happen to far too many once big sellers on eBay. Randy Smythe once described it as “eBay Crack” in one of his articles.

If eBay wasn’t worth the pain I would have left years ago.

Ebay’s profits were down a third last quarter, so expect to be squeezed more until your pips squeak.

I don’t mean to be facetious, but good luck.

Costs involved are minimal, a typical call to us might cost me 10p. No need to be suspicious

And if you find cheaper elsewhere, I got that covered also http://www.thewhirlpoolbathshop.com/Price-Promise-i-18.html

Trust suggests HONESTY

This is something which appears sadly lacking within ebays methodology is calculating DSR’s

Item as described – Quite simply if an item is Not as described the buyer if fully entitled to return the product and seek a refund.

There should not be a sliding scale of Honesty with star values. Either the product is as described or it isn’t

Communication – If sellers are going to be judged on communication or lack of it – leave it to the sellers to decide content and frequency. With ebay now sending pre formatted emails to buyers the value of communication stars is diminished.

Dispatch time – Every listing now requires a Dispatch time. It surely can not be that hard to calculate the time between payment being received and the seller notifying the buyer of dispatch and comparing that number against the stated dispatch time. Buyers judge the arrival time and not dispatch time, and sellers have no control over post delays.

Postage and packaging charges – Within those categories that are FREE post this is a pointless DSR. Since shipping items with FREE post I have received low DSR marks within this DSR.

Following the low DSR marks for P & P my TSR score is at risk.

I might loose my TSR because I have been marked down on the P & P DSR despite Free post.
The loss of TRS status will effect sales and discounts and yet ebay are quite happy to accept data which clearly FALSE (How on each can P & P charges be excessive if P & P is Free), and penalise me on it.

Before they start going on about Trust, they need to get there own house in order

but its better than going hungry.

some folk get hung up on margins and percentages and forget they have to eat.

On most of my higher priced items, I always offer free shipping as an extra bonus for my buyers but what irks me is that in my niche, best match, the TRS’s still outrank me using comparative band names in their titles even though it’s keyword stuffing. My sales have plummeted in the last few months on eBay but than God I send inserts to my customers and I get many of them buying from me directly instead of through eBay. That’s eBays loss.

Or they could just remove the FVF charge off the last x number of pounds (dependent on category).

Either way it wouldn’t reveal any costs to eBay they wouldn’t already know.

http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=1200321317&tstart=0&mod=1256838234700

Apparently there was one poor bemused eBayer there who didn’t really understand what was going on. He had a shooting star all right – trouble was eBay were talking about all this selling stuff and he’d never sold a thing on eBay!

His shooter was entirely from buying activity!