Another 100 free listings thread as editorial

[duck---dodgers]

Why ebay does not make the 100 free listings more user friendly to sellers is beyond me.

Rather than wait for an invitation that may or may not arrive ebay should set aside one weekend a month so everybody is on the same page. Nothing wrong with the first Friday of the month or whatever, it's open for everybody, it lets people plan ahead, instead of just springing it on them at the last minute, if it happens at all, sellers need to plan and not to jump through the hoops which are placed before them at the last minute.

[wendshees-rocks]

So what you're saying is, you feel you are entitled to regular promos?  No one is entitled to them. Ebay give them out when THEY want to,  not because sellers think they are an entitlement. I shudder to think how some will react if they stop them completely. 

[duck---dodgers]

Refer to post no. 3

[imastawka]

Post #6 makes better sense - I'd like to see that

[pennyforum14]

We have a definite date, it's the 1st of the month when your monthly allocation of free listings is handed out.  Anything above and beyond that is a bonus, and quite simply, "beggars can't be choosers".

[casbit33]

So what you're saying is, you feel you are entitled to regular promos? No one is entitled to them. Ebay give them out when THEY want to, not because sellers think they are an entitlement. I shudder to think how some will react if they stop them completely.

If they stop the free listings altogether, there will be a lot of sellers leaving including me.
I don't understand ebay at all. You would think that they would want more items listed because that's more money for them when they sell. They can't charge FVF for items sitting in "unsold" sections.
It's not rocket science. What are they playing at?

[pennyforum14]

You would think that they would want more items listed because that's more money for them when they sell.

I'm sure they do want more items listed, but they want us to pay to list them, and why shouldn't they?  That's more money for them when they list AND when they sell. They give us a regular monthly free allocation, I don't have any problem understanding why they would want us to pay for listings above that allocation.  Unexpected bonuses are lovely, but if they give them out too often people will start to feel entitled to them, which is exactly what has happened since they had that 3-4 month run of getting freebies every other week.

[wendshees-rocks]

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@casbit33 wrote:
So what you're saying is, you feel you are entitled to regular promos? No one is entitled to them. Ebay give them out when THEY want to, not because sellers think they are an entitlement. I shudder to think how some will react if they stop them completely.

If they stop the free listings altogether, there will be a lot of sellers leaving including me.
I don't understand ebay at all. You would think that they would want more items listed because that's more money for them when they sell. They can't charge FVF for items sitting in "unsold" sections.
It's not rocket science. What are they playing at?

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I didn't say anything about stopping the monthly allocation. I was referring to the promotions that are offered. If they stop (the promos ) some here will self destruct. 

I wouldn't mind betting that eBay has slowed them up to stop people becoming dependant on them and also to stop the entitlement mentality which there seems to be a lot if these days.