posted on November 10, 2005 05:14:46 PM
PLEASE forgive my astonishing ignorance with this question about ebay stores. I have never had one, have been a member since 1997, I am a PS. My sales as discussed on another thread are SLOW to say the least at the moment. I have been giving thought for several months to opening a store front. I sell for the most part antiques and collectables. Now for the actual question... When you open a store and you put items in the store for say 90 days or 120 days ... are they listed on your seller page as well for that length of time? Is it just a matter of the ebay and other search engines "driving" customers to ebay store items. I really am trying to understand can you have things in your store that are not on your seller page? Sorry to be so DUMB....
posted on November 10, 2005 05:48:02 PM
When you say your seller page, I assume you mean the view seller's other items page with all your auction listings on them? If so, the answer is they do show up on that page - I don't know of a way to not make them show up there.
I also sell antiques/collectibles - the problem that I've run in to with the store is that when a buyer views your other items, they are listed by ending date. If your store items are ending soon they can get clumped in to your auctions and, in my opinion, can be distracting to your auction viewers.
I know of some antique sellers who discontinued their stores because they saw a drop in auction sales that they felt was caused by this.
What I do before I list every week is take any store item that is ending in that timeframe and end it then relist. It keeps the auction listings all together that way. The relist only costs $0.02 and it gives me a chance to also freshen the listing or change the price.
I like having the store, despite I have to do this extra step - I've sold some things that wouldn't have done great at auction - mainly large items and some architectural items that just need the right buyer to come along.
Let me know if you have any more questions - I'm still new to the storefront - only 4 months, but I can at least give an opinion.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Caroline
posted on November 10, 2005 06:51:26 PM
Caroline,Thanks for your help. I also have some high end things that I don't suspect would go in an auction format they might take awhile and I need NEED the money so need to move in one way or another. Would you mind writing to me at my email address. [email protected]. I would like to ask you something... Thanks Bonnie
Caroline