Thursday, in a move that reinforces eBay’s Hopalong Cassidy complex toward Amazon and makes me wonder if those CareerBuilder television commercials may actually be filmed at eBay headquarters, eBay announced upcoming changes to Item Specifics in the Jewelry & Watches, Books, DVD & Movies, Music and Video Games categories.

In part, the announcement states:

“In particular media areas, we will introduce Condition values “Brand New”, “Like New”, “Very Good”, “Good” and “Acceptable” in place of the current values “New” and “Used”“

Does any of that sound familiar? If you sell on Amazon it should.

The affected categories will include fiction and non-fiction books, cookbooks, audio books, textbooks, children’s books, DVDs, VHS, and other video formats, video games, CDs, and cassettes.
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In her most recent Lynn Dralle wrote about having $719.55 in eBay store sales in approximately a seventeen hour period earlier this month. While I haven’t seen that amount in sales, over the last one to two weeks I have seen more than a 600% increase in the number of sales made through my eBay stores.

Prior to July my eBay store regularly generated 2 to 3 sales per week. Over the last twelve days that number has jumped to 2 to three items a day. Sometimes more.

The only change I’ve made is adding a “Make An Offer” button to some of the items that have been in the store for a long period of time. But, those aren’t the items that are generating most of the sales. Only about 20% of the increase is sales that I’ve accepted offers on. The vast majority of buyers are paying full price.

Has eBay recently made a change in the way store items are shown in searches and I missed the announcement of it? Are any readers seeing a marked increase in their store sales since the first of the month?

Photograph by Kevin Dooley.

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