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Originally Posted by sspade
Do you think we will see an eBay special discount this coming week?
(10-20% off, up to $100 savings)
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As I have noted, the frequent 15% - 20% discounts started in mass at the beginning of Q4 2017. I openly wondered how long these would continue.
The last 15% off was now over 50 days ago at the end of Q3 - which is the longest gap since the discounts starting in mass at the beginning of Q4 2017.
The last 20% was now almost 6 months ago from early June 2018.
The 10% were few and far between - and thus far the only discount offered (in October) since the September 15% discount.
It is my personal belief that eBay is experimenting with different methods to see what spurs sales at the lowest cost to them (as they should), such as more additional 10% eBay Bucks bonus forcing future purchases instead.
Note the 10% was good for 24 hours where other higher discounts have been much shorter in term.
However, I would also note eBay did a 10% discount on 11/29/2017 last year (which was the Wednesday after Black Friday).
But I fear
frequent days of the deep discounts might have disappeared given how infrequent they are now compared to earlier this year (at one point averaging every 10 days).
Given the frequent comments on forums about waiting until next discount day or asking why anyone would buy outside of these days, I am sure eBay has taken note of the same.