The eBay Spring Seller Update of 2020 is here!
eBay released its Spring Seller Update of 2020!
You should have received email about the eBay Spring Seller Update via My Messages in your eBay account. You also should have noticed eBay’s announcement of it. And here’s another “should” for you: By now, you should have read the entire update. If you haven’t done so yet, what are you waiting for?
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly In The eBay Spring Seller Update!
As is typical of eBay’s updates, there is some fuzzy language. But there are also sizeable chunks of good stuff for sellers; it’s just that you practically need a road map in order to find them. That’s why I created my free downloadable guide Spring Seller Update 2020: Tips to Win the Scavenger Hunt.
Once again, listing optimization and sell-through rate are eBay’s primary concern in the eBay Spring Seller Update. That should give you some insight into what’s on the mind of eBay execs! There also are some interesting changes to Returns as well as to Seller Protections.
The biggest thing for you to check out is category changes, which also mean item specific changes. The latter are a work in progress, and they can be problematic. However, item specifics have an tremendous impact on your listings — and on how they rank in search results.
A Full Bucket of Changes, Mostly For the Better
The Spring Seller Update’s category changes will take effect in May 2020 in the following categories:
- Business & Industrial
- Jewelry & Watches
- Home & Garden
- Sporting Goods
If you have listings in any of those categories, revise them to have a full complement of their new item specifics! Tedious? Yes, especially if you’ve added custom item specifics. But oh, so necessary!
My YouTube eBay Spring Seller Update 2020 Find The Gold! has all the details for you!
Other new initiatives contained in the eBay Spring Seller Update include:
- Expanded functionality for Terapeak (included free with all Store subscriptions from Basic on up.)
- Multi-User Account Access (MUAA) also is expanding to offer read-only shipping data.
- Volume Pricing — available to all sellers with multi-quantity items, not just to eBay Store subscribers; it’s extremely popular with buyers, which means it’s good for your sell-through rate. Give it a try!
- New photo-editing tool turns your pictures’ background white; it’s only available in your smartphone’s eBay Mobile app, but a desktop version is in the works.
- eBay International Shipping, a cheaper (albeit currently slower) option for sending packages to overseas customers.
- Expansions to Send Offer to Buyers — now you can send up to 40 at once. This highly successful tool from eBay is a sales maker!
- New Seller Help, accessible right from your Seller Hub’s Overview page; sellers in the beta group for this are reportedly loving it!
In closing, For details and clarifications regarding eBay’s 2020 Spring Seller Update, download my free tip sheet. There is treasure in eBay’s newest seller update, but it takes a bit of digging to find it all.
