Sounds like a better thought out version of my plan.

 

If you count the previous Sunday only $1 deals, which I'd been getting every week for at least 4 months, I think this weekend business has been going for at least seven maybe eight months. It made a huge difference to my monthly account - like I said I'm surprised they didn't just end it, rather than try to make it difficult to use by introducing manditory automatic relists, which would have been extremely irritating even if there were no Weekend deals.

My theory why the $1 Weekend offer existed was to offset the business customers who list M-F. That would leave a gap in the total number of listings on eBay, so getting private sellers to list generally lower value goods on weekend would fill this gap.

The busiest day of the week in internet traffic is all day Saturday and that could transpose to online shopping, so you want your 'shop' well stocked when customers drop in.

It's Monday morning and we just went to list an item and the only option for Fixed listing is now 'Good til cancelled' seems like 30 days has been permanently removed for everything regardless of the Weekend $1 offer...

They cannot even spell TILL so what future do we have?

they cannot even spell correctly.. til or TILL !!

Totally unimpressed with this change.  Keep getting caught unawares with auto relists & charged insertion fees.  Even getting charged when they say I won't.  I sell lots of low value items so not worth my while anymore.  Much preferred the old system of 8 free renewals then  item ended.  At least then you could control when you relisted items to avoid unnecessary fees.  I had 3 online chats & they tell me a different story every time.  Clearly they didn't plan & implement this one very well at all.

It's an abbreviation/contraction of until - ie 'til

It's quite simple to keep track of which listings are about to incur fees. Just sort your selling page by time left and check it once a day. The next ones due to roll over will be at the top and you can bulk end them.