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‎06-25-2019 05:59 AM
ANGRY DEPRESSED DISCOURAGED DISAPPOINTED AND BROKE. ALSO, WHAT'S WITH ALL THE NONE PAYING AUCTION BUYERS? ALSO, WHAT'S WITH ALL THE TONS OF RETURN REQUESTS AND THEY'RE NOT REALLY RETURNING? WHAT IS GOING ON???
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‎06-30-2019 12:33 PM
No. One of a kind items have to be promoted or will be way down the HOLE in whatever catagory that they are in.
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‎06-30-2019 02:51 PM
My exact sentiments! Furthermore, I have been thinking about how unfair (if not illegal) it is for GTC to automatically relist items when you have run out of free insertion fee listings. Therefor, this now means eBay is imposing "new" fees without your permission. You cannot opt-out, and your only option is to end those listings early to avoid the fees. The least eBay should do is allow those listings to end and let them go into the "Ended" or "Unsold" folder list.
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‎06-30-2019 03:11 PM
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‎06-30-2019 03:14 PM
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‎07-01-2019 12:41 PM
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‎07-09-2019 11:40 AM - edited ‎07-09-2019 11:41 AM
Someone suggested "relisting as similar" instead of just relisting. Not sure if it will help but worth a try.
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‎07-11-2019 03:52 PM
Then a year ago dropped to about $600.00.
Now I am at 62.50 for the past 30 days. Per ebay I am down 91.00% and I am constantly having to end listings to avoid additional charges. More work for next to no sales.
Reduced prices this past weekend will sell what I can and be done.
Too much work for no return.
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‎07-11-2019 04:34 PM
eBay won't care, if you suddenly quit...they really won't!! I called them a few times in late March/early April, and spent a total of about two hours discussing the dreaded GTC Fiasco, and while they "seemed" sympathetic, there was, of course, nothing they could do about it, except to "take notes", and "pass it along to upper management"...the same old spiel they'd always say. And, when I complained that, due to the GTC, I had only used up 24 of my 250 so-called "free" listings for having an eBay Store, and felt like I was being ripped off, well, you can just imagine that they did NOT like that! So, when I mentioned that I was seriously considering closing my eBay Store, effective April 30th, they pretty much "invited" me to close it. ..So, I did! And, stopped selling on eBay, altogether;...at least, for a while. Ever since my sales had dropped to a piddling two items...TWO...in about seven weeks' time, I figured, why even bother? There's just NO motivation to take pictures, compose ads and post them, anymore, since everyone's listings now seem to be never-ending, and buyers now have absolutely NO 'sense of urgency' to buy, like they used to. Before GTC, when buyers would see my 3-day, buy-it-now listings, they would see that particular listings would be ending soon, and that an item might not be available anymore once it's closed out, and that sense of urgency often motivated them to go ahead and pull the trigger, and buy it. But, not now.. Well, anyway;...on the PLUS side, my flea-Bay fees went from as much as 200 bucks per month (plus the monthly eBay Store fee, of $21.95 per month), down to nothing...nada...zilch, for a couple of months now! ..Ohh, sure, a couple hundred bucks a month won't hurt eBay, but, multiply that by thousands of OTHER sellers' accounts not making them money, due to lack of sales, and you'd think that eBay has GOT to be hurting about now, but;...who knows? Ahh, well..
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‎07-11-2019 05:26 PM
Very Well Said Message.....I Totally Agree...I also think Ebay would be Missing out on Everyone Closing out or Downsizing Stores...but that doesn't seem to be the Case....They may have a Plan...without us Little Sellers that got them where they are....We Little Sellers are the Reason, Ebay is where it is ..to this point....and now there Pushing us Out.....Good Luck to All and Happy Selling!!
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‎07-12-2019 05:32 AM
Yep, it seems like they have really been GOING OUT OF THEIR WAY to find ways to drive the small-time sellers like us, right out of business! Before the GTC, I would usually sell at least 3 or 4 items (vintage watches, specifically, the red LED watches of the mid-70's) per week, and sometimes as many as 3 or 4 in one DAY, at peak times, but ever since March 18th, when the GTC started, that number dropped to just TWO sales in seven weeks, so, I just decided to give it up...it just wasn't worth the effort, anymore...and this, after being on here for over 19 years!
Of course, the GTC isn't the ONLY thing that's been aggravating about eBay, lately;...and, just to name a couple, of the many things...their annoying habit of KEEPING 10% of the shipping fee that you've collected, so that you're ALWAYS losing money, every time you ship a package; and then, there's that SUPREMELY annoying decision they made some time ago, to start posting dozens and dozens of OTHER SELLERS' ITEMS, right within your OWN listings, "similar sponsored items" and "other items you may like", like they're PURPOSELY trying to draw your potential buyers away from YOUR listing, and away from possibly buying YOUR item, and trying to get them to buy somebody ELSE'S item, instead?! What, you don't have ENOUGH competition ALREADY on eBay, and now they're showing your buyers other stuff to buy instead of yours, and right within YOUR own listing, the listing that YOU have paid for?!
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‎07-12-2019 08:03 AM
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‎07-13-2019 11:24 AM
Does it normally get this slow in the Summer Months?
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‎07-14-2019 06:43 AM
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‎07-14-2019 02:29 PM
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‎07-14-2019 02:31 PM
