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Old 03-27-2018, 03:15 PM   #1
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Default eBay "Your items are waiting in carts. Now make the sale." email..

Anyone get one of these emails before? Just got one for two items I'm selling.

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"Drop the Price to Make the Sale

Lower the price by 5% on these items in shoppers' carts, and we'll email them to say their deal got better."

I actually really like this idea. Like a more in-depth version of a watch list.
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Old 03-27-2018, 04:18 PM   #2
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I got one and did it, but the card didn't sell. D'oh.
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Old 03-27-2018, 04:49 PM   #3
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raise the price and see what happens. Many times when you have lots of watchers on items raising the price will entice a sale.
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Old 03-27-2018, 05:02 PM   #4
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raise the price and see what happens. Many times when you have lots of watchers on items raising the price will entice a sale.
I did the 5% lower to see what happens.

Only a $1 difference on one of them that was listed on the high side of a BIN/BO.

That and today is the last day to sell something for the last 8% selling bucks promo.

Other one has multiple watchers and I'll end up raising the price after today anyway since the promo will be up.
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Anyone get one of these emails before? Just got one for two items I'm selling.

Reads:

"Drop the Price to Make the Sale

Lower the price by 5% on these items in shoppers' carts, and we'll email them to say their deal got better."

I actually really like this idea. Like a more in-depth version of a watch list.
When I get a lot of watchers on an item, I'll lower the price to see if it gets anyone motivated... Know how many times that's worked?

ANSWER: ZERO

They buy when they're good and well ready
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When I get a lot of watchers on an item, I'll lower the price to see if it gets anyone motivated... Know how many times that's worked?

ANSWER: ZERO

They buy when they're good and well ready
Agreed that it's usually not a good strategy.

One out of the two sold not even 10 minutes after my last post on here.
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raise the price and see what happens. Many times when you have lots of watchers on items raising the price will entice a sale.
Just noticed I have 3 watchers on a card that I had none on this morning; 3 days to go

Bumping it a dollar and let's see what happens
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Old 03-27-2018, 09:41 PM   #8
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Just noticed I have 3 watchers on a card that I had none on this morning; 3 days to go

Bumping it a dollar and let's see what happens
With clothing it works. would estimate that about 70% of the time if I raise the price a few dollars I will get an offer that meets or beats the original price or an outright sale within a couple of days.

With Ebay's algorithm having a lot of watchers on something with no buys can actually hurt your search metrics for that item. So you should do something to turn those watchers.

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Have gotten the same with my clothing and I lower and nothing happens. Going to raise the prices back up.
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With clothing it works. would estimate that about 70% of the time if I raise the price a few dollars I will get an offer that meets or beats the original price or an outright sale within a couple of days.

With Ebay's algorithm having a lot of watchers on something with no buys can actually hurt your search metrics for that item. So you should do something to turn those watchers.
This is interesting
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raise the price and see what happens. Many times when you have lots of watchers on items raising the price will entice a sale.
This. I’ve successfully done this before multiple times.
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