If ebay know this, why don't they just stop shadow banning listings instead of putting this ridiculous burden on people? Frankly, they ought to be taken to court for hiding listings that people are paying them to host.

@deecry8087

2 ай бұрын

I wholeheartedly agree, there should be a lawsuit! This is SO frustrating!!! All they have to do is let the dagum items sell, collect their portion from fees, and let everyone be happy! So SICK of the games!!!

Thanks Nic, really useful advice here, much more helpful than anyone I've ever spoken to at Ebay. In the process of trying to clear my stock so that I can close my shop after 14 years on Ebay, am gutted but no longer viable and after 14 years as a business seller, 16,000 sold items, over 5,000 positive feedback (100% positive) they have now decided my most recent listing was counterfeit goods (I sell beauty and fragrance) Have sent photos, invoices from retailer where purchased and jumped through every hoop, still wont let me list. As if I would risk 14 years worth of building a reputable business to risk things now all of a sudden, am so utterly disillusioned with their constant automated response and inability to look at facts. Sorry for the rant, appreciate the great advice in this video

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

So sorry to hear this...

@alisonriley6837

6 күн бұрын

I went through the same selling cosmetics with eBay. I actually got suspended so had to keep on at them. It was a Marc Jacobs shower gel which I had listed without the box. Coty who are the IP complained and I was suspended. I eventually got reinstated by badgering the IP holder for months with photos etc. Keep at them to clear your name. Still selling now but admit that the margins are very slim x

@UnicornsandRainbows123

6 күн бұрын

@@alisonriley6837 sorry to hear that, the way they treat long standing, reputable sellers is dreadful. I don't have the energy to deal with them any more, I do this as a side hustle and have a full time job. I'm still in the process of selling my remaining stock, cant wait until I can close my shop and move on to something else

@charlesforeman9438

Күн бұрын

I got my wife a nice bottle of perfume from a big store, she never used or opened it after two years so I sold it on eBay. The buyer that bought it, said it was counterfeit and was refunded by eBay and eBay took my 100% seller away from me. I told eBay and showed them the receipt of where the item came from and they said they did believe me, but the buyer is always right, I was fuming.

@UnicornsandRainbows123

3 сағат бұрын

@@charlesforeman9438 sorry to hear that. They dont really care for the small sellers, I bought most of my stock retail on offer with very small mark up. Even though I sent over proof of orders, receipts etc they still stood their ground. I'll be closing my shop soon after 14 years of 100% positive feedback, such a shame.

Also i take all my old items that do not sell and put them together as a JOB LOT random bundle at a bargain price. They do well

A massive thank you for this advice, I started it yesterday and today after watching your video and my sales have rocketed 😃👍 can’t thank you enough

Nic, thanks for the advice! This makes so much sense! I love your video's!!! So much information and tips!

Thank you that was so helpful, taken lots of notes and will definitely use that method for sell similar items in future

Thanks Nic, very clearly explained, good to know I'm doing it right, looking forward to the rest of this series

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Thank you :)

Ebay have their own rules around visibility of your items.. Chinese and bigger accounts get more server space.. The Algo is very clever.

Thanks Nic, really useful and appreciate you sharing. I try to get all my listings sold within 90 days in any case. I reduce the price every 30 days by between 10 and 25 per cent depending on the original margin i was trying to make. After 90 days im happy to just get my money back in order to reinvest in something that might be more successful.

this 100% works. When I finally figured out that this was important - some of my things that were over a year old and I just kept relisting instead of sell similar actually sold. Great advice!

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Yup - it works :)

Thanks very much for the useful information i will remember that especially i ve relisted items before so might start using your approach

Great information. I knew there was a reason I keep watching you. Thanks

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Thanks nic I’ve just done sell similar with a good few Items fingers crossed I get the stick moving

This is SO helpful! Thank you! 🙏🏻 😊

Thanks so much for sharing this invaluable information!!!

will go through mine tomorrow be nice to clear out old stock cheers

This was a very helpful video. You did a thorough job explaining it. New subscriber here.

Thanks Nick, that was a huge help 👍

Ebay lies though. I sold a auto grille used with a crack and said has a crack showed multi pics of the crack. Buyer filed a not as described because it has a crack. Talked to ebay and they said list it as for parts or repair not working and that will protect you. Well did that with a vintage Ferrari radio and guess what they filed a not as described and returned it still with parts missing and taken apart. Was listed as is for parts or repair. So They got there 225.00 back and ebay does nothing about this. This has happened a few times now. Ebay is complicit with helping people steal. Market place has been better lately. Ebay needs big changes. They are prime for competition. Ebay use to be so much better.

@ryanrazza17izGod

3 ай бұрын

Be a private seller and don’t offer refunds. Make sure you take pictures of the item and detail it well with the imperfections. They can still ask for a refund but just decline it saying yes it is

@rpfl5586

3 ай бұрын

@@ryanrazza17izGod I have done all that and ebay just does it then on their own.

@theresakralik1820

3 ай бұрын

I've had this happen on high end vintage fisher reels. I nolonger ship to China and Japan for this reason.

Brilliant advice Nic- many thanks

Did this with a small amount of my items yesterday morning and checked stats this morning and saw an almost 100% increase in both impressions and page views as well a couple of offers going out on those items yesterday. Well worth a few minutes of your time to refresh that stale stuff.

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Fantastic results :)

Excellent value with your advice and thought why something doesn't sell in the first 90 days 👍

great work through - never knew that 'start date' table head existed - thanks loads!!!

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Fantastic :)

Cheers Nic for the information.... Very clear and precise as always! I will definitely put this into practice over the upcoming days. Its been clearance after clearance the past couple of weeks. No time for videos or listing as we`ve got a house full of other peoples furniture?! Best wishes to you and Andrea - Steven & Clair

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Glad it was useful :)

Nice to hear confirmation from Ebay with the sell similar. I do however do sell similar before the 90 days, especially if a niche is oversaturated, like postcards.

Thank you Nic!

That jumper really is very nice, lol it looks so cozy, great find

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

It really is :)

Thank you for sharing the knowledge once again 😊

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

My pleasure...

I have been doing this, perhaps a little half hartedly, for years and seen it work to some extent. But knowing I need to work on it after the 90 day threashold makes a big difference and turns this into a real strategy rather than a hope for the best activity.

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Many don't wait 90 days, some refresh monthly

Such good info, thank you! 👍

After all this time I never knew that start date option was there, it's a game changer, thanks Nic

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Glad it helped :)

Brilliant tips! Thanks 👍

Hi Nick all the sellers I know do this as normal, nice video for beginners. Keep up the good work.

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

As you say - helpful if you didn't know

Thanks Nic, that will save me a lot of time. Cheers

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

My pleasure - glad it helped :)

I actually started doing this about 4 months ago. I was stunned to realise that some things I thought I'd listed a few months ago were actually 7 or 8 yrs old! tacked about 400 listings over a week and all have now sold. Very effective system!

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Yes it really works - eyes on your listings instantly increase and sales follow!

@shaheenashrag1817

10 күн бұрын

@@woofbarkyap can i give me some suggestions how to sell my items ...I've listed girls dresses but none of them is sold yet....it's been more than 2 months....and I'm really sad as I've spent plenty of amount on purchasing

Cheers Nic 😊👍

Thank you so much for your wise words...

great information. what a valuable channel

Thanks for the video it was really useful. How often do you recommend ending your listings and selling similar?

Thanks, very useful info.

Thank you for sharing useful information right from ebay.

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

My pleasure :)

For my money often a simple rewording of the listing will often enhance the viability of the listing. Gets past the stagnancy and other parameters. I am not a 'Pro' seller on Ebay. However I have NOW a decent low end rep from buyer response. Have not been active on EBay in a while. I am sure you Nic and Andrea look for similar items as well already as stated in this video. One thing many do not think often is if there are 'many' listings of similar items maybe hold of on listing those items 'UNTIL' less items of that type are available. If that 'type' of item continue to be available at less than attractive return give up on it and move on. (Unless you are some absolute sales wizard and can perform miracles) Above all wording is the key to beating the AI in charge of deciding if a post is desirable or not

Thanks Nik Great Info

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Thanks:)

Fantastic information thank

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

My pleasure :)

Good advice young man thank you

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Thanks :)

Excellent video. Such a great video

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

hey presto , ebay make more money for charging to list again....very clever

Great video Nic

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Good to hear, except if you have over 1000 listings, it will take forever to sell similar and update the title or photos from them. That time could better be served listing new product. It is good to hear sell similar is preferred by ebay.

This was very useful. Thank you. Do you know, does ebay charge fees based on how long a listing has been live? For example, are their fees the same for a listing that's been up for 60 days versus 30 days?

I find refreshing my listings (SELL SIMILAR) helps

Ive been on ebay selling for 15 years but when they brought in promote my sales have struggled. Mine and a lot of business sellers all agree. . .they want you to pay to get views.

@georgeton4991

3 ай бұрын

Promote means big £ for ebay...

@OriginalNethead

3 ай бұрын

Pay to play is what made me leave eBay, one of the cherries on the poop sundae. It's blackmail in fancy dress. NOPE. No sale.

Once you sell similar all your dates of oldest listings will change, now it's a "new" listing. You will end up with old listings in your store that look as though they are new. Ebay also doesn't leave the listings in order that they were listed. So, if you can't find something it can be in any box, you no longer have a date to go back to and see what else you listed that day. i have tried selling similar and it doesn't work as good as just spending a couple of minutes and pulling up the older items and moving photo's and keywords filling out more item specifics. Selling similar is dangerous also, besides having duplicate listings, you can also loose listings if you aren't careful. It's not worth the risk.

@johnnyfortycoats2219

3 ай бұрын

I agree. It seems like everyone who talks about listings dropping off uses this trick of end listing & sell similar. I think when you bulk edit, there can be errors that eBay does not alert you to. For example, a listing might have been valid when created, but would be invalid as a new listing (returns policy, item specifics etc.). The old listing will tick along, but selling similar will not work unless you manually change the required setting.

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Fair enough - it works for us and many others - do what's right for you.

if you have more listings than your monthly free listing allowance then this won't work. but fear not. prmote all your listings and hey presto your sales literally double in a flash. works for me.

Many thank for the great tips xxx vheri

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

My pleasure :)

Hmm… there must be more to it than that. My oldest non-replenishable listing is from April 2020. It is the second result in best match out of 15 available. Not all old listings are suppressed. Maybe other activity keeps it active, like adjusting the price. Is there a way to find only the stagnant listings?

Multiple item question Nic. At what point do you class a listing of multiple items as stale? I have several multi item listings that haven't had a sale in 90 days. Is it worth ending and selling similar, or let them tick along?

Worth mentioning that list similar will also wipe out all watchers. If you intend to drop price might be worth at last shot by sending out offers at the new price before ending and using sell similar.

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Good point - maybe tweak the price first then refresh if the watcher's don't bite

Good information ❤❤

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Thanks

People saying when you end the listing you lose all the watchers , if for example you have 10 watchers and the item is being ended as its over 90 day's old then its highly unlikely any of those watchers are going to buy the item. Just end the item anyway , had many items with plenty of watchers not sold then sell within 48 hour's of relisting.

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

I never worry about the watchers - they will have been sent offers anyway and not bought so can't want it that badly...

Hi, can you use sell similar on multi items or do you need to do them one at a time?

I had this last Thursday at Ebay Business Roadshow .. had a very interesting 1 to 1 chat with a Ebay Pro Trainer..he taught me more in the 20 mins than ive learnt in 20 years using eBay :)

@jamesmoore8624

3 ай бұрын

Do you have any tips you can share ??

@junglejim99

3 ай бұрын

😅

@junglejim99

3 ай бұрын

​@@jamesmoore8624no 😂

Hey Nic, some good advice. Question - i have a new business account and have to pay to list. These 'stagnent' items are costing me money either way, if I sell similar or stay put. As they will charge again to re list. Any advjce on lowering the costs on business accounts? Many thanks

Well i never, cheers Nic

Thank you Nic, very good knowledge - relative newbies here - we've also noticed some of our items will not attract any views at all for weeks then maybe 10 - 25 in a day, is this normal anybody?

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Maybe somebody shared the listing?

just went to do this and mine all say 6 days ago when i relisted them all. i just end all then relist all, does this mean my items have been assigned new item numbers then?

I just mark down anything older than 90days stoppped ending and selling similar a while back plus im gonna be getting rid of my sku system and going by date same way technsports does his much quicker so end and sell similar wouldn’t work unless i moved the items down the queue

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

We all do what works best for us :)

Terrific info Nick, I have always done the re-list option, thanks.

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful :)

It annoyed me when towards the end of last year I decided to start selling my unwanted stuff for the first time, I listed a few things but nothing sold. I also had on standby other items, but as it got close Christmas I decided to hold back till after. Imagine my shock when I decided to start my selling at the beginning of this year, and i found eBay had deleted all my items that I had ready to list. I had at least six items all gone I'm not sure if I want to prepare everything again for selling, it was a waste of time and also the way eBay treat their sellers I'm not sure whether to try again.

hi nic im planning to start ebay ,can you breifly explain about postage coz last items i listed and purchase the postage but with some of stuff royal mail was saying to my customer that i didnt paid enough postage ,can you tell how to deal with that

So this is what happened. I had / have about 200 or so video games posted. They've been stagnant for about 4 years. I sold maybe 3 in the last 2 years. After watching this video, I ended and sell similar all of them. Didn't change anything about them, just reposted. I did this last night and sold 10 while I was sleeping. Im still getting notifications of games selling right now. I think its a shame that an item people obviously wanted at an agreeable price, was not being shown just because the listing was old. Now they're selling.

How do you find all of your jumble sales and charity warehouse sales nic ?

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Google, facebook, word of mouth, local papers

hello could I send you a PM to be sure that I have understood correctly and not make any mistakes when using the software

So End the listing - then Sell Similar = gives a new number and makes it a new item. What is the difference? If you End the Listing and create a new listing it gives it a new number and is a new listing? What am I missing?

What is the thoughts on items that have watchers, as presumably they will be lost. Are they just window shoppers with no intention to buy?

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

Chances are they will have had offers already as we send them out daily, so if they were actually interested they would have bought it - I never worry about the watchers

hi Nic not sure if you read or answer comments ? i have had an ebay account for many years and sold all kinds of stuff, i saw what i thought was a good seller, buying and selling adult magazines, there are still hundreds for sale now, but when i listed mine ebay immediately took them down stating i had broken a rule ! any idea how to get around this ? im left with hundreds of magazines i cant list

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

I can't speculate on the reasons... you would have to contact ebay to find out why they have chosen to end your listings

Always check your keywords

@localreviewking134

3 ай бұрын

The first 4 words in the title are the most important.

When ending a listing it gives me some options of why, ie No longer available, item lost or broken etc. Theres probably about 5 options. Question: which is the best one to choose, to not upset the ebay gods.

@VintageLaLaLa

3 ай бұрын

Select ‘item no longer available for sale’ as there are no repercussions from this option. I list on multiple platforms and always use this option when ending items on eBay. Ive done it hundreds of times and it doesn’t affect me negatively.

If I have 20 of the same item eBay makes me list them individually, I'm just a normal seller is there any way to list these as a quantity

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

I just add quantity 20... does a private seller account not allow for multiples??

No mention about Promoted listings Nic? This is a fundamental part of selling these days.

@junglejim99

3 ай бұрын

For eBay it is 😂

eBay just wants resellers to keep making new listings. The only problem with doing a sell similar sale is you have to take pictures again if you didn't save them on your phone, camera or hard drive.

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

No it keeps the pictures when you sell similar (as long as it is from your own listing)

@ilj1259

3 ай бұрын

@@NicHills okay... I will try this but as a basic store I have limited listings available.

Retro reselling did this video years ago

@dalesmith1911

3 ай бұрын

Others have done it long before Retro Reselling. To be quite honest its one of the most obvious things to do, im not sure how anyone can drag this out for 10 minutes....

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

As I said - it's nothing new and you may already know this (as we did) the comments from all the people the video has helped was the point...

All those things I do as a seller since 2001 but it doesn't make any difference. My sales are just dire. I think it's people who do paid promotions who get featured more. I do some at 2-5 %, but why should we have to do this when we already pay fees. If I have to go higher with the ads then the pirce has to go on the item making it look expensive

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

End and sell similar works for us and from the comments here it's has instant results for others too

@fedupbin

3 ай бұрын

@@NicHills it does get an instant boost but people hardly buy

I tried this the day after you posted this video, now I've got no views or watchers on pretty much everything 🤷‍♂️. Seems like no-one else wants my old tat either 😂

👌👌

That is similar to a reel in instagram that goes in hybernation

Once you have "sold similar" on an item, remember to "delete" the sold similar item from your ended /unsold listings to avoid any duplication of listings 😁

@jamesmoore8624

3 ай бұрын

Top point - otherwise you have to unpick the OLD sell simlairs from the new ones later on down the line.

@CactusThorn

3 ай бұрын

Absolutely. However, if you accidentally try to list something twice, ebay will prevent this. However, you should remove the listings because if a listing sells, you can accidentally list an item that you no longer have.

@dennisferguson9129

Ай бұрын

You take forever to get to the point

eBay has shut that "trick down" I can't say for certain what is happening with your business, but I can tell you that ebay has said that simply ending a listing and relisting it (whether as a relist or sell similar) does not provide any great boost

@NicHills

3 ай бұрын

This was direct from an ebay advisor and also we and others have seen instant results - so, yes it does work and is true.

I had a bad week 2 weeks ago i just moaned to ebay, moaned on my channel and i think they watched as 47 sales this week haha

@xavier3930

3 ай бұрын

Sometimes I list a item and it gets tones of views I then sell it and re list it and it gets barely any views

@JonSheppardsells

3 ай бұрын

@xavier3930 it's all just luck I think, best person wins

They don't care unless you pay to promote it.

Its all about money grabbing from ebay, the more you pay in fees, the higher your listing ranks. This is why more and more sellers are moving away from the platform. As if 13% wasn't enough for ebay! The funny thing is, selling items wasn't an issue before Ebay messed around with their algorithms only to blame everything on covid and the economy.

If an item is stagnant, end the listing, then give up. There's no use being a damn fool about it.

@junglejim99

3 ай бұрын

Agreed if it don't sell bin it.