The GTC only for fixed price items.

[homeimprovement4466]

Hello

Am I the only one who dislikes the new GTC only for fixed price items? For me it an issue. I am not married to eBay nor do I have an assistant to take care of things when I not available. I like to take a day off or spend some time running errands. With GTC now I had to end items a day early so they do not relist. I not going to want an item that has 0-3 views to relist (during the 30-day listing). If an item ends when I not present or 3 A.M in the morning I will lose 1-as many as 15 of my monthly allotment for selling. I always replace any slow-moving items with new ones. Anyways, I hope eBay takes note of this complaint. If enough of us do so I think they would go back to the old.

[homeimprovement4466]

Hello

The point is if you max out or closer to maxing out your listing, Items that end because of GTC, you will be charged 25-35 cents per item. So while you sleeping or shopping you may rack up fees without your knowledge. If you have items that have 0-3 views, why will you want to relist?

[mira_works]

It's annoying, tbh.

My understanding before the implementation was that my current active listings will end but today, a bunch of my listings autorelisted. So much for that comfort.

Kind of annoying to be manually ending listings because I actually need them to end since I'll be out of town

After EBAY encouraging us to do BIN and fixed price, I'm back to auctions, I suppose.

[lsap]

I couldn't agree more, it actually discourages sales! This endless cancel date for "fixed price items" does nothing to encourage the buyer to purchase! I may as well list on Amazon if I'm going to have an item sitting there idle.

    It does not benefit the Seller, it does not benefit Ebay, and it doesn't benefit the Buyers who sometimes need a time limit or push of urgency to purchase an item they really want. 

       I feel as though the individuals who come up with these brilliant changes, Don't actually sell items on their own platform.    WARNING EBAY !!!  I have been a seller since 1999, keep sabotaging my sales and I will simply sell my items elswhere, Amazon, Reverb, Craigs List.....the choices are many.

[wallaceanderson2015]

Unless you originally listed those items at 3 A.M. they will NOT relist at 3 A.M.

[wallaceanderson2015]

Buyers do NOT see anything that says Good Till Cancelled. The listings have a countdown timer on them just like they always have. The new listing boost is not available when it automatically relists. Ending a listing prior to the relist only makes one lose the "ending soon" boost.

[cliff_youn]

Hello

My 3 A.M remark is for people who may not be able to sleep and they do "eBaying" stuff @ 3 A.M. As for me, sometimes I do work until 1-2 A.M and other times I am in bed by 10 P.M. But my solution is I going to end slow moving stuff 2 days early and items I want to relist 12-24 hours early. I will not "assimilate" I will resist!!

[cliff_youn]

store by the end of summer. bye bye, eBay.

[paytala_6]

I guess you haven't looked at the new GTC listings. They no longer have a countdown timer and the only way you see when it will relist is by going into overview. If you are just in active view all you see is good til canceled, so you wouldn't know when you were going to be hit with a relist fee if you already used up your allocation of free listings.

At least on Amazon, they only charge you when an item sells. If I wanted my items to auto relist I would have chosen GTC before, which was also available. I used it for awhile I didn't have many items, then I started using the promos with the 100 to 200 free listings and then I switched to the 30 day listing so I only relisted the items that were getting views or watchers when the time was up. The 30 day listing with auto cancel allows me to try items categories that I won't now.

[paytala_6]

It's about the fact that they are taking away listing options and creating more work for small sellers, so Ebay can make more money by auto relisting.
Why break something that was working, and as far as the google searches, even items that have sold still show up on google searches after they are sold for stuff I have searched for on Google, so how the GTC would help with that argument I'm not sure.

[paytala_6]

I agree I will be ending listings early

[sharingtheland]

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@homeimprovement4466 wrote:

Hello

Am I the only one who dislikes the new GTC only for fixed price items? For me it an issue. I am not married to eBay nor do I have an assistant to take care of things when I not available. I like to take a day off or spend some time running errands. With GTC now I had to end items a day early so they do not relist. I not going to want an item that has 0-3 views to relist (during the 30-day listing). If an item ends when I not present or 3 A.M in the morning I will lose 1-as many as 15 of my monthly allotment for selling. I always replace any slow-moving items with new ones. Anyways, I hope eBay takes note of this complaint. If enough of us do so I think they would go back to the old.

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Once again, I am not defending this policy change and this is as far as I've read on this thread.  But, a few points...

If you're worried about listings ending at 3:00 a.m., then structure the original newly listed or relist or sell similar widget to not end at that time.    I don't have many listings - from 100 to maybe 175 in any given month - so I can figure this out on a one-time basis for the existing listings and then handle it easily with any new listings.

I agree, to an extent, that you may not want to relist items with 0 views and yes, those will have to be monitored.  I have found, and so have many others, over the years that a listing with 0 views was never indexed or seen.  I usually end and then relist those within a few days for a "fresh" start. 

(Disclaimer:  I have no idea if this "0 view theory" is still viable but it worked in the past.)

You have a store with "free" listings; you won't be charged for a listing rollover (renewal) until those "free" listings have been used.  I decided a while back that I wasn't going to mess with listing anything that couldn't cover additional 30¢ listing fees, if necessary.

As far as running errands or taking a day off, we all do that.  Again, you have a store; you can use vacation settings.   I don't know if you're offering 1-day handling but you can always change that.  

Finally, ebay doesn't care if you take a day off or run errands and that isn't/shouldn't be an ebay consideration.   Not what anyone wants to hear but that's the way it is.

[pawtucketgeneralstore]

Agree 1000%...………..hate it

[djmagiccards]

EBay hasn't cared about sellers for many years.  EBay will force sellers to do anything if they think it will make eBay more money.

[7606dennis]

Frankly, I think the new GTC policy is another way that eBay found to shoot themselves in the foot.  Although they will undoubtedly reap some financial benefit from the auto-relisting aspects, in the long run their scheme takes away the urgency to buy a particular item and thus adversely affects the FVF's that eBay could be collecting.  I believe that this is something that even Micky D's and other fast food establishments understand.  Why else would they offer certain items for a limited time.