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@saffire41 wrote:

 

I think we're all aware of the recent free listings and when they were 🙂  

We're just hopeful that eBay will do what they usually do, and throw one in before Christmas to boost the low sales at this time of year.    Bearing in mind there is the other promotion running at present (for items over $100) which finishes today.

Who knows ........... we live in hope

 

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Unless members visited the forums, they may not have been aware of the recent 3, which is why I mentioned it. Not everyone gets the email, therefore, they wouldn't know about them unless coming here. As the OP has only posted 3 messages, there's a chance they didn't know, or the other new members who have participated in this thread.

As for what eBay "usually do", all they "usually do" is break stuff. That is the only given here. There are no guarantees that just because the middle of the month is coming up, they will do anything. Also, not everyone is experiencing low sales. There are plenty of sellers who are having a boom at the moment, myself included. By next weekend, most people will have completed their eBay Christmas shopping because they need to allow time for it to be delivered.

If they do run a promotion next weekend, it certainly won't be to boost sales for Christmas. A lot of sellers would be wary of having too many listings due to the public holidays and high risk of slow delivery defects because eBay doesn't take into account weekends and public holidays with their estimates. On the other hand, it could be a good tactic on eBay's part to knock off a few more small sellers by issuing enough defects to drop them below standard.

To quote what others have said in the past, no-one should become reliant on free listing promotions. They could stop them at any time. Look what they did to the stores? They used to get them once a month too, sometimes more often, yet it was 11 months between promotions for them. Don't get me wrong, I like it when promotions are running as much as the next person, but I am not reliant on them, because knowing what eBay is like, they could pull them at any time.