What eBay Doesn’t Want You To Know About Promoted Listings

Let me be the first to say I promoted everything in my store at 15% as a test and sales have been no different then without promoting.

Great video, lots of common sense, thank you. Sadly, it is unlikely for eBay to remove promoted listings. If you look at their latest earning report, sales went down but their earnings went up. It’s easy to conclude where the profit came from - the sellers’ pockets.

eBay and the post office are not going to be satisfied until selling costs are 70%!🎉

Thank you. Your very insightful and intelligent. I have subscribed.

Thanks for the valuable content!

Thanks! I used to use promoted listings a few years back and maybe 4-5% was the suggestion! Now its like you said 12-13% so ridiculous!

Thanks, great video.

I’m running at 2% PLS and it made a big difference.

You bring up great points but as we all know all to well, ebay can careless what their buyers and sellers want. I've promoted my listings from high to low and there seems to be no difference other than when I sell a high % promoted listing I make less. I now keep my promotions at 3% across the board. I've actually thought that ebay should get rid of promotions as well but then the question always comes up of how would I get my items to show up. At 3% my items aren't showing up the way I wished they would but we can't all be on the first page in every search so it's kind of a catch 20 if you will.

Thanks again for a very informative video, I was wondering if raising my promoted rates on postcards would help because I currently do 2%. It also matters on our title description and thanks to you I now take a closer look at the picture to see if there is anything that would help it sell at a higher price that other sellers might be missing. Thanks

I have all my promoted listings set at 5% across the board. Lately though, I've been noticing that some of my listings are getting changed without my knowledge. I found another one yesterday that was supposed to be at 5% and eBay changed it to 13.6%. I went in and changed it back. Got to watch my listings all the time.

Thanks for the video, I always love your insights. Sorry my ADHD always forgets to say that in my first comment 😅

Good points at the end. I agree. More items being sent to other platforms to sell also.

1:13 My eBay page like this doesn’t have my Ad fee standard charge like this. I have to chase it down to find out what I’m charged for Ad fees and sometimes it’s higher than my normal promotional % I set for all my listings.

Hi yes I do promo standard up to 14% sales or few watchers . They attached a campaign to mine charged me a lot. Agreed on returning funds never ever did five calls later I removed 400 items. Turned off promoted no sales at all . Slowly had to put it all back on but still down at 400 not 800 . I got rid of campaigns deadly for fees. Yes I use suggested but more or I get no views or sales annoying no wonder so many sellers shutting shop. I have sold since 2001 . I will try lower my rates my keywords are not good I think this is why I have to promote

This was very helpful. I had thought the ad rate was like buying ads on facebook, something I paid up front. Knowing it is part of the final sale fee makes me much more likely to use it. Going to start with 5%. I'll come back if my success goes up.

I’m currently promoting my smaller store at eBay’s suggested rates. Nothing has sold. I don’t usually promote because every time I’ve tried in the past it killed my store.

I promote every item 2% agter 7 days. I do just fine. I want to see if i can do great. I just changed 200 used silverware listings to Dynamic rate with a cap of 15%. The listings were 45 days old and were ended/sell similar. This is day 1 so no results yet. Bottom line...if sales are slow then try something new. You aremt married to any idea. I do fine but maybe i can do better.

I just wanted to say how happy I am that I found your channel. I am very new to selling postcards. Only been listing them for a week. $130 so far. How many postcards do you currently have listed and how many do you list in a week. Thanks for your time. I am looking forwards to more of your great content.

I quit promoting 3 months ago and havent regretted it. As best as I can tell I got about $1000 extra in sales but only $100 extra in profit because I was paying promoted on sales that were going to happen regardless. That extra isnt worth the effort in product acquisition, listing and shipping those extra items.