Are bonus free listings gone now too?

[mrsst75]

I have a basic store subscription which gives me the 100 listings a month.  Every month ebay runs at least one promotion that gives me extra listings.  This month nothing.  Is this going to be the pattern going forward or this a random thing?  I really count on those extra listings because I can't afford the next store level.  Has anyone else not received the extra listings?  Are they taking those away now too?

[m60driver]

Bonus listings seem to come and go.  Sometimes a few months in a row and sometimes only once every few months.  Often happen the month before the end of the quarter to boost numbers to the investment community.  My guess is that they will wait for the dust to settle from the imposition of forced GTC before we see new free listing promotions.

[laurabeardsley]

I have not has any free listing promotions in over 2 1/2 years now!

[hioctane62]

We'll have to be very careful with free listings promos going forward. Remember that fixed price will be listed as GTC, and we'll have to remember to cancel any that don't sell or be charged an additional listing fee if we don't have the "free" store listings left to cover them.

Ebay may be laying back on the listing offers so as not to appear to be luring sellers into this situation right after they mandated GTC as the only FP listing option. I did, however, receive a 200 free listings offer just after it went into effect.

I'm sure we'll be seeing more offers soon, as ebay does have the intention of making money from this change, and they tend to use underhanded ways of taking unsuspecting sellers' money.

[gr-2634]

Depending on handouts is never a good business model

[ag47silver-us]

I doubt they want you to know this.  I ended my store sub in Dec (early termination fee too).  Before then i had no free listing promotions for over one year, afterwards with no store sub i began getting 200+ monthly.  All auction or BIN except one promotion for x100 was auction only.  I've already saved more by not paying store sub fees, than the early termination fee cost.

[mam98031]

The Starter Store has 100 free listings per month.  The Basic Store has 250.

Ebay will typically have a few promos they run at any given time.  They are usually extended to members by invitation only.  Sometimes we get them on a rather regular basis and sometimes not.  Sometimes we go through a dry spell so to speak while others won't.

There is just no way of knowing when or if an invitation to a promo is going to be extended.  So you should not count on extra free listings every month.