Hi! I am Rajesh Iyer, Manager eBay Shops and I’m here to let you know about some important changes happening for Store Inventory Listings that will benefit the Shop Sellers. We want eBay Shops offering’s to be profitable for you as well as providing a dynamic, comprehensive, and scalable platform on which to sell. In addition to the existing benefits available to Shop owners, such as the opportunity to use the cheaper Shops format featured listings, traffic reports, email marketing options, phone support and tools for optimising your presence in search engines, we will be making changes to the eBay search facility to ensure your Shop items are found more easily by buyers.

Shortly, the Shops items will be included to the main eBay search. This means that at the end of any eBay search, all matching Shop inventory format listings will be displayed. For sellers, this means much more exposure for your Shop and Shop items – for buyers, every search will return many more qualified listings. After the change when there are relevant Shops items they will be returned and visible to potential buyers in search results 100% of the time. This change will be rolled in mid February and may take up to 1 week for the roll out to complete. Currently the Shop Items are visible only within a sellers shop.

In addition we are going to make changes to the durations available for Store Inventory listings. Right now you can choose to have your Store Inventory listings run for 30 to 120 days, or until you choose to cancel them. However, very few Store sellers decide to have their listings run for 60, 90, or 120 days, hence we are going to remove these durations.

Live listings with one of these durations will not be affected. It’s just that sellers will not be able to list new items, or re-list closed items, at one of these durations once the change is made. Of course, you will still be able to opt to run your listings for 30 days, or keep them as Good ‘Til Cancelled. Store fees remain unchanged.

Happy Selling!

Regards,
Rajesh Iyer