Has Anyone Used The Ebay Promoted Listings Service?

I've used it for certain low-value Lots such as Wheat penny rolls and such and it's not completely unreasonable I did see what you see an increase in sales

I understand baseball 21, the only reason I used it is what I'm selling a low-value coins from that I pulled from circulation it's easier to do so when I'm only having a $0.01 investment to put that up there and then you risk losing a couple more sense to get more attention from my perspective selling low value coins using low percentage promoted listings is actually a valuable thing for me. It increases my sales gets better attention not only for that item but for other items on my ebay store. My Boston had time for somebody comes looking for one item and ends up buying a bigger value item because they saw the promoted listing. But to each his own

The big draw to ebay as a seller is the lower fees than elsewhere. Even if the promoted fee cancels itself out with a slightly higher price if you have to pay 5/10% to promote your listing and get eyes on it you're paying higher fees than you would to an auction house.

If you're going to pay auction house prices than you might as well sell through an auction house where they will do the work for the listings, you don't have to deal with returns, don't have to deal with charge backs, don't have to deal with unreasonable buyers, don't have to worry about getting scammed etc.

There's only certain niches where they do considerably better on ebay than the auction houses, everything else if the fee is close I would rather someone else deal with the headaches that some buyers can be.

My frustration with ebay is that they seem to like to shoot themselves in the foot with some of these policies. They had a great idea, then they decided to start hiding listings/only showing them to certain parts of the country, now they want you to pay twice to get your listing seen. They'll keep doing it and adding fees as long as people go along with it, but the reality is that if you have to do free shipping and pay a promotional price there are several other auction houses with lower fees at that point.