topic Re: promotional offer in Selling

promotional offer

littleone*2012 — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:34:26 GMT

hi all dose anyone have any promotional offer for fee listing for this weekend ? if so would you have the link to it thank you

Re: promotional offer

i-love-my-sheep — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 23:32:01 GMT

If there was a promotion for this weekend, the link would have already been posted. No link, no promotion. Keep an eye on these forums because someone ALWAYS posts a link.

Re: promotional offer

imastawka — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 01:55:31 GMT

Never fails to amaze me how people are looking

for free listings every week!

Re: promotional offer

i-love-my-sheep — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 02:33:12 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
Never fails to amaze me how people are looking
for free listings every week!

I know!! I don't think they realise that they are a 'gift' from eBay, not something they should expect or demand. It surprises me how many people will actually contact eBay and DEMAND free listings! If I was eBay, I'd block those people from being able to use the promotion when they do come up, purely to teach them a lesson in manners.

I think some sellers also miss the keyword.......PROMOTION. In my opinion, promotion doesn't mean "you should be giving it to us every week or every second week". I have been known to be wrong though.

I certainly don't knock the freebies when they are offered, but I certainly don't rely on them. If I use my 40 freebies up and there are no promotions, I just wait until the next month to list or relist. It's not hard to spread the listings over a whole month, instead of using them all in the first couple of days. To me that's just common sense.

I have about 30 items in my unsold box, but have new items I want to list, so the 30 shall remain in my unsold box until next month or a promotion comes up. One way or another, they'll get relisted eventually.

Re: promotional offer

imastawka — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 02:46:05 GMT

@i-love-my-sheep wrote:
@imastawka wrote:
Never fails to amaze me how people are looking
for free listings every week!
I know!! I don't think they realise that they are a 'gift' from eBay, not something they should expect or demand. It surprises me how many people will actually contact eBay and DEMAND free listings! If I was eBay, I'd block those people from being able to use the promotion when they do come up, purely to teach them a lesson in manners.
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Demand is right.    If they're hanging out so badly for free listings, why don't
they check here every week, instead of begging for a link?

Or open a basic store - then they can have 200 every month

        And I do like that bit about ebay blocking the greedy ones calling          and demanding.

Re: promotional offer

redneck2013au — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 03:11:37 GMT

awesome!!!!

I just read I'm getting 300 free listing to be used in the next 2 weeks and FVF have been waived on all.

Unfortunately then I opened my eyes and realized I must have just had a dream lol.

Damn it was nice though lol.

Re: promotional offer

blackeye123456789 — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 03:13:32 GMT

we might get lucky..........

just heard e-bay.com got 10,000 free fixed price listings for 5 days....

Re: promotional offer

redneck2013au — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 03:15:22 GMT

i'm sure that would be for the store folks though not us lil people.

Re: promotional offer

i-love-my-sheep — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 03:22:56 GMT

@imastawka wrote:

Or open a basic store - then they can have 200 every month

Given that all the OP's listings are BIN, it would make more sense to open a Basic Store and get 200 free listings each month.

She needs to learn the diffrence between 'off' and 'of'. I don't like the sound of something that is 'made off wood'. It sounds like it could be mouldy to me 😛
I wonder if she realises that she can't say in her listings that she is not responsible for items getting lost in the mail?

Re: promotional offer

imastawka — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:01:46 GMT

Well, store listings are not reeeeally free. They do have a monthly

fee attached to them. But still cheap IMO.

And who's the stawka now? Hmmm? You have your finger on the pulse so much, I think you do more stalking than me hahahahaha

You forgot the off metal as well. And all those footy moscots?

Re: promotional offer

casbit33 — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:17:19 GMT

I don't know why ebay don't offer more free listings. They know a lot of sellers only list with free listings. The rest of the time their items sit as unsold. Ebay can't make any money from fees from items sitting in unsold. If They offered more free listings, they would make more money. It's not rocket science, just basic logic.

Re: promotional offer

i-love-my-sheep — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:17:58 GMT

You taught me well Master

Re: promotional offer

imastawka — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:40:08 GMT

I dunno so much. You teach me lots when I'm just lurking.

I did see you ventured into Community Spirit t'other day.

Matriarchs of the board were not impressed by your post.

Ne'er mind, little sheepie

Re: promotional offer

i-love-my-sheep — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 07:21:14 GMT

I wasn't worried about upseting anyone, I was trying to bait the rat. I never went back to see whether she took the bait or not.

Re: promotional offer

imastawka — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 07:30:25 GMT

Nah, she never came back either. Mods have threatened to lock that thread

twice so far. Or is it 3 times?

Talk about posters getting their knickers in a knot

And posters do get their knickers in a knot when they don't get

free listings. (Did ya see what I did there?)

Re: promotional offer

i-love-my-sheep — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 07:42:15 GMT

I did 🙂

I think it might be 'generation entitled' that makes the most demands for free listings. They expect everything for nothing and expect people to jump at their demands. Quite sad really.

Some get really upset when they're told NO too!

Re: promotional offer

bohoandbeautiful — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 23:56:26 GMT

I don't think it is at all unreasonable for people to expect free listings when they have been offered them fortnight after fortnight for a considerable amount of time.

The OP is not demanding free listings just enquiring if anyone has a link......

Re: promotional offer

imastawka — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:05:16 GMT

Quite right, the OP was just inquiring about a link.

But a lot, a lot, a lot of sellers do demand. They even ring ebay and demand.

And FYI - the free listings are not every fortnight. Only when ebay offers.

Which is anyone's guess.

Stores have been lucky to get them, maybe, every 4 - 6 weeks

Re: promotional offer

i-love-my-sheep — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:37:14 GMT

@bohoandbeautiful wrote:

The OP is not demanding free listings just enquiring if anyone has a link......

Well, if they'd scrolled past the new message button, they would have seen for themselves that no-one had posted a link. There's even that little search bar at the top of every page where they could have searched for free listings to see that no-one has posted a current link.