The weekend free listings are now going to be rotational but how often

[casbit33]

After contacting ebay, i was told that the weekend free listings are now rotational. 

but they won't tell me how often they will come around.

They said they couldn't tell me because it is computer generated.

Perhaps they don't know that you actually have to program a computer to get it to do that.

The programmer knows but they just won't tell. Why the big secret. It doesn't make sense.

And before you say there is already a thread about the weekend free listings - i started this one because the other one got taken over

by nasty trolls and has now gone down a different track.

so if anyone knows how often the rotations are could you please post on here.

thanks

[curraone]

Have you been reading Terry Pratchett again, countess?

I hope that you can, because I don't see any way in heaven or hell or on the back of a giant turtle in space

[padi*0409]

3 posts on this thread and all of them denigrating members that have offered solutions, or are repulsive in their content.....

Charming......................

[countessalmirena]

@curraone, always. Pyramids.

[lupercal]

---

@chameleon54 wrote:

---

@casbit33 wrote:

Ebay makes billions in revenue every year, even though they could be making heaps more by making one simple change. all free listings.

I always refer to Rov as a remotely operated vehicle and Roc is a mythical legendary large bird of prey.

They are both much more interesting that ebay stats.

---

Please check your facts before posting rubbish like this as it simply is not true. In the 2017 full year ebay LOST $ 1.013 billion ! A couple  more years like that and its Bye Bye ebay. Luckily they turned things around in the 2018 financial year posting a 2.5 Billion dollar profit, giving an average profit for the last two years of around $750 million. Well under the billions of dollars you quoted..

There have been a number of quarters in recent years where ebay has been in negative profit figures and other full year $ billion + losses.

If you actually bother to check, you will see the notion that ebay is giant company making huge profits at the expense of poor little down trodden, free fee paying sellers is total nonsense.

---

I was looking at this yesterday, so it's pretty fresh in my mind: ebay's net profit was badly down and in the red in 2018, but the last quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019 were much better and pretty solidly back in the black. In my worst nightmares I'm not an economist but it seems at the moment it's hard to say anything more than they had a lousy year that, on early evidence, they appear to be bouncing back from. 

[chameleon54]

I have a look now and again to see how ebay is travelling and their figures seem to bounce around fairly well. As you say they seem to have turned the corner from the difficult 2017-18 period and are once again growing global buyer registrations quite nicely at the moment which bodes well for international sellers.

The idea that ebay always makes billions of dollars each year is a furphy as they have been unable to maintain consistent and reliable profits for the last decade. Share price growth has been pretty stagnant as has returns to shareholders although the company has been buying back its own shares recently which suggests the company is a bit more stable now.

Personally I would be happy to see the company making reasonable and consistent profits as it will allow them to advertise and promote the site, helping sellers as well as shareholders. This has not happened for quite a few years, but seems to be happening a bit more now which is another positive thing.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

when I was a teenager I got a lot of life advice from my parents, teachers and other adults I looked up to.

Many others would also have received the following advice about choices and drugs.  I was warned that drug dealers would offer teens free drugs.  After a while of receiving free drugs, enough time to get hooked on them, the drug dealers would start charging for the drugs.  Get into debt to the dealers and your life would spiral out of control I was warned.

Seems to me that this situation with free listings and reduced fvf has some similarities.  Get free listings and reduced fvf until you depend on them and then BAM, once you are hooked they are not offered and you have to start paying if you wish to continue listing at the same level.

[*tippy*toes*]

Careful Cham, you'll be accused of being an eBay employee with a comment like that!

[padi*0409]

This was not you I replied to Chamo,twas the one that went.....................

[curraone]

I wasn't denigrating the countess, I was applauding her literary taste - being a Pratchett fan myself, I recognised the quote.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

padi wasn't referring to you or your posts . . . he was referring to another poster who has had his/her posts removed or edited . . . but I can't say any more because we are not allowed to discuss moderated content.