I hope the new CEO gets rid of GTC and goes back to 30 day listings!

[drusalina]

I really wish the new CEO gets rid of GTC and goes back to 3, 7, 10 and 30 day listings.  Some of us had more sales with it.  I know there are some who like it, but I wish that we had a choice again.

[hollysfinds]

Yes, imagine that, having a choice !

If I wanted to use GTC I would.

Let sellers decide how to best move their inventory.

The point is to get things sold..... right ?

[sg51]

The new CEO can be expected to pursue maximum profit.

That may or may not be correlated with seller wishes.

[zylor4200]

I highly doubt that ebay will get rid of that. In fact 3-10 day listings are near worthless and a waste of money because that only gives any potential buyers a very small window to find and see your items. You receive the most for your money with 30 day fixed price listings. As a seller I almost never resort to auction format and as a buyer I completely avoid auction listings. Who wants to spend their time battling with other bidders when you can always find the same or similar item at fixed price and purchase immediately?

[this*old*attic]

Sure the shorter duration listings sold more - they gamed the system and got multiple, repeated ending soonest and newly listed exposures at the expense of longer duration listings.

And buyers who searched that way saw the same stuff day after day, got bored and looked elsewhere.

[southern*sweet*tea]

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@this*old*attic wrote:

Sure the shorter duration listings sold more - they gamed the system and got multiple, repeated ending soonest and newly listed exposures at the expense of longer duration listings.

And buyers who searched that way saw the same stuff day after day, got bored and looked elsewhere.

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^^^THIS^^^

Speaking as a buyer, it is sooooo much better now when looking for stuff. I'm not constantly assaulted by the same tired "new" relists over and over again. If I didn't buy it the first 50 times I saw it, I'm not going to buy it. NEW LISTINGS should be just that - new to the site listings, not stale, tired relists.  If anything IS brought back, it should be the thirty day, not the short duration.

[sg51]

Speaking as a buyer,

If buyers are happy, ebay is making a profit.

That's not as biased against sellers as it might seem. Rather, if buyers are happy, sellers are also making a profit.  

I'm predicting that ebay thinks like that when they create listing rules. How can we keep stuff moving.

Well, they probably also give a moment's thought to the idea of "what if sellers were to forget and end up paying a listing fee for a GTC?", concluding that they wouldn't actually lose sellers over that, because after all, it is in seller's control.

Now if that trap resulted in a loss of sellers, and thus a loss of happy buyers, they might change the rules. But we can expect that they will be driven by actual results, as compared to complaints by sellers.

[chapeau-noir]

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@this*old*attic wrote:

Sure the shorter duration listings sold more - they gamed the system and got multiple, repeated ending soonest and newly listed exposures at the expense of longer duration listings.

And buyers who searched that way saw the same stuff day after day, got bored and looked elsewhere.

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Shorter durations also never 'gamed' the system - that was simply how the system worked, but by the same token, if shorter durations actually 'sold more' I doubt ebay would have pushed through the GTC mandate. The site operates on massive amounts of data and no matter what they say, their single mission is shareholder value - it doesn't matter of Joe or Jane happened to sell a few more widgets with short durations if the site as a whole doesn't.

[jda02121]

Not sure what your issue is. GTC defaults to 30 days. On day 29 go into your dashboard and delete any that remain. Takes about two minutes. EBay rarely goes backwards. We just need to adapt.

[sg51]

On day 29 go into your dashboard and delete any that remain. 

Until you forget.  A bit like paying the credit card every month to avoid fees.  They know that most people will forget once in ten years, and some people will forget once a year.

[m60driver]

I am more interested to see if they look at the data over the past month or so to see if the 50,000 free listings, basically unlimited free listings to most sellers, brought in more revenue to Ebay through final value fees than monthly store fees.

[adkhighker]

I hope he brings back the classic shipping label page.

[evry1nositswindy]

Not get rid of GTC, but give us a choice.  I would also like a choice with how to use my 500 store listings.  Now it is 250 GTC + 250 auctions in certain collectible categories. Make is 500 fixed price and auctions, no category limit.   

[southern*sweet*tea]

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@evry1nositswindy wrote:

Not get rid of GTC, but give us a choice.  I would also like a choice with how to use my 500 store listings.  Now it is 250 GTC + 250 auctions in certain collectible categories. Make is 500 fixed price and auctions, no category limit.   

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YES!

[njrtsr]

So sellers can go back to spamming the same listings over and over again hoping to fool buyers into thinking their items are fresh to the market? Too many people abused 30 day listings and now as a consequence they're gone.