Looks like they're really going to push promoted listings, which likely means if we don't use it we'll get buried and never seen. In seller hub when you view your active listings page it shows all the items that are eligible for promotion and it has an extra tab at the top to make it easier to promote items, ie. to pay them twice as much in fees.
Something else I've noticed for just over a week now is then when I relist anything that already had auto relist on it, it doesn't show "remove auto relist" on the dropdown menu, yet when I go into the listing to edit it the box is already ticked. Some of my listings show it on the dropdown menu but others don't, yet it's ticked on all of them. This is not the same problem where you can tick the box and it doesn't 'stick' - in that case when you go to edit the box isn't already ticked like in this case. It makes me wonder whether they're likely to withdraw being able to AR. 
@brerrabbit585 wrote:
Something else I've noticed for just over a week now is then when I relist anything that already had auto relist on it, it doesn't show "remove auto relist" on the dropdown menu, yet when I go into the listing to edit it the box is already ticked. Some of my listings show it on the dropdown menu but others don't, yet it's ticked on all of them. This is not the same problem where you can tick the box and it doesn't 'stick' - in that case when you go to edit the box isn't already ticked like in this case. It makes me wonder whether they're likely to withdraw being able to AR.
I've noticed the same thing, with the "Remove Auto Relist" option removed from the dropdown box.
It seems more likely to me that this means auto relisting will be automatic, rather than discontinued (especially given the relatively recent large increase in the number of auto relists allowed per lot); and that you will have to go in and revise to remove it.
But who knows?
@joztamps wrote:
@brerrabbit585 wrote:
Something else I've noticed for just over a week now is then when I relist anything that already had auto relist on it, it doesn't show "remove auto relist" on the dropdown menu, yet when I go into the listing to edit it the box is already ticked. Some of my listings show it on the dropdown menu but others don't, yet it's ticked on all of them. This is not the same problem where you can tick the box and it doesn't 'stick' - in that case when you go to edit the box isn't already ticked like in this case. It makes me wonder whether they're likely to withdraw being able to AR.
I've noticed the same thing, with the "Remove Auto Relist" option removed from the dropdown box.
It seems more likely to me that this means auto relisting will be automatic, rather than discontinued (especially given the relatively recent large increase in the number of auto relists allowed per lot); and that you will have to go in and revise to remove it.
But who knows?
Yes, who knows?? On a purely speculative basis I'm inclined to think they're more likely to take it away altogether, perhaps for stores anyway. The reason I think this is that in Seller Hub there's the option to assign automation rules to active listings, and the choice is to relist just once if the item doesn't sell, or to relist continuously if it sells, or to have no rule. Since I first saw that I wondered whether eventually they'd do away with free auto relists.
I don't even know whether "relist once if it doesn't sell" is the same as a free auto relist or whether it comes off the normal monthly freebies, but I'd assume "relist continuously" is the same as GTC. I'm not going to experiment and see what happens though because who knows what it might mess with!!
