@casbit33 wrote:
As the others have said, it's on other threads as well.
Yes it is hard to understand ebays thoughts about this.
There must be thousands if not millions of items now sitting in unsold accounts.
Ebay cannot make 1 cent out of those. It doesn't cost Ebay anything to send out the free listings, but it is certainly costing them a lot by not doing it.
Maybe they are worried about the looming tax time, and not wanting to make too much more money.
That's the only thing that makes sense.
But at the same time, if these items are being relisted over and over and over and over again, which some of mine are (I sold 6 items this week that were originally listed in 2016), eBay aren't making any money off them. I have some items which sell on the first listing. I have others that get relisted for years before they get sold. EBay don't care about the latter. They want the current movers. The items that sell on the first listing.
If there are thousands or millions of items sitting in unsold, then those items weren't interesting enough to sell on the first listing. EBay isn't losing on those items. The sellers are.
