Attn Ebay sellers; look at this early message I got.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by cardsnstuff

Talk about BS and a way to charge more now when you exceed your free store listings; what's your take on this?? opinions wanted.

For me, the problem with this is I prefer not to use the GTC listings despite their obvious convenience.. I have 15K listings that I relist once a month(I typically list as many new items as a I sell a month, so the 15K listings are different each month). Relisting every 30 days allows the 15K returning listings each month to show up as new listings not as a stale old listing which is what happens with a GTC listing. In my experience, new listings sell quicker than old listings as some users sort their searches from new to old to catch the latest FP listings.

FWIW, about 5 years ago, I started relisting each item monthly (yes, it takes a little extra time a few days a week) instead of using the GTC listings. My sales increased by 10% that year and have not slowed since. Seems as though when an item is relisted buyers are under the impression it is a new item which helps to sell quicker.

With this change, my only option now, to achieve the same results as having each listing end monthly and to relist, is to manually end each listing and then relist....this change will now create more work on my end to have listings appear new.



Seems like yet another ebay decision that is going to be counterproductive to my sales or cost me more time. Go figure.

[Peter_Spaeth]

If you renew listings they will pop up in people's saved searches, otherwise not, right?

[buymycards]

This will be a PITA for me. At the moment, I receive 500 (250 auctions and 250 fixed price) free listings a month with my store. I like to run them for 30 days, and I will relist some of them, but I like to rotate other items and add new items without going over 500. I feel like eBay is forcing me to upgrade to the next level of store, with my monthly store fee going from $20 a month up to $60. Sure, I will receive 1000 BIN's and 500 auctions, but I really don't want to list that many, but I feel like I will have to do that in order to recover the $60 per month, plus 8.9% ebay fees and 2.9% PayPal fees, plus the 35 cent per payment PayPal fees.

[Leon]

Seems like they still want to be Amazon with the "out of stock" comment. Glad I don't sell there any longer though I could in the future. With each ebay "unimprovement" I get further away from wanting to.

[Yastrzemski Sports]

This is very true. eBay should be happy to be eBay. The problem is that they want to be amazon. But being a publicly traded company they always need to make more money. You do reach a point of saturation at which you make tons and can’t always make more. That’s death for those companies. Then they have to try to get more out of their existing customers. They continually raise fees on stores and take away discounts. Every time I open an email about a seller update I wonder how much it’s going to cost me. While I don’t personally like 30 day (I prefer run til sold) you should have the option.

Originally Posted by Leon

Seems like they still want to be Amazon with the "out of stock" comment. Glad I don't sell there any longer though I could in the future. With each ebay "unimprovement" I get further away from wanting to.