The Silver will give you tools to personalize your booth a bit more and some organizational tools…may help with on site searches a bit.

The operative here is …increase your sales. If you are not search optimized, with you attributes, and good key words and not showing in google, or sustaining a certain level of sales, then increasing something that is not there will not work.

Get your booth together, get things organized, get google compliant..do a little Facebook, twitter, pinterest, and other social media promoting…and when the sales come, and you can afford it..consider moving up to a pro membership…

The pro memberships won’t help if you are not already in google to begin with, that just like all those years ago when we were always jumping through google hoops…

Good Luck and welcome back

I wouldn’t join any of the plans until you get your booth filled and see how all that goes. Plenty of time to decide what strategies to take after you are set up/

Tried gold for a little while….while it did increase sales, it did not do enough to make it worthwhile

I have tried Gold and Platinum and found they do not help my sales at all, I sell about same amount without a membership. Turbo Traffic is just that, some traffic, no extra buyers, I only sell well when I have the right items, not because I have this membership or that traffic. Also, to add, I also pretty much sell the same amounts at 9% as I do with 16% commission, and 16% is higher fees than eBay.

I doubt being a Silver member increases sales. The higher sales percentages shown by Bonanza likely existed for those sellers BEFORE they became members. Sellers who have more sales have more money to spend on making their booth look pretty and having custom categories and so forth. The one thing I can suggest is to have more items in your booth. I spent a long time with 60 to 70 items and slow sales. Once I got up to 90 to 100 items, sales noticeably picked up.

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Thanks all for your answers! I really appreciate it. I did upload items to my booth tonight. Will have to figure out attributes now (which I always found confusing here to do) and get it on Google. I can go to the pros page and see what the different levels give me, but it really doesn’t have any info on the silver. More digging I guess to do…

I tried the memberships before. I had several items – over 5,000. I am working on getting my booth ready for the holiday sales. The goal is to have over 10,000 items in my booth by September. But, I still will not pay for any membership. It is not worth it in my opinion.