Comments on: eBay Enlists Sellers to Post on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest

By: horus3248

horus3248 — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 08:21:51 +0000

The biggest issue with linking to your listings from your social medias, is the links they provide are absolutely atrocious. They are insane with endless tracking info.
They are like 500 characters long. You can’t provide the link in an Instagram post because it is impossible for a buyer to type it in.

By: RL15

RL15 — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:03:04 +0000

just another fleecebay scheme that won’t work

By: fruitylovesyou

fruitylovesyou — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 10:09:10 +0000

I noticed eBay is on a blitz they’re eBay presence seems to be amped up.
Why dilute your brand by generating more backlinks to the eBay domain. if anything how do you know you’re not? The fact that they rolled this out without the reduction to sellers seems to me that its not part of the consideration to begin with. Do you like being used.. If they don’t get enough user adoption then they give you crumbs. No one deploys programs without measurement controls. You are being played. Is this how you guys focus on the core marketplace? Action matters, their words are meaningless until its starts with “We let you down…

By: Dingdong

Dingdong — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 10:30:20 +0000

“Tom Pinckney had promised sellers a substantial fee reduction for driving sales from their social channels to their eBay store (“eBay to Offer Reduced Fees for Social Sharing”).”

Sounds like Managed Payments – promised a lower cost and then . . . raise the cost to the sellers.
How long will it take for eBay to take away the fee reduction?

If you are going to put all the work promoting your items on the various social medias, just get your own website and make that promoting work for you and leave eBay out of your business.