bjboswell
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posted on June 17, 2006 05:04:56 AM new
Are you selling from your ebay store? Personally if I don't start selling more my store is outta here until they "fix" the problem...I hope that is not "till the end of time"!
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twig125silver
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posted on June 17, 2006 05:45:47 AM new
It's covering its butt, but barely.
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pixiamom
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posted on June 17, 2006 06:21:49 AM new
My store sales have improved since I opted out of Express with it's spiffy new search.
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DrArcane
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posted on June 17, 2006 07:11:35 AM new
"sales have improved since I opted out of Express"
I've heard this before. My store has stunk ever since Express came along. I originally thought I'd give Express a try, but I've had NO sales from that at all.
Where do you go to opt-out? It won't hurt to try that for a while.
Dr. Arcane, revelator of mystical secrets
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Got questions about the secrets of the universe?
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tOMWiii
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posted on June 17, 2006 07:14:25 AM new
DrObtuse:
GOTO "PREFERENCES" >>
About 3/4 of the way down is the "EBAY EXPRESS" selection >> you have to EXPAND it first to see the options...
Got stuff? PLEASE join RALPHIE & ME in some AUCTIONS for our favorite NON-PROFIT~Thank You!
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paloma91
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posted on June 17, 2006 07:36:58 AM new
I have not set up a store yet and am only listing in auctions. My preferences were set to include ebay express. Would that also include my auction listings?
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pixiamom
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posted on June 17, 2006 07:53:36 AM new
Express doesn't include auction items.
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magneticattractions
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posted on June 17, 2006 07:56:58 AM new
Why would express hurt your store? Isn't that just one more way to get your item out there? Or, do they have to pay immediately with only paypal if you have express? I haven't been paying attention.
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pixiamom
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posted on June 17, 2006 08:04:05 AM new
Express utilizes a new search engine. My thoughts are that items included in Express are indexed optimally to be found by Express and that possibly affects their ability to be found by regular eBay search - just a theory.
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ewora
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posted on June 17, 2006 10:49:31 AM new
I opted out of express a couple of weeks ago and my store sales increased. The dollar amount sold from the last two weeks equaled the amount sold in May. So for some reason opting out does work.
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amber
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posted on June 17, 2006 12:25:06 PM new
I have never used Express because it's for US only, and I am Canadian. However, my store sales are terrible! I don't know if I'm even covering my costs. They were great when the search was expanded. I hope eBay realizes that more sales means more 8% fvf's for them in store sales.
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otteropp
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posted on June 17, 2006 01:13:13 PM new
Like Amber, I am Canadian and we are not included in Express however Store sales have died.
I am moving those items to Wagglepop..innovative ideas there. Figure It can't hurt to give it a try and it is a whole different world than last year.
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tOMWiii
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posted on June 17, 2006 01:29:01 PM new
"I am moving those items to Wagglepop"
Think Ralphie left a BIG one of those on the back lawn this morning?
Got stuff? PLEASE join RALPHIE & ME in some AUCTIONS for our favorite NON-PROFIT~Thank You!
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paloma91
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posted on June 17, 2006 01:30:52 PM new
Amber, check your preferences in My Ebay. It is automatically set to "ON"
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neglus
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posted on June 17, 2006 02:14:00 PM new
I opted in to Express (wasn't included in the beginning for some reason) and then out as a trial when I read about EE causing search problems- I saw SOME sales but I wouldn't call it a surge. I opted in again and the sales I had looked GOOD compared to the sales I was then getting...I opted out again and sales have been up and down. I only had one EE sale (and I am pretty sure that was an accident because I could never find my own items on Express). If you ask me, the search problems are not just EE related but are/were pretty serious site-wide. Sometimes I think things are "fixed" and then it seems like they are broken again. The faucet I have observed for some time seems to be a bigger factor now than even before. I wonder if ebay is just quick-fixing search issues until they roll out the Express-type intuitive search on the "Core Site" next year. I am a little bit scared that the promised answer to Stores in Search is going to be the Express-style intuitive search later this summer.
I wish we could stop this intuitive search from happening because I know once ebay sets something in place (except for Stores in Search which I am beginning to think was no accident)it is very hard to get them to change.
If I were a buyer I would be incensed to learn that I wasn't being shown all available items that matched my search words but instead a filtered result based on what the ebay "THink Tank" (headed by a nuclear engineer BTW) DECIDED I should see. That kind of search will be a disaster for the site itself and will not do service to buyers OR sellers! I wonder if ebay has a suicide wish?
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http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards?refid=store
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tOMWiii
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posted on June 17, 2006 02:37:02 PM new
My experiment with eBay Depress matches NEGLUS:
I opted IN and my sales SUCKED --
I opted OUT and my sales were...SUCKIER...
I opted IN and my sales over the past week have been: EXCELLENT --
Ralphie has offered to augur the oracle signs in cat-poop in order to help us all predict our future sales...just drop FAT-BOY a line...
Got stuff? PLEASE join RALPHIE & ME in some AUCTIONS for our favorite NON-PROFIT~Thank You!
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amber
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posted on June 17, 2006 03:22:39 PM new
paloma, no, I opted out right at the beginning, even though I wouldn't be allowed to use it.
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rsauvehearts
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posted on June 17, 2006 03:36:51 PM new
Is there a way to tell if an item sells from eBay Express?
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ladyjewels2000
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posted on June 17, 2006 04:43:13 PM new
I've been very happy with my store which I only opened about 3 months ago and to be honest have not worked on lately - just sticking stuff in there and darn if it doesn't sell.
I only have 2 auctions running at the moment and that's the first time in at least 7 years that I can say that.
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bjboswell
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posted on June 18, 2006 04:54:27 AM new
"I opted IN and my sales SUCKED --
I opted OUT and my sales were...SUCKIER...
I opted IN and my sales over the past week have been: EXCELLENT --"
Tom and Neg...
I opted OUT and will see it can't be any worse than being IN... I will run Toms test of in and out.... we will see. Over the past month if I don't have auctions running I get few hits and no sales in the store. Everything that doesn't sell in auction format has been transfered to store. Gosh darn ebay for changing up the search the money that company makes from their "community" US... you'd think they could share some of the crumbs with us.
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twig125silver
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posted on June 18, 2006 06:52:10 AM new
I just opted out of eBay Express. Until I read this thread, I hadn't even known about it. We'll see what happens.....
When I was "tweaking" my store this morning, I found that I had "authorized" some eBay "Pay and Play" (can't remember exactly what is was called, the latest contest eBay had to win a trip to Vegas) to act on my behalf! I would never authorize someone I don't know, or even someone I do know, to act on my behalf on eBay! I opted out of THAT!!
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jake
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posted on June 18, 2006 08:21:55 AM new
Store sales totally dead. There must be only 15,000 buyers on ebay and they're all at the convention this week.
It also doesn't help that they seem to be doing the Amazon cycling thing. Not all items are always showing. Go to your store front and refresh the page several times...the total number of listings keeps changing.
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myfavorites4u
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posted on June 18, 2006 08:41:15 AM new
Neglus...
I agree with you! The real problem is that the buyers will never know they aren't getting all results. So, with the millions of items for sale on Ebay they may be very satisfied (and tell Ebay that in the surveys). But, we the sellers, are going to be in serious trouble!!!
I agree that search is cycling through some way (I'm also afraid that is another answer to stores in search).
And, lastly, I don't think it was an accident that stores were put into search or that they were pulled out. Personally, I think it was some type of experiment to test EE and how the system could handle it
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irked
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posted on June 18, 2006 09:16:01 AM new
I understood that EVEN auction items with buy it now or was it FP would be included in the Express not just store items. I think I am opted in but don't do that many FP items all the time. AM I wrong?
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I married my wife for her looks...but not the
ones she's been giving me lately!
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MAH645
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posted on June 18, 2006 09:37:45 AM new
My Store sales are slow,doing better with auctions.
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Two men sit behind bars,one sees mud the other sees stars.
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myfavorites4u
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posted on June 18, 2006 10:31:22 AM new
FP are included along with store items.
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myfavorites4u
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posted on June 18, 2006 11:18:08 AM new
Sorry double posted
[ edited by myfavorites4u on Jun 18, 2006 11:18 AM ]
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