mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
You don't start on the seller hub page, you start with the Quick version of the listing form.
Sellers who aren't using Seller Hub can go to their "All selling" page, click on "Sell" and the there will be a link to the "business tool" in the upper-right of the next page.
https://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyEbayBeta&CurrentPage=MyeBayNextAllSelling
@oldcolt45 wrote:I use the advanced listing tool and all of my auctions are now forced to be good till cancelled. When I go to edit it there is no option to change it at all. The area for it is grey. I don't see any way to fix it
Auctions can't ever be GTC listings. Auctions are listings that buyers can bid on. They are not the same thing as a FP [fixed price] GTC listing.
As of March 18th ALL FP listings must be GTC. And you are correct, you can NOT edit the listing duration as there is no other option anymore.
@oldcolt45 wrote:Yeah, thanks. I did a little more digging and found out about that. Ebay with the mishegoss again....
What? You have been a seller for a long time. An auction has always been an auction on Ebay. That has never changed. There has always been two types of listings on Ebay. Auctions and FP. There still are those two types of listings.
Now Ebay has made a change to the duration of an FP listing. There is no longer a choice, they are all GTC.
Auction durations have not changed.
You may have missed this and it is extremely important for all sellers to stay current.
https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/seller-updates/2019-early/index.html#m17-4-tb2
Later next month the Spring Seller Update will be released. You will want to watch your emails for notification of it's release.
@oldcolt45 wrote:
I use the term "auction" generically (it's probably because, yes, I've been on here for like 20 years and in the beginning it was a auction site...for real.)
I mean listings. I noticed my 30 day LISTINGS now are now all good till cancelled. This is a pain...and stupid and looking around I'm not the only person to not have noticed the change.
I get it and I understand, but since the words do have different meanings us old timers have to adjust. LOL
Yes, there are only two types of listings on Ebay as of the 18th of this month. Auctions or GTC. There are not other options.
There is very good reason why Ebay has made this move. While some want to deny it because they are upset by the move, that doesn't change the fact that Ebay has good reason for making this move. There has been real issues for a long time with dead links in internet searches for various products which discourage potential buyers from coming to Ebay. They keep running into dead links when searching in Google, Yahoo, etc. because of 30 day or less FP listings primarily. A potential buyer clicking on too many of those and they will soon just avoid looking at anything Ebay related in their search return.
GTC solves that issue for the most part. Which is why it will take some time before we can see if this move will be as beneficial to sellers as Ebay feels it will be. It takes time for listings to index in the various search engines outside of Ebay and for the older dead links to drop off. So only time will tell how well this will work. It is not something that is going to be immediately evident on its success or failure.
But yes, this is a real issue for those that have not been use to operating this way with GTC listings. With that said, some of the sellers that are having difficulty with this change don't completely understand how to use a GTC or how it may work for them. They need to have the impact of the release of this mandate settle in a bit so they can see past their anger and maybe be able to find a way that this will work for them.
With that said, it just isn't going to work for all sellers. Whether that is because they refuse to consider trying to work within the new policy or because it is just not a format that under any circumstance will work for them. it is a mixture of both.
