eBay Tests New Paid Ads at Top of Search Results

by: pace306

More money for a service (views) that sellers should have gotten in the first place.

by: Grady

You pay for people to view your listing. They hide it. You pay again for them to show it. Then, they show it to people who CLICK on it. And people fall for it......

by: Shane

Really scammy.

by: Silver Ice King

So Ebay was not making enough money from the Promoted Listings as that required a purchase.  Now they can charge the seller for every supposed click that happens on that ad.  if Ebay thinks that I trust them to accurately track the number of clicks and only bill me for my clicks they are sadly mistaken.  

Why not get your impressions/views/watches working correctly before once again adding another feature that will most certainly have glitches.  Oh yea, I remember why, because this one will make more unearned money for Ebay that nobody can dispute the accuracy of.  With a sale the Seller has something for their money, with this all the seller will have is Ebays word that these clicks happened AND that the click resulted in the buyer actually seeing that sellers item and not another sellers, especially one of their partners from China.

Anybody that falls for this deserves to be separated from their money as Ebay is promising absolutely nothing other than your ad will show at the top of the page and nothing else at all.  

The 2nd Quarter numbers must be worse than anybody was estimating as now they want more money (minimum $100) just to show your listing at the top of the page and no guarantees that anybody will click on it, see your actual listing, or buy your item.  I also just saw that the seller determines the cost of each click through so now those that pay more will have their ads shown more and obviously will receive the most clicks so that Ebay collects the most money.  I am not surprised you must be logged in to check this program out further so they can  see exactly who is interested in this program and probably tank your sales further until they offer you this option.

Ebay, you already do not have enough qualified programmers to fix the major issues that keep happening with your site, but now you want to divert their attention from those issues to once again design something that takes additional monies from Sellers without providing anything guaranteed in return.

As i said above, anybody who participates in this program deserves to be separated from their money as they have no issues just giving it away.

by: toolguy

Yet another service I will never use!

Hello eBay!

I want video's in my listings.

My favorite eBay seller just added video's to their listings a few weeks ago.

Not sure how they're doing it but I can see and play them.

I would pay .25 cents per listing to have a video.

eBay, YOU aren't listening as usual. . .

by: comments

The quarterly fee increases and nickel and dimeing over ad placement has lead ebay not to riches and rewards but layoffs, coupons, and ebay buck specials.

Maybe it is time to try something that works?

by: sasikat9

A fool and his money are soon parted. On Ebay its really disgusting.

by: Ric

eBay is SO DESPERATE for revenue, what seller in their right mind would trust their click counts. This company's integrity factor is as low as their growth rate.

I would not put it past them to inflate the click per ad count so that they can collect more revenue for nothing.

by: ebayout

Do the inmates that run ebay ever give thought to how much in LOSS fees they never see because sellers refuse to list high dollar items for fear of a SNAD?
They're stepping over dollars to pick-up pennies.
Imagine if they had a BUSINESS person running the show.

by: FidoMaster

Next up eBay's desperate advertising monetization:
1) Fullscreen interstitial ads available for purchase (when buyers click between listings)
2) Pop-up opening new browser windows when buyer clicks 3rd-party product ad (like some of the travel sites use when price shopping)
3) Promoted Listings Plus - Floating vertical competitor banner ads that stay in place when buyers scroll down listing details
4) GrifterBuddi - eBay shopping assistant than runs in the background on your PC or mobile device leveraging eBay's exclusive "better than anyone else out there" interests-based AI technology delivering personalized GrifterBuddi curated items 24/7.
GrifterBuddi will also sing songs, tell amazing eBay facts, and tell jokes ("Offer Free shipping to eliminate final-value shipping fees!")

And just like Chucky, GrifterBuddi will be your friend 'till the end.... and never compete with you!*


*except off-site product ads and competitor products offered on the top, bottom and sides of your listing details.

by: RL15

another pathetic money grab by the delusional ceo and his jabroni's

by: Snapped

In the example banner, it boasts ''Top picks for best-selling [stuff].''  

While sponsership by the seller is acknowledged, eBay endorses this 'advertising bait' by obtaining a fee for providing an exclusively eBay procurement path for each customer who 'bytes', from whom they also then claim patronage by economically compelled listing content, presentation, performance and fulfillment edicts to the 'seller'.  Soon they will also directly control all transaction procedure.  They will not have any ownership right nor accept any liability for the item in trade during this brokerage.

The ability to participate in this paid sponsorship is also restricted to only certain transaction methods and class of product age, without other discrimination for quality of item or seller, and thus without any validation of the veracity of the bait.

This leaves a question for the originally quoted claim:  Is the [stuff] truly advertised before it's volume might become so only because of the 'sales volume' the ad would manipulate, and any seller 'rating' eBay decides worthy and bequeaths regardless?

If not, eBay will be obtaining income by false advertising.

by: Grady

GrifterBuddi   LOL

by: Grady

They aren't showing your item now, so you would pay additional fees based on their good word as to how many people they show it to now that you paid extra? Yeaaaahh.... that makes sense !!!! If you already know they lie, and they lie, and they lie, and they lie, why throw more money at them and believe their numbers?

by: Grady

Next week they will announce a new program where you can pay extra fees for certain features to work correctly, such as photos, messages, watch/view count, tracking etc.  

by: Silver Ice King

@Ebayout

Exactly !!!  Could not have said it better.

by: Grady

The mob telling you that if you pay them a "fee" they may let a few customers in your front door. They decide if, when, and how many.

by: ebayout

Get ready for it:
Listing fee: $1
Showing fee: $2
No sale fee: $3
Re-list fee: $4
...but you get a 50% discount if you offer free returns.

by: maxmad

why on earth would you pay ebay pay per click, then on top pay FVF to ebay for items, and pay ebay FVF on shipping, when you could just as easy use Google ads which has a billion times more traffic, and drive customers to your website, with no FVF at all,

I think ebay is counting on the not so smart desperate sellers,

by: Ming the Merciless

Only ebafia's favored few will be participating.

Two ways to get of this newest abomination:

1. Never click on one of these ads

2. Click hundreds of times.

This will also lead to competitors trying to ruin competing sellers using this fool's errand.

As long as ebafia continues to deprive MOST sellers of sales using these anti competitive contrivances, the worse overall sales will be.

Ebafia grows when most sellers grow -- not just a few your handpicked darlings.