There will likely be no extra legacy eBay Shops by the tip of March, in line with marketing consultant Dave Snyder of Record Rank Promote. He mentioned a shopper had acquired notification from eBay that their legacy personalized eBay Retailer can be switched robotically to eBay’s new upgraded and standardized storefront in late March 2022.
In line with the notification, the vendor has the choice to maneuver to the brand new format early “to begin profiting from the brand new options.”
We confess we have been stunned to listen to there have been any holdouts within the legacy format. We went again to the EcommerceBytes archives and located numerous studies concerning the new eBay Shops, together with this text from 2018, when eBay knowledgeable sellers that it could migrate Shops with {custom} pages to the brand new expertise later that 12 months and would transfer fully-custom storefronts to the brand new Retailer expertise in 2019.
A sign the migration wasn’t accomplished got here the next 12 months when eBay developer Shipscript responded to a Retailer proprietor in a thread on the eBay dialogue boards:
“Your eBay retailer is within the “legacy” format with your individual custom-designed pages, and people legacy retailer pages will stay “unsecure” till eBay forces retailer house owners to transform to the brand new retailer expertise.”
Snyder famous in his weblog put up on Friday that, “All eBay shops, together with these at present hosted on eBay’s non-secure “ebaystores.com” area, will once more be hosted on eBay.com and can function the “standardized” web page format in line with the cellular platform.”
We couldn’t discover many shops hosted on the eBayStores.com area, however we did discover a stunning model that hadn’t but migrated: Hasbro.
In case you do have a legacy eBay storefront, it’s possible you’ll wish to do your analysis sooner quite than later. As Snyder famous, maybe eBay ought to have introduced the forthcoming change as a part of its current Winter 2022 Vendor Replace.
Ina Steiner
