WHEN IS BEST DAYS AND TIMES FOR LISTINGS TO END

It is so specific to what your product/market niche is... Generally, Sundays are the best because they have typically the most traffic.

I sell collectibles and find the best time of day to list is in the evening and the days to avoid are Fridays and Saturdays...speaking from my own experience.

Also...There really isn't a "cookie-cut" answer that will apply for all the different product types/categories. It also has to do with the popularity of your item and the season.

The best way is to research your own market by doing a completed item search to see what is working best for other sellers and to also experiment with your own results.

You should try other days and not just limit yourself to Th-Sat. From what you are saying...your own experience should tell you Saturdays might not be working for you and you should experiment with the rest of the week.

Good Luck!

Thanks for the info. Like I said though, I didn't know if it was what I was listing on Saturdays or that is was a bad day altogether. So, Sundays is the best in your opinion huh? I figured everyone would be at church and not on the computer. But thanks for that advice, I'll try Sunday now. When I first started out, I thought that the weekends would be the best-like Friday and Saturday-since a lot of people are off work on those days. But it seems that most shoppers shop through the week. Thanks again!

No problem...glad I could help.

Again it really depends on your buyer market, but the way to look at it is that most people are out on Friday and Saturday evenings and on Sunday evenings most are home. Again, I can really only speak on evenings from my experience.

Evenings have been best for me too. Around 9:00. I list like 15-20 items at a time. So, if a certain is a waste, then it's a waste of about $10-$15, as I'm sure you know. I sell womens clothing. So, don't really know a marketed day for that. But I have done some research, just wanted to hear from actual peoples own experience. Thanks again, and maybe someone else will give their opinion too.

Although I mainly sell collectibles, I occasionally sell clothing and from my experience and doing some research on my end...Sundays are definitely going to be your best day for clothing and during the week would be Tuesdays. Hope this helps...

I hope other sellers chime in their opinion for you too.

Jack

Hi melw.
What do you sell? ALOT depends on that. I sell clothing too and I find my best time to end is Thurs. evening. Sunday evenings are good too, but too much competition I find I do better on Thursday. That's just me...I guess you'll just have to experiment some more

Completed listings in eBay will give you some data (15 days), that you need to wade through.

But Mpire gives you 30 days, and the data is already analysed. And it's free :-)
Info includes listing duration, best time to end, best day to end, best keywords, etc.

Go to www.mpire.com, scroll down and cick on Researcher. Register there for a free account.

The data only applies to eBay US, but still gives a good indication, I think, for other countries.

I also sell clothing. Women's clothing. Thursday has been best for me too. I'm experimenting with Wednesdays and Sundays now. You guys have given me great advice. Thanks member 8800 and thanks grateful. I'm going to check into that Mpire. Great advice from great people! Thanks!

I guess...sorry I couldn't be of any help to you.

Has anyone tried grateful's suggested website,
www.mpire.com? I tried and Firefox tells me it doesn't exist or might have expired. It sounds like a really useful site, but you gotta get there!

Hi Bernie in LA, I checked out the links for Mpire before I posted, but that was in IE, not Mozilla. so I just double checked it in Mozilla, and it works fine.

The Researcher is sort of hidden, you need to look for it.

Go to www.mpire.com/research.login.page, and click on top righthand corner to register.

OR go to www.mpire.com, scroll down past the deals section to a set of horizontally arranged links. Researcher is in there, that will take you to the login page, and again you'll need to register before using it.

Hope this helps :-)

I find that Fridays are the worst for me.

I agree...Fridays are a bad night because you have to assume that most people are out/away from the computer.

yea same here about fridays being slower to

Forget Friday and Saturday..Sunday evening between 6:30pm and 8:30pm depending on what time zone your targeting. Monday evening same time is good also (since most are looking on Sunday and they tend to look at ads less than 24 hours to close). Wednesday evening aren't bad either...

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Originally posted by grateful:
Hi Bernie in LA, I checked out the links for Mpire before I posted, but that was in IE, not Mozilla. so I just double checked it in Mozilla, and it works fine.

The Researcher is sort of hidden, you need to look for it.

Thanks Great Site!
Go to www.mpire.com/research.login.page, and click on top righthand corner to register.

OR go to www.mpire.com, scroll down past the deals section to a set of horizontally arranged links. Researcher is in there, that will take you to the login page, and again you'll need to register before using it.

Hope this helps :-)

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Originally posted by California Girl:

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Originally posted by grateful:
Hi Bernie in LA, I checked out the links for Mpire before I posted, but that was in IE, not Mozilla. so I just double checked it in Mozilla, and it works fine.

The Researcher is sort of hidden, you need to look for it.


Go to www.mpire.com/research.login.page, and click on top righthand corner to register.

OR go to www.mpire.com, scroll down past the deals section to a set of horizontally arranged links. Researcher is in there, that will take you to the login page, and again you'll need to register before using it.

Hope this helps :-)

Wonderful Info THANKS!

I have been looking for something just like this, and came across it here. Super!

You guys have been a wonderful help! Thanks for all the advice. I have now decided to give up on Fridays and Saturdays. Maybe the best days are Sundays and through the week. I agree with czbkz. Fridays have not been good for me. And Saturdays are not much better. So, I will try the days through the week and see if that is better. Again, thanks guys for your advice.

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I always have great luck ending on sunday eve. Between 6-10pm (i'm central time) everyone is in from church, supper is over and most are on the ole puter for a couple of hours.

I have always listed on a Thursday for a 10 day listing. This way I get 2 weekends out of my listing and they all end on a Sunday evening, which I find works for me.