mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
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@sunshineroad wrote:I am pretty sure that I know the answer to this, but hope I'm wrong. Is there any way to indicate that I don't want Ebay to automatically relist my auctions? I believe that Ebay is doing this to increase fees from listing over the allowed number of free listings. I am now cancelling my listings ahead of the time that they are due to relist. Sometimes I do this when I have someone watching my listing, so possibility causing me to miss a sale. But, at least, I still have some control over my BIN's.
I know your title says your question is about GTC listings, but your first question is about auctions.
On Ebay there are now only two types of listings. Auctions or GTC.
Auctions can be relisted automatically if you check the box during set up to allow for this function. But it isn't something you have to do. Be careful if you are using the QLT [quick list tool] as it can sometimes do things to your listing and not give you the option to change it. The ALF [advanced listing form] gives you your options and I personally like it much better.
If you spend a little time looking at the 100's of threads that have happened regarding the March 18th change to fixed price listings all now being GTC, you would find that the vast majority of the sellers that are having difficulty with this change, for whatever reasons they may have, are sellers that do not currently pay any listing fees. The purposely stay within their monthly allotment of free listings, so no fees are paid to Ebay.
If a seller is doing that, then even when their GTCs renew, those sellers still will not be paying any listing fees. So in reality, most sellers would be just fine in regards to paying or not paying additional fees.
Where it gets more complicated for many sellers is for those that like to rotate their stock from month to month. The GTC rule makes this rather complicated to do moving forward.
You still have control over your listings. Just in a different way than you are use to. If you need a few more listings to work with each month so that you are comfortable in allowing your listings to stay until sold, you might consider a Starter Store. You gain another 50 free listings and the cost is only 4.95 per month. Just a thought to consider.
My brother lists on his phone and this listing form automatically relists auctions 8 times in a row. I saw the check box on my desktop using the advanced listing form.
@eleeper-half wrote:Your auctions don't automatically relist; your GTC listings do. What has changed is that there are no longer any 30-day auctions; anything longer than 10 days is a GTC.
There has never been auctions for up to 30 days. The max has always been 10 days.
We now have two types of listings Auctions which can, as they always have been, ran for 3, 7 or 10 days. And Fixed Price listings that can ONLY be ran as GTC.
And YES auctions CAN auto relist for up to 8 times if the seller is using the QLT.
From the rules.
Auction style listings:
- If you're using the quick listing tool:
- Automatic relisting is selected by default
- Auctions with a duration of 5 days or more will be automatically relisted up to 8 times
- Auctions with a duration of 1 or 3 days may be relisted up to 8 times as a 7-day listing
- If you're using the advanced listing form to create an auction with a duration of 5 days or more:
- You can choose to automatically relist the item by checking the Automatically relist this item up to 8 times if it doesn't sell box.
Automatic relisting is available in most categories, but there are some exclusions (see below). If your item doesn't sell after 8 relists, it will appear in your unsold items.
We charge an insertion fee (or count it as a zero insertion fee listing) for the original auction-style listing. If you're a non-business seller, the automatic relists are free. If you're selling on eBay as a business, we charge an insertion fee (or count it as a zero insertion fee listing ) each time the item is relisted.
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/creating-managing-listings/relisting-items?id=4147
@ms.rodriguez* wrote:
I don’t feel sorry for the watchers. Many are sellers too and most likely want to list the same item. This is what I do . Then when I decide to list, I , more or less the title and the category.
I don't thing "feeling sorry" for watchers is the correct outlook. You have no idea how many are actual potential customers or competitors watching the listing. Just because they are a seller doesn't mean they are a competitor. I buy stuff on Ebay all the time and I watch listings all the time. It helps me compare and decide which item I want.
You can close a listing whenever you want. But instead of doing a Sell Similar when you want to bring it back up on listings with watchers when it closed, try Relist instead. On the first time you do that from a listing, the watchers will get notified that the item is listed again. That may or may not get you a sale, but it very well could.
