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I was looking at my items which are listed in express. The first thing I noticed was that they took out the link to ebay stores. Most of my listings say "Please see my ebay store for more great deals", yet the customer has no way of finding my store since the red door is gone. Can anyone tell me how to make a button with a link to my store to include in my listings? Thanks in advance for any help.
According to ebay express I have something like 200 items listed, though I actually have over 300 BIN. I noticed that none of my ladies dresses were included so I went to search for ladies dresses. There isnt even a category for ladies dresses! I know I do not wear dresses unless I have to, but arent there still some women who actually like them?

Where does this information come from. I don't find Ebay express anywhere? Would like to learn more.

http://www.express.ebay.com/
Here's a link.

Thanks for the link. Since this is the only way I knew to get there, who else can see this? How does a buyer find it? How in the world do they determine the shipping cost when it's calculated by zip code? How can you tell there are people using it now. I see where you can tell if there have been any purchases, but I don't see where they tell you how many items you have listed in Express.
Thanks again
Rosemary

To see what items you have showing up on expres try this link but at the end chage moodymama1024 to your name.
http://search.express.ebay.com/merchant/moodymama1024
The shipping cost is determined based on your zip code. It shows up different for different customers. You get the same information as if you typed in your zip code to the shipping calculator, but it is done automatically. As for how the buyers will find it, the official release is either monday or Tuesday. I assume ebay will send out a notification of some sort when the official roll ot happens. You can find a lot of other info on this topic in the ebay sellers board founbd here
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/forum.jspa?forumID=21

I just sat with eBay Express Live Chat window asking why none of my 400+ items weren't included.

I had the express enabled in my preferences with eBay to import. But nada.

It was stated that because I don't have all of my auctions/bin changed for location from warm and steamy fl to specific location Lakeland, FL that my items weren't placed in express.

Well, it could be worse. I've canceled approxmiately 150 auctions in the last week due to sales dropping after search was changed. I could have to change 500+ auction locations instead of 450.

It's worth a try...for me at least.

Roll out is next week and I'm not sure whether this is gonna fly or not.

I'm still going to focus on getting an auction site up and running during the summer. (separate from my free ecrater stores)

You're right Rosemary..the search is bonkers. I mentioned this to the customer service and she stated it's a whole new concept to shopping. Something about item specifics and zip code will play MAJORLY in the searches.

Good Luck Rosemary,
Donna

Thanks!

Good luck Suthrnjewl. You been an awful lot of here here on the boards.

Here's another scary thought. I have 396 store items listed with Ebay. Where did they get 421 EbayExpress items in my name?

None of our listings are showing on eBay Express yet even though we qualify on all of the prerequisites. Hopefully, they are just not finished adding all of the qualified listings and they will be added soon? Does anyone know?

nightowls

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Originally posted by moodymama1024:
The first thing I noticed was that they took out the link to ebay stores. Most of my listings say "Please see my ebay store for more great deals", yet the customer has no way of finding my store since the red door is gone.

Surprise, surprise. Actually, I'm a little concerned about what will happen with eBay if Express does take off.

I can see it isn't included with the seller information, but you have the opportunity to direct people to your store in your description don't you.

Any idea why several of my "gallery" photos aren't showing up in Ebay express? And how come not all store listings are posted?

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Well, it could be worse. I've canceled approxmiately 150 auctions in the last week due to sales dropping after search was changed. I could have to change 500+ auction locations instead of 450.

What search is that?

Well...

I can't enter in a condition for essentially all of my items. I've been trying to do this since they sent out that email months ago, telling people to get ready. When I go through the edit, at the end, it tells me that the item could not be edited due to an "error".

Then also, I have quite a few items which are new but are listed in the collectibles section. And those items can't have a "new" condition, even if they are new. I'm thinking about moving those items (they are candy molds), but that is where "everyone else" lists them, and I want to catch the browsers. And don't know where else to put them.

So I have, like, 5 things on there. Yipee.

Humph.

I think that I need to start an eCrater store.

The searches are very difficult. The categories and subcategories especially in the field we sell in are done by someone who doesn't know much about them. It makes items that are extremely popular right now very difficult to find. It's far too narrow.

I just hope it helps a bit with store sales. My sales went through the roof last month, and now...almost nothing. But what's weird, is even my penny auctions aren't doing anything. And they should. They always have in the past. I don't know what to put in auction anymore to try and drive sales to my store. It's frustrating.

My auctions suck right now. My store is actually doing better than the auctions. I am frustrated as well.

The design is a little ugly, isn't it? I assumed it would look a bit more like storefront/cart software.

It looks like a bad blend of Amazon and Froogle.