AUTO RELISTING

[arockah]

Does anyone know how to turn off the auto-relisting function?

[itscalledapostingid · Accepted solution]

It looks like you're using fixed price listings. They relist every month and there's no way to turn that off.

You can manually END listings if you don't want to keep them going.

[arockah]

Thank you so much for that info. 

[chaossoftwareinc]

There are a number of choices when ending.  I chose "item is no longer for sale" and it says that "ending an auction early disappoints buyers. If you end an auction early you may be charged a final value fee ...".  Will this apply?

[ethanrt]

Wondering the same: how to stop the item from auto relisting without cancelling my current auction (or cancelling a future/relisted auction mid-listing, which eBay warns "may" incur fees). Other, older answers in this forum (e.g. "go to Active Listings" and remove the Automation Rule) don't work because apparently auto relisting is no longer considered an automation rule.

One way to avoid auto relisting might be to schedule a delay of X days (eBay is allowing up to 20) before the auto relist happens, then cancelling in between. Besides the fact that this is an unnecessarily complicated 2-step solution for a 1-step problem, eBay also warns that you "may" (there's that word again!) incur scheduling fees if you do this.

I am fairly "new" to eBay -- I've only used it a handful of times, and the interface seems to change faster than I have new things to sell -- and I have to say, the UX is incredibly user unfriendly. Why force me to auto relist? Why tell me that I "may" incur fees if I take an action right now -- is there not a set of logical rules applied that would determine the fee amount, if any, and if so why can't that be calculated? Why are there multiple pages that purport to display the same thing (e.g. my list of Active Items: https://www.ebay.com/mys/active vs https://www.ebay.com/sh/lst/active), which show me totally different sets of options depending on which one I'm looking at?

While we're at it: how does it make any sense that I can't add a tracking number after I mark an item as Shipped? Instead I have to unmark it as shipped, add the tracking number, then remark it as shipped, presumably confusing the customer due to the additional two notifications.

Overarching question: how has this platform been around so long and made so much money, yet still the UX sucks so hard?

[vgdot]

Wow what a total scam.

[itscalledapostingid]

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@vgdot wrote:

Wow what a total scam.

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In what way? Please explain how this policy negatively affects you in any way.

I see you have one item listed with a quantity of six, three of those sold already this month...

Would you prefer that it would end at the end of month whether you still have some left or not?

Of course you can manually end your listing at any time without penalty. So how is that a scam?

[albertabrightalberta]

Ending a fixed price listing early in order to avoid having it auto-relist doesn't result in a fee unless the item was sold and the seller cancels.

Ending an auction early when there are bids WILL cost the seller fees because ebay assumes that the seller is ending it early to sell off-site and circumvent fees.