Has anyone experimented with EIS and/or Promoted lisintings? | Selling

rdemaree · 2026-03-19T19:49:40.504000Z

This post is primarily for people who live in large Canadian cities and have access to things like ChitChats, NetParcel, StallionExpress and SwiftPost etc. but are experiencing a lag in sales due to Ebay kneecapping and strong arming sellers with warnings about tariffs (which are actually lies if you sell CUSMA products like I do!). I am curious if any Canadian sellers who live in big cities with superior shipping options to the EIS (like I mentioned) have experimented with EIS just to relieve themselves from the horrible tariff warning banner and if it helped with sales simply due to optics and not due to actually being a better service for you or for your customers. Also this post is for sellers who have experimented with Promoted Listings after ebays mandatory 2% increase in December (lets all be real, thats what it was). I turned promoted listings off because it is basically a fee increase without any new benefits but the algorithm may be punishing me. I recently turned them back on at 2% and will leave them on until perhaps the end of May to see if they make any practical dent in listing views and sales (impressions are mostly meaningless imo). Curious to know if anyone has experimented with this at all? Essentially I know that both the EIS and the new promoted listings rules are objectively downgrades to how things were pre August 2025/ Pre-trump but I feel like even if these options are worse for you (and your customers) the algorithm and the optics (the obscene tariff warning on all listings) will punish you for not offering EIS and using promoted listings. So essentially im admitting both are cash grabs by ebay and are inferior to how I sell and ship my products currently as a seller who lives in Toronto and sells 80% CUSMA products in my shop and will cost me money and sales INEVITABLY I am willing to use EIS and promoted listings if this will result in less losses than what the algorithm and their current tarriff warnings are causing me. Either way I lose business, its just with EIS and promoted listings it makes my customers wait longer, pay more and makes my ebay fees higher for literally no reason. Since I am not a casual seller and up until 2025 at least ebay was my sole source of income I am willing to take whichever route objectively puts more money in my pocket, even if they are cash grabs and objectively inferior to what I currently offer. The algorithm and the bad optics are killing my sales. I dont see how this helps ebay if I sell less. but here we are. All constructive and genuine feedback by serious sellers who fit the descriptions I mentioned is strongly welcomed. Less interested in what casual sellers have to say and what people who have no choice but to use EIS because they live out in the middle of nowhere have to say unless its about promoted listings. Thank you

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