Yup, you may be on to something there. They can keep their new advanced promotions campaigns, it's just another way to syphon more money out of the sellers sales. I couldn't care less about that anyway when I search for things because I always search by newly listed or lowest price first, so best match I could not care less about. People will find your items without paying eBay to put them at the top of the heap.
The promotions thing to me is kinda a joke anyway. Like sometimes I list something and put a 3% promotion rate when it's suggesting maybe 9% (and I think that's all a scam too, they can suggest anything they want, ain't gonna work on me) and like a day later only 4 people have looked at it. So just for my own info, I'll up the promotion rate to 9%, the suggested rate and wait a few days to see if it does get me any more views. Yeah right, like 3 days later, I'm up to a whopping 9 views. Then I just lower it again. Which now that I just said that, I don't know why I even bother with 3% or promoting it at all lol
I think they took away some of the collectibles categories (for like animation cartoon character by franchise)... and now try to suggest you put those things in the toys and hobbies category (like my little pony, smurfs, etc) because the collectibles category has free gallery images, and the toy and hobbies category is $1 to check off that box. Sorry, but I'll just do without, I'm never paying that $1 fee. Maybe if you sell expensive items it might be worth it, but I sell cheap stuff here because it's way too risky for me to list an expensive item and have eBay allow some loser to scam me.
