Duration of fixed price change? WHY!!!!!!

[3rdandwestervelt]

I just sat down to list tonight and noticed that ebay has gone and taken away MY choice of a listing time?  According to the rep that i spoke with this is to "HELP" me..  Are they kidding?  It adds so much extra work load for me!  And did anybody notice they didn't even update the help page to include this new ridiculous rule?  SMH  

[missingcord]

ditto , this morning i could set them too 3 day and then after 12 everything i listed as fixed price went to GTS. What is this ? i am not even getting views on those items. why did ebay do this ? If i make less money that means i pay less money to them ? How is this helping the seller ?

[design2k]

No announcement of start date!  Earlier today I was able to choose 30 day interval for fixed price listings, now, around 8pm on the East Coast, only GTC!  This  despite all the sellers' objections!  The extra time spent to handle this unwanted "fix" will only cause most small sellers to have less time to list.  Fewer listings, fewer sales, less traffic on ebay.  

[aubert8787]

Same here!  I was able to select my own around 3pm and now at 9:30pm the choice is gone!  Is there a way to work around this and select our own duration?

[tealt]

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@aubert8787 wrote:

Same here!  I was able to select my own around 3pm and now at 9:30pm the choice is gone!  Is there a way to work around this and select our own duration?

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No workaround. 

Duration choices for fixed price are gone.

As per the Early Spring Seller Update, all fixed price listings are GTC.

[highplainsfilms]

It's simple - ebay greed.  Same thing with the feedback forum that has crept more and more in buyers' favor to the point where sellers have zero ability to call out manipulative buyers.  Same thing with the overnight change a few years ago when ebay started charging 10% on SHIPPING when the day before they had charged no fees on shipping, but the new policy started making them billions immediately while making it extraordinarily difficult for sellers to accurately calculate shipping, particularly for international sales.  Now this - no more 30-day BIN listings.  I wish there was an alternative but alas, ebay is a monopoly and they know they can do this with impunity.  What it means is that sellers - like me - who regularly change prices and re-list each 30-days depending on how things are selling, will not be able to do that easily so eBay will make money from the automatic re-list each 30 days.  Most sellers will not schedule the time to "end" then "re-list" each of their items on a regular interval, while eBay continues to collect listing fees each month.  What's clearly happening is that eBay is no longer making most of their money from sold listing fees, but rather making them from people listing billions of items, many of them probably bogus, and charging a listing fee.  What it means is that the ability to sell an item has gotten worse and worse and anybody who's been selling on eBay for a while would clearly realize this.  So, this is how they stay in the mega-profit business.  Continue to make it harder for sellers by "helping them" in removing listing options.  It's offensive and wrong, but what recourse? Only thing I can think of is that I signed up for an eBay store several years ago because the savings on listing fees were reduced with a store over just paying by the listing given how many listings I had per month.  But, I'm thinking my store contract would be upheld with the options that were there when I signed up - not as they've now been changed on a greedy whim.  Class action lawsuit?   It's one of several I can think of regarding ebay in recent years.  

[highplainsfilms]

they want "less traffic" I'm convinced. There are so many bogus listings where ebay is only making money from the listing fee, they probably have to do something, but I'd say a better option would be more verification of identity, as PayPal did in the end of last year.

[indignation]

With this new system, there's a very real possibility you will end up paying eBay significantly more than the amount you earn or even list an item. I suspect it's an effort on eBay to become a crediting agency...

[aubert8787]

But, of course, the listing fee over 50 items per month will remain in effect?   So that any rollovers you have will accumulate and bump your listing count over 50?  What even constitutes a "month" then?  And when the "free extra listings" promotions happen I can't list more items for fear that they will push me over the limit (unless I make them all auctions)?  I'm not a large scale seller by any means, but now I have to keep track of start dates so that I can end items that aren't moving before they put my count over 50 for that month?  Lawd, who has that kind of time?   It really is frustrating that in just the past 18 months that I have been seriously selling, I have learned the hard way that the seller is often at a disadvantage.   Not to mention the postage hikes.   

Seems like there is a lot of fine print I need to start reading...