I search my items and sometimes they show and sometimes not.
It's been my observation (and anecdote is not data) that if you do the same Search several times, the algorithm decides that you were not interested in the stuff you already saw, and shows you a different batch from the millions currently listed.
It also seems that our listings rotate among markets, which would explain why I once got two orders from Lichtenstein in one week, and never before or since.
This is not a Bad Thing. It means that you are getting some share of every market instead of being stuck at the bottom of the list of choices permanently.
I promoted everything at eBay’s percentage,
I chose to use one percent, because (again anecdote not data) PL seem to bring Views but not necessarily sales of PL items. What does seem to happen is that the Viewers then do some browsing in my Stores and buy there.
I see no reason to pay any more.
EBay is our landlord, not our friend.
I pay premium store monthly rates,
To be fair, the Stores are more an organizational tool than a selling tool.
The Good Thing about them is lower listing rates and lower FVF, not promotion (except maybe for promoting browsing, as above.)
With the large number of Free Listing promotions recently, perhaps tied to MP, I dropped one of my Stores from Premium to Basic.
In addition, I list on both dotCA and dotCOM, doubling the number of "free" listings I have available, including Promotions, at no additional charge.
And the US is still the largest single economy in the world.
I’m a top seller with 100% feedback and 18 years with eBay.
Me too, on three of my active selling accounts, but while TRS has advantages, like cheap branded shipping supplies and possibly a teensy boost in Search, we are among millions of other long-term, high feedback sellers.
Many sellers with similar problems, and we all hit deserts from time to time, spread out their selling to other online sites. Are you already doing that? What you lose on the coconuts, you may make back on the roundabouts.
