topic Re: GTC for 31 days in Selling

GTC for 31 days

meekamag2 — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 02:28:48 GMT

Some GTC listed in latest promo from 29th - 31st are showing as having 31 days until expiry, rather than the usual 30. Any ideas as to why?

Noticed yesterday that all listings done on the promo on 29th had the extra day added.

TIA.

Re: GTC for 31 days

twyngwyn — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 02:52:19 GMT

maybe because Feb is a short month?

Re: GTC for 31 days

kopenhagen5 — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 02:52:21 GMT

Sometimes they are 30 or 31 and even 32 days.

Because of 30 day listings changing to monthly (GTC) so will cycle according to which date first listed.

I think eventually it will even out and become 30 days.

Re: GTC for 31 days

meekamag2 — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 02:57:31 GMT

Yeah, I wondered that too. If it had happened today i would've just thought the usual Friday glitch. Who knows? It is ebay afterall! 😄

Re: GTC for 31 days

brerrabbit585 — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 03:30:01 GMT

They're supposed to relist on the same day of the month every month, eg. list on the 17th and they roll over on the 17th of every month after that. That means sometimes they'll last for 30 days and some for 31.

Anything listed on the 31st is supposed to roll over on the 30th if a month hasn't got 31 days, then the next month they revert to the 31st, but that doesn't seem to be what's happening. The system doesn't seem to be able to handle listings done on the last day of the month.

https://www.ebay.com.au/help/selling/listings/creating-managing-listings/selecting-listing-duration?id=4652

"Good 'Til Cancelled listings
When you list a fixed price item, it will relist every month on the same day until it's sold. For example, if you list your item on the 1st of May, it will relist on the 1st of June.

If you list your item on the 29th, 30th or 31st of a month, the duration will be adjusted if the following month is shorter, but will revert to the original day for longer months. For example, if you list an item on the 31st of May, it will relist on the 30th of June, and then again on the 31st of July and so on."

I've avoided listing on the 31st because it's too hard to keep track of but I'll have to keep an eye on what I listed yesterday and the ones that rolled over. If they all roll over in March instead of Feb I'll be short of listings in March.

Re: GTC for 31 days

gumleaf_goodies — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 04:57:38 GMT

Anyone else had a hiccup with this latest 'free' listing offer? After accepting the offfer, I had successfully relisted a number of items from my Unsold list, and I always keep an eye on the fees message, which appears 3 times in the process.

The first time after 'processing' the listings you have chosen to relist/sell similar, (and which appears as total fees on the bottom right of screen), the second time is after you hit the Submit button and the screen shows 'confirm and submit', the third time after the listings have been successfully submitted, there is a yet another statement of fees incurred.

In the last lot of items I tried to relist, the final screen showed I incurred $8.25 in listing fees, although the previous two times the fees showed it was $0.00. I screen captured this and I have no idea how to check if I have actually been charged listing fees or whether I should be contacting ebay.

I also tried relisting on my other ID (after accepting the offer) and the same thing happened.

Re: GTC for 31 days

brerrabbit585 — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:59:06 GMT

If listings started or rolled over on the 29th or 30th or 31st of January end up rolling over in early March and not at all in February (as looks like happening), will they revert back to rolling over on 29/30/31 March? If they do, that's twice they'll roll over in March and use up listing entitlements.

Re: GTC for 31 days

davewil1964 — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 06:30:03 GMT

@brerrabbit585 wrote:
If listings started or rolled over on the 29th or 30th or 31st of January end up rolling over in early March and not at all in February (as looks like happening), will they revert back to rolling over on 29/30/31 March? If they do, that's twice they'll roll over in March and use up listing entitlements.

I have n't had any problems with last day of month rollovers. If the month has 30 days they roll on the 30th, then the next month the 31sts roll on 31st.

I haven't checked when the ones I've done yesterday and today end, but I won't be happy if I have to end and relist them on 29th Feb to avoid, as you said, overusing March's listings.

Edit: The ones I did yesterday are showing 29 days left, so 29th Feb.

Re: GTC for 31 days

pnc75 — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 06:41:07 GMT

The ones I just did are showing as 29 days and 23 hours.

Re: GTC for 31 days

wide-world-of-stamps — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 06:55:19 GMT

All ours - both those that have rolled over on the 30/1 or 31/1, and those we've newly listed, are all showing as ending (ie. rolling over) on 1 March, not 29 Feb.

Not a problem for our store id, but possibly on the non-store ones.

Re: GTC for 31 days

pnc75 — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 07:17:32 GMT

And I just did one that is ending in 28 days and 23 hours, and 2 aren't showing at all. Looks like February and leap year has their techs well and truly confused.

I'm confused too.

Don't know whether to keep listing or not, as freebie promo ends tonight and I have to finish up soon. Gotta love ebay. At least it keeps it intereesting and keeps us guessing!

Re: GTC for 31 days

brerrabbit585 — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:34:00 GMT

You may as well keep listing because you can always end them at the end of Feb. If they roll over on 1st March they may not roll over again until April, like when they first adjusted all the dates and some listings got an extra long cycle.

@ dave, all my brand new listings (all three) and my rollovers on the 30th were showing over 30 days left this morning. Seems it works differently for different sellers.

Re: GTC for 31 days

pirie_online — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:35:53 GMT

It's a leap year, Feb has 29days this year, sending all automated calendars out of wack!

Re: GTC for 31 days

lupercal — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:59:23 GMT

@pirie_online wrote:
It's a leap year, Feb has 29days this year, sending all automated calendars out of wack!

It's Y2K - but this time it's real!

(I noticed this, too: stuff I listed yesterday showed up as listed earlier than stuff from the day before, and stuff I listed today (31st) showed up as listed later than yesterday's, but earlier than the day before. Which is when I gave up trying to make sense of it.

This is using the 'view by recently listed' option.

Just so long as they still show up as new listings in people's saved searches, I don't mind too much Hopefully it's fixed now (after midnight))

Re: GTC for 31 days

meekamag2 — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:42:27 GMT

My listings are all over the place and totally out of the order in which they were listed. But at least most of them listed. Now I have to find which ones didn't.

Re: GTC for 31 days

meekamag2 — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:54:52 GMT

Couple are missing.

Re: GTC for 31 days

pnc75 — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 07:48:48 GMT

So I just did 3 new listings and they're showing as having 28 days and 23 hours.

Methinks some people are going to get stung in March.

Re: GTC for 31 days

davewil1964 — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 08:51:27 GMT

@pnc75 wrote:
So I just did 3 new listings and they're showing as having 28 days and 23 hours.

Methinks some people are going to get stung in March.

Why? That's 2nd March. One month.

Re: GTC for 31 days

11dustyattic — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 10:56:48 GMT

I think mine were 30 days because I was looking for them at the tail end of my listed items page, then saw they had dropped in further up with a shorter duration

Re: GTC for 31 days

davewil1964 — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 12:52:23 GMT

They are one calendar month. Anything listed on 29, 30 or 31 of January will rollover on 29 February.

Hopefully they will revert to 29, 30 and 31 of March. That's what happened in November - 30 and 31 rolled over on 30 and then in December they went back to 30 and 31.