Comments on: Best Practices for eBay’s Best Match Score

By: Vendio_Helen

Vendio_Helen — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:13:43 +0000

Hi,

I have forwarded your question to our customer team. They will get back with you shortly.

Best, Helen

By: question

question — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:46:51 +0000

i have applied the auto relist for my fix price listing ( 7 days), for the past few time it work fine and keep to appear on the top of search result. however, it suddenly decrease to 5th position in the featured page. without changing the title, price , condition category.

does someone know what is happening to my listing?

Thanks

By: crm clarify

crm clarify — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:09:57 +0000

crm clarify…

Good post. I am looking into these issues on my blog….

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By: crystalwells-miller

crystalwells-miller — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:27:14 +0000

Hello Keywrap,

I took notes during the recent town hall. Unfortunately, I went to the Town Hall Archives, so that I could provide you a link. The September 19th Town Hall has not been added to the archive yet. You can get to the archives : http://pages.ebay.com/townhall/

I did find a podcast at eBay Radio: http://www.wsradio.com/internet-talk-radio.cfm/shows/eBay-Town-Hall/archives/date/selected/09-19-2008.html

It is my understanding from the Town Hall, that it is NOT percentage based, but based solely on the number of unique buyers (thus a buyer purchasing 10 at once, counts as 1 unique). As far as the Vendio Reviser, that is an outstanding question that I actually spend 2 hours in eBay’s Live Chat trying to get an answer on revising live listings, but was unable to get an answer. I’m still looking into what happens if you revise the 4 specified items on LIVE items if it loses its “carry forward score”. Gut feeling is that you don’t lose it for revisions of live items, but only on relisted items.

To definitely clarify, eBay is calling this “recent sales”. I aimed for clarity by calling it a carry forward score.

The real meat is in the last half of the Town Hall if you want to skip ahead.

I hope this helps!

By: Keywrap

Keywrap — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:26:50 +0000

I would love to know how accurate some of the above data is, and where it is documented. For example the issue of price changes losing their scores, I have searched high and low for any documented information on this “carried over score” issue, and have found nothing anywhere.

I have noted that for now having more in a listing seems to increase visibility in the search as well. Whether or not that is factual or documented anywhere would also be nice to know.

I also wonder if this so much a score per item sold or a score per percentage sold. Indicated above a listing with 10 items and 1 buyer scores a 1 for the 1 unique buyer. However, is it not possible that the 10% closing rate is what scores the 1? Therefore leading into the fact that 100 with 10 sold or 10% would net the same “score”?

Finally, changes, Vendio reviser which would revise tag line words every 10 or so days would seem to ruin the “score carry over”, or am I mistaken? And why would a price change ruin the score?

I grant you I am not all that familiar with Blogs, and don’t know if people will reply or if the person that started the above would reply. But I would love to know where the information is coming from and how it was documented. Too many rumors float around about how things are done, and we only find out after hours of work that original presumptions were incorrect, or that something was changed that invalidates what we thought.