EBAY'S NEW HEALTH CHECK - I think it is seriously SICK!!

[6508.froggy]

Just received eBay's latest assistance to sellers *Ebay's NEW HEALTH CHECK* .

This may be old news but they are moving timed BUY IT NOW and will move all my listings to GOOD TIL CANCELLED. Well that is not what I want but then again we have no say. 

This does not suit me for many reasons with something new I like to use 10 days as an option. The rest are 30 day listings which gives me the option to adjust the listings if they are not attracting buyers or watches. I will sometimes group them with other items etc. 

I find the 30 day listings far more manageable for my business needs. 

So if all fixed listings are good til cancelled I dare say the next step will be for those with ebay stores will be reduced with the amount of fixed listings in their subscription. 

Good til cancelled also means there will be a hell of a lot of old stock on there for years or if I remember correctly they were bringing in limited time for listings.

I have had my vent but OH SO FRUSTRATING makes me wonder why I am doing this. 

[annieoakley2000]

Can you please tell me where I can find Seller hub; I can't see it anywhere or is this only a store feature ???

[casbit33]

If you go to relist or edit several items at once it will take you to the seller hub.

[casbit33]

I got the 13 insertion charges on my account credited... They did it immediately. I think they know they are in the wrong. I will now have to list all my items and then end them each month before listing again. What a hassle. 

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seriously just change them to auction with buy-it-now option.

You can get up to 10 days for auction plus 8 auto relists - a total of 90 days.

You won't get stung with a fee when they end, just relist when you are ready

so much better than worrying about when things will finish and copping a fee.

Buyers have a choice either bid with the cheaper auction or pay a little more to buy straight away.

I have buyers with both options.

[Anonymous]

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@annieoakley2000 wrote:

Can you please tell me where I can find Seller hub; I can't see it anywhere or is this only a store feature ???

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https://sellercentre.ebay.com.au/sh

Click on the Start Now button just below the diagram near the top.  You won't regret doing it!

[knewdoors]

health? try ZERO pulse ebay = drudgery 2019....not the satifying platform it once was...

[heihachi_73]

I have sold four items this month, three of which were the last batch of auto-relisted non-GTC Buy It Nows from early last month, with the fourth being an auction. Usually I have sold at least ten items by now

I currently have exactly one bid on a $2 DVD and now have about 80 items (soon to drop to about 20 when the last BINs die off) listed from my former 200+ with well over a hundred items in my unsold pile, having all been stripped of their relist status and ended by themselves.

Back in ye olde days before 30-day Buy It Now listings, BIN used to max out at ten days with 3 relists (making the item stay live for up to 40 days without taking up free listings or charging insertion fees), then suddenly out of the blue we got the formerly store-only 30 day BINs (120 days counting the 3 free relists) and GTC (exactly 30 days just like now), and soon 8 relists came into effect making those 30-day BINs jump to a huge 270 days without needing to be relisted. With 40 items relisting another eight times, you could theoretically have 360 items spread out over nine months without paying a cent in fees, without even counting additional free listing promos. Knowing full well that eBay is not to be trusted in the slightest, I never went overboard with listings as you never know what they will do next. When the inevitable happened and sh|t hit the fan last month, I quickly unticked the free relist option in each and every listing and marked the couple that got through early with "GTC".

In all, over the past few years, listings have gone from a maximum of 120 days to 270 days to 90 day auctions, yet eBay somehow sees this as an upgrade.

My guess is the future of eBay really will be just the department stores selling phones, fridges and washing machines. Oh, hello Coles, I see you are now listing things right on the eBay home page, so eBay is also a supermarket too, well done! eBay really has gone Down Down.

The only thing left for eBay to do now is to remove automatic relists from the auctions to limit the entire country to exactly forty free listings per month in order to give sellers a "better experience"!!! Of course, they have already done that for those who don't get the free relists at all.

Meanwhile, in yet another case of eBay's left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, my rapidly-growing list of of unsold items are showing the following tip:
eBay note: List this item as Fixed price, 10 days with Best Offer so that more buyers will find your item.

[egglesdtp]

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@heihachi_73 wrote:

Meanwhile, in yet another case of eBay's left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, my rapidly-growing list of of unsold items are showing the following tip:
eBay note: List this item as Fixed price, 10 days with Best Offer so that more buyers will find your item.

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This weekend - and nearly every weekend for several months now - ebay have offered 'List as many items for free' and pay a max of $1 FVF on the items which sell. Find it at the bottom of the My Ebay All Selling page. Make sure you click the 'Get Offer' button before you start listing.

So go to your Unsold list, and check each item you want to list again. You can use either Sell Similar or Relist. You will need to manually delete them from the Unsold list as neither action seems to remove the ones you have just reactivated. This will give you another 30 days of listing for those items.

It is a pain, but you can keep track of how many days each item has left of the 30 days by reordering the Active Selling list. Just end them before they reach the 30 days and let them drop into unsold. Then wait for the next weekend's promotion to relist them again. It's a fair bit of work, but I'm sure those of us that choose this method will get used to it.

[heihachi_73]

I was just pointing out the fact that eBay is still telling people to make fixed price 10 day listings when the only fixed price option without auctions attached is 30 day Good 'til Cancelled listings.

I missed out on the weekend promo, but I have plenty of time to relist everything, it doesn't really matter if some of my non-selling stuff falls off the radar after 60 days as I can easily reupload the images if I want to give them another chance. Right now I'm basically killing off everything and starting from scratch to freshen up the account, only listing the better/new stuff rather than things that have been sitting idle since as early as 2015. Apparently used 10c coins are more fashionable than PlayStation games these days!

[dtcomau]

OK so it's March 22nd and I've just had three of my new GTC's roll over and can confirm that they used up my free listings.  I now only have 7 free listings left and I usually have around 180 items listed (non-store and not this a/c).

I have many smaller items that I sell and cannot justify paying $1.65 per month just to list them.  I am a power selling so do sell a decent amount of items.

So now I have to decide whether to:

a) Reduce my listings to 40 per month - lower sales, how does this benefit eBay or the seller?

b) Manage the listings, ending them before they finish and listing them when (if) we can free Saturday relists - A lot of work.

c) Change to a store - All calculations I've done before make this worse for me due to the categories I sell in.

d) Give up completely on Ebay - Seems the easiest option, my own site it doing better all the time.

e) Something I haven't though of? Anyone?

[heihachi_73]

Apparently your screenshot must have been of promo 6659, I have never been eligible for that one, the only thing that ever shows up at the bottom of All Selling is the 40 each month.

"Unfortunately, this promotional offer is by invitation only."

Just clicked on the 6659 link again at 9:25AM for the sake of it, same deal.

Speaking of promos, whatever happened to the "Latest" list on here?