Forced Good Till Cancelled listing for the fixed priced items. NO 30 DAYS OPTION ANYMORE

[world_of_car_watches]

Ladies and gentlemens, I present you the latest stupidity from ebay headquarters:

,,Good 'Til Cancelled

To help you sell your item, fixed price listings can only be listed with a Good 'Til Cancelled duration. Listings renew automatically every 30 days, based on the listing terms at that time, until all quantities sell or the listing ends. Each time a listing renews and when an item sells, you’ll be charged applicable fees."

My fellow  ebayers, that's how communism works. They will harm you and they will say it's for your own good and protection. Get it? You can not have a bike accident if we break your legs. That's ebay's direction right now.

I do have a very good reason, why I am not choosing that option, good till cancelled. A logical, objective and very useful reason.

Very frustrating and humiliating. Do you remember the decision from last year,  when you couldn't start the promotion sales? Well, this falls in the same category of stupidity. What was very sad and disgusting was the fact that they didn't even had the dignity to admit the huge mistake, after 2-3 months, when the sales went down and they have started to loose a lot of money, they have revert the change and came up with a lame announcement ,,We heard your feedback and we understand the enforcement was a challenge for sellers providing value to our customers." That's total **bleep** in your face, they actually lost a lot of money, that's why they change it back. If I, as a seller, have lost money, ebay also did. PERIOD

Another frustrating thing, is that I feel like a lab rat, being experimented on.

Will call customer service later and see what can be done, IF it can be done. I have zero hopes since that's how communism works, their is no options, you just have to obey ....

Best regards,

Flo

[mr_lincoln]

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@eleeper-half wrote:

"I WILL NOT be paying eBay any fees for double Relisted items in the same month ... AVOID listing anything before the middle to latter part of any month ... that will push a double relisting month out over a year, plenty of time to eventually Cancel items if need be."

Just wanted to make sure people saw this note.  eBay needs to decide if it's working on a 30-day cycle or a calendar month cycle.

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eBay if nothing else is calculating in decisions of the GTC nature.  I am not sure exactly when GTC first came out but I am confident eBay has tracked every single fee that occurred because of the 30 day Auto Relist of GTC and larger Sellers who would inadvertently have many listings bet Relisted twice in a 31 day month ... after all, the Julian calendar we use today has 7 months with 31 days.  So, the bean counters realized that with "X" number of GTC listings they are making "Y" in fees ... so if the force all Sellers in to GTC they know about how much they will make and more importantly, when.  Those of us who worked out the math of either 365 or 366 (leap year) days of the year with a 30 day dividend will know what days of each month will yield a double Relisting month in the near term or way out in the future.  As that knowledge catches on eBay will be faced with very few items being listed at the beginning of each month and more towards the end.  They will realize they can not maintain the income from the fees they hoped would fuel their future ...

Part and parcel to GTC is the upcoming Managed Payments which will further alienate their US Seller base.  What I think has been slowly happening over the years is that their core business, US Sellers, has been chipped away at and rather then make decisions to benefit their own countrymen and women they are looking to a global market to expand ... when in fact, the US is still THE economy other countries want to get in to.  Do you really think US Buyers are going to flock to Buy things from the far reaches of the world, not knowing if those people signing up to Sell are legitimate or just trying to scam $$ out of the fatter US economy.  Are the world's computer hackers base primarily in the US?  I would venture to say no ... they are outside the US trying to hack in to here ...

[lindyslostandfound]

Read through these comments and cannot agree more. I have been gone for a while and not back to selling. I have sold on and off for years, not just on the name I have now. I was a bit surprised to see how this is done now. GREED is the key to everything now. Sad. I don't like the free shipping stuff with Buy it Now either. They pop up a "Fast and Free" and you can't change that, but that has caused a lot of trouble for some sellers too with scammers because the buyer is supposed to GET it in 4 days. No one can guarantee that. I changed all mine to just Buy it Now. I think I will just be doing auctions from here out for the most part. I haven't listed much YET, but I plan on listing a lot. I will have to watch any of the forced "Good till it's Cancelled" **bleep** for now. It is good if you have under the amount you are allowed. NOT good otherwise. I will go over it and then I will stop using it, unless I figure out a system to avoid listing the less expensive items. WE SELLERS ARE DOING THIS TO GET MONEY, NOT TO LOSE IT. eBay better figure out it's the SELLERS that make their business. No sellers, no buyers, no business. I'm a low seller at this time, but if I do what I want in the next year, I will be a larger seller. I wish I know other sites to test selling on and see if there is something else. I will be trying Etsy with some things I will be selling because they will sell for a higher price. I just don't know if Etsy is a pain too. Good luck to all here. I think we all need it with GREED AND POWER TRYING TO TAKE OVER EVERYTHING NOW, INCLUDING CERTAIN GOVERNMENTS.