Relist vs Sell Similar do you see different results exposure, sales wise?

[ricarmic]

In my continuing experimentation, I've done a couple experiments relisting ended autions as is and selling similar auctions as is ie both back up as auctions. Based on what I got from that blog, I would not have expected any difference but...

Relist seems to have noticeably worse views/results than sell similar.

Now my sample size is pretty small, and the experiment will be over after the coming week until the new year, but so far:

Relisted:

-views are very slow to show up if at all

-overall views are low compared to when first run

Sell similared:

-views are quicker to show up

-overall views are better than relisted but low compared to when first run

One would expect views to be lower because the "regulars" all saw them the week before, but I'm surprised at the very noticeable "0" views when using the relist, almost across the board at the start.

Anyway will post observations, and am interested to hear any other observations/results between using the two methods others have had!

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

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@byto253 wrote:

I am guilty of priotizing listing large and bulky stuff over value 🙂  

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@byto253 

Like the Rock Band 2 bundle you were able to send by Expedited Lite?

[byto253]

Hmmm, Lite it was not 🙂   Was happy to get that out of the house!

[38e_avenue]

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@ricarmic wrote:

I don't run sales, I have not found them to be useful. Having said this I haven't tried one in a long time.

I think you'll recall I've mentioned a few times in other threads that I get WAYYYY better results from using a promoted rate of 10% as opposed to a 10% discount sale..... a sad truth for the customers, good news for eBay.

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I don't run sales anymore. Instead, I shut down and "sell similar" the "best" 1.000 items of my inventory. I do it quite often - every week or so. My PL rate is at 5% for the first 1.000 items, and 7% for the rest. Since I use the above method, my sales tripled.

I tried once PL 13%, and got much more sales, but was not really happy with the fees I paid (with all item/tax/shipping the FVF + 13% PL magically transformed into almost 40% 🙄). 

[reallynicestamps]

DH, the real stamp dealer , I'm just the dogsbody,  is of the opinion that sales tell the customer that their purchase is worth less than the original price and means the customer thinks less of the item.

His method was to use Trade Dollars as a customer discount--- on the next purchase.

He introduced them with the GST,  which caused all sorts of customer disruption in retail generally, as an offset of the new tax. You got 7% of the selling price back as trade dollars.

When we retired in 2014, hundreds of customers were cashing in their cache of trade dollars, and oddly mostly on bottom end stuff - occasionally the Big Box 'o' Fun, but often the $1- $10 singles or sets that had languished in stock for decades. It really made clearing the premises and selling to younger dealers easier.

[reallynicestamps]

I know eBay offers coupons, but I don't think they would work as well since we were building a loyal customer base with our trade dollars and of course B&M is different than online selling.