I thought this was fun. What appears to be half a Gust of Wind nicely protected inside a top loader binder and currently available as part of a binder auction on eBay Aus.
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Thatâs TCGPlayer NM condition.
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Parts of the PSA label are shiny!
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Now ebay tells you the % of items that are promoted in the item category. Kind of insane that 44% of cards are promoted listings on ebay. Man if everyone just colluded together and nobody promotes, itâs a level playing field.
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Youâve never been to Shen Zhen, China, Arizona??
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The plum blossoms are beautiful this time of year
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I removed all my promotions recently with ebay changing their policies around charging the fees even if the buyer doesnt find the listing through promotions. Unfortunately my sales have imploded since.
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Sucks to hear sales fall off when taking the promotions off. Iâve heard of mixed results - probably highly depends on what types of cards you are selling (niche vs massly available).
I imagine if you had 100 cards listed via promotion and they all sold within 1 month, that most of them would sell anyways after 6 months without promotion. So promotion only accelerates the sale, which isnât that big of perk when just selling some side stuff and not being a business
I would feel very bored if my buying became 1/6th per month of what it was prior. I wont have data to know the real impact of the promotions for a couple months more though.
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interesting. I never click on random stuff. I generally make my search, and avoid promoted links. I search a card, set the filter how I want. Then I scroll down.best match is a scam, because it will keep showing the same listing on multiple pages. But I guess Iâm in the minority of buyers. that amount of drop off is huge. And if that many people are doing promoted listings, they have an incentive to make the deal worse for sellers, which isnât nice. But if the cards sell eventually and its better for your bottom line, I do hope it still works out.
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Selling eventually is not good for the bottom line i suspect, there will come a point where i have to do a time cost analysis. Something along the lines of if a promoted listing sells 2x faster but costs more to sell, is the ability to deploy the capital worth more than the expense of the fee. Until i have enough data to make that analysis we will see. I think over the next month or two other sellers will remove the promotions, which could help. After I see just how much less my sales happen, i can see if the fee is worth it. Also I would suspect you are in a small percentage group of buyers. I would like to look into business psychology and marketing psychology once I decide on the value of promotions, theres a lot of data that will help me in my decision Iâm sure.
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I am rather atypical in general. I use tools, I donât let tools use me. Algorithms are very annoying to me for this reason. thankfully ebay search is pretty friendly to hunting pokemon cards so long as the seller follow the [pokemon name] [###/###] format. probably the worst search function I still have to use is youtube. Useless. So because of this, I really do not need promoted listings to break through. I can see all the listings eventually. And I am pretty thorough.
I actively avoid promoted listing links actually. google trained me to see such links as a prime vector for scam websites where they spoof real websites and steal your personal info or give you a virus. Literally happened to my dear mother, so the âadâ or âpromotedâ link to me mentally is dangerous. It tells me âwhat is wrong with this, that they had to pay extra for me to click on itâ. So it has a negative effect on me.
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PISSLOADER 2: PISS HARDER
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I work with people everyday on understanding their technology tool use. I can say that, @SolemnStar , âUsing your tools, and not letting them use youâ is definitely a-typical. I applaud you, sir! 
@SolemnStar Where do you find these pissloader listings?! Iâm genuinely intersted in what cards youâre buying, and kinda want one myself. 
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You see this all the time in the Hot Wheels world with 80âs-00âs mainlines, haha. 1 out of 10 will be poor plastic mix, another 1/10 from UV damage, the rest are straight out of the ash tray. A popular pastime in the Big Hoss community is to crush a pack of Putterâs whilst gazing upon your wall of $0.99 Camaros.
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gonna tell my kids this was hemingway
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