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but I enjoyed our discussion anyway
@pjh09 wrote:
My interpretation. From what she told me, sure the existing listings will use up a free listing or will be charged at the normal listing rate if all free listings for the current month are exhausted BUT ONCE THE RELIST HAPPENS (ONCE ONLY) THEN NO ADDITIONAL LISTING FEES ARE PAYABLE ON THAT ITEM UNTIL THE SELLER ENDS THE LISTING OR THE ITEM IS SOLD. Could this be correct? Good until cancelled meaning exactly that with no 30 day relist fee?
BUT IS THIS IN FACT TRUE?
Therefore this statement ^^ cannot be true. (Too good to be true too
)
Using seller overview - I can see my recent listings with "good till cancelled" and they show "time left 29 days"
after which I expect they will be relisted and the appropriate fees charged.
@chameleon54 wrote:If you stop and think about it, the idea that ebay would allow non store holders to use up one of their 40 freebies on listing a GTC and then have free roll overs forever just doesnt make any sense. There would be no incentive to ever delete non selling items and in time the site would become swamped with an ever increasing pile of stale, junky, non performing listings. Its just not gonna happen !!!
I know the thread is old, but the discussion is current / relevant, so...
I said this in the other thread, but if eBay are moving away from listing cycles, it might not be that far fetched for them to also move away from the billing cycle for listings - i.e., if they are going to go "full Amazon" on us (in the business model sense, rather than the warrior sense ), where it is one fee to list (USD 99c over there), and one fee to sell*, they might switch from 40 free listings per billing cycle (30 days), to something like 40 free listings at any given time. eg List 40, sell (or end) 5 in a week, you've got 5 more slots to list for free, sell (or end) nothing and no free slots, regardless of how long your listings have been up. This would effectively reward those who have higher sell-through rates, and / or encourage people to change their listed stock from time to time. The 30-day billing cycle would just remain in place for store subscriptions, as would their free listing allocation (eg basic store would provide 600 free listings at any given time).
Whatever their ultimate goal is, I think this puts bonus freebies in rather murky waters. I don't see an issue with standard freebies being GTC when listed, but I do with bonus freebies (that likely wouldn't otherwise have been put on the site) being GTC and automatically charged a fee at the end of the 30-day duration if still listed. Regardless of if they are determined for GTC to be the norm, I think promotional freebies should still have a max. 30 day duration.
*Amazon (US - I'm not using the AU site because they don't currently offer the option to list without paying a monthly subscription fee, AFAIK) will actually charge 2 fees to sell in media categories. A referral fee (FVF) and a closing fee of $1.80 per item sold.
