Ebay Question - multiple accounts
Discussion
I know on Ebay it's possible to have multiple accounts (I've done it before but selling different items), but is it possible to have 2 accounts selling the same thing (at slightly different prices)?
I know it's technically possible and I'd use Linnworks to synchronise stock levels etc, but would I be breaking any Ebay rules?
It's something I'd be interested in trying for 3 months or so - mainly to see if I can get extra visiblity and hopefully sales. For an extra £60 a month (featured shop) it's a bit of cheap advertising.
FWIW, I sell clothing.
I also have an account I haven't used for a couple of years with 2000 or so feedback, so I wouldn't be starting as a "0" feedback seller as I'd use this one.
I know it's technically possible and I'd use Linnworks to synchronise stock levels etc, but would I be breaking any Ebay rules?
It's something I'd be interested in trying for 3 months or so - mainly to see if I can get extra visiblity and hopefully sales. For an extra £60 a month (featured shop) it's a bit of cheap advertising.
FWIW, I sell clothing.
I also have an account I haven't used for a couple of years with 2000 or so feedback, so I wouldn't be starting as a "0" feedback seller as I'd use this one.
northwest monkey said:
I know on Ebay it's possible to have multiple accounts (I've done it before but selling different items), but is it possible to have 2 accounts selling the same thing (at slightly different prices)?
I know it's technically possible and I'd use Linnworks to synchronise stock levels etc, but would I be breaking any Ebay rules?
It's something I'd be interested in trying for 3 months or so - mainly to see if I can get extra visiblity and hopefully sales. For an extra £60 a month (featured shop) it's a bit of cheap advertising.
FWIW, I sell clothing.
I also have an account I haven't used for a couple of years with 2000 or so feedback, so I wouldn't be starting as a "0" feedback seller as I'd use this one.
Feedback doesnt make a huge amount of difference providing you at least have some. Buyers are so covered nowadays the vast majority are confident to buy off anybody. I know it's technically possible and I'd use Linnworks to synchronise stock levels etc, but would I be breaking any Ebay rules?
It's something I'd be interested in trying for 3 months or so - mainly to see if I can get extra visiblity and hopefully sales. For an extra £60 a month (featured shop) it's a bit of cheap advertising.
FWIW, I sell clothing.
I also have an account I haven't used for a couple of years with 2000 or so feedback, so I wouldn't be starting as a "0" feedback seller as I'd use this one.
As for extra sales from having two accounts, yes this works and is worthwhile. As the two accounts are separate people are unable to report duplicate listings within eBay (ebay throws an error saying its not the same seller). So ultimately the only way you are going to get told off is if eBay find out directly and want to take action - they have bigger fish to fry.
You can be clever with it and trial different postage options (free post on one account and paid postage on the other). This will potentially cover more buyers as people use different filters to review results (lowest price or lowest price incl p&p).
Lots of different things you can do, lets say your current listing is top of best match. You can raise the price of this existing listing to increase margin and take business from the people who dont want to search through pages of results and then have your new listing at the original price to try and pick up the business who search more thoroughly.
Take a handful of your most popular SKU's and give them a go with the same basic info as your current listing (overall price). It wont take long to sell something.
Cheers for the advice - I'm definitely going to give it a go.
Good idea about the post option. At the moment, all our items are "Freepost", but on the new account I was thinking of charging say £1 per item as a flat rate, and knocking a few (maybe 5% off the price) - so one one account I'd charge £9.95 with "Free Postage" and on the other, £8.50 plus £1 postage.
That's this week sorted then!
On a practical side, I was thinking of importing all my listings into Turbolister from one account, and then copying across into the other then uploading. Would that work or is there a better way?
Linnworks is fairly straightforward - I just need to add the new account on as a channel.
Good idea about the post option. At the moment, all our items are "Freepost", but on the new account I was thinking of charging say £1 per item as a flat rate, and knocking a few (maybe 5% off the price) - so one one account I'd charge £9.95 with "Free Postage" and on the other, £8.50 plus £1 postage.
That's this week sorted then!
On a practical side, I was thinking of importing all my listings into Turbolister from one account, and then copying across into the other then uploading. Would that work or is there a better way?
Linnworks is fairly straightforward - I just need to add the new account on as a channel.
northwest monkey said:
Cheers for the advice - I'm definitely going to give it a go.
Good idea about the post option. At the moment, all our items are "Freepost", but on the new account I was thinking of charging say £1 per item as a flat rate, and knocking a few (maybe 5% off the price) - so one one account I'd charge £9.95 with "Free Postage" and on the other, £8.50 plus £1 postage.
That's this week sorted then!
On a practical side, I was thinking of importing all my listings into Turbolister from one account, and then copying across into the other then uploading. Would that work or is there a better way?
Linnworks is fairly straightforward - I just need to add the new account on as a channel.
No idea how you can achieve it. We use Channel Advisor and its easy for us to duplicate on another account and set up sharing stocks etc. Good idea about the post option. At the moment, all our items are "Freepost", but on the new account I was thinking of charging say £1 per item as a flat rate, and knocking a few (maybe 5% off the price) - so one one account I'd charge £9.95 with "Free Postage" and on the other, £8.50 plus £1 postage.
That's this week sorted then!
On a practical side, I was thinking of importing all my listings into Turbolister from one account, and then copying across into the other then uploading. Would that work or is there a better way?
Linnworks is fairly straightforward - I just need to add the new account on as a channel.
As for prices, just trial and error. However I would say to begin with it would be sensible to keep the overall price the same. That way you get a better idea on whether the different postage method gives a decent amount of sales.
It also depends on what items you are selling of course - if you are selling an item that has many variants and the typical customer purchases more than one then the listing with the cheaper BIN and separate post will perform the best.
Just have a play around and see how it goes.
just becareful - it is a breach of ebay policy and if caught they will just close your account if not accounts and it won't bother them in the slightests that your gone.
Someone has mentioned ebay wont bother so much but depends what sellers/customers you p
s off that they will be more than happy to complain about you and report you with all the information ebay needs.
Someone has mentioned ebay wont bother so much but depends what sellers/customers you p
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