QUESTION ON GTC LISTINGS

[sextons-sweet-deals]

So I let a GTC listing renew automatically today since it pertains to Halloween. 

When I do a search for newly listed, it does not show up.

If I do a search for nearest, I see it. 

So, where is my listing really ranked in all the Halloween listings?

[nobody*s_perfect]

When search results are sorted by "Newly listed," the GTC listings are sorted according to their original listing date; not by their most recent rollover date.  If you want your listing to show up at the top of "newly listed," you have to end it and relist.

[sextons-sweet-deals]

that is what I was thinking.

thank you!

there is no need for anyone to let their GTC rollover. Hello eBay!

[nobody*s_perfect]

eBay probably has figures on how many buyers sort by "newest first" rather than "Lowest price" or just the default "best match."  I know that when I sort by newest, I don't want to be seeing items that have already been listed for a month, I want to see what's really new.

[muskingum_relics]

items having to be on 30 days is way to long ! There is no sense of urgency for a potential buyer to jump on it and buy it, So the watch and wait and then many just get bored and forget about. A seller should have some option on listing time, After all it is the sellers item !!

[southern*sweet*tea]

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@nobody*s_perfect wrote:

"  I know that when I sort by newest, I don't want to be seeing items that have already been listed for a month, I want to see what's really new.

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YES!

On the buyer side, it's so much better now when browsing. I don't have to see the same tired old stuff I've seen a million times before. I'm seeing more actual newly listed items, yay!  (well, I do still see some of it, but not nearly as much lol)

On the seller side, I'm selling more older listed items now that I'm not renewing every thirty days. I didn't realize how much I was hurting myself by listing for only thirty days at a time. I should have been using GTC all along, but I fell for the board mantra that newly listed was better.  For vintage items that are niche specific, newly listed isn't always the best. GTC in my opinion has been far better because those items are always available instead of sitting in my ended listings waiting to be relisted.

[southern*sweet*tea]

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@muskingum_relics wrote:

items having to be on 30 days is way to long ! There is no sense of urgency for a potential buyer to jump on it and buy it, So the watch and wait and then many just get bored and forget about. A seller should have some option on listing time, After all it is the sellers item !!

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What sense of urgency? For a one-off item, a buyer should be smart enough to know that it can sell at any time no matter how long it's been listed, and if they want it they need to buy it ASAP.  Doesn't matter if it's listed for three days, thirty days or GTC.

[parkersparrow]

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@sextons-sweet-deals wrote:
that is what I was thinking.

thank you!

there is no need for anyone to let their GTC rollover. Hello eBay!

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If you're selling multiple qty's or planning to restock the item then it does make sense to keep it going. 

[disneyshopper]

I am a low volume seller in a niche market.  I was relisting every 30 days.  Now with GTC, I let the items go for 90 days or so before I end them, and then relist at a later time.  Some items have been listed for several years before the right buyer comes along.

[etvideo1ataol]

No they don't which is why I end all GTC listings before they roll over and relist them myself which makes them Newly Listed.

Even worse, since they NEVER END, they do not show up in an Ending Soon search costing me all those sales I used ti get.

When I end them they vanish totally and are not found in a "completed search so those watchers that want to see if something sold and for how much, never will know.

Most eBay changes kill sales, but this GTC thing of fixed listings is a MAJOR sales KILLER and eBay doesn't care because they are all about FEES, not sales.

[coolections]

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@nobody*s_perfect wrote:

eBay probably has figures on how many buyers sort by "newest first" rather than "Lowest price" or just the default "best match."  I know that when I sort by newest, I don't want to be seeing items that have already been listed for a month, I want to see what's really new.

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Ding Ding, we have a winner. The OP should mark this post as solved.

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@etvideo1ataol wrote: ... since they NEVER END, they do not show up in an Ending Soon search costing me all those sales I used ti get....

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When  search results are sorted by "Ending soonest," the GTC listings are sorted by their next upcoming rollover date.  So each GTC listing works its way to the top once per month.

[coolections]

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@nobody*s_perfect wrote:

When  search results are sorted by "Ending soonest," the GTC listings are sorted by their next upcoming rollover date.  So each GTC listing works its way to the top once per month.

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He's going to have to find a different excuse.

[mrdutch1001]

Totally agree!   10 day fixed price listings worked very well for my items...longer than that was futile.

Now when I list I do so in auction format even though most of the categories I list in don't lend themselves well to auction format. I use auction format with buy it now option and occasionally a buyer will do the buy it now. I don't have a store on eBay and due to lack of sales in recent years, I am now a very very low volume, casual seller.

If I do use fixed price format at all,  I end the listings 10-16 days after start date...