It seems ridiculous to me that it keeps being suggested that quantities be bulk revised to zero for out of stock, and that it does not take long. When you come back, how long does it take to re-enter the quantities!? If you have one of everything, ok, this may be a viable option. But if you have 1,000 plus listings, with quantities ranging from 1-100+, my memory is not that good, and switching back and forth from some csv sheet would take quite a long time. Time not needed to be spent before, when I could just let things sit ended until I was ready for them to be relisted again.
I've been reading these boards for quite a while. I haven't finished yet, but one thing I haven't seen mentioned that has been something I won't like, is the order things end in when bulk ended. It might just be a quirk of mine, but I like certain items of mine to be clustered together. When they would end, they would end in the order I listed them in. If I bulk end things, I need to end them in these clusters, taking just as long to end as to relist. If I were to bulk end everything, all 1000 listings end up just wherever, me needing to go through 5 pages to find them each time and make sure I don't overlook any, or else I live with not liking the order until next month, a thing to think about fixing all month. With 30 day, they'd end in the order listed, and I'd just go through the order and relist the groups. This way, I have to end in groups, and relist in groups. Double work, double time. Maybe only a few times a year, but kind of takes one of the few benefits of the gtc away for me, the less relisting, by making the whole relisting process way longer.
Idk how it's not an issue for anyone how the gsp is automatically added to every sell similar, which is what makes relisting time also take about 3 times longer for me, having to remove it from each group set, every relist, for years, but that's a whole other idea. I suppose eliminated by this gtc, unless I end and were to sell similar.
What else I'm looking forward to is when in a year, ebay starts doling out the "stale listing" emails. I had never heard of it, using 30 days, and often selling similar, and imagine many others probably didn't either. But if in a year, a bunch of no sale listings just start being ended and disappearing, these boards will be a flame again. I know I'd plan to end everything and relist at least yearly just to not worry about "stale listings" being cleaned off!
If it's possible at all, I don't want to renew my contract. It is a nauseating thing to learn and become accustomed to a process and look forward to it for income, knowing it'll be changed constantly, from things you finally have optimized to work for you. Ebay can do what they like, but I can't imagine many sellers not preferring venues with options.
