02-26-2019 02:46 PM
Obviously the GTC listing requirement is a **bleep** play by eBay to farm listing fees from people who are too busy or who have too many listings to keep up with managing every individual listing.
I'll miss the ability to see what is and isn't selling, make adjustments to the listing before relisting, and using "sell similar" to refresh the listing in search results.
So, there's gotta be a way to avoid this issue. Most obvious thing would be to list at the same time every day or every week, and just end them before they're about to renew. But that gets problematic the first time you're running late or miss a day or what have you. So, anyone else got any bright ideas about how to keep eBay from screwing us yet again?
02-26-2019 02:52 PM
Use Variation listings within your 50 free, like the Chinese Sellers do. They are a pain to set up. And when they relist, if you have sold any of the items within the listing you have to go in and set that item to how many you have left. Otherwise it will relist with the original amount of each item. They have to be in the same category.
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/creating-managing-listings/creating-listings-variations?i...
02-26-2019 03:02 PM
My strategy will be to end most of my listings on ebay. There are only a small percentage of the buyers who used to be here, and most of the honest ones who are left aren't buying much here. Ebay will give your items away, and make you pay to have a rock shipped back to you. They'll put best offer, and I'm guessing anything else they choose in your listings.
It just isn't worth it anymore. It used to be fun, now it's exactly the opposite of fun.
02-26-2019 03:46 PM
If a seller is using free listings and then ends them on Day 29, doesn't anyone think ebay will eventually impose a penalty on that practice?
02-26-2019 03:49 PM
Griff said on the podcast that there is no problem in ending GTC listings early......
02-26-2019 03:55 PM
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02-26-2019 03:58 PM
Not a problem until you're dealing with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of listings. I shouldn't have to go through and micromanage listings to make sure that I manually end each individual listing at exactly the right time. If I end them early, I'm not getting the full time that I paid for. If I let them run, they don't get the edits they need and continue to drop in search results. The issue is that they had a system that worked and are getting rid of it in favor of one that will line their own pockets with listing fees.
02-26-2019 03:58 PM
Unfortunately, walking away isn't an option for a lot of us.
02-26-2019 03:59 PM
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02-26-2019 04:06 PM
Why not try 10 day duration auctions with best offer added?
02-26-2019 04:07 PM - edited 02-26-2019 04:08 PM
@dhbookds wrote:Griff said on the podcast that there is no problem in ending GTC listings early......
What podcast? When?
I firmly believe ebay will not allow sellers to end free listings, wait two days, and relist/sell similar for free again. If this workaround hasn't occurred to ebay (duh, probably not) then ebay will catch on quickly.
There's going to be a hitch in that end-on-day-29 giddyup...
02-26-2019 04:08 PM
I've had things listed on both sites there... never got a single sale. Unfortunately, eBay remains pretty much the only competitor in my category.
Certainly wasn't trying to suggest that anyone was the enemy, except maybe eBay. We're all in this together against the Monopoly Man as far as I'm concerned.
02-26-2019 04:09 PM
Agreed. I don’t make this decision lightly and am sad to part from a platform I’ve been with since 1999. I moved my expensive jewelry to Pmark in January after I had eBay give away some of my expensive pieces to scammers. Sales have been great, it’s still work and not perfect. I was going to leave all my other inventory on eBay. Now eBay is just a headache. They have forgotten I AM A CUSTOMER TOO.