Not being able to specify the duration of a listing using BIN

[quattrosjs]

Hey Ebay, you're charging me a whopping 10% commission for selling my item.  Now you have disabled the ability to specify a duration for a BIN item and set them all to no expiry date.  This does nothing but remove any incentive for a buyer to act on your item and just causes people to watch and forget.  We need to be able to put a time limit like we used to be able to 5, 7, 10, 30 days, whatever, to give buyers and incentive to make firm decisions.  If you are charging me that high of a commission, you need to provide us with the flexibility to list items according to how we want them sold.  Removing the duration of listings and making everything "available until cancelled" is not an incentive to help us sell our items.

[buyselljack2016]

GTC on fixed price started in March.

Only answer to the urgency issue is to do auctions.

[mrdutch1001]

I agree.  GTC should never have been made mandatory for fixed price listings....which is why I have now gone to using auction format despite the fact most of the categories I list in do not lend themselves well to auction format. However, auction format is the only way I can list items for the duration that works best for me and my items.

[mam98031]

Ebay isn't going to change their decision regarding making all FP listings GTC.  So it is something everyone needs to learn to deal with.

Buyer's not feeling an urgency to purchase isn't necessarily true.  Depending on the quantity available on the listing can influence that feeling.  Buyers know that other members can see the listing and may choose to purchase it.  Especially on listings with a single quantity or just a couple.  So keep your inventory stated on your listings low.  That may help you to move them quicker.  

If you go into your site preferences and set the inventory setting for OOS listings.  YOu will be able to go in and add quantity to a sold out listings so it retains its sales history which helps you in search returns.

[buyselljack2016]

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@mam98031 wrote:

Ebay isn't going to change their decision regarding making all FP listings GTC.  So it is something everyone needs to learn to deal with.

Buyer's not feeling an urgency to purchase isn't necessarily true.  Depending on the quantity available on the listing can influence that feeling.  Buyers know that other members can see the listing and may choose to purchase it.  Especially on listings with a single quantity or just a couple.  So keep your inventory stated on your listings low.  That may help you to move them quicker.  

If you go into your site preferences and set the inventory setting for OOS listings.  YOu will be able to go in and add quantity to a sold out listings so it retains its sales history which helps you in search returns.

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Good advice.  I do that with some of my items. Not sure if it has helped, but I like to think it has. 

Unless their concern is on another account, by the # of listings, past/present, it does not seem that the seller would run into any problem of running out of free listings by doing the listings as auctions (with BIN) to capitalize on the "sense of urgency buyers" that are not seeing an impending end date with GTC  fixed price.

[fashunu4eeuh]

Well put!

[jenimiha]

Just some more of eBay's **bleep**

[7606dennis]

Alas!  Not all items are suitable for sale by auction.  GTC listings for fixed price items does take away much of the urgency in making a buying decision.  Of course, it is pretty much the same as perpetually relisting the same thing at auction over and over again.  Fixed price GTC listings are like putting a price tag on a widget and setting it on a store shelf and hoping it sells before you have to dust it too many times.