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Ebay please give us some free listings

lozzagreat — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 07:34:46 GMT

Ebay please give us some free listings.

I only have one active item now and 297 sitting in my unsold section waiting for free listings.

I haven't had any free listings this month except the 40 each month.

I am really worried some of my items will disappear as they will be more than 60 days old.

I can't afford listing fees or store costs.

Please ebay help us all.

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

imastawka — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 08:27:18 GMT

Did ya try this one?

http://sellercentre.ebay.com.au/promo/2664

Otherwise - no luck

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

davewil1964 — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 09:05:08 GMT

Manage your listings better?

Any you listed with the November freebies could have lasted for 40 days. The last one ran 26-29 Nov, so they should still be active unless you sold them all.

Free listings are an eBay bone, not a right. And you'll get 40 on Friday week.

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

saarzi — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 09:18:50 GMT

If you have that many, why dont you open a store? its only $20 a month - I have one and consistently manage to list over 240 BN free of charge each month (because of overlaping start / end dates).

Even with the fee, I make more per month with a store than without one.

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

davewil1964 — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 09:33:56 GMT

I've got 1300 listed on my store ID, and pay for a max of 500 (@5c) every 4 months due to the 3 free relists.

Works for me.

But I am not interested in the eBay auction con and have a good idea of value. Those I'm not sure of, I add best offer to.

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

clarry100 — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 10:03:40 GMT

We have used our monthly allocation of 40 on each of our three auction ids this month and only two items have sold. Barely any views on the 120 items listed
It really is getting to the point where it seems like a total waste of time even listing items for auction.
So we are not too worried if/not we get handed any extra freebies ad more than likely we wouldn't bother to use them anyway.

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

*tippy*toes* — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 10:13:13 GMT

Given that eBay gave out 600 in November, I'll be very surprised if they give any more out until new year. I only get 40 free listings a month too, plus the promotions when they come out. I don't depend on the promotions because they could stop at any time. When I found that 40 a month wasn't enough for me, I opened a second account. If I find down the track that the 80 isn't enough, I'll open a 3rd account.

Too many people have become dependant on the promotions, which is crazy. I love them as much as the next person does, but I won't get myself in a tizz if they stop. I know how to manage my listings. Stores used to get regular promotions too. They had one last January, then they got nothing until November. There's a chance they will do that with us non stores too.

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

heihachi_73 — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:02:43 GMT

Precisely the reason why I don't have a store. If I was actually shifting 200 items a month it would be worth having a store account, but I'm lucky to hit 20 a month; everything just sits there month after month being relisted over and over again until someone decides to buy something.

15 items sold this month so far, 32 listings in the unsold pile, 12 free listings left, and about 50 running their last or second last round of the 3 free relists from last month's bonus listings before they too end up in the unsold pile. Not to mention the pile of old DVDs I haven't even been able to list yet. Who wants to list things for $3 each when it costs $1.50 plus eBay and PayPal tax on top of that? Almost better off dumping everything at Cash Converters - I say almost, because I know they'll offer me something ridiculous like 20 cents per disc!

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

transport-posters — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 21:51:30 GMT

Regarding your concern that your items will disappear...

If you can't open a store then use TurboLister. This way you keep all your items, photos, data, postage, etc, all stored and ready to go at any time. With its "edit multiple items" feature it makes preparing things very easy before putting them up also.

Otherwise, store the content in a Word DOC or text file or something and copy and paste.

On another note, we had two non-store free listings close together around the start of the month from memory, so they've already been quite generous to us. No doubt there will be a "get rid of your unwanted Christmas presents" or "bring in the new year" offer after the big day at some stage.

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

lozzagreat — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 21:59:38 GMT

to imastawta - alas it didn't work for me but thanks anyway

to davewil1964 - I know when i listed a lot of the items the Auto relist button was missing. Even when I tried to revise them it was still gone. So now when the 10 day listing finishes thats it for the month.

to Saarzi - I have only sold 7 cheap items on this acount this month so a store cost is not possible. I just wouldn't make any money.

to tippytoes - I already have several selling accounts and manage ok with those, and don't wish to open any more.

I was not able to access all the free listings in November on all my accounts. It's always hit and miss whether i get any at all. In the past I have always listed items with the promotional listings, now I rely on them just to get my items relisted because the 40 per month is never enough. When the unsold items get to 60 days old, they disappear. Then you have all that work relisting them again. grr

Anyway thanks to everyone for your replys. I really appreciate it.

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

*tippy*toes* — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:12:08 GMT

If you're not getting the auto relists all the time, try clearing out your browser cache. That often helps. Sometimes if I'm listing quite a few things the option will disappear after awhile. If it doesn't come back when I try to revise, I make a note under each other those listings to revise them later. I'll then go back a day or so later and revise and more often than not, it appears in those listings.

If you're listing and it disappears, then reappears after several that didn't, go straight and revise the ones where it wasn't there. You might get it to appear for those ones. It only takes a few seconds to add a note under each listing as a reminder. You have the 7 or 10 days, whatever your duration is, to go back and revise them. I've never got to the end of the duration without it not reappearing when revising.

As for the ones dropping off after 60 days in unsold, I don't use Turbolister either, but if I have a heap in the unsold like I do now, I start from the bottom and work up when the new monthly allocation comes up. That way the oldest ones get relisted first so there's less chance of them dropping off.

I might have to look into Turbolister though because I have had a few drop off over the years.

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

phorum_junkie* — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:34:27 GMT

It is easy to keep your listings in Turbo Lister. Once you have downloaded it, set up your account(s) and done an update you just use the link to import items from your ebay account(s).

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

englishrosegardens — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:42:57 GMT

If you keep the email from when the listing ends you can access the listing for the next 90 days and relist that way.

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

transport-posters — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 04:02:06 GMT

englishrosegardens, this is exactly what I used to do until I created too many different posters and found it very time consuming. 🙂

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

utebns — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 00:06:54 GMT

Stores are **bleep** for my sales.
There buy it now only, its hopless for items that sell better at auction.
I have 60 unsold and i just relist for free each time thetes free listings. Best way to sell in 6 years, had a store,it was useless.
They will give freebies, but im not expecting them till boxing day like last year or over the new year.
Untill then just do draftings and sit tight 🙂

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

mitbri — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 00:41:24 GMT

I note you mentioned we could do draftings.

Is there a limit to the amount of drafts you can make and keep there until free listings come along?

thanks

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

iloveutes — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 05:30:56 GMT

Theres no limit to drafts. But of there bot listed within 30 days they are automatically deleted off your account. I usually draft towards the end of the month, and theres some kind of offer that will pop up within that time frame.

Re: Ebay please give us some free listings

englishrosegardens — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 10:04:46 GMT

You're better to store them in Scheduled rather than Drafts because they'll stay there longer and you can see more details of the listing. You can always edit the start time if you don't get any freebies in time. I don't know whether there are any limits on scheduling but I've had over 100 in there at times. You can't schedule more than 3 weeks ahead and if you bulk relist it's always a day out so you only get 20 days.

I believe different people get the 2664 freebies on different dates so if the link doesn't work this week it may be worth trying it again next week, then the week after, etc. It's supposed to be by invitation though so chances are it won't work for most people if you didn't get the email.