How to handle eBay sales within no-alternative GTC listings era? Several questions.

[bulkcover]

The elimination of the 30-days duration fixed price items, builds to seller certain difficulties in managing their stores.

Therefor I do have some questions to the community.
Some things I need to understand clearly about no-alternative GTC (good till cancelled) sales.
Question 1.  If GTC item has been sold (zero items available) does it self-end or transfer into item Out-of-Stock ?

What happens with this OOS (Out-of-Stock) item next?
Am I charged for this "undead" item for every 30 days turn-round floating nowhere, or it stands "free of charge" until I load more item into there?
Question 2. For items GTC is the eBay fee for them charged based on the date of listing, or by first date of certain month? Alias: if I have listed the item on the 20th of march and cancelled it,say, on the 28th of April, am I charged by eBay for it's one cycle (30 days) or two cycles
(complete or incomplete duration of 60 days) ?

Question 3. May I end GTC items in bulk, or need to "kill each undead" individually. depending or not depending if the item is active or out-of-stock?

[eauctionmanagement]

@bulkcover 

I hope this helps!

1. It depends. Out-of-Stock is currently an account-wide setting. If you enable it for your account... then it will be applied to EVERY good til canceled listing you have. At that point, if you have zero items available for any of your GTC listings... they will continue to re-list (and charge you for that re-list) for four months, at which point they will then remove the listing. However, if you do NOT enable OOS on your account, then the GTC listing will end when it reaches a zero quantity.
2. GTC Fees are based on the date of the listing. They last for 30 days and then renew for another 30-day period. If you listed it on the 20th of march and ended it on the 28th of April that would be 39 days... so you would be charged twice for the GTC (two 30-day periods).
3. Yes.... you can end in bulk, but you need a tool to do this well. My plan is to use File Exchange. Ending individually is also an option, but my be too burdensome for many.

[bulkcover]

@eauctionmanagement

OMG! A reply from a real super-veteran of eBay! A reply is worth 1000 others!

I checked my settings and discovered where OOS "is living" and removed this option. So one potential "big headache" is off my head.

The GTC items however are hard to control the date of initial first listing...

Will have to add this date each time I list the item... I do not see the proper control option other way...

Will try bulk ending of GTC's with this new reality of March, 2019

[pjcdn2005]

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@bulkcover wrote:

The elimination of the 30-days duration fixed price items, builds to seller certain difficulties in managing their stores.

Therefor I do have some questions to the community.
Some things I need to understand clearly about no-alternative GTC (good till cancelled) sales.
Question 1.  If GTC item has been sold (zero items available) does it self-end or transfer into item Out-of-Stock ?

It would only be out of stock if you have the out of stock option checked off in your preferences. If you aren't using that option, the listing would end.

What happens with this OOS (Out-of-Stock) item next?
Am I charged for this "undead" item for every 30 days turn-round floating nowhere, or it stands "free of charge" until I load more item into there?

That was answered by an ebay rep (Trinton?) in another thread. I believe that he said you would not be charged when it renewed if the item was OOS. Once it was OOS for 3 months, it would automatically end. I'll try to find that thread to confirm that I remember correctly.

Question 2. For items GTC is the eBay fee for them charged based on the date of listing, or by first date of certain month? Alias: if I have listed the item on the 20th of march and cancelled it,say, on the 28th of April, am I charged by eBay for it's one cycle (30 days) or two cycles
(complete or incomplete duration of 60 days) ?

It would cost as 2 full cycles because the 2nd cycle had already started.  You would have to cancel it on the 29th day if you didn't want it to run another 30 days.

Question 3. May I end GTC items in bulk, or need to "kill each undead" individually. depending or not depending if the item is active or out-of-stock?

You can end them  in bulk regardless of the status.

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[pjcdn2005]

Yes.... you can end in bulk, but you need a tool to do this well. My plan is to use File Exchange. Ending individually is also an option, but my be too burdensome for many.

Shouldn't you be able to use sellers hub to end them? Although I probably wouldn't try ending 100's at one time.

[bulkcover]

so to come to the next procedure...

If I have cancelled the GTC item, does it stand stored at eBay managing program and might be re-listed again when considered necessary or disappears after gets cancelled?

[buyselljack2016]

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@pjcdn2005 wrote:

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@bulkcover wrote:

What happens with this OOS (Out-of-Stock) item next?
Am I charged for this "undead" item for every 30 days turn-round floating nowhere, or it stands "free of charge" until I load more item into there?

That was answered by an ebay rep (Trinton?) in another thread. I believe that he said you would not be charged when it renewed if the item was OOS. Once it was OOS for 3 months, it would automatically end. I'll try to find that thread to confirm that I remember correctly.

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You will be charged for a "0" quantity GTC OOS relist.  What will happen is if it remains "0" quantity for the entire 30 day period you will get a future invoice credit. (credit for paid fees, not for free listings) Per reply by Trinton on an earlier thread.

[pjcdn2005]

For those who do want to use out of stock here is the post from Trinton@ebay that I was referring to.

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Weekly-Chat-with-eBay-Staff/Community-Chat-March-13-1-00-pm-PT-General...

Post 93

While the Out Of Stock feature is set at the account level and cannot be adjusted per listing, any listing that remains Out Of Stock for a full billing cycle would have any associated fees credited and after three consecutive billing cycles with no stock updates, the listing would be ended. There shouldn't be a need to manually review this for most sellers, as the listings would not be visible in search results when they have 0 stock, any fees would be credited automatically, and the listing would end after a few months.

[pjcdn2005]

After a listing has ended it is supposed to be available for 90 days.

I think that some sellers use file exchange or a listing service to store them for longer.

[bulkcover]

eBay hub could work, but huge bulk cancel may fail sometimes. Need always to re-check when all is done and if necessary to clean "the tales" after.

[pjcdn2005]

Thanks, that explains it better!