Regards,
@driveinboi wrote:
I didn't get that offer... I wish I did! I have about 900 items that sell for 2$ or less and it doesn't make sense for me to pay 30 cents to list them... everyone loses without the free listing offerings.
Don't take this the wrong way but I would love nothing more than to be able to give away free unused listings rather than have them not be used. I just simply don't have that many things to list ... I think I may have used right around 75 of the 1000 ... I would actually prefer a Promo that would give me 100 Free listing per month and allow those to be relisted as many times as I want (I prefer Auction style NOT 30 FP) ... I would simply put them up on 7 day auctions and repeat it every Sunday of the month ... so if after week ! I sell 10 items then I would left with 90 for the next week ... and if 15 of those sold then i would be down to 75 and so on until they run out for that month.
@driveinboi wrote:I think eBay is making a big mistake by not giving the 1000 free listings recently. I hope they offer it soon. I have abvout 900 unlisted items that will go over the 60 day unsold mark soon. I mostly sell matchbook covers at 1.69 - 1.99 each. A 30 cent listing fee would just not work here as I sell the matchbook covers but can't make any profit off them if I pay a 30 cent fee. I DO sell the matchbook covers consistantly however sometimes I must re-list them all over several months before the right person buys it... I would cost me 270$ a month to re-list these matchbook covers and I would probably sell less than 100 dollars of them per month. Maybe I should go elsewhere and try to sell them if eBay decides not to offer free listings. I'm very frustrated with the selling situations on eBay right now. it only makes sense to sell more expensive items. If I sold 40 dollars of matchbook covers a month, eBay got something for me selling them. Now that i'm not listing them, eBay gets NOTHING. How is this good business? Ebay is letting the door open for other auction sites to pick up the slack. I'm even noticing less things that I collect being listed on eBay by other sellers are not being listed because of these new policies. it makes more sense for my listings to expire despite all the work I put into them than pay 270$ a month to relist everything. Everyone loses without the free listing offers. Wake up eBay!
Yes, I looked at your listings and noticed there were less than what about 30 active today? ... about the only thing I might suggest is trying to find a few higher dollar items to sell ... while you do great with the matchbook covers they are a low dollar seller so to your point, "cost to list" exceeds "profit to sell". Not sure where you live but you could google estateauctions.org which would help lead you to local online estate auctions. You might see some things on those that you can research on eBay and other online sites to get a feel for what they are selling for then deterime the most you would pay and then try to win some of those. And a lot of those items are NOT junk, believe me. Again, you would be looking for items you can sell between $ 50.00 and $ 100.00 and have maybe 5 or more of those per month. Just one of those would give you some extra $$ for the other part of your business. Something to think about ... it takes you just as long to photgraph, create a listing, sell, pack and ship a $ 2.00 item as it does say a $ 50.00 item ... well, maybe the $ 50.00 item takes a little longer to pack but the point is YOUR time is certainly worth the higher dollar amount.
@ymeagainlord wrote:
As I've said before, given the increase in free (not really) store listing insertions I doubt they're going to be handing out too many free listing promos to those who don't wish to pay to play.
Just my opinion of course.
I opened a Store May 1 and got a Promo for 100 Free Auction Style listings mid-June. My wife is on the 50 per month entry level and just got the 500 listing Promo for a penny each.
@ikolekt2, @classic-diecast, @perpetualpieces, @clarkkant13
Wow, this is an old thread, just celebrated its one year anniversary over the weekend. However, it again is relevant. We have three accounts here, one store and two on the Everday Rate plan. While the published distribution process for Promotions is stated to be "random" there has to be some kind of an algorithm the places Everday Rate plan members higher on the list than stores. The two accounts here on the Everday rate plan have gotten promos more often (by a lot) than the account with the store. I understand the psychology, once an account has several hundred listings up BUT only 50 freebies per month they get stuck after the promo listings run out ... lots to sell but forced to pay listing fees if they want everything put back up live to sell again OR forced to consider opening a store OR forced to do some creeative rotation of listings so older ones don't drop off the Unsold file. I veiw this as "targeted" promo distribution opposed to "random".
