The Announcement

Back on January 26th 2010 eBay released the latest round of ESR’s (eBay Seller Release) changes due to take effect on March 31st. While many of the changes seem to be geared toward improving the buyer and seller experience (OK, mostly buyer) there were some good things for sellers as well.

Getting Your Business  Ready

While the ESR’s have been announced well in advance, sellers are not waiting to get their eBay Stores ready. Many of these sellers have hundreds if not thousands of items to change to the new Fixed Price format instead of the soon to be defunct Store Inventory Format listing. While doing this, some merchants are making the changes active now. Fromthe information I have received, this has caused these new items in Fixed Price format not to be found in Google search. This has caused what some merchants are calling a significant drop in sales.

While preparing your items for the format change on March 31st, it is recommended that sellers do NOT convert the listings to Fixed Price until the effective date of the change because their items will not appear in core search or be submitted to Google until that date.

If you have had experience with this situation, please comment!

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