To promote or not to promote, that is the question?

[musicyouneed]

To promote or not to promote, that is the question?  At one time I promoted everything at 1%.  Then reduced that to only items that there were a lot listed.  Now since they have changed the way the promotion amount will be, based on selling price, taxes and shipping, it almost doubles for me.  I checked my sold and 33% were sold using promoted listings. 

Are you still using promoted listings or not?  Did you find them affective?  

[ilikehockeyjerseys]

Interestingly enough, I can now see promoted listings with no change to my ad blocking software or browser.

Based on reading threads that were months old, where other people had the same issue, I assume it must be an intermittent problem that comes and goes away. 

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

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@musicyouneed wrote:

Promoting doesn't work for me at this time.  There was no increase in views that I can see.  I have been running a sale for the past 1.5 weeks and that hasn't helped either.  I blame summer slowdown, high inflation and lack of interest in purchasing CD's at this time (although) my competitors see to be doing fine.  

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Going forward it will be interesting to see how many Canadian sellers will be promoting their items with the change from 1 to 2 % and the fact it is applied to the entire sale (item/tax/shipping) and based on our limited options for shipping in Canada. How much does running a sale affect placement in search? Anyones guess!!

-Lotz