mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
Ebay didn't "lie" to you, you just misunderstood. In July the new policy of once a month will start.
Yes, because it couldn't be that they have to get the program written, right?
This is rather interesting to me since a great deal of sellers that have complained about the GTC rule have stated they don't pay for listings fees anyway. They only list up to whatever free allotment they have. So if this is true, even if they all renewed the next month, the seller wouldn't be paying any listing fees.
The only sellers that are getting caught having to may more in fees are those that ran up all their listings on May 1st and then they renewed on May 31st. While I'm confident some sellers did this, I would not think it would be a majority. But just my opinion.
@perfumenmore wrote:What is GTC?
GTC = Good Til Canceled. It is a fixed price listing.
As of March 18th Ebay now has only two types of listings. Auction or GTC. GTC listings will auto renew each month as long as there is a quantity available on your listing until such time it is sold out.
In your site preferences you may have a setting called Out of Stock checked. If checked off, it will allow listings that do sell out to remain active but not seen by other members until you update the listing with additional stock. The OOS function is handy for those that typically renew their stock. By using this function the listing retains its placement in the searches, which can be a real advantage. But know that using this function means that the listing, while OOS still incurs renewal fees. This is may not be a function you will find useful so you should check your site preferences.
More information is in the link below.
https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/seller-updates/2019-early/index.html#m17-4-tb2
@twnpopcards wrote:
@mam98031 wrote:Yes, because it couldn't be that they have to get the program written, right?
This is rather interesting to me since a great deal of sellers that have complained about the GTC rule have stated they don't pay for listings fees anyway. They only list up to whatever free allotment they have. So if this is true, even if they all renewed the next month, the seller wouldn't be paying any listing fees.
The only sellers that are getting caught having to may more in fees are those that ran up all their listings on May 1st and then they renewed on May 31st. While I'm confident some sellers did this, I would not think it would be a majority. But just my opinion.
Lets see, they were warned about this issue back in February and went to the drawing table at that time to create this. So I am sure they already either have it or have had plenty of time to get this done. Funny how they can write the program to get rid of all the other Fixed Listing time frames in about 3 weeks. Again, when Ebay wants to get something done they can do so very quickly and easily. If this was costing Ebay money you better believe it would ALREADY be fixed.
You obviously do not give Ebay the credit they deserve.
The announcement for the change to all FP being GTC was February 26th. It began on March 18th. GTC has been around for many years, so it isn't a new thing. What is new is that Ebay now only has two different types of listings.
Just because people start complaining about something they perceive to be an issue does not mean that Ebay is actually going to do anything about it. So starting the clock in February is a bit misleading. The fact that Ebay did actually take what was being said by many sellers on the boards is a wonderful thing and a win for all.
It could have easily gone the other direction and Ebay may have decided to do nothing.
I'm not sure about your 3 week timeline. I find it pretty doubtful that Ebay decided on let's say February 25th to change all FP listings to GTC and then released that announcement to the site on the following day. And therefore went scrabbling to write the program necessary to accomplish this. I tend to think Ebay was planning this for far longer than that and therefore had lots of time to get the program ready for the site.
But if you have something to the contrary that supports that they only decided on the day or just before they announced it, I'm willing to read it.
