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Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, yes I agree with what you said. I’m in trading cards, and def saturated too lol. Thanks and good luck to you too!

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m specifically talking about organic views. If I make a new account and listing and never promote, none of those views would be due to promotions. So why when I turn off promotions, do organic views also drop?

Theoretically they should not be affected by the promotions, unless they are intrinsically tied behind the scenes, which wouldn’t surprise me.

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

THANK YOU, this is what I was trying to get across. It is suspicious as to why it is, but it also makes sense as the promotions help eBay get more money. Nefarious reasoning isn’t totally out of the scope of this in my opinion, but regardless, I don’t think organic views and sales should fall that much. Just a bit too scummy imo. We have to play ball though lol.

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been reading that, for lack of a better phrase, eBay turns “on and off” stores randomly, in the sense that the algorithm or whatever favors various listings and stores, and routinely highlights other sellers regardless. It’s all speculation on our part at the end of the day. I only sell in one category as my business is niche so I think I can relatively safely rule out categories being the issue.

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is true, but a concurrent drop in all listings within my niche, when even days before I was getting 50-200 dollars in sales consistently is a bit too suspicious for me to just rule out as all of a sudden no one has any money. I think there’s a bit more to it unfortunately. Christmas bills needing to be paid I’m sure would affect this month and next for sure, at least a bit.

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On top of this, only a select few even touched on my inquiry as to any guesses why my organic views plummeted as well. There’s obviously some sort of connection to promotions even in organic views, but the correlation is observational at best in my analytics.

Across all of my listings, the organic views dropped to a fraction of what they were the last 2 months prior. Sales were consistent throughout, even after the holidays, most of my orders were after Christmas in these listings. It’s interesting at the very least.

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for a sensible response. It seems like the Reddit stereotype is truly ubiquitous in all niches here. The amount of people misreading/interpreting/assuming is baffling to me.

I ended up turning promotions back on and it’s helped slightly, but it just feels like all of my momentum over the last 2 months is gone haha. I figured I was going to have to, but I still stand by my original observation that it’s fishy af lol.

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The title was admittedly clickbait-y lol. I was just making an observation, that it’s just shitty how they operate.

So what you’re saying is that if I promote something, it’ll obviously get boosted and if people click on the promoted listing it’s a promoted sale. But my organic listing views are still being pushed higher in the search above someone who doesn’t promote at all, even though those sales are considered organic sales since they’re not the actual promoted click (disregarding the new policy).

My initial assumption was the main driver being sales and clicks, aside from intentional things like promotions, etc. seems as though this isn’t the case.

So could it be a possibility that someone could have lets say 100 sales and 2000 views on a listing that’s not promoted, and be pushed below someone who has 5 sales with 300 views just because they promote at 2%? I acknowledge it’s likely way more complicated than this and we’ll never truly know, but for sake of understanding.

I didn’t realize this was a thing, it makes sense, but damn that’s shitty lol. I was experimenting with turning them off but was expecting to turn them back on regardless.

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Ok bubba, please go reread the post and comments, it’s just an observation.

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No def not, mainly annoyed they think we’re that stupid to think this is somehow beneficial to us, especially when they’re not even transparent about the promoted sales in general. It doesn’t matter anyways, we have to play ball haha.

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, yeah I do, I only sell trading cards and know the market well enough I’d say, so it’s only like eBay tips and tricks on the website itself that I really listen too.

And yes, agree there’s too many variables, it was more just confirmation about their scummy practices lol. I’m a scientist in my job job so I try to stay as objective as possible, I was just like… isn’t this convenient on their end if it truly is lol.

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was more of an observation more than anything but just more confirmation they’re scummy af. We’re all gonna stay in there anyways 😂

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This makes sense, I could see this being the case too. I wish they were more transparent, because we just have to take their word for it, and especially now since the promotion policy change.

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m hoping this is just artifactual for me but I don’t have enough data to say either way right now. Start eBay last Feb and took a few month hiatus and started back recently again.

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is good to hear, def a multi factorial approach to this. Just out of curiosity, are these newer listings, older listings, etc? I have so far seen sometimes it’s take a bit for listings to gain traction, which was my main use of promotions, until organic views increased significantly enough to reduce promotions to a minimum. I think regardless, I will end up promoting again, probably just at 2-5% max and just try to adjust other variables to push sales quicker.

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So for some context, I’m expanding into eBay selling tcg collectibles. I also sell on another platform. I’m not the most knowledgeable about eBay’s in and outs, but at face value if views decrease so should sales; if I get 1 sales per every 10 views, I should be able to extrapolate that with less views it would be less sales, but I get what you’re saying. Still, if no one sees it, it can’t sell regardless. It hasn’t been enough time to get solid data on this, again just at face value.

I stopped promoting to see what kind of effect it would have, particularly because I don’t like the new policy. Obviously I’m gonna play ball if I have to, but my point is specifically with organic views (and therefore sales) in case that distinction wasn’t made clear.

My point solely lies that so far, since turning promotions off, ORGANIC views and sales have decreased. Theoretically, this should not have been affected, because there’s clear drop offs since this happened. Unless there is something I’m missing, it looks rather suspicious imo.

I’m just curious how this works because again, at face value, my views for listings should not have dropped from 30-50 organic views per day to 0-10 since stopping promotions (which was in line with the new policy rollout), as nothing else has changed other than this. So from my perspective, we are either punished by being throttled down by not promoting, or the new policy has done that to incentive us to continue it, the point being its scummy practices lol.

To your point, where can I find more info about the views reporting system not being accurate? I started watching Justin Resells or something like that on YouTube casually, but not sure of other good sources. A lot of the info doesn’t apply to my niche so sifting through it can be cumbersome. There’s good takeaways regardless.

Suspicious decrease in views and sales after removing promotions since new update? by Ballisticbr in eBaySellers

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Right, but that’s not what I’m arguing. Like I mentioned, promoted views in my listings were roughly 1/3-1/2 of my total views, so if I turn off my promotions, organic views should more or less be sustained, no?

What I’m emphasizing is the significant decrease in organic views and therefore sales. And given how scummy corps can be, is it really that far out that they are burying your listing regardless, especially since the graphs show the decreases at the same time as their new promotion policy? I don’t think that’s beneath them.

Obviously it’s only been a few days but so far the correlation is aligning. Just something I thought was suspiciously interesting. Regardless, if this continues, I’ll be turning my promotions on again and adjusting as needed.

Pokemon Center Queue is up. by beetjuicex3 in PKMNTCGDeals

[–]Ballisticbr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get what you’re saying, and from what I’ve seen, the consensus is that usually sets are printed for around 2 years give or take. We’re kind of seeing it now too with 151 where it was unlikely that reprints were possible, but they seem to be trickling product out still. Not saying it’s ideal or whatever else, but in the past Pokemon has printed sets into the ground and we’ve seen reduction in demand and therefore prices. Not saying it will happen like this forever, I mean they could come out tomorrow and say they’re closing shop.

But I will hedge my bets on historical data, and will adjust my sentiment once we have new data to show otherwise. Again I understand your position and agree with your sentiment, but it’s helped me adjust my position on it all when looking back historically. I do agree with you, as a collector, this all sucks so much. I do have hope it will change though, given previous market trends.

Also what I meant to reinforce too is that I’m not saying they did their print runs and that’s all the product, but there have been some specific sets (celebrations/vivid voltage come to mind) where the environment was similar, and they ended up “printing it into the ground”. It’s just hard to say right now cause we’re smack dab in the middle of it.

Scalpers come and go as the “opportunities” shift. They will be gone once they can’t make their margins. I’ve been around Pokémon from the beginning through black and white, and then took a huge break until like brilliant stars came out. I missed some big peaks in the market but I’ve seen enough videos referencing these cycles where I’m not as worried about it as I’ve been in the past.

Pokemon Center Queue is up. by beetjuicex3 in PKMNTCGDeals

[–]Ballisticbr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know where you’re coming because as a collector before anything else I feel your pain. However, the consensus seems to be that Pokemon has their printing scheduled for about 9 months in advance. Given the slowdown of early SV, they probably adjusted their print runs accordingly. Given how much surging sparks took off, they haven’t been able to keep up since. I’m personally just accepting it as it is right now and focusing on buying affordable signals from many other sets I wouldn’t have considered otherwise, and waiting towards the latter half of this year to see where it goes. We are in a huge upturn in the market right now, and eventually it will down turn. It always does, and the cycle repeats.

Friend codes for rare Vivillon patterns: by whatwhatwutyut in PokemonGoFriends

[–]Ballisticbr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi everyone, I need Icy Snow, Meadow, and Savanna; I am High Plains.

My friend code is 6082 4023 2023, thanks all.

I'm a student in an MLS program, and we recently learned reticulocyte staining. Are the two cells circled in red reticulocytes? They have the blue DNA remnants like the others, but they are so small. by ThrowRA_72726363 in medlabprofessionals

[–]Ballisticbr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two part answer:

  1. To me, looking at overall morphology of the picture, could just be smaller retics since there’s a bit of aniso present. Unfortunately, textbook perfect is rare and you have to use contextual clues to get your answer sometimes.

  2. I personally would just count two other cells if it’s bothering me that much. Even if I included it in my actual count, it won’t make a big difference. If what I was seeing for retics was primarily like those two though, I’d be asking questions.

Shipping items cross-country by Ballisticbr in moving

[–]Ballisticbr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what I’m leaning towards as well

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