Automatic Relisting Until Sold

[michael_cullis]

Now that I have been upgraded as a seller I no longer have the option to relist up to 8 times for free. That's a nuisance but I can live with it. I would like to know whether I can set the Automaticall Relist Items Until Sold rule to be the default (i.e. for all my listings to have that rule as a default). At present I have to remember to apply the rule to my new listings in bulk after I have listed them. If I forget the cease to be active after a week.

[kopenhagen5]

Once a seller sells a certain amount over a certain period of time they can lose the privileges of the free relists.

The eBay rep has used the term upgraded, but it is just a loss of privileges.

It happened to many sellers in the last 2-3 years. And sometimes the free relists would be reinstated.

[michael_cullis]

Thanks. I agrre with your sentiments. It would be great if the free 8 relists was reinstated.

[imastawka]

For the love of all that's holy!

You get 250,000 free listings.

Can you not keep on top of the re-listings yourself?

How hard can it be?     What is it.....maybe 2 mins out of your life?

Otherwise make them all BIN's

[michael_cullis]

For the love of all that's holy, calm down! You are obviously a very emotional person. You should be able to express your opinions in a more moderate, less insulting tone. 

The fact that I have a potential 250,000 free listings is irrelevant. At any one time I have about 400 active listings which become due for relisting at different times. I already spend an inordinate amount of time researching, scanning and photographing my items without having to check each day to see which of them require relisting. It isn't particularly hard but certainly takes a lot more than two minutes out of my life. On top of that I maintain rather complex statistical worksheets which I have to update when I manually relist items. 

The bottom line is that having the 8 free listings option would make my life so much easier and would not be any burden on eBay.

[imastawka]

As long as ebay don't mess with your listings, listing on ebay is only as hard as you make it.  AFAIC

Calm enough for ya?

[davewil1964]

Research, scanning and photographing should only happen once. Except for the researching, which should be periodical, regardless of free relists.

The lack of automatic relists for 400 items should require very little time in relisting. You have probably used up 6 month's worth in this thread.

I have around 1800 listings. Periodic price-checking, periodic ending and relisting takes around 15 minutes per day. So you are looking at around 4 minutes per day. Hardly a stretch for any serious seller. If you don't bother price checking, you can probably whittle that down to 2 minutes.

[michael_cullis]

True, I only have to scan the front and back of CDs once and photograph the front and back of LPs once and do the price research on eBay and Discogs once. I guess my main concern that it makes my activity outside eBay more difficult. Up until recently I have been able to make best use of my available storage space by replacing items which have not sold with the items which I am listing for the first time. As it is now I will have to examine the items which are being automatically relisted to determine which ones I should manually unlist to provide the necessary space. An added irritation is that it mucks up my spreadsheets which, amongst other things, compares sales made each month of the current year with sales made last year. I realise that this is of no concern to eBay, but removing the option to relist 8 times for free has disadvantaged me and, as far as I can see, is of no advantage to eBay.

I will now have to consider removing the Relist Until Sold rule and switch to relisting each item manually. On my spreadsheets I can set up a formula to tell me when items have been relisted 8 times at which point I can unlist them.

[imastawka]

A thought just went through my (tiny) brain.

Have you tried Sell similar instead of re-list?

Maybe the work around might trigger the 8 free re-lists.

Worth a try in any case.

(I'm still calm)

[sardonicus001]

Thanks, it's worth a try.

[michael_cullis]

Another development. I have just discovered that the option to relist items up to 8 times is back on my templates. I can now list new items with this option checked. Great news except that I am concerned that if I now remove the Relist Until Sold rule and edit my 200+ items to list for 8 times that option will vanish without warning (again!) and I won't find out until all my items are suddenly shown as Unsold. Perhaps I will ring eBay again.