Does it matter if I end fixed price listings early?

[birdsflowersanddogs]

I need to get my Ebay inventory down. I am slowly pulling items to donate and a lot to send to a friends yardsale. I guess I am too cheap to do it all at once, it seems less painful if I pull items bit by bit. I am keeping it listed until I see the friend so I am ending items a bit at a time. Does it matter if I end fixed price listings early? I have been ending quite a few.

[emerald40]

Active Fixed price listings can be ended at any time with no penalty.

[ten_o_nine]

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@birdsflowersanddogs wrote:

I need to get my Ebay inventory down. I am slowly pulling items to donate and a lot to send to a friends yardsale. I guess I am too cheap to do it all at once, it seems less painful if I pull items bit by bit. I am keeping it listed until I see the friend so I am ending items a bit at a time. Does it matter if I end fixed price listings early? I have been ending quite a few.

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Yard sales don't bring much, you spent a long time taking pictures and listing, don't mess up all that work for a few bucks. You don't have the right buyers in a yard sale..

[newview]

If you’re going to end listings early, I’d recommend ending those listings that require extra work ... the ones that you are getting the annoying Product Catalog additional info required notifications about. Ebay has already said that not jumping thru those hoops puts your item pretty much deep in the trees, never to be seen.

I not only deleted all mine, just to silence the notifications ... but I posted them elsewhere.

[lightlily_arts]

The only downside I see is that you are allowed X number of listings a month without additional listing fees.  When I have to end a listing early I look for something else I was planning on selling and revise the listing with the newer item so that I don't waste my alloted free listings.

[femmefan1946 · Accepted solution]

Not really.

You don't get any rebate on listing fees- so end as close to the end of the 30 day listing as possible.

Your closed listings go to your Unsold Items List for 60 days in case you change your mind-- or get  whole bunch of Free Listings.

It is the general opinion that the more listings you have the more likely you are to find a customer who browses all your listings for the thing they didn't know they wanted. YMMV.

[lex-talon]

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@birdsflowersanddogs wrote:

I need to get my Ebay inventory down. I am slowly pulling items to donate and a lot to send to a friends yardsale. I guess I am too cheap to do it all at once, it seems less painful if I pull items bit by bit. I am keeping it listed until I see the friend so I am ending items a bit at a time. Does it matter if I end fixed price listings early? I have been ending quite a few.

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Not a bit. If those items are just sitting around month after month, might as well end them. No sense in wasting your listings. You can always replace them with other items later on.

[castlemagicmemories]

No.