watch your free relists

[goldeagle1970]

I thought I was going nuts, first looking at my items I still had listed an item I sold last night, couldn't get rid of it.

and when i went to see what didn't relist, at least 5 items saying did not relist.

I went to look at my items as a buyer, and yes the sold item was gone, and the 5 items had been relisted.

so be careful you don't relist what did relist last night. Dam confusing.

[i-love-my-sheep]

Or you could just use a couple of the 150 freebies 🙂

I know it's the principle of the matter though.

[goldeagle1970]

now I know what you mean by the 150 listings, though you were just having us on. bit slow today, Dah too hot.

haven't had any emails for them as yet, but went through the link all good.

Now to get the camera out.

[cq_tech]

That's exactly what I did, sheepie. I obviously didn't know about the promotion when I wrote the above but now that I do, the biggest issue I have at the moment is that I've hit my selling limit of 100 and will have to get it increased ASAP.

[i-love-my-sheep]

I think I may have had a couple of items in my unsold area that should have relisted for free and they didn't. When I went to relist them, they said I couldn't relist as they were set to relist automatically. I had to relist them as sell similar. They ended the night of the meltdown. Others that ended then relisted OK, so not sure what happened with those.

Definitely get your limit increased if you have more than 100 items to list. It would be a shame to waste some freebies if you can use them!

[cq_tech]

The only problem now is that I've just about run out of items to sell and I don't particularly want to buy stock because I'd planned on giving up selling on the 1st of this month and I don't want to end up with any unsold or unsaleable stock if I do throw in the towel, which is still very much on the cards the way eBay is going (which in case you hadn't noticed, is very rapidly downhill).

Also, I'm very loath to invest in eBay when it's pretty damn clear that they don't want to invest in me in return. I'm under no illusions that I'm anything other than a very minor source of income to them, and they've also made it quite clear that they don't especially have my best interests at heart.

[i-love-my-sheep]

This items of mine that I think should have relisted for free and didn't, I scheduled them to start at 7.30pm last night and a message appeared under them saying they are not visible to buyers because they are duplicate listings. Once a bid appears on the original listing, they will then be visible. I have checked, rechecked and rechecked again and they are not showing up anywhere, so I don't know how they can be duplicate listings!

I listed them using the sell similar option because they wouldn't let me relist them. Something weird is still going on.

Once my stuff is gone, I'm pulling the pin too. I'm a bit over it all really. I could never do this full time, it's too time consuming. I'm bored to death with it now, but I have to get rid of this stuff. Maybe I should just list everything at 99c!

[go-tazz]

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@i-love-my-sheep wrote:

This items of mine that I think should have relisted for free and didn't, I scheduled them to start at 7.30pm last night and a message appeared under them saying they are not visible to buyers because they are duplicate listings. Once a bid appears on the original listing, they will then be visible. I have checked, rechecked and rechecked again and they are not showing up anywhere, so I don't know how they can be duplicate listings!

I listed them using the sell similar option because they wouldn't let me relist them. Something weird is still going on.

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That's the problem,as eBay have them as listing Automatically,(that can happen hours later).

This is the message I received when mine wouldn't relist.

Thank you for contacting eBay regarding auto relist query.

Corny, please be advised that it will take a few hours for the system to relist your item. The auto-relist feature will be activated a few hours from when your original listing has ended. It doesn’t mean that your original listing was created around 9pm it will be relisted around 9pm as well. This is the reason why the end time will change.

At the time the listings ended up taking over 4 hours to re-list.

After this reply they were re-listing within minutes and have slowly been going out again,(time wise).

[i-love-my-sheep]

All mine were relisting straight away. I noticed 2 days after these ones should have relisted, that they didn't, even though they finished in the middle of all the others that relisted automatically straight after ending. If they've relisted on the system, but aren't showing up, I can't even end them and relist them, because they don't exist on my seller page!!

I wonder if I change a word in the title if it would no longer see them as being a duplicate?

[i-love-my-sheep]

OK, this is getting really weird now. I just checked my listings as a guest in a different browser and the supposidly not relisted items, that aren't showing up on my seller page, ARE showing up in my listings that buyers can see. I wonder why it's not showing in my seller page? How will I know if someone bids on it? More to the point, how will I know if it sells?

The duplicate that is sitting there in limbo, when I clicked on learn more, it said that the listing cannot be found anywhere on eBay. I put the item number in advanced search, while in a different browser as a guest, and the listing showed. I think someone at eBay has been sniffing glue again.....

I give up!!!

[twyngwyn]

hmmmm....tell me about it....that's why some of my auctions were ending at midnight/1am....what a waste of time!