So, I blew in here gangbusters mad because I just now figured out global shipping is now an auto-fill option when you renew via phone app, and I just knew I'd checked my account under the master settings to exclude anywhere except the continental US - because I sell used saddles, new and used 'smalls' like spurs, reins, saddle pads, etc. I don't want to sell internationally... because headaches. While here raging about the shipping (And figuring out yes I did miss that box being on autofill for IDK how long, but also, I did figure out somehow, at some point, my master shipping settings had been cleared... and not by me), I saw the GTC change.
For a while, my listings have been auto-renewing, and it's been sorta... okay... It's not helped me sell anything tbh, just... it was out there on ebay land, cycling away in perpetuity.
Well. Okay.
But... here's my concern. IN THE PAST... I have listed an item, Buy it Now with Best Offer option. I've watched it not sell, watched it not sell, had no offers, only watchers, had an opportunity to vend at a rodeo. I've ended my listings early, one here, one there, to take Saddle XYZ with me to said event where I thought the market might be better to sell.
I've been here for a while with this id, many many years under my personal ID (Since 2001ish)... I've ended a total of 3 things early in my entire history
The last time, I got a nasty warning from eBay that I was suspected of cross posting and selling outside of ebay, many threats, blahblahblah. Bottom line - we'll start charging you a FVF.
Now... Okay. So, if we can't end listings as we see fit without a tacky notice and getting dinged a fee, and if we can't limit our listing times anymore, so we know if it's not sold, it 'goes off' and we're free to do whatever with it, then I feel like the moment I list something, it is no longer mine to sell as a see fit.
I mean, I get it - if there are bids on it, ending it because it's not going high as a seller would hope is dirty pool. But if I list the darn thing at BiN, best offer option is on, and it doesn't get much of a look, and I have a chance to end it, take it somewhere physically and sell it, that's something else altogether. Also, I pay for listing fees. It's not much, but I pay to play.
How are they going to handle those of us who go, y'know? This ain't sellin' chief. Maybe I can take it to the trade show next weekend and move it?
Are we just stuck with an item rolling over into renewal, in perpetuity, once it's listed?
I knew I had to ask him about the mysteries of life
He spit between his boots and he replied
"It's faster horses, younger women,
Older whiskey, and more money"
