eBay Promoted Listings Update [300% Increase In Sales] September 2019

hey how's it going Paul here from dropshipping Titans calm and this is going to be an update on eBay's promoted listing problem I made a video about this last week and I received a lot of comments on that video so I want to cover what's been happening with my sales ever since I turned off promoter listings we'll also talk about what eBay told me about this problem what you guys told me about it in the comment section and I'll also show you how to turn off promoter listings at the end of this video if that's what you want to do so since making that video I've called eBay multiple times I spoke to different representatives over at eBay concierge which is supposed to be a higher level of customer service for us as sellers trying to get some more information they didn't give me a ton they did tell me one thing that kind of disputed what I said in my last video and one of you guys actually commented on my last video and told me about this as well so Gorman here says hey you made one error in that video you stated that if a seller is doing promoted listings it will take precedent and non promoted listings will not show up so to your point if a seller promotes all of their listings they will never show up organically and they will only show up promoted and according to R or man and eBay that's not true eBay is saying you will either show up organically or as a promoted listing but not both and you can show up organically even if you're running promoted listings now that's what I base saying officially and I've been running a lot of tests before I turn off promoted listings searching for my items and I was only seeing my items showing up as promoted listings so I wasn't seeing my items showing up organically and the vast majority of my sales since this update came from promoted listings and not organic now with that said I was still making sales organically not a lot but I was making some so that tells me that either I wasn't running promoted listings for those items which is possible or somehow customers were finding those items anyway or what eBay says and what R or man says is true and I am still showing up organically sometimes but vast majority of the time for at least my store I was only showing up as promoted listings so this might differ for each person your account might be showing up fine like an even split between them but I know for me personally that wasn't the case and look guys if you're annoyed by this - if this is frustrating you I suggest you call eBay yourself and complain about it the more they hear from us sellers the more likely it is that they are going to reverse this if they reverse that at all so you have to call and complain about it to let them know if it's something that you do want changed so let's now go into my account and I'll show you what's been happening with my sales since I've made some changes here I was doing pretty well here pretty consistent around this time period and then around the time when this new promoted listing policy took effect was somewhere around here I'm not exactly sure when it happened but as you see I saw a dip in sales this Saturday but then it kind of went back up so I'm like I'm not really sure what's going on but then clearly two days of a big decline in sales so it was this Wednesday September 18th when towards the end of the day I turned off promoted listings and then on Thursday boom saw a huge increase in sales Friday still an increase over what it used to be wasn't as good as a day before so that's a little bit strange and then Saturday was a really good day as well and today is still Sunday we're not completed with the day yet so we'll have to wait and see now is this really enough time to determine if turning off promoted listings made an impact I don't know probably not it's only like three or four days but this is a pretty large increase and this is the only thing that I changed I turned off promoted listings and that's the only difference that I made now on the 20th of the month things reset on eBay but the day before in the

19th was also a good day so I don't think something happened to my account on the 20th that gave me a boost because I was doing fine on the 19th as well so this is just my experience everyone's account might be different so try this out for yourself if you're running promoted listings try turning them off and seeing if that makes any sort of difference to your sales like it did for me no promise that it will but it's definitely worth a shot if you've seen some sort of decline in your sales at all so let me show you now how to turn off promoted listings if that's what you're interested in doing and then I'll read some comments that you guys left on the last video so here on eBay you want to click or hover over the top right where it says my eBay and click on selling and then you want to click right here or hover over marketing or click on marketing I guess and you want to click on the Left where it says promoted listings and if you have any campaigns here you want to deactivate all of them so you might have multiple that say active in the status column just change them to pause or end I think it's fine to just pause it for now and make sure all of them are paused and that's it now you will have promoted listings that are turned off so that's the way to do it I know a live you were wondering about that so now let's I'm gonna pull up some of the comments from the last video so first comment was from roar man big shout out to him for clarifying that like I said that was my experience might be different for you guys this is from Alex and Ray Rodriguez such an amazing video I noticed recently that every sale I have made I've been charged a promote a listing fee and my normal fee on top of that this is messed up on eBay side I can't believe they really did this they have to fix it soon but I doubt they ever will I'm gonna do the exact same thing you did turn off all my promoter listings please let me know how that goes for you thanks so definitely he's having the same experience so is Nick says pretty poor decision on eBay sparked definitely a decline in visibility no matter how much change or tweaks in regards to your promoted listings are be interested in seeing how sales are views increased or decreased simply Dana you probably can't read this but it says I also heard that they have cookies that track for 30 days so if a person clicks on your promoted listing and buys it later within 30 days even if they find it organically you will still be charged a promoted listing fee and that is correct and that's always been the case Cardenas says my sales have really slowed down with promoted listings I haven't seen hardly any sales in the last few days and my listings are promoted and Joseph says I swear me too so a lot of you guys are seeing the same thing and this is an interesting comment from B ba says I agree with you plus eBay are a-holes they are also trying to emulate Amazon they don't realize the destroying their own business model and I tend to agree that they are trying to look more like Amazon but they are doing actually a bad job at it because I want to show you this right here so here I am on the Amazon search results page I just searched for Rubik's Cube so you see at the top here are basically what the equivalent is of eBay's promoted listings and you can see right here all of these are somebody's paying to get their listings up here so you see right here we have this item winning moves games rubik's 2x2 cube 807 reviews and if we search for that same title we see it right here the same exact item shows up twice on the search results page once organically right here and again promoted right here so it's not like amazon is doing it the right way showing things twice in the search results and if you go to google so it search for like clickfunnels which is a software you see there's an ad up here for clickfunnels and so this is paid and right here is a organic listing for clickfunnels so amazon also shows organically and the promoted listing right here so eBay is the only one who kind of deviated from this norm trying to do their own thing and my interpretation of

it is they are trying to trick us into or trick buyers into clicking those so they make more money on every sale and that just doesn't sit well with me so if it you again please call eBay please complain about it and let them know you are turning off promoted listings if that's what you're going to do because you are unhappy that they are doing this alright guys thanks so much for checking out this video and thanks for everyone who left comments on the last video if you have anything else you want to share please leave a comment down below letting me know your thoughts if you've made any changes to your own eBay account with promoter listings and saw any impact let me know that in the comment section find it really helpful and if you got any value out this video make sure to give it a thumbs up if you want to learn more about eBay dropshipping I will be having a webinar that will be the second link down below if you want to check that out subscribe to the channel for more updates and I'll see you guys in the next video bye for now