Now that MP big sales event is finished, how was it for anybody who did set up discounts for it? If you didnât do discount, did the event help with your sales?
I set up 25% for the whole store, and didnât get one order.
On top of that, the Stats page hasnât been updated since 7/9, so I couldnât even tell if I had more âViewsâ during the sales period. I emailed them about this problem more than a week ago, and it hasnât fixed yet. 
This sales event was total disappointment for me.
I got 19 sales which by my normal daily average I would have gotten anyway so it did not help me. With variations, Iâm way above the 5000 items that the system would handle so my sale got no âspecial promotionâ for all shops with a 25% +. I looked at running multiple promotions to cover all my listings and see if that would get me into âspecial promotionâ but with their wonky system it was impossible to try and figure out what did not get included in the initial âselect all listingsâ for the initial promotion set up.
So yeah, total waste of time. The stores that did receive âspecial promotionâ, at least in my category were very few with little to no rotation and largely âpersonalizedâ items. 
I had 4 sales, I average I guess a sale or two a weekâŚso itâs hard to say if these were people who sale the sale or were just going to buy anyway. Considering there was no âshop all items on saleâ link I think its really hard to know if it was âsuccessfulâ.
But I did sell one old discontinued light switch cover from a long time agoâŚso success! haha.
No, I had my average salesâI donât even know the dates of the sale, lol, but I have had a steady average since April. Itâs always the same type of item, and itâs the items they are advertising on Google Shopping, so my sales are coming through the ads and not organically from the site.
I only listed a few necklaces on MP, so I seldom look up that category, but recently when I checked âNecklaceâ category, I did notice a couple of your items was listed on top/bottom carousels for trending or favorite items in the category. It seems like that should help with your sales of the items. Is that not true?
Well, that is nice to hear!
Could be-- of course I have no real data in front of me telling me where sales are coming from. MP analytics are useless at this point. None of the âTop Search Keywordsâ in my reports page would lead to these particular items showing in search results. My top search term by far is âsea glassâ which, well, I do have that term in a handful of earrings, but Iâve only sold one or two of those. 
I do know that MP doesnât seem to have any of my earrings advertised on Google Shopping, and I donât sell earrings. They do have a handful of my necklaces advertised and those are pretty much the only things I sell.
Here is one screen shot of what can displays on the top of page when I look up pendent necklace:
On the bottom of the same page, there are 3 of your necklaces in this carousel:
This is not really a âsearchâ result, I just went to âShop categoriesâ to look up pendent necklaces, so I assume things displayed are the same to everybody, right?
I think I have seen them for a few weeks now, I assume those are the necklaces you are selling well. Having them showcased on those pages probably helped?
I had a 25% discount for 22% of my products. Zip, zero, nada sales.
The promised publicity never materialized. Under the carousels, there should have been a link âsee more sale items in this categoryâ but nothing at all â which means that 99.99% of all sale items were not searchable as such.
To add to the misery â my shop sale was set to go until 12:01am July 19, but all items went off sale early July 18.
Total waste of time. Itâs not that âIâ didnât get results, itâs that the whole sale was poorly planned, poorly executed, and glitchy as all get go.
MaybeâŚbut the majority of my buyers are men buying gifts and I doubt they are browsing MP categories. More likely they are typing something like â7th anniversary giftâ into google search and clicking on the ad that shows. Again, just a guessâŚ
This morning, unannounced to me, (at least I never saw notice) Makerplace (paid by Michaelâs) is running a 5% discount off all my shop items. Anyone see a notice on this?
Not seeing anything about it on home page and only see it on the item detail page.
Nice catch!
BTW, may I ask if youâve noticed @Daveâs SellersASKSellers topic-thread posted earlier today (8Aug`24/080824) at the below link?
Where did you find this notice?
Thanks for mentioning it. I also didnât know this âsaleâ is happening right now?
Just checked a couple of my listings, and they also have the 5% off sale, assuming the rest of the listing also have the 5% off, but didnât really want to check all of them. My last order was at the end of May. Maybe this might bring some sales? Not holding my breath.
That âSales eventâ in July was a total waste of time. Not going to offer additional 25% off for this âmarketing opportunityâ
My âstatsâ aslo hasnât updated for a month, emailed support but the problem still not resolved. Maybe they only update your stats when you have orders.
On the Seller Saturday email.
Been down to a couple sales a day for last couple weeks. Had 4 sales this morning so maybe it has helped.
Have not paid any attention to this. My focus has been reporting sellers with mass produced Ali-Express products. Not that it has done any good.
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Reviews seem to be working now but that are still not showing in Performance overview.
Since I have no sales, I want to know whether anybody actually are looking at my things, but my âListing viewsâ, âClick through ratesâ & âKeyword searchâ stats stuck on 7/9, hasnât updated since.
Where do you find your âReviewsâ? Iâm sure I donât have any, so have no idear where they are showing.
Yes I did. The survey was about how you source your materials. I guess Michaelâs wants to figure out how to sell more Polymer Clay like there isnât already enough polymer clay earring listings.
Well, they are not showing up in my stats but they are now showing up on the thumbnails and the product detail pages.
My stats are broken and Iâve had a few sales this week so itâs not that.
I think I have two sales set up? I kept getting all kinds of âproduct list canât be emptyâ and I just keep mashing the schedule button and it finally just schedules it
Which is pointless because Iâm sure they havenât fixed the whole shop on sale issue so anything I list wonât be included which wouldnât be so bad if I wasnât going to list a bunch of stuff for the contest. (itâs like the left hand doesnât know what the right hand is doing at makerplace).
If the sales tools are bugged or broken they shouldnât be doing sale. But âsalesâ is the only marketing strategy that Michaelâs seems to know 
I wrote Seller Support a VERY long email after the July sale, detailing everything that was wrong, and how it needed to be fixed. Got a nice Thank You reply, but no news about anything specifically being done.
When the September sale was announced, I asked on the FB page if the July problems had been fixed yet. So far no reply.
Unless the issues are fixed, Iâm disinclined to spend much (or any) additional time for September. Weâll see.
