5000 FREE LISTINGS Buy it Now over $100 4/8/14

[thecatspjs]

• The promotion runs from 4-8 August 2014 EST inclusive ('Promotion Period')

What is the promotion?

• 5000 free Insertion Fees for:
• First 5000 Items listed for $100 or more
• Items listed during the Promotion Period in Fixed Price format (including Good ‘til Cancelled listings created during the Promotion Period) on eBay.com.au
  

Who is eligible for this promotion? 

• Only applies to store sellers

http://sellercentre.ebay.com.au/promo/1933

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[englishrosegardens]

What gets me is when they recommend I relist for 10 days - when I have a store.  I just ignore their recommendations for price reductions - I gets more sales when I put my prices up rather than down.  People obviously suspect cheap items have something wrong with them.

Don't forget that stores that sell collectibles (so-called!) pay higher selling fees for the privilege.  That may suit some but it doesn't suit me.  I'd be happy for my items to not come under collectibles because I rarely use auctions.

I'm not sure collectible auctions are cheaper for stores once they've used their quota of freebies.  I'm pretty sure when I went to do an auction once it was going to cost just as much as for a non-store because I'd used my freebies.

[digital*ghost]

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@englishrosegardens wrote:

I'm not sure collectible auctions are cheaper for stores once they've used their quota of freebies.  I'm pretty sure when I went to do an auction once it was going to cost just as much as for a non-store because I'd used my freebies.

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It's all relative, I guess - after the free allocation is used, a collectible auction should cost $1.00 instead of $1.50, which is still steep to me, considering the FVF percentage. All these tens of thousands of free listings they're making available, yet their usefulness is utterly limited. It's like offering me several blocks of carob when I have a craving need for chocolate - thanks for the offer, eBay, but....meh, I'll just go get a lil chocolate bar from somewhere else. 

Their price recommendations can be quite amusing. Sometimes I can see the logic, I listed something for $38, sold two, but it was a bit more work that I was giving myself credit for and when I relisted, upped the price to a whole $40, then eBay said I should drop it back to the original price. Another item, handmade and OOAK, I have for around $40.00 and was recommended to price it at $6 - no idea where they pulled that figure from, but the materials cost me more than that. 

Half of my items (craft supplies) qualify as collectibles so could run a few auctions if I wanted, the other half come under fashion (jewellery), which purely in terms of listing / selling costs, gets the worst deal - highest FVF, no reduced insertion fee once freebies are used (not so much an issue now that a featured store has 500 free BINs, though, and it's generally off-set by the variation listing format), but also no free auction listings with a store. 

[englishrosegardens]

I agree that auctions should be cheaper once you've used your allocation. I can't see any reason they shouldn't be the same cost as BIN listings. Maybe they're worried that too many would use them because they show higher in best match.

I also think all of the freebies should be a choice of auction or BIN. As you said, if they can give them to some categories then why not others?