eBay

albany_sellers · ‎03-18-2019

Truly, I appreciate how well you listened to the overwhelming feedback from the overwhelming amount of sellers who asked you to axe the good til canceled idea. I particularly like how you guys tried to frame it in a way to make it look like it's for our benefit.

Don't bother sending out those surveys anymore if you are going to just delete them without even reading them. It's obvious you do not care what your sellers think. Enjoy the extra money from the people who don't realize their listings are auto renewing, at least until they get mad about it and never sell on eBay again.

krys888 · ‎03-25-2019

@skeebj9b9d Unfortunately, rules of the board don’t allow anyone to answer your question, but I’ve learned there are options. I’m not sure why @weschurch chose to be so judgmental in response to a logical question (believe me, I felt your pain on 3/18 when I went to relist), so I’ll share where I’m at a week later: I, not ebay, earned 100% positive, so I am going to take that same entrepreneurial spirit and passion, you have it too I think, and ... I built it once, I can built again somewhere else. I wasn’t in a position in July to make the leap and had to adjust, but now I can. So, if you’re not ready, adjust and POSITION yourself in an exit strategy mode, so when the right time or another opportunity presents itself, you’ll be ready and you’ll recognize it. I have learned this week that ebay did what they did deliberately and me being upset doesn’t matter to them. Nothing I can do about it, but I don’t have to play along anymore.

castlemagicmemories · ‎03-25-2019

My guess tons of incentives to bring sellers back. Oh that would be the day

And that's why companies have customer retention departments. It is easier to retain a customer than attract a new one to take their place, and attracting that new customer will cost money as well.

tcscollectibles1 · ‎03-27-2019

Wrong...by auto relist they are forceing you to manually stop it or get charged...How many millions have they made on unwanted relists...those with hundreds of listings will not have time or remember to end it. And Ebay offers no multiple item ending mechanism...and yes when you end it early...it never reaches the top of the page...

flo_mingo · ‎04-02-2019

t beneficial to me.

The solution is to keep the options for 30-day fixed price and GTC.

this is all I am asking for too.

weschurch · ‎04-02-2019

@flo_mingo wrote:
t beneficial to me.

The solution is to keep the options for 30-day fixed price and GTC.
this is all I am asking for too.

If it was truly about moving items they would have left it optional and let Sellers decide. By forcing it there is NO OTHER WAY to take it as a money grab. I've yet to here a legit argument as to why MANDATING it was required

bohoblisslifestyles · ‎04-02-2019

bohoblisslifestyles · ‎04-02-2019

Hello eBay,

I would really appreciate someone from eBay breaking it down for me in elementary, "eBay for Dummies" terms as I am having a hard time understanding the concept of why ANYONE perusing the pages of eBay for various items has ANY impetus to jump on purchasing an item that is just lingering on here for months on end, with no apparent "end date" to give them that last little push to hit the "Buy It Now" button. Why rush when they can just click Watch, see if it ever goes down in price, while looking at all the other items with absolutely no time crunch to worry about. I don't get it, but I'm not a super seller. I think maybe it works for some types of things sold on here, but not for EVERYTHING. Since the start of this whole forced GTC thing, I haven't seen one sale. I'm just letting things die off, and focusing my selling on other online platforms. I used to list 40-50 items a week on here and made decent sales. I know eBay isn't really known for being a good platform for real handcrafted things, but believe it or not I had it pretty good on here for a very long time selling ACTUAL HANDMADE items, not things made overseas by the thousands on machines that are allowed to be categorized on here as "Handmade" (that's a whole other trend you guys really need to reverse- totally unfair to the small-time, actual handmade-item sellers on here). Now not only do I have to contend with gigantor companies out of China peddling mass-produced items as "handmade" for ten times less than what I can sell them at, I have to deal with the fact that people now have absolutely zero push to buy in a timely manner, which, correct me if I'm wrong, did seem to have an impact on sales.

Sorry to be so dense, please enlighten me to what I'm missing here. Or is it just that you'd like the little guys to just die off, as so many people theorize on here.

ebbrat · ‎04-02-2019

Just had my husband end all his fixed price listings. I know he'd forget to end them. He already got hit with an auto-relist of an auction item - grrrr. It used to be so easy and simple to sell here. Now it's **bleep**, spending time navigating hidden landmines that will hurt you. The traffic is stagnant too compared to when I sold full-time 18 years ago - the site was a bustle of activity. Now listings sit there and die. Was really hoping some other venue would fill the void and blow them out of the water - but no. All we have as an auction venue is this. And "this" ain't good.

weschurch · ‎04-02-2019

@ebbrat wrote:
Just had my husband end all his fixed price listings. I know he'd forget to end them. He already got hit with an auto-relist of an auction item - grrrr. It used to be so easy and simple to sell here. Now it's **bleep**, spending time navigating hidden landmines that will hurt you. The traffic is stagnant too compared to when I sold full-time 18 years ago - the site was a bustle of activity. Now listings sit there and die. Was really hoping some other venue would fill the void and blow them out of the water - but no. All we have as an auction venue is this. And "this" ain't good.

It reminds me of going to my local mall. Growing up I'd spend days there in the arcade, hanging out with friends, etc. Now its a dilapidated ghost town with like 2 stores and no traffic. Pretty sad