Next to the prices of all the items in my booth there are prices with a slash through them. I never put this there and have no idea where it’s coming from nor do I understand the point of it. Anyone?
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belmodo Reputation: 48 See belmodo's booth |
Good eye belmodo. We are running some split tests on the back in an ongoing effort to increase conversions for all merchants. We should get the data we need by weeks end.
We often run such tests so that we can make sure we are taking advantage of every opportunity to get Bonanza sellers as many sales as we can. Thank you for your patience during this time.
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bonanzamark Reputation: 1539 See bonanzamark's booth |
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OK, slashed prices are everywhere. What the heck??
Big number of bad little green men are racing through Bonz’ HQ…????
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BlueBoy Reputation: 869 See BlueBoy's booth |
1 Comment
Ooops, My prices are slashed through too (overpriced)
Showing is my original price … as if I had discounted a much too high priced item.
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EuropeanGoodies Reputation: 1165 See EuropeanGoodies' booth |
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The “slashed” prices only appear on the item’s individual page and NOT on the main booth page. It appears that the seller’s original set price is shown in both locations. The “slashed” price is higher and (I’m guessing here) is set based on some algorithm used to gather prices for the same item being sold elsewhere (ebay, amazon, or from Google Shopping averages).
But, no matter how the higher price is arrived out, it could be a good thing if your original asking price is lower than the (average?) price that is showing up as a “slashed” price on your item page. I’ll be interested in finding out how the sales conversion rates were impacted.
Also, in my particular case, my asking prices are 15-20% lower than the “slashed” prices PLUS I offer “free” (yes, it’s not really free, it’s just included in the price) shipping. This makes my items a GREAT DEAL compared to the average selling prices out there.
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tomwayne1 Reputation: 8637 See tomwayne1's booth |
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Well, I just found out that I have the same slashed prices in all my listings ?
I never did that, everything looks like it was overpriced ?
How to get rid of this ?
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Vintage_Treasures_ Reputation: 38 See Vintage_Treasures_'s booth |
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They shouldn’t be messing with information in the listings and doing things like making it look as though the seller is discounting their prices.
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A2z4u2c Reputation: 1291 See A2z4u2c's booth |
As much as I think discounting is a desirable option, and one that I would want to use, it shouldn’t be imposed on live offerings except by the seller. Set up a virtual network for testing, or have an opt-in beta program.
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GoldenRuleComputing Reputation: 50 See GoldenRuleComputing's booth |
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I’m seeing them in two of my three booth. Sure hope this will be optional!
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tansycollection Reputation: 16 See tansycollection's booth |
The worst thing is, this is a LIE. Just like the sorted by “Popularity” is a lie. Is there no one who cares to be truthful these days?
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RedbirdRidgeBooks Reputation: 220 See RedbirdRidgeBooks' booth |
2 Comments
for those who don’t know, if you have a membership, the visible markdown is in the batch edit (Update items as a [URL removed] Item [URL removed] Apply discount as a visible markdown)
…if you do not have a paid membership, (gold or higher) then the markdown can be used but it just shows the lower price…
as for the testing without permission on seller’s items….well, I would have like to be asked if I wanted to participate (I probably would have, but asking would have been nice)
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ccmom Reputation: 12648 See ccmom's booth |
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Ok, i see mine are slashed also. But they dont look like they were deeply discounted. It looks like just a few dollars, so that is fine with me. STill wish the boyz would have told us so we didn’t have to find out this way.
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misskeech Reputation: 1958 See misskeech's booth |
oh my .. well they did say it was a test.. lets see how it turns out before we stomp our feet ;-)
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mastoyshop Reputation: 30 See mastoyshop's booth |
I really dislike this feature, items that I just listed, and adjusted prices while listing, are showing up as discounted. I often change prices and I don’t want this to show as being discounted. Please consider removing this feature or make it an optional one for those who wish to use it.
Edit to [URL removed]
I just saw that it has been changed back, thank you so much for removing this feature.
It is now 4:37 EST and the slashes are back again.
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Starfisher Reputation: 117 See Starfisher's booth |
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The comment notifier doesn’t work, had no idea the post was responded to. I don’t really understand how the slashed price thing works but if it’s just a test that’s fine.
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belmodo Reputation: 48 See belmodo's booth |
Totally dislike this feature; test or no test. Sellers item prices should not be manipulated in this way, even if it is only the seller seeing it. Marketing techniques like that should be at the discretion of the seller. There should be no such interference with a seller’s booth.
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mrdutch1001 Reputation: 355 See mrdutch1001's booth |
I have the same problem. I noticed this with duplicated items.
And this appears in 3 [URL removed]
1) When the price for the new item happens to be the same, but it’s not discounted (so I wish to be able to delete this extra, not true, slashed price)
2) When the price for the new item is lower from the duplicated one, I correct it and then it appears (wrongly) as a discounted
3) Even if the price of the new item is bigger than duplicated, it STILL appears as discounted item!!! just showing bigger slashed price.
Please, can you fix it, so only the items we really want to be shown as discounted would have this.
After two days of the site technical problems and not being able to add new items, now this occurs…
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20.08.2015
[URL removed] “It looks like just a few dollars…”
On my listings it was about 20%
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I understand ORANGECOUNTYSPORTS’s point of view, but my concern was the credibility (if this is imposed by B. and shows on all listings and it’s not our option):
the second photo above is of a new added item with a BIN price from eBay.
It was there only few days, but still some Buyers could see it and if somebody sees it here with this new bigger slashed price, it wouldn’t look nice, would it? (however the painting is worth much more indeed)
In some other cases, with already discounted items, it would be very useful option.
Since it’s already added and we can see it in our edited listings, it would be good for sellers to be able to use it, when it’s needed.
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ArtistsUnion Reputation: 3676 See ArtistsUnion's booth |
1 Comment
Well this is a good thing. This is marketing to make the buyer feel that they will save money on your items.
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ORANGECOUNTYSPORTS Reputation: 36 See ORANGECOUNTYSPORTS's booth |
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