topic Re: easter free listings. in Selling

easter free listings.

utebns — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 22:55:42 GMT

Anyone found the goodies yet?? Ive been frantically serching!!
C'mon ebay! Give us an easter deal!

Re: easter free listings.

i-love-my-sheep — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 23:08:25 GMT

@utebns wrote:
Anyone found the goodies yet?? Ive been frantically serching!!
C'mon ebay! Give us an easter deal!

I searched yesterday and couldn't find any. I haven't done so yet this morning as my lambies have been a bit demanding (they keep jumping all over the keyboard!). It's looking like we won't get them as normally they come out Tues or Wed to start on Thurs. They have also been coming out monthly the last few times, and this weekend would be 4 weeks since the last.

I try not to hang out for them, because they could stop them at any time, but I was really sure they would come out this weekend! Keep an eye out here, someone ALWAYS posts a link when they become available.

Re: easter free listings.

lane-ends — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:20:57 GMT

Ebay has a glut of listings at moment. Not sure they need them. searching my brand catagories returns double the results it did not that long ago.

It also means if you are halfway down search returns and they get double the listings you go from say page 10 out of 20, to 20 out of 40, maybe worse if new listings get a boost. (A bit of an extreme example but you get the idea)

I have a feeling they are also pushing auctions and quick turn around listings rather than padding store BINs.

A few free auctions for store owners would be good though

Re: easter free listings.

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:52:49 GMT

us store holders havent had a free promotion in about 10 weeks

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my_grandmas_estate — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 03:42:12 GMT

it seriously frustrates me when people title this sort of thread without a question mark

I too have been on the edge of my seat waiting and hoping for some generosity from ebay but alas I am offered false hope with threads like this one

THE QUESTION MARK MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

thank you for getting me all excited only to have my bubble burst

Re: easter free listings.

heihachi_73 — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 04:28:26 GMT

From a non-store perspective...

To me, extra free listings = $0 insertion fees, it has nothing to do with the amount of items which show up under your name. If 36 of my items don't sell in a month, three free relistings included, then I am a sitting suck unless I want to start eating $1.50 + 12% or so for my games, many of which are between $2 and $5. An extra 100 would come in very handy for me. eBay Stores on the other hand get 200 free listings per month (at the cost of $50) and discounted insertion fees, however if I can't sell 40, I don't see how paying $50 and having 100 or so items sitting around for months on end will make a difference - most likely I will just end up selling about 10 instead if I'm lucky. Yes, apparently there's a $20 store option now, I never noticed that before; same story though, it's only worth having a store if your items are constantly moving.

With the initial 40, the only luck involved about it is that it isn't a stingy 20 which eBay UK gives out (but then again, like just about every other eBay site, their insertion fees are about half the price of ours, at 35p), and that they haven't discontinued free listings entirely.

Also, W. T. F., eBay - PDF documents in the help section? Way to turn back to clock to 1993 morons, no-one wants to print things in 2015. HTML is a web standard for a reason.

Re: easter free listings.

justcruising48 — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 04:31:19 GMT

Pity there was not an offer. Unless there is an offer tonight I will not be on my computer over easter, but since it is Thursday maybe a weekend only offer or maybe even none

Re: easter free listings.

heihachi_73 — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 04:51:34 GMT

A weekend-only offer, just to coincide with Australia Post remaining closed for the next umpteen days. LOL!!!!.

Re: easter free listings.

funkyflamingo* — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 05:54:29 GMT

I very much doubt that store holders will get free listings anymore!

I believe ebay are doing blackouts now in Australia on small and medium sellers, so there is less congestion for the Chinese sellers and big brands on ebay site, so why would they offer 1000-10 000 free listings?

Very Sad 😞

Re: easter free listings.

saarzi — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 07:52:54 GMT

I agree. I think that free listings will become a thing of the past fairly soon - it just makes sense with where Ebay is obviously heading.

I wonder though, what exactly defines small, medium, and large sellers on Ebay, in Ebays eyes?
Id love to have that little peice of knowledge!

Re: easter free listings.

lane-ends — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 08:42:42 GMT

In my catagories the search results seem to show a shortage of sellers in the 1000-10 000 bracket in the top listings. So they seem to be favouring relative newbies of bigger outfits. Cant see how thats an advantage to buyers

Re: easter free listings.

heihachi_73 — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 08:56:05 GMT

Income. Big stores = big money + eBay/PayPal tax = eBay profits.

Small store or non-store seller moves half a dozen 99c items a week, eBay doesn't get enough money for a roll of toilet paper. Ignoring the fact that there are literally millions of people buying and selling on eBay worldwide.

Of course, if eBay drops the 40 free listings per month, my account will go back to sleep for another decade, since I rarely buy anything on eBay.

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casbit33 — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 22:57:31 GMT

I also fear that free listings may be coming to an end. It really feels like ebay are trying to push us small sellers out. I don't think they realize that it's the small sellers that have the interesting and different things. I mean they are the ones that are selling things they own that have been hiding in the back cupboard for 5o years. You know the stuff. The sort of thing you won't get from Big business or Chinese sellers.

It's the different, quirky things that make ebay interesting, not thousands of cheap junk from China. But if that's what ebay now want, then i won't be doing much shopping on here anymore.

Re: easter free listings.

utebns — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 13:44:15 GMT

Still nothing 😞

Re: easter free listings.

heihachi_73 — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 08:55:09 GMT

Guess what, Easter Saturday and I still have 32 free listings left out of 40. Next week, it will probably be 0 when the leftovers from last month's 3 free relists dry up.

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8966lorraine — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 10:51:32 GMT

Still waiting for some more free listings. Some of my items in my unsold section will be deleted by ebay if i don't get some promotion free listings before 15th April.

I wish they would give us the easter free listings.

Re: easter free listings.

utebns — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:57:16 GMT

Mine too loraine.
I dont have 3 free relists, and i have 60 unsold items i need to list before ebay deletes them as well as a few hundred new ones id love to list.
Rarely i have lots of stock andna store isnt worth my cost.

Re: easter free listings.

i-love-my-sheep — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 01:51:22 GMT

@8966lorraine wrote:
Still waiting for some more free listings. Some of my items in my unsold section will be deleted by ebay if i don't get some promotion free listings before 15th April.
I wish they would give us the easter free listings.

There are no "Easter free listings". EBay give them out when they feel like it, not when people start demanding them. They are not a given and one should not become reliant on them because they could stop them at any time. It's not eBay's fault if you don't relist your oldest unsolds first when the months allocation of 40 free listings comes out.

If the 40 a month aren't enough, create another account.

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8966lorraine — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 03:13:06 GMT

I always relist my oldest first. The problem is that the 40 free just don't fix the problem. And i don't need to open another account - i already have 8. I am having the same problem on each account. I have about 500 items or so on each account so with 40 free this month and 40 free last month and 100 free a while back, i still have heaps left in my unsold section and some of those are getting close to the 60 day deleting time. Can't afford to list without free listings. Can't afford the cost of a store either. I just need 150 free listings to get me out of the fix i am in.

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i-love-my-sheep — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 03:55:40 GMT

OK, that's fair enough, but whatever will you do if eBay decides they don't want to have free listing promotions any more? They could pull them at any time. I wouldn't mind betting that they will become less and less frequent untl they stop altogether. Last year they were coming in every 2 weeks, the last few months it's been every 4 weeks. Maybe it will change to every 8 weeks then not at all.