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I have had it for a while. Unless I auction the same item and mention the fact that it’s available at my store, I hardly get any sales from it. So, what I do is list one auction for every store item I have, at $1 no reserve for 10 days, no BIN, and a big link to the store and specifying the price. As a bonus, sometimes the auction end selling for more than the store item. If you have related items in your store, you can have a few auctions mentioning the fact that you have a larger selection in your store and providing a link to your other auctions (which will show your store items too), but you can’t be too specific about what you have. You also have to be careful not to make it look like the primary (with stress on "primary") purpose of your auction is to direct buyers to your store (or other auctions), that’s against eBay’s rules. Pricing is important. I see many sellers that have store prices that are too high. Since it only costs $0.05 to list for 30 days, it seems they don’t mind if it takes a long time to sell. I list my stuff at slightly under what the average winning bid would be, and they sell consistently (provided I use the auction to lure buyers into my store).
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Forgive my ignorance, but what do you mean, "identical BIN/First Bid prices"? I don’t know what BIN stands for to begin with. I tried the stores as well & sold nothing. Ebay provides very poor linkage to the stores in my humble opinion. Thanks Dave Ed West
that I have caved in and started bottom-posting, except when I forget: If you have an eBay store, are you getting "fixed price" sales? Is it what you expected and is it working for you? I had an eBay Store for four or five months, linked to it from my auctions, and never sold anything. I’m now selling fixed price items by using identical BIN/First Bid prices, and sell six or eight items a day. BIN items are easier to find than store items. I don’t know if bidders are bothering to look in the stores at all. Regular auctions work better for me.
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| Forgive my ignorance, but what do you mean, "identical BIN/First Bid | prices"? | I don’t know what BIN stands for to begin with. | I tried the stores as well & sold nothing. Ebay provides very poor linkage | to the stores in my humble opinion. | Thanks Dave | Ed West BIN stands for BUY IT NOW…. so if you list something on eBay, startprice $25, but it now price (BIN) $25, you’ll sell faster than on an eBay store 
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that I have caved in and started bottom-posting, except when I forget: Forgive my ignorance, but what do you mean, "identical BIN/First Bid prices"? I don’t know what BIN stands for to begin with. I tried the stores as well & sold nothing. Ebay provides very poor linkage to the stores in my humble opinion. Thanks Dave Ed West
The Buy It Now price is the price at which the auction closes automatically to sell to the bidder at that price. If I have a BIN price of $10.00, as soon as someone bids $10.00, the auction is over and the item is won. If someone bids less than $10.00, the BIN option vanishes and the new bid (the opening bid price set by the seller) becomes the current bid. The auction proceeds normally after that. When selling fixed price items, I always make the opening bid the same as the BIN price, in this case $10.00, so BIN is always available until the item is purchased. Sometimes someone will accidentally bid the opening bid price instead of clicking the BIN. In those cases, I close the auction immediately to sell to the highest bidder. I was too late once, and a $10.00 item went up to $14.50. As I still had 8 identical items available for $10.00 BIN, I offered free Priority Mail delivery to the buyer to avoid bad feelings if they noticed later on. I’ve got 80-90 BIN auctions of this type going right now. 80% of them close at the BIN price before the auction ends. I relist those that don’t, and 80% of those sell second time around. I experiment a lot with wording and packages, and BIN auctions that don’t sell are revised immediately with new titles, descriptions, or contents (e.g. a "free" bonus item.) Not only is the exposure greater than in an eBay store, this lets me be more responsive than if I dumped a bunch of stuff in an eBay store for 30 days. I can see in a few days what is selling and what is not, and respond accordingly. It’s weird, but a lot of the marketing concepts I practiced in my earlier life work well on eBay.
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I can tell you from a customer point of view: I don’t shop the "eBay Stores". It is so easy to just search for what I want in the traditional auction. NicoleDiana
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i built a store when it was first offered and kept it till the end.( when they were going to start charging for it) I only sold a few items the whole time I had it open, yet my auctions were doing dyanmite as usual. I just think that buyers prefer the thrill of the auction concept. I do use Buy it Now on some of my auctions.
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I sell quite a bit from my eBay store. But only when I have a link to it from an auction for the same item.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – i built a store when it was first offered and kept it till the end.( when they were going to start charging for it) I only sold a few items the whole time I had it open, yet my auctions were doing dyanmite as usual. I just think that buyers prefer the thrill of the auction concept. I do use Buy it Now on some of my auctions. I can tell you from a customer point of view: I don’t shop the "eBay Stores". It is so easy to just search for what I want in the traditional auction. NicoleDiana If you have an eBay store, are you getting "fixed price" sales? Is it what you expected and is it working for you?
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that I have caved in and started bottom-posting, except when I forget: If you have an eBay store, are you getting "fixed price" sales? Is it what you expected and is it working for you?
I had an eBay Store for four or five months, linked to it from my auctions, and never sold anything. I’m now selling fixed price items by using identical BIN/First Bid prices, and sell six or eight items a day. BIN items are easier to find than store items. I don’t know if bidders are bothering to look in the stores at all. Regular auctions work better for me.
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If you have an eBay store, are you getting "fixed price" sales? Is it what you expected and is it working for you?
About 90% of my sales now are from my Ebay store — I put well defined html links in my auctions so buyers can easily get to my store listings. To be fair, most of my items are regular retail item only varying by size, etc. I think if I were selling collectibles or one-of-a-kinds I would not mess with a store. If you use the stores, in my opinion, links in your regular auctions are necessary to guide the buyers to your store. Ebay has not made it easy for a buyer to look in the stores on his own. Depending on what you are selling stores are a trial and error situation. My 1/3 cents worth John
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If you have an eBay store, are you getting "fixed price" sales? Is it what you expected and is it working for you?
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