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tdebuys · ‎02-01-2019

It's really starting to get irritating to keep getting all these marvelous free listing offers....WHEN ITS FOR MERCHANDISE TYPES I DON'T HAVE AND I HAVE NEVER SOLD. Fashion ? Really? Professional ELECTRONICS Gear offering me a whopping 1,000 free listings....I DON'T HAVE ONE single item I can sell ! If you can't give me something I can use eBay, then YOU have given me nothing.

It just so darn frustrating.... we're on a social security income and the 50 free listings a month mean a lot to us. We appreciate those 50 free listings, because we can't afford to spend 30 cents a listing for our antiques which are now selling at the whopping rate of 5 % of listings at prices where we're not doing anything but getting our money back.... NOW please don't tell me to sell other things.... I DON"T HAVE OTHER THINGS. For us to spend speculative $ to try to buy "Fashion" or "Professional Electronics" to hit a one time selling offer on eBay makes zero sense.

Yes I'm just griping because I really could sure use the 500 or 1000 free listings for "THINGS I HAVE TO SELL" and all eBay is doing is raising my frustration level by offering me listings I can never use. Really eBay I'd rather not get those meaningless offers. Thanks, and sorry to gripe because selling here really helps us make ends meet.

luckythewinner · ‎02-01-2019

@tdebuys wrote:
we're on a social security income and the 50 free listings a month mean a lot to us. We appreciate those 50 free listings, because we can't afford to spend 30 cents a listing for our antiques

Start a second selling account and get another 50 free listings. Repeat as necessary.

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*coins · ‎02-01-2019

At least be happy you get free listing promotions at all...I'm sure you still get the ones for any items still sometimes. 😉

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luckythewinner · ‎02-01-2019

@tdebuys wrote:
we're on a social security income and the 50 free listings a month mean a lot to us. We appreciate those 50 free listings, because we can't afford to spend 30 cents a listing for our antiques

Start a second selling account and get another 50 free listings. Repeat as necessary.

southern*sweet*tea · ‎02-01-2019

To make things totally fair, I think Ebay should stop giving free listings to anyone.

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pooh333piglet · ‎02-01-2019

hahaha

jason_incognito · ‎02-01-2019

the promos aren't for you. they are for eBay.

If they notice listings dropping in a category, or they want to hype a category, they offer these. They want to get more listings in there.

I doubt they ever offer a listing promo just for collectibles. that areas is saturated. Other areas.....

Right now there is a site threatening ebay in clothing and eBay wants to fight that with more clothing listings.

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ripcityresell · ‎02-01-2019

@southern*sweet*tea wrote:
To make things totally fair, I think Ebay should stop giving free listings to anyone.

Completely agree.

ripcityresell · ‎02-01-2019

So, this weekend I am starting this account back up and will be listing my 50 free items. After that, I'm opening a Starter store and will ride that out for another month. Then I'll upgrade to a Basic store and I'll keep that until I have enough items and sales to justify upgrading again.

I don't have time to base my business solely on whether or not i get promos. I'd be leaving too much money on the table. It's not that hard of a concept.

tunicaslot · ‎02-01-2019

The OP is not in the situation you are. They are just trying to unload things they've collected thru the years. They can certainly open another store but I know some people are scared to do that as depending on what you are selling - scammers target the newer sellers with low feedback.

I often get the same outlandish promo and wonder what is Ebay thinking. Since they target everything else around here - it wouldn't be unusual to target sellers who sell in the specific categories or have sold merchandise in those categories in the past to up their listings.

122jetta · ‎02-01-2019

I agree have been on ebay for over 25 years and now they are screwing sellers and the paypaI thing with sellers just saying stuff and we get screwed --- will just wait them out I put all my sales in drafts and when there are free listings put them up let them realize that we may be only 20 % of their business but they know we have been there a long time. amazon and poshmark have contacted me

membersinceaug2001 · ‎02-02-2019

@southern*sweet*tea wrote:
To make things totally fair, I think Ebay should stop giving free listings to anyone.

They should get out of the 90s and stop charging listing fees per item. Just up the ending fee to 20% or so. Jeez they wanna copy Amazon, but they have a flat $40 per month list all you want deal!

Listing fees must be a cash cow for ebay.