topic Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH ! in Selling

250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

annieoakley2000 — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 01:06:31 GMT

Did I read this right or is this another famous E-Bay glitch ?

If I sign up for managed payments, I get 250.000 listings, that is not in an E-Bay life time, but per month !

How does anyone manage 250.000 listings per month ?

For example, do stamp sellers start selling 1 stamp at the time; do craft sellers start selling 1 skein of wool at the time; do accessory sellers sell one plastic hair clip at the time @ 50 cents etc etc; the mind boggles !

Since we have so many listings to play with - are we going to see sellers actually starting to sell things like a burnt piece of toast in the shape of Jesus (yes that did appear on E-Bay, many years ago); what exactly are the guidelines when it comes to 250.000 listing a month ?

Just curious how that is going to effect sellers, actually selling items in already flooded categories if utter nonsense is going to be listed, just because one has unlimited listings and the sky is the limit.

What is your opinion ?

Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

curraone — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 01:50:32 GMT

i have no opinion. It is a fact that all sellers on managed payments get 250,000 free listings a month.

You won't see them on any counter - your existing counter just does not move.

Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

twyngwyn — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 01:54:52 GMT

I think that once everyone is on MP, they'll 'scrap it.'

Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

digital*ghost — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 02:20:21 GMT

eBay have been shifting to making their money when sellers make money - it's a lot easier to incentivise sellers to spend money if they feel like it will help them make money, so they will continue to strategise and / or to introduce fees that are based around selling rather than listing, IMHO. (It's also easier to extract the fees from sellers when they get paid through their own system etc).

Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

south.coffee — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 04:58:16 GMT

The listings counter vanished from my Promotional Offers window 2 weeks after 'Mangled Payments' kicked in. I was still sticking to 40 listings though in case I missed some sting in the tail **asterisk** with the 250k figure. Woolworths, Coles and Bunnings combined would not come near that figure...

Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

pnc75 — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 05:10:48 GMT

'It is a fact that all sellers on managed payments get 250,000 free listings a month.'

let's hope it stays and doesn't revert to 40.

Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

p9games — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 02:45:37 GMT

i have over 80k items in my catalogue. Almost 10k listings. Not that hard with the right software tbh

Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

heihachi_73 — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 08:44:39 GMT

It will, otherwise pay-per-month eBay stores have made themselves irrelevant. Besides, eBay have a few million to make when the entire country starts being charged $1.65 each when GTCs beyond the 40th relist the month after the promo ends! Round of applause in the eBay Inc. head office, pay-rises all round!

Fool us once eBay, shame on us (BIN becoming GTC without the accompanying 8 free relists).

Fools us twice eBay, shame on you.

Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

cridco — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 10:50:46 GMT

Today, my promotional offers shows 250 auction or fixed price listings not 250,000 and I click on the link with this offer the offer reads 200 auction or fixed price listings. So things seem to have changed.

Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

digital*ghost — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 11:31:35 GMT

FVF reductions, branding, individual category menus, and additional marketing tools are not irrelevant.

eBay don't need to give away free listings to get people to switch, not when they already have "switch or GTFO".

They also have a history of increasing free listings, not reducing them. 'Member when a basic store only gave you 200 free listings, and featured only gave you 500? Then in 2017, they tripled that? Pepperidge Farm remembers. 😆

ETA: For the record, I'm not saying eBay would never reduce the number of free listings, just that 250K is an odd number to dangle as an enticement in order to "ensare" people when it is exponentially higher than the average seller would ever list, and if they ever did reduce them, I doubt it would be to below pre-MP levels.

Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

cridco — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 11:36:07 GMT

They have reduced the listings though. When I changed to managed payments a few weeks ago, I checked on the 250k through message. I had a store till May 31 and did away with it because of the 250k free listings but the tally of available listings for this month is 250 and when you click through free listings are tabled for non-store on manged payments - 250, non store and not on managed payments -200, starter store 1000 and so on.

Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

davewil1964 — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 12:00:24 GMT

Have you actually listed anything?

My store account stays fixed on 600 remaining regardless, and my non-store account shows no promos, yet I don't get charged listing fees.

Try it and see - you have at least 200 free listings...

Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

cridco — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 12:10:41 GMT

Thanks for that suggestion. I did list something and now the notice saying I had 250 free listings is gone. So I must be onto the 250k now!!

Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

cezm — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 21:21:07 GMT

I don't know that it's really going to affect many sellers - I think the number is too extreme as an incentive, they may as well say unlimited.

Though perhaps I'll have a look at the Pokemon cards that my son 'had to have' in the 90s - I wasn't keen on putting in the work when they couldn't all be listed at once (without insertion fees or spreading them across IDs)

Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

bikeden — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:12:06 GMT

With 250k listings it now makes the 'Time Left' counter irrelevant for fixed price listings...

Re: 250.000 LISTINGS PER MONTH !

annieoakley2000 — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 01:23:59 GMT

Exactly, because one will never run out of listings, unless you manage to list more than 250.000 items per month each month !

My only concern is that with so many free listings per month; the sky is going to be the limited for the type of things you can list and E-Bay will be full of useless rubbish you have to wade through.

We've been through this before when E-Bay had unlimited listings; that's when they eventually started to have limited listings and charges for going over.

Now they have reverted back again and then some !