topic 'Good til Cancelled' now default in Selling

'Good til Cancelled' now default

lupercal — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 14:51:34 GMT

I noticed ebay have slipped another annoying new change in. On the items I listed and relisted tonight, duration was 'Good til Cancelled' by default.

You'll want to watch this if you take advantage of their $1 maximum fees on Sunday offer (or any other offer) since with 'good til cancelled' turned on, it'll just relist every 30 days, regardless of what day of the week it happens to be.

Re: 'Good til Cancelled' now default

wide-world-of-stamps — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 22:06:43 GMT

Ours changed to a default of "Good til Cancelled" when we lost the auto relists.

When we had them back for a day, the default changed back to "30 days".

We haven't noticed any change on our newer non-store accounts.

Re: 'Good til Cancelled' now default

lupercal — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 06:01:53 GMT

You lost the auto-relists? I usually only have this turned on by accident, but as a few of my items usually sneak through and get auto-relisted, I assume I've never lost the option. What exactly did this involve?

Re: 'Good til Cancelled' now default

wide-world-of-stamps — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 06:29:04 GMT

We assume we sold more in dollars than Ebay's limit for having the auto-relist, whatever that is.

The tick box just disappeared from any listings, and never re-appeared, no matter how we tried to list.

At the same time our default changed to "Good til Cancelled", which we don't use as we like to choose which items to list using our freebies.

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jjba6541 — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 23:27:54 GMT

Yes I noticed that to on my new listings and relisted on weekend..I quickly changed it as we get charged every 30 days if its left on.I get sick of Ebay changing my listings.i have
to constantly keep changing things that they alter.

Re: 'Good til Cancelled' now default

alexruzgus — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 03:02:19 GMT

Why does a big company like EBay keep getting more greedy by the minute. They probably make a million dollars a minute on all our hard work. Now all my listings are good till cancelled just so they can make another $1.65 each month.

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davewil1964 — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 05:29:09 GMT

Everybody has now lost auto-relist in BINs. It's a this week thing, as opposed to last year, like this thread.

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tassiewombat — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 22:45:23 GMT

I just noticed the same. Not great for me as my items are low value... I don't want to have the auto-renew every 30 days and charge me. Nasty sneaky way to get more fees. Not impressed!

Re: 'Good til Cancelled' now default

lupercal — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 11:39:15 GMT

I knew things had been going alright for too long, and was waiting for the other shoe to drop...

On all my finished, unsold items, waiting for relist:

"Only Good 'Til Cancelled duration is supported for fixed price listings. The listing duration has been set to Good 'Til Cancelled."

If I try to list something from scratch, same deal. Until today this had only been the case with items if I listed them from the Ipad app. If I just saved that as a template I could finish it on the PC, changing it to 30 Days. That workaround is dead now.

So there are two obvious consequences for my 'workflow'.

Firstly I've been making sure all my items which are over $10 (and I might be talking about several thousand dollars sometimes) relist on weekends amd so attract the $1 maximum fee (this has been going on for sucha long time. I was wondering if it would eventually come crashing down, but I didn't expect it to happen this way)

Secondly, because of the Sunday deal, I sometimes don't exceed my 40 free items per month listed. Now everything is just going to relist on any arbitrary day of the week automatically, so I'll be getting insertion fees I wasn't getting before, on top of the huge difference in final value fees.

If they were starting to realise the Weekend thing was eating into their profits, why not just cancel it, rather than introducing yet another layer of auomatic **bleep** that you can't opt out of?

I haven't had long to digest this yet, but the only solution that springs to mind so far is to manually monitor my auctions every single day, and end them all at the last moment, before they have a chance to automatically re-list, then relist them all on Saturday or Sunday. Something tells me this behaviour would attract some sort of negative consequences.

The only other option would be to work out in advance which days to list on, such that the 30 days expires on a Saturday or Sunday. But besides being ridiculous that would still only work for the first relist, then you'd be back to cancelling them at the last minute again.

Which of course is when many people finally decide to buy.

Re: 'Good til Cancelled' now default

*tippy*toes* — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 13:58:26 GMT

While the $1 weekends remain, each Saturday I will see which BIN listings are ending within 8 days. I will end those listings and relist them using the promo. The next weekend, I'll do the same thing. We all know the $1 weekend promo won't last, but until then, that's my plan. Once the promo ends, then I'll list everything as auctions with the 8 auto relists. I couldn't tell you the last time I used any of my 40 freebies.

Re: 'Good til Cancelled' now default

lupercal — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 15:12:26 GMT

Sounds like a better thought out version of my plan.

If you count the previous Sunday only $1 deals, which I'd been getting every week for at least 4 months, I think this weekend business has been going for at least seven maybe eight months. It made a huge difference to my monthly account - like I said I'm surprised they didn't just end it, rather than try to make it difficult to use by introducing manditory automatic relists, which would have been extremely irritating even if there were no Weekend deals.

Re: 'Good til Cancelled' now default

bikeden — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:33:14 GMT

My theory why the $1 Weekend offer existed was to offset the business customers who list M-F. That would leave a gap in the total number of listings on eBay, so getting private sellers to list generally lower value goods on weekend would fill this gap.

The busiest day of the week in internet traffic is all day Saturday and that could transpose to online shopping, so you want your 'shop' well stocked when customers drop in.

Re: 'Good til Cancelled' now default

bikeden — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:44:28 GMT

It's Monday morning and we just went to list an item and the only option for Fixed listing is now 'Good til cancelled' seems like 30 days has been permanently removed for everything regardless of the Weekend $1 offer...

Re: 'Good til Cancelled' now default

antiquesdesignonline — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 08:47:32 GMT

Ebay cannot even spell TILL correctly!

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antiquesdesignonline — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 08:48:17 GMT

They cannot even spell TILL so what future do we have?

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antiquesdesignonline — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 08:48:43 GMT

they cannot even spell correctly.. til or TILL !!

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lomandra07 — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 02:39:25 GMT

Totally unimpressed with this change. Keep getting caught unawares with auto relists & charged insertion fees. Even getting charged when they say I won't. I sell lots of low value items so not worth my while anymore. Much preferred the old system of 8 free renewals then item ended. At least then you could control when you relisted items to avoid unnecessary fees. I had 3 online chats & they tell me a different story every time. Clearly they didn't plan & implement this one very well at all.

Re: 'Good til Cancelled' now default

lomandra07 — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 02:41:04 GMT

It's an abbreviation/contraction of until - ie 'til

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brerrabbit585 — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 07:51:37 GMT

It's quite simple to keep track of which listings are about to incur fees. Just sort your selling page by time left and check it once a day. The next ones due to roll over will be at the top and you can bulk end them.

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midnight1fantasy — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 06:30:18 GMT

Good Til Cancelled is absolute garbage. I now keep a very close eye on end time for listings and end them before automatically listing (and pay $1.65 per item). I have taken a lot of low priced items off Ebay and sell stuff at garage sales instead. Ebay charges too much in fees these days.