Do the recent eBay changes affect my BANS Stores?
Mark over at thenichestorebuilder.com has an interesting post today about where eBay is headed with the site. While today’s announcements were not earth shattering, they were definitly a paradigm shift. EBay will be attempting to get auction and store sellers to list 30 day fixed price listings in the main site (core as many refer to it). Now eBay has reduced the listing fees significantly on fixed price listings significantly, but they have loaded the final value fees (FVF) the highest that we have ever seen.
My research based on my auction sales for the last 30 days indicates that I could have saved over $2500 in eBay fees with the new format. THat is only true due to the volume of listings we run and the fact that many items take more than one listing to sell. If a seller has a 100% sell through, then the fixed price is not the best listing strategy for them. But, if your auctions do sell at some point during the month, then the savings on the auctions listing fees far outweigh the increased FVF.
So what does this change mean for eBay affiliates? What this means for us is that with more sellers using Fixed price on core, our BANS stores will become filled with fixed price products! There is an option to show “Buy it now” items only within BANS settings page, but I have found a better way to show even more items.
What you want to do is add the show all items including store inventory format variables into your RSS Feed Links.
Caveat, Please make sure you make a copy of the FrontControl.php file ust in case you do something wrong.
What you wnat to do is, find the lines starting with about 2095 that have “$rss_url =” and add the store inventory format varible to the end of the link: &saobfmts=insif , that will allow you to show all fixed price items in your BANS store!
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