Topic: # of Ebay listings has doubled...

[cbjunkie]

just a point of interest - i've been using the forum "750" search almost every week for the last 5-6 months... the opening page, which is not Ebay proper, displays the total number of items found by the search...

when i first began the count was in the high 2000's for a while then dropped, to 1100+ for some time (3 mos)...has been on the rise, but today it jumped almost 3000 pieces to a total of 5,284!

anyone else noticed this phenomenon?

[grumburg]

cb550 went from 350-400 to 1000+ in 1 day (yesterday).  Only thing I noticed was there are a lot mote "buy it now" items.

[cbjunkie]

from Canada? somebody flooded the 750 categorie...

[GroovieGhoulie]

The 400 catagory went from high-300s/low-400s to 8-900.

[jsaab2748]

I noticed this too and thought they were combining the previously left over, slow moving, buy it now stuff with the mainstream items for more exposure. Just a guess tho.

[Sam Green Racing]

I noticed this too and thought they were combining the previously left over, slow moving, buy it now stuff with the mainstream items for more exposure. Just a guess tho.

I visit the CA95 section and it's the same.

I think you are right 2748, hell of a lot of buy it now stuff.

Normaly I get 2 pages, I just got 6, but as I was reading through them it dropped to 4.

Sam.

[jtb]

I got 9 pages on a search for CB750F.  about 3 were auction items, and 6 or so were ebay store items.

[Raul CB750K1]

Don't be fooled by that. People have learned that putting more keywords on the item title get more hits, wether or not the item fits the bike. Something on the line of "may fit other years, check with your dealer" is enough disclaimer for the seller.

Raul

[SteveD CB500F]

I've been hanging around eBay UK for about 5 years now.  The number of items for sale under "Honda" and "Motorcycles" is about 800 now, was down to 400 over Christmas (always a quiet period) and hits about 3000 in the summer.  When they have a free listing day, it shoots up to 5000 for 7 days...

BTW this is bikes for sale - doesn't include parts etc

[cbjunkie]

this may be true raul - my point is, i've been using the SOHC4 Forum search. not sure how many of you guys are doing this - it's a very specific string of words with the Ebay tricks built in - though I'm not an expert in the search tricks, I've gotten used to using this as my default search unless shopping for a specific item for my year model 750.

unless a mod has altered the text of the search then it hasn't changed, and yet the results are producing more hits. A lot more.  I have noticed that there are more DOHC items coming up now and you're right, Raul, there are also other bikes leaking in as well. Let the buyer beware! - especially the newbies among us, better do your own research into the part you need

Do we need to refine the search string? Maybe it isn't *that* broken...
just some thoughts...

Steve, what's a "free listing" day??? that is what is going on i bet!

it seems to be across the board, though, no?
junkie out.

[Raul CB750K1]

The problem is not in the search engine, as it only will find items where the string you are looking for is present. The key for sellers is that, if you have 40 characters available, try to increase the number of hits. When I've listed items -just a few- I never used "Honda" because almost everything under "CB750" is related to the bike. Also,  you will find different items searching for "cb 750" or "cb750".

Do a search on the search tips, you will  find lot of useful ones, like wildcards and the like.


Raul

[SteveD CB500F]

Steve, what's a "free listing" day??? that is what is going on i bet!

Don't you have these?

Every now and then eBay offer listings for free (ie no insertion fee - you still have to pay the %) and sometimes they have a 5p (5c) listing day.  This is a marketing ploy to boost activity over the quiet periods.  And it works.  As I said January (=quiet) listings under Honda Motorcycles jumped from an average of 500 active listings to over 5000 as everybody piles in with their listings.  Of course, 7 days later, they have all passed through and it is back to the average levels.

[hahnda]

What I think they did was add all the "Buy it now" items from sellers stores to the regular listings. Before you had to click a link to be able to see all the items, now it happens automatically.  Check it out, about half way through the listings you will get to a line and under it says"Additional Buy It Now items from eBay Store sellers".


Kevin

[cbjunkie]

yeah, i think you're right...not sure how much i like it...i'm already going cross-eyed... 

[hahnda]

Here is the announcement from Ebay about this.

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200602131503442.html