@merfar2107 wrote:
I thought the forum was to help each other, not pull another's items and listings apart. We could very well say that about everyone's if we wanted to be nasty. However, isn't it better to support each other, rather than trash another's listings?
I respect the right of all members to sell what they like as long as it's withing ebay rules, and to charge whatever they deem to be right for them.
Yes, they have the right to list whatever they like and to charge whatever they like, but they don't have the right to complain about ebay's management of the site if they can't manage their own listings effectively. And I doubt telling buyers they have to pay return postage on faulty goods is within ebay's rules - it's because of sellers like this that ebay brought in the MBG.
Some sellers constantly complain about the lack of free listings and they like to fantasise about how they think ebay should be run, but they'd be better spending the time looking at how they can manage their own listings more effectively, but no, they're not interested in that. There are several ways to make the free listings go further and they include multi-variant listings, but some sellers won't use them because having less listings mean they'll be seen less, ie. they want to have their cake and eat it too.
30 day listings have been available to non-store sellers for months now but many don't use them and would rather complain that they haven't been getting any extra free listings. Many still stick to 3 day cycles when 30 days would allow them to list ten times as many items, or three times as many items as 10-day cycles. Why don't they use 30 days - because they want their items to be seen more often in ending soonest and newly listed than everyone else's. The majority of store items are on 30 days and storeholders pay a fee every month, yet some non-store sellers think they should get a better deal than stores and never have to pay a cent to list. Y
If a person opens a store they need to make sure they have a high enough turnover to warrant it, but why should non-stores expect to be allowed to list the same number of items, but less viable, and hardly ever contribute to the running of the site? If someone wants to waste their time listing $1.50, $2, and $3 items, that's their choice, but if they choose to list them in preference to items that'll actually make them some money then don't complain that ebay doesn't give them enough freebies.
I know of two people who get the 150 free listings every month and both of them have a reasonable sell-through rate so I suspect that ebay only give them to sellers as a reward for good sales. Why should they give extra freebies to people who only pay them $20 fees in three months instead of to those who pay $200 in 3 months?
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