Ebay has had some pretty bad ideas over the years, but this one really plumbs the depths. As so many have said, controlling and rotating inventory is a key selling tool and they're trying to take it away from us. One of their 'justifications' is that 80% of fixed price listings are GTC already - but a much more relevant statistic would be the percentage of sellers using GTC. No doubt small sellers without a store and a handful of slow moving items - and at the other end of the scale, the big corporate sellers with a warehouse full of items. And we're caught in the middle. I have a number of items I rotate through before they fall off my unsold items list, chances of a sale are limited but when one does sell the buyer is overjoyed to have found it - now ebay is basically telling me that I need to throw those items away and load up the local landfill, and stick to listing items more likely to sell. That way their fee income is higher, and with luck I'll not be micro-managing my fixed price listings and end up giving them more undeserved fees.
I'm sure ebay will also say that they haven't heard much negative feedback on the issue - tried calling and gave up on the 'four to seven minutes' wait once it hit fifty minutes.....
