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mg152 · ‎02-28-2019

What the issue with GTC is? True I sell very little, I don’t sell hundreds of items a month or anything but I also refuse to give my vintage items away so I’ll hold out for the sales. I used to list GTC most of the time. I stopped using it some when Ebay starting deleting “stale” listings but I love that feature and I don’t even mind it being “forced” on me.

I woukd like to hear good valid reasons why it’s such a big deal. We’ve already been told when to list to get minimal charges and I do most of my listing mid month anyway. You all know the update could’ve been much worse than it was/is this time.

Patricia
eBay member for 25 years

readabouthorses · ‎02-28-2019

@mg152 wrote:
What the issue with GTC is? True I sell very little, I don’t sell hundreds of items a month or anything but I also refuse to give my vintage items away so I’ll hold out for the sales. I used to list GTC most of the time. I stopped using it some when Ebay starting deleting “stale” listings but I love that feature and I don’t even mind it being “forced” on me.
I woukd like to hear good valid reasons why it’s such a big deal. We’ve already been told when to list to get minimal charges and I do most of my listing mid month anyway. You all know the update could’ve been much worse than it was/is this time.

We have another Update coming late April.

I like to use the shorter durations for my listings because I don't want to be "tied down" for 30 days. I actually may go back to where I began and start doing auctions again like it was when I first started selling.

goodluckselling · ‎02-28-2019

Just a quick point. The 2019 spring seller update has not been released yet. This is just an early look at the seller update with just a few things mentioned.

When you say "such a big deal" Are you referring this in a good way or a bad way or both opinions?

One of the reason many are not liking it is because they think this is going to hurt them in search. But if all FP listings are now GTC listing then there is no disadvantage to any specific listing just because it is a GTC listing.

Also eBay is moving to the catalog shopping experience more and more each week so like items are going to be shown together on the unique item pages anyways. So a professional SEO listing writer will be shown next a an amateur listing writer for the exact same item.

There are basically two more complaints about it as well

renewing of GTC (30 day listing) on the same billing cycle
The extra work it is going to cause some sellers who rotate more listings than they are allowed to prevent to many listing fees.

Good Luck Selling!

hillbillymedia · ‎02-28-2019

The change isn`t going to affect me but IMO, whenever an ebay user gets an option taken away from them, it`s never a good thing. This isn`t a case of removing a few BIN duration's....it`s a case of removing them ALL. On top of it all....every new seller update rollout removes more options. Frankly, it`s getting old and these changes have produced little, if any, benefit to the user.

"There`s always barber college" - Dalton - Road House

creekcoyote · ‎02-28-2019

@mg152 wrote:
What the issue with GTC is? True I sell very little, I don’t sell hundreds of items a month or anything but I also refuse to give my vintage items away so I’ll hold out for the sales. I used to list GTC most of the time. I stopped using it some when Ebay starting deleting “stale” listings but I love that feature and I don’t even mind it being “forced” on me.
I woukd like to hear good valid reasons why it’s such a big deal. We’ve already been told when to list to get minimal charges and I do most of my listing mid month anyway. You all know the update could’ve been much worse than it was/is this time.

I don't like it simply because I prefer my listings to run out after the allotted time if they have not sold. I can then go back in, at my convenience, and do any revisions, etc. that I think are necessary. I may change the listing to an auction or withhold it from being listed for a period of time.

I do this on both fixed price and auction listings.

Doing it this way fits better into my schedule which can be erratic at times.

Under the GTC option, all listings will be automatically be re-listed if the seller doesn't 'babysit' them and then end them before the 30 days is up. So a seller has to be on top of every listing to make sure that it doesn't get re-listed just because they had a family emergency or whatever.

The GTC works for many sellers. I just don't like it being forced upon us since it truly has little benefit for me the way I sell.

COYOTES RULE!!!

creekcoyote · ‎02-28-2019

@readabouthorses wrote:
@mg152 wrote:
What the issue with GTC is? True I sell very little, I don’t sell hundreds of items a month or anything but I also refuse to give my vintage items away so I’ll hold out for the sales. I used to list GTC most of the time. I stopped using it some when Ebay starting deleting “stale” listings but I love that feature and I don’t even mind it being “forced” on me.
I woukd like to hear good valid reasons why it’s such a big deal. We’ve already been told when to list to get minimal charges and I do most of my listing mid month anyway. You all know the update could’ve been much worse than it was/is this time.
We have another Update coming late April.

I like to use the shorter durations for my listings because I don't want to be "tied down" for 30 days. I actually may go back to where I began and start doing auctions again like it was when I first started selling.

This may very well be an unintended result of this change. Or at least I doubt that it would be intended.

And I agree. I don't want to be tied down to E-bay unless I choose to be. Or any other site for that matter.

COYOTES RULE!!!

ittybitnot · ‎02-28-2019

You all know the update could’ve been much worse than it was/is this time.

Don't worry, this was just the start. What is that old saying about "waiting for the other shoe to drop"? More good news for sellers coming soon.

gamersbaystore · ‎02-28-2019

The problem with GTC is that you can't schedule anything. I don't want 50 items being relisted all at one time, and ebay is a moron for forcing this stupidity on its sellers to begin with. Taking control away from sellers isn't going to help them to make more sales.

I usually relist a few games at a time every few hours after the listings end. Now I'm going to have 50 listings at a time being dumped out in short time frame, which makes no logical sense at all. Then again, ebay executives apparently have no logic to begin with.

I can make a sure bet this is going to backfire on ebay big time. Either way, constant change isn't a good thing, and ebay needs to stop trying to reinvent the wheel over and over again.

Google is a clear example of what happens when you don't listen to those who use your platforms and make constant unnecessary changes. Google is now closing its 2nd largest social network Google+ in a matter of weeks, and its the result of Google constantly changing the platform without considering how those changes will affect users. ebay is heading in the same direction.

buyselljack2016 · ‎02-28-2019

Don't want everything to auto-relist.

My multiple quantity listings are not a problem, but don't always want things to relist right away. Sometimes want to use my listings for other things.

Sometimes have extra freebie listings. Do not want to relist all resulting in increased fees. Do not have a store. Have only 50 unpaid listings per month.

Do not want to continually monitor GTC to end them before relist.

reallynicestamps · ‎02-28-2019

@gamersbaystore

I don't want 50 items being relisted all at one time,

They would not be.

I use GTC for the most part and I list throughout the month.

Each listing ends after 30 days and automatically relists.

I agree it would be silly to have all 50 (or in my case 1500) listings opening and closing on the same day.

I also monitor my listings, and close those I believe should be closed, either because they have too many views (but no buyer) or because I sold it elsewhere.

tealt · ‎02-28-2019

@mg152 wrote:
What the issue with GTC is?

I woukd like to hear good valid reasons why it’s such a big deal. We’ve already been told when to list to get minimal charges and I do most of my listing mid month anyway. You all know the update could’ve been much worse than it was/is this time.

The reason that this change is "such a big deal" is that there are many small and medium volume sellers who have developed strategies for their businesses based on the availability of fixed price 2/5/7/10/30 day durations.

Now, all of those options are being taken away. Soon.

Why is eBay doing this? To increase revenue, of course. EBay is a business. Whether this increased revenue will come from increased listing fees or from the savings connected with having software to maintain/create only one FP duration is an open question.

dinpavent0 · ‎02-28-2019

Well I can say for the people that do sell alot of items or use a lot of listings it is a problem. MY husband has a premium store and uses all 1000 of his fixed price listings every month and has actually over 4000 listings plus hundreds of new ones to list. He rotates his listings, so every month he is relisting items that haven't been listed in a month or two plus new stuff. If the listings stay good til cancelled, the same 1000 listings will stay up (besides stuff that sells) and would have to pay for extra listings for new stuff or to relist others he has, or other option is when listings are about to end we have to manually end them. Just doesn't work for everyone. A lot of ppl that use good til cancelled, either don't have many listings or are huge anchor stores.

div_style · ‎02-28-2019

Nearly all my listings are GTC anyway so it won't make any difference to me. For folks who rotate listings in and out, that is a problem.

What I see is the worst problem is when eBay offers "100 free listings" and sellers forget to end them before they roll over, creating $Millions for eBay and disgusting millions of sellers who got hit with unexpected fees. I think eBay not only knows this will happen, they are COUNTING on it.

List more, sell more. Goodwill that other, uh, stuff.

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kim_y_buran · ‎02-28-2019

xray731 · ‎03-01-2019

@gamersbaystore wrote:
The problem with GTC is that you can't schedule anything. I don't want 50 items being relisted all at one time, and ebay is a moron for forcing this stupidity on its sellers to begin with. Taking control away from sellers isn't going to help them to make more sales.

I usually relist a few games at a time every few hours after the listings end. Now I'm going to have 50 listings at a time being dumped out in short time frame, which makes no logical sense at all. Then again, ebay executives apparently have no logic to begin with.

I can make a sure bet this is going to backfire on ebay big time. Either way, constant change isn't a good thing, and ebay needs to stop trying to reinvent the wheel over and over again.

Google is a clear example of what happens when you don't listen to those who use your platforms and make constant unnecessary changes. Google is now closing its 2nd largest social network Google+ in a matter of weeks, and its the result of Google constantly changing the platform without considering how those changes will affect users. ebay is heading in the same direction.

That has been around since 2011 and I'd never heard of google plus - great concept but it obviously didn't attract a lot of people.