Selling on ebay.com and auction visibility in the EU
Summary: The discussion concerns the visibility of auctions on eBay.com in European Union countries. collector950 starts the conversation, but the content is empty, just like the reply from guangxi_hone, which suggests there is no further development of the topics or issues related to selling.
Good morning,
Recently, I decided to resume sales in the European Union after about 2 years of break. Until now, I have only sold outside the Union. I have a store on ebay.com. When I access my store from the ebay.com address, all auctions are visible, but after changing the URL to any of the EU ones, e.g. ebay.pl, ebay.de, etc., suddenly there is a lack of assortment. I have added a VAT number and set up OSS, entered all the required company data, and nothing. In other services, e.g. Australian or British, auctions are normally visible. I have shipping set to worldwide. Ebay doesn't want to help me, brushing me off with generalities or providing incorrect solutions.
Can someone simply advise me on what to do to make the auctions visible in the Union?
Best regards
guangxi_hone
·3 months agoThe eBay search engine prefers its own site, so for example the eBay.com search engine will display auctions from eBay.com first, and then, if there’s time left, from other platforms.
It will show up in the results especially when it comes to items that are scarce or nonexistent on the home site (e.g., in the COLLECTIBLES section, collectible items). Purchased promotion also matters here.
So the best strategy is to list separately on each portal, buying promotions and choosing, of course, those that charge a predetermined percentage only when a sale happens through the link from that promotion.
eBay also offers a promotion paid monthly, renewing automatically. I do not recommend this option because it is both expensive and, as I’ve noticed in my case, not very effective.
Besides that, it’s easy to miss additional fees charged automatically even though the item sells well without promotion.