topic Re: How to put my ebay account on vacation in Selling

How to put my ebay account on vacation

kh268 — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 06:09:18 GMT

Hi,

Im going away. How to I put my ebay selling on vacation?

Re: How to put my ebay account on vacation

brerrabbit585 — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 06:15:34 GMT

You can only do that if you have a store. If you haven't got a store you'll need to end all your listings before you go away, unless you have a very long handling time and are willing to risk problems with buyers.

Re: How to put my ebay account on vacation

kh268 — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 17:14:59 GMT

Oh dear! sbay should be more flexible for us with no store! They make billions!

There is only way to do that is to list all the prices very high unitl I came back! Then I put the normal price back.

Re: How to put my ebay account on vacation

davewil1964 — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 05:57:06 GMT

@kh268wrote:
Oh dear! sbay should be more flexible for us with no store! They make billions!
There is only way to do that is to list all the prices very high unitl I came back! Then I put the normal price back.
Not from people without stores.

Why?

Surely it would be easier to end them.

Re: How to put my ebay account on vacation

wide-world-of-stamps — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 07:17:04 GMT

@davewil1964 @davewil1964 wrote:
@kh268
Why?

Surely it would be easier to end them.

Maybe the OP has taken advantage of the automatic relists & free listing offers & doesn't want to waste their current free listings on re-listing those items already there.

Re: How to put my ebay account on vacation

davewil1964 — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 10:28:07 GMT

But they have sold 6 items in the last year and have a whole 10 items listed, so it would not be a loss to end them. I'm fairly sure the automatic 40 per month would cover relisting when they get back.

Re: How to put my ebay account on vacation

brerrabbit585 — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 03:50:51 GMT

@kh268wrote:
Oh dear! sbay should be more flexible for us with no store! They make billions!
There is only way to do that is to list all the prices very high unitl I came back! Then I put the normal price back.

That's a policy violation and you might end not being able to sell at all.

Also, someone might buy just to make trouble for you. Not worth the risk.

Re: How to put my ebay account on vacation

egglesdtp — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 04:07:01 GMT

@brerrabbit585wrote:
@kh268wrote:
Oh dear! sbay should be more flexible for us with no store! They make billions!
There is only way to do that is to list all the prices very high unitl I came back! Then I put the normal price back.
That's a policy violation and you might end not being able to sell at all.

Also, someone might buy just to make trouble for you. Not worth the risk.

Can I ask - what policy is this violating? Surely sellers can put any price they like on their items.

Re: How to put my ebay account on vacation

brerrabbit585 — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 04:35:16 GMT

@egglesdtpwrote:
@brerrabbit585wrote:
@kh268wrote:
Oh dear! sbay should be more flexible for us with no store! They make billions!
There is only way to do that is to list all the prices very high unitl I came back! Then I put the normal price back.
That's a policy violation and you might end not being able to sell at all.

Also, someone might buy just to make trouble for you. Not worth the risk.
Can I ask - what policy is this violating? Surely sellers can put any price they like on their items.

I'm not going to bother looking it up but I've read that it's not allowed to put exorbitant prices on active listings for the purpose of stopping people buying them (usually used when people run out of stock and are waiting on more, or when people go on holidays). I can understand that ebay don't want the site clogged up with listings that are just 'parked' there for convenience.