Selling Manager Pro - Automated Relisting

ADC · 13-07-2008, 04:12 PM

I was just wondering what techniques most people found successful on the automated listing front.

I personally just keep 1 listing active for each product at all times. I was just wondered if anybody had tried 2 or 3 listing listings active at at time and noticed and improvement in sales. Or does it really depend on the product. Does anybody have any successful techniques they use to help them decide?

greedyboy · 13-07-2008, 04:24 PM

Selected products we have are listed on the hour, every hour (between certain times of the day/everyday).

ADC · 13-07-2008, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by greedyboy

Selected products we have are listed on the hour, every hour (between certain times of the day/everyday).

Is that 'buy it now' or bidding?

greedyboy · 13-07-2008, 04:35 PM

Generally buy it now but has been know for auctions too.

ADC · 13-07-2008, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by greedyboy

Generally buy it now but has been know for auctions too.

How do you decide what to list on the hour every hour? Is it just your top selling items or do you take into account what other sellers are doing and respond accordingly?

greedyboy · 13-07-2008, 04:45 PM

We generally don't look at what others/competition are doing, I do what suits my pocket best. Eventually most competitors nick our ideas and products.

To be honest, what suits me may not suit you. Trial and error is the only way.

xcat · 13-07-2008, 05:17 PM

A good trick if you are selling the same items over again, is to add one listing and then relist another at slightly less than the previous listing sold for. Watchers, or people that just missed out, will generally bid on your relisted item at the higher starting bid, as its cheaper than the price the item sold for. This can encourage more people to bid and push up your final sale price.

greedyboy · 13-07-2008, 05:21 PM

A prime example of everyones situation is different.

I find if you have many 99p auctions running at the same time , people are not bothered about paying too much as they know another is finishing soon or the next day. Prices will generally decrease the longer you are running the auctions (with a few spikes/high prices in between).

99p auctions have not been serving us so well lately but used to be our main income.

blavann · 13-07-2008, 10:44 PM

I don't use auto relist anymore because I set up a website, and I don't want to sell something in 2 places and find out I only had 1 left.

But before my website I used Auctiva for relisting. I had 1 of each item listed, and had it set up to auto relist on auction end by inventory, so I never ran out of stock. Was handy meant less work for me. But now I like to control what stock is where. And I want to offer stock on my website that isn't on ebay to try to draw more people to buy from there.

greedyboy · 13-07-2008, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by blavann

I don't use auto relist anymore because I set up a website, and I don't want to sell something in 2 places and find out I only had 1 left.

But before my website I used Auctiva for relisting. I had 1 of each item listed, and had it set up to auto relist on auction end by inventory, so I never ran out of stock. Was handy meant less work for me. But now I like to control what stock is where. And I want to offer stock on my website that isn't on ebay to try to draw more people to buy from there.

I hear you!

Managing stock on two or three venues plus a website is a nightmare! We have our stock management as tight as possible. The problem comes when you only have a few items or you are low on stock as you always get a rush on that particular item.

Amazon is the worst for this as a non performing product may get the buy box and then you have a sudden influx of sales. Other than manually splitting your stock up it's an absolute pain in the arse