eBay

thebeernuts · ‎03-31-2019

Wow! 1 month into the good 'til cancelled auto renewal... Sales dropped 41% from last month, and now I am stuck with things I did not want to re-list in that format. Ebay is so busy lining their pockets with all those quarters... hey, they forgot about the final value fees they would have been collecting from me if I sold stuff.

Hey Ebay... YOU ARE NOT AMAZON. YOU WILL NEVER BE AMAZON.

Do not try to compete with Amazon your business model is different. Embrace the sellers, for they are what makes your marketplace. SELLERS would like to decide if, what, when, and how long to list their merchandise.

Policies like the "Good 'til cancelled" policy are wrong, horrible, and a completely transparent attempt to steal money from your seller base.

Want more money for your shareholders?

Treat your sellers better, then you will have MORE happy sellers, more and better items, more final value fees and more profit. Word of mouth goes a long way. At this time I would not recommend Ebay as a sales platform to friends and associates.

oceanviewengineer2015 · ‎03-31-2019

Oh, and I am itching to start ending these listings this month. It will bring me great pleasure to ensure I never give them any fees in this blatant scheme.

lindyslucky · ‎03-31-2019

We need to hold tight and wait.

We haven't gone a month yet.

Early news isn't good on boards, we are waiting until all the FP that had an ending date stop. And we see how it is when all is GTC.

However, I like you, am a buyer.

I don't buy things with no ending date, My perception, I just don't.

Items seem stale when there is no date on the item listing page.

Even if they aren't.

Sellers are buyers. I bought a few things when I first heard of this & for now, I'm finished with buying.

As a seller, we have listings left this month and some things could be relisted.

Are we missing out on sales? Quite possibly.

But, I am going to list all on the same day, mark it on the calendar & be prepared to end.

With small sales, we can't pay another penny of fees, that would be the end of our selling on ebay.

We are more afraid of higher fees than missing out on sales right now.

Yes, might try short auctions, but with the high buy it now vs low starting price decision, it's not a good option.

Auctions haven't worked well for a few years & we sold some things for too low a price.

Lesson learned there.

We will see, but I am not optimistic.

kensgiftshop · ‎03-31-2019

@gracieallen01 wrote:
Hmmmm, I thought I had read that 30 day FP listings would be auto converted when they ended. Wouldn't that mean that they could have ended any time - depending up when they were listed - and have been relisted as GTC, irregardless of when GTC became mandatory? Perhaps, even relisted as GTC the day after GTC became mandatory?

The old 30 day listings, would end like they always have.

They don't change to GTC until you relist them.

Have a great day.

gracieallen01 · ‎03-31-2019

@kensgiftshop wrote:
The old 30 day listings, would end like they always have.
They don't change to GTC until you relist them.

Thank you.

Not saying 'NO' doesn't mean 'YES'.

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srvosh · ‎03-31-2019

I agree with everything said. I have sold on Ebay for 15 years, have had a store for a few years, and as of this month, I have to rethink everything. I closed my store, and now instead of listing over 300 items per month, I am going to have to list less than 50 (before my store, I could at least list 100 items. Not sure when had changed!)

I may stop selling on buying on Ebay if things do not change.

myjunqueyourtreasure · ‎03-31-2019

@gracieallen01 wrote:
Hmmmm, I thought I had read that 30 day FP listings would be auto converted when they ended. Wouldn't that mean that they could have ended any time - depending up when they were listed - and have been relisted as GTC, irregardless of when GTC became mandatory? Perhaps, even relisted as GTC the day after GTC became mandatory?

I believe they did it that way in the GTC rollout in Australia and decided it wasn't the best way to do it.

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castlemagicmemories · ‎03-31-2019

@oceanviewengineer2015 wrote:
Oh, and I am itching to start ending these listings this month. It will bring me great pleasure to ensure I never give them any fees in this blatant scheme.

If you are using free listings, you would only have fees if the listing was listed twice in one month, which you can avoid by ending it before that if need be, or by listing it in the middle of the month, AFAIK.

@goodluckselling Please confirm. Thank you.

gplates · ‎03-31-2019

Count me IN as One who is Dead Against this!!!!! I'm not a huge seller--- but I sold about $10,000 worth in Jan-Feb---- used to be about one $100 item per day on average. I've watched my sales plummet to a couple hundred bucks in the last two weeks since ebay instituted this change. My Items need 7 & 10 day listings to give potential buyers an push--- a time based Deadline approaching, or it helps when the item is freshly listed. I used to use 7 & 10 Days durations and happily paid the extra 35 cents when my free 50 were used up. This 30 Day GTC policy is killing me!

southern*sweet*tea · ‎03-31-2019

@gracieallen01 wrote:
Hmmmm, I thought I had read that 30 day FP listings would be auto converted when they ended. Wouldn't that mean that they could have ended any time - depending up when they were listed - and have been relisted as GTC, irregardless of when GTC became mandatory? Perhaps, even relisted as GTC the day after GTC became mandatory?

All I ever used was 30 day fixed, and none of those auto converted. They have all ended as usual so far.

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gplates · ‎03-31-2019

Yes.... Seller's are Buyers too. And there is psychology involved. Human nature psychology is that if something is always for sale, there is no rush to buy it. But if the clock is ticking down... that might push you over the edge and buy it. That's what 5, 7 and 10 day listing do--- they help to light a fire under the buyer. And when it's relisted... it's New and Fresh--- so buyers might jump on it then too. I'd rather have my items Fresh, 3-4 month, and Ending 3-4 times per month, than get lost in a Pit of a 30-Day Never Expiring listing. How can eBay not see that??????

yuzuha · ‎03-31-2019

@gplates wrote:
Yes.... Seller's are Buyers too. And there is psychology involved. Human nature psychology is that if something is always for sale, there is no rush to buy it. But if the clock is ticking down... that might push you over the edge and buy it. That's what 5, 7 and 10 day listing do--- they help to light a fire under the buyer. And when it's relisted... it's New and Fresh--- so buyers might jump on it then too. I'd rather have my items Fresh, 3-4 month, and Ending 3-4 times per month, than get lost in a Pit of a 30-Day Never Expiring listing. How can eBay not see that??????

But there is always that knowledge that if YOU don't buy it, someone else might beat you to it and buy it first. That's why I don't believe that short duration listings have much - if any - effect on people's buying. When I see something I want, I buy it right away because I don't want to risk someone else pulling the trigger on it before I do. I've had that happen before-- I saw something in a store and said "oh, I'll come back and get it later," and when I did come back, it was sold out. This is especially true if it's an uncommon item.