Admin marymary announces, in this thread, a terrific new addition to all Etsy ‘Sold Item’ pages.
marymary says:
Dear Sellers,
We’re happy to announce a new feature on Etsy: your sold listing pages will now show available related items from your shop. This means whenever shoppers come across one of your sold items, they’ll see up to three items currently for sale from your shop. So if a shop is featured on a blog or website and your items sells out, the buyer is immediately shown other items from that seller still available for purchase. And if there’s an item that has the exact same title, that one will be shown first to make it easy for buyers to find.
FAQ’s
Q. Where will I see related items?
A. Related items will appear on the listing and transaction pages of sold items. So any way a buyer gets to a sold item’s page, they’ll see related items from that shop. The only place you won’t see related items is if you are a seller looking at your own sold listing, or if there are no other items in a shop.
Q. How many items will show in the related items?
A. Up to three related items will show on your sold listings pages at one time. If there are less than three items to show, we’ll show as many as are available. If there are no items to show, then the page will appear in the same way sold listings originally appeared — without this new feature.
Q. How does Etsy choose which items to show for each sold item?
A. First off, we search the shop for an item with the exact same title as the sold item. If there is an exact title match, we’ll show that first. If there’s more than one match, we’ll just show the first one. After that, we pull from the seller’s featured items; this will help give the seller a little control over what may appear on their sold listings pages. Finally, if there are no featured listings in the shop, we show the seller’s most recently listed items.
Q. What if there are no active listings in a shop?
A. No related items will appear on the sold items page if there are no active listings in the shop at that time.
To see a screen shot of what it might look like, please see the official Storque announcement for this feature:
http://www.etsy.com/storque/section/etsyNews/article/tech-update-related-items-on-sold-listings/2233/
Hope you enjoy and thank you for your feedback,
MaryPosted at 3:13 pm, July 16 2008 EST
July 16th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
This is the best thing they’ve done in ages. Truly a great upgrade, and something that will directly benefit sellers.
Kudos!
July 16th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
i love it!
July 16th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
“And if there’s an item that has the exact same title, that one will be shown first to make it easy for buyers to find.”
This is VERY cool. So great for sold favorites, you can quickly find the relisted item.
I would love something like this for expired items too.
or just any kind of link to the shop that contained the expired item.
July 16th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Truly fabulous - I’m really happy with this!
(er… although it will probably help my supply shop more than my handmade one, it’s still cool) ^_^
July 16th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Now, THIS is a feature that makes sense, is thought out fully, implemented properly, and is helpful to sellers and buyers alike! Almost everything on a seller’s site is designed to take you AWAY from the seller’s page… this feature is designed to draw you back in to their store, which i think is great. :)
July 16th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
It does make sense and sounds like a definite improvement. However, if they’d just built the site so that relisted items keep the same item number as the original listing, all of this wouldn’t be a problem! And we could keep hearts, etc. too.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Another great idea from Etsy, half way thought out as usual.
I wish it would pull suggestions from your shop categories instead of your featured items. If a guy wants a pair of my cufflinks that are sold out, I doubt he’s going to want a barrette or a pair of earrings instead!