All fixed-price listing durations except for GTC going away?

[revenue-collector]

Apparently it was surprise-launched on eBay Australia. Beta test before they push it out worldwide?

A lot of sellers are going to be very unhappy.

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2019/2/1550695647.html

[myjunqueyourtreasure]

Wth kind of "selling history" does a listing for a SINGLE item have? All GTC does is make it sink further down in search with each renewal.

These people are out of their gourds.

Just more "busy work" for sellers who have to watch and end any GTC they don't want to renew automatically.

[buyselljack2016]

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@myjunqueyourtreasure wrote:
Wth kind of "selling history" does a listing for a SINGLE item have? All GTC does is make it sink further down in search with each renewal.

These people are out of their gourds.

Just more "busy work" for sellers who have to watch and end any GTC they don't want to renew automatically.

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and then they can jump in to charge a FVF claiming that we are removing it to make the sale "off eBay":)

[slippinjimmy]

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@revenue-collector wrote:

Apparently it was surprise-launched on eBay Australia. Beta test before they push it out worldwide?

A lot of sellers are going to be very unhappy.

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2019/2/1550695647.html

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I'm going to put on my Buyers hat for a moment...........

This is a good move, instead of getting a notice every week that there is a "new" listing matching my saved searches I'll only get them monthly or maybe even less.

"Newly Listed" search results won't be as flooded with things that were also "newly listed" just a week ago.

That said, eBay Australia is kind of unique, a number of policies have been put in place there that have never migrated to other eBay sites. eBay is also in a pitched battle with Amazon in Australia, one of the territories where Amazon were very late to the game and eBay were/are way ahead.

[escuintla]

We don't want to be guinea pigs. 

We want things that work in our environment, period!

[myjunqueyourtreasure]

Australians are also unable to buy from the AMZ.com site (since Jan 2018)

[yuzuha]

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@slippinjimmy wrote:

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I'm going to put on my Buyers hat for a moment...........

This is a good move, instead of getting a notice every week that there is a "new" listing matching my saved searches I'll only get them monthly or maybe even less.

"Newly Listed" search results won't be as flooded with things that were also "newly listed" just a week ago.

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Frankly, I would not be at all sad if they took away the 7- and 10-day Fixed Price listing duration for that very reason-- it gets very tiring to have a particular "Newly Listed" search that you run on a regular basis turn up the same items over and over again.  7- and 10-day durations are fine for auctions.  For Fixed Price?  Not so much.

[myjunqueyourtreasure]

Fine, so leave the 30 day duration. Sellers shouldn't be forced into GTC.

[this*old*attic]

I wondered about this paragraph:

”One of the reasons why eBay like longer-duration listings: search engine visibility.”

I thought an unsold item became LESS visible?

Anyway, at least now we know what that other thread was about.

[juststuffisell]

I kind of like the good til canceled. Some items require time to find the right buyer and I don't think those items should be penalized in search when relevant.

Doing away with the 30 day duration listing though.....that is a tough one to swallow if you start talking about managing costs to sell. Glad that is not here in the States. Trying to manage that would be a challenge if you have a ton of listings.

Cheers

[eburtonlab]

@this*old*attic 

”One of the reasons why eBay like longer-duration listings: search engine visibility.”

I thought an unsold item became LESS visible?

I believe the article is referring to search engines such as google -- a lot of folks search using google and turn up links to eBay listings, which, when followed turn out to be ended listings. That's the motivation behind the push for ended listings to immediately forward to similar open listings, I think.

Google and other search engines handle GTC listings better than limited term listings.

[3d_discounts]

Well, this will also force "new" histories with items being forced into a new renewal, right?

I don't like that idea.

[luckythewinner]

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@slippinjimmy wrote:

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I'm going to put on my Buyers hat for a moment...........

This is a good move, instead of getting a notice every week that there is a "new" listing matching my saved searches I'll only get them monthly or maybe even less.

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I was always under the impression that when a GTC listing renews, it keeps the same listing number and thus does not get considered "new" by saved searches. 

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@luckythewinner wrote:

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@slippinjimmy wrote: ... instead of getting a notice every week that there is a "new" listing matching my saved searches I'll only get them monthly or maybe even less.

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I was always under the impression that when a GTC listing renews, it keeps the same listing number and thus does not get considered "new" by saved searches. 

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That's correct. A search for new listings will not find listings that are merely GTC's that have just rolled over. And when you do a search and sort the results by "Newest first," the GTC listings get sorted by their original listing date (not by their latest rollover date) so they gradually sink to the bottom.

 That's probably why eBay wants ongoing listings to be GTC rather than relist after relist after relist. Buyers are complaining that new listings aren't really new, as @slippinjimmy pointed out.

[yuzuha]

From a buyer's perspective, it's definitely a problem in some of the categories that I search on a regular basis.  I search "Newest First" because I want to see what's been listed recently, not the same old things I've already seen over and over and over again.  I don't mind the 30-day listings so much because I only see those once a month, but there are some sellers who use the shorter durations so they get that search boost, and I find that incredibly annoying.  I saw it last week and didn't want it; I'm not going to want it if I see it again this week.