Ebay.ca - All items from first few result pages are sponsored? | Selling

mypaperstuff · 2023-07-04T17:11:04.915000Z

Hi there,I notice something very strange lately on Ebay.ca. When I do searches, I notice that the first few pages of results contains ONLY sponsored/promoted items, instead of "some" sponsored items in selected spots in the result page. Some items do not display as "sponsored" in the first place, but if you do a CTRL+F (find) on the result page, all the items on the page (even if you switch to 240 result per page) appear to match and are highlighted. I also noticed that ALL my sales from June 28 to July 3 (except auctions, as I don't use the promotion feature for these) are sales that are from promoted items in my store. I'm really wondering (although worrying may be more appropriate here) what is happening with the good ol' organic placement in search results. Has eBay and Cassini borrowed from the videogame marketing concept of "pay-to-win" so that eBay sellers now heavily need to "pay-to-display"?

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