150 Free Listings

[dotm2004]

Does any know of any free listings at the moment?   Mine seem to have stopped recently.    Thank you

[my_wishes_and_dreams]

Yep seems so.

[my_wishes_and_dreams]

Starting to seem like only storeholders get all the freeby"s

[my_wishes_and_dreams]

Unless the buyer contacts me, I let the UPA do its job.

[designers*n*more]

With the new 180 return policy with Paypal, you could always offer Paymate (not that many buyers use it), Bank Deposit or local pick up. With bank deposit you could also offer a discount for using BD.

[i-love-my-sheep]

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@my_wishes_and_dreams wrote:

Starting to seem like only storeholders get all the freeby"s

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I think you will find that is incorrect. The store holders got 10,000 free listings recently, but prior to that it had been a couple of months since they had any. Yes, there had been some free listing promotions for stores, but they were for items over $100.

Us non store people were getting free listing promotions every couple of weeks. The non store sellers get far more free listing promotions than the stores.

They are a random offer and shouldn't be relied upon or expected. If the 40 free ones a month aren't enough, open a store. 

[dotm2004]

I agree to a point.

I sell small items at a fairly low price, and not a high profit.    I have enquired about opening a store, but (as I prefer to sell auction and not BIN), am told by eBay I can't.   I would be more than happy to pay a monthly fee, but it just wouldn't be worth while for me.   I think eBay caters to large volume sellers.  My theory is, the more I list, the more final value fees eBay get, so more free insertions would not only befefit me, but eBay too ?

I don't expect to get the free listings regularly .... it is merely that I haven't had a free insertion fee offer for quite a while and wondered whether others were getting them.

I think the store sellers should get more consideration too .... so I'm not complaining.

[i-love-my-sheep]

Keep an eye on this forum because someone always posts a link when there is a free promotion. Not everyone gets the email.

As someone else suggested, open up several accounts (and link them) so you can get the 40 free listings every month on each account.

[clarry100]

Hey *sheep*,

How rya this fine Sunday?

Just noticed your comment above "(and link them)".

We have multiple selling IDs including 2x stores and three IDs we use for auctions only to take advantedge of the 40x free's each month.

What does "link them" mean and how do you do that?

Are there any benefits to doing so? Or downsides for that matter?

Just interested....

[i-love-my-sheep]

I don't know if you need to manually link them or if eBay detects they are owned by the same member and links them automatically. I only have this one account. Some of the others with multiple accounts could probably answer better than me. I just remember reading somewhere on here about accounts being linked up together (even though they are separate accounts in their own right).

My Sunday is great! I'm enjoying my 1 day off work outside (just took a break for a cuppa). Most of the day has been spent cutting the grass (big yard and despite having 2 sheep, they can't compete with the Spring weather and recent rain). I'm about to go and finish weeding my vege garden to hopefully start planting next weekend.

[dotm2004]

I don't know about linking accounts as, like you, I only use the one.

I would appreciate it if any others can post here if they know of any free listings .... I will do the same.

You make me feel lazy 'i love my sheep' .... my daughter took me out to breakfast this morning and I had an omelette .... I haven't eaten a thing since, but the sound of a nice cup of tea sounds nice 🙂