Random thoughts:
First and foremost, I DISLIKE that we apparently still aren't able to access Promotions Manager through Seller Hub despite my being told by no fewer than three different ebay folks that it was coming with Seller Hub. Canadian sellers have played second fiddle too long. Having only Markdown Manager with Promoted Listings puts me against a steep disadvantage in trying to sell competitively to my Canadian buyers when my American competitors can do BOGOs and offer coupon codes. I call it discrimination. It needs to stop. We deserve Promotions Manager and I'm not going to shut-up about it until we get what we deserve.
Also, I dislike that's it's glitchy in that it will show or not show data in the different modules on my page at random. Luckily, it's not the very important data that seems to intermittently disappear only to be replaced by the 'uh-oh' text.
I dislike that you cannot 'hide' this nonsense like you could with Seller Manager as part of the Customization features.
I like that it's easy to dump the Hub if I decide I don't want to be bothered with it.
I like that there's a summary of important stuff along the top that also includes the balance owing in ebay fees.
I also really like that you can customize (add) shortcuts to this module, and it almost compensates for the fact that the link to ebay Community can no longer be found at the top OR bottom of any Hub-navigated page.
I REALLY LIKE that there's finally an indicator of how fast I have to ship my item according to the handling time that I have set.
Finally, I'd like this more if I understood what these metrics meant. I 'get' the part in green but what's the comparative data supposed to mean? No one else was selling this stuff or that buyers aren't looking for it, or what?
Finally, this is inaccurate. I had a sale at 12:33 EST.
@rose-dee wrote:By the way, I can never remember whether the ">" symbol (for example >10.0%) is "less than" or "greater than".
I've had a mental block on this point for decades -- maybe someone who doesn't have this problem can finally help me break it. Does anyone have a mnemonic to always get ">" and "<" right?
Just remember that the "less than" symbol < looks like the letter L and L is the first letter of the word less. The other symbol > does not look like a L and must be "greater than". Still works for me 50+ years after I learned this trick.
@momcqueen wrote:And then there's this.
I'll say it again, if ebay wants us this to be a value-added service to us, we have to be able to use it. I'm not entirely stupid, but I lack the context with which to understand this data. Beginning with, what is the reason this is the default Benchmark date?
The default for pretty much all of the Hub is "last 30 days", the "benchmark" is the previous 30 days
@momcqueen wrote:
... I lack the context with which to understand this data. Beginning with, what is the reason this is the default Benchmark date?
ebay is not talking calendar months for the calculations.
When figuring your "monthly" sales change you need something (the benchmark) to compare it to.
So sales in the "benchmark" time period (Feb 19-Mar 21) are compared to sales in the "current" time period (Mar 22-Apr 21). Note: 31 days in each time period.
These time periods will change every day. So the percentages will vary day to day as sales are added and subtracted.
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The "monthly" stat is of little value for low volume sellers as every sale will have a big impact. Works best for those sellers with hundreds of sales per month.
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I dislike that you cannot 'hide' this nonsense like you could with Seller Manager as part of the Customization features.
I actually like this note. When I get one, I usually close the listing, look at how many views it has, and if it has description problems, then relist it with Sell Similar a month or more later. I use Sell Similar on relists more often than I use Relist, though.
