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bambopbam · ‎01-28-2018

It sounds like a good idea to "Relist this item if it didn't sell" but it has now become a BAD idea and eBay must start putting limits on how many times a seller can relist the same item. Reason is there are sellers with 10's of thousands of listings that don't sell but they keep getting relisted every 7 days.

There is one seller who has over 200 thousand listings, but only 2242 in sales for a whopping .008% sales rate.

That is awful in many ways. The main reason is because other sellers become buried. When scrolling through listings one seller should not be able to occupy 1000 pages (at 200 items per page).

Does eBay want sellers listing the same item over and over and over... for weeks and months and years - that doesn't sell? If eBay won't limit relisting my next suggestion is for eBay to give us a search engine that works. A search engine that easily excludes certain items and sellers from the results.

chipper01work · ‎01-28-2018

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The best thing eBay could do for the site is to significantly lower final value fees and significantly RAISE listing fees. They need to reward those who actually sell things and punish those who just list them.

Then Ebay has little skin in the game, they don't have to worry about delivering buyers/sales......they can sit back and collect listing fees. Many think that's one reason they did nothing to modernize the site earlier.

Not really. Nobody is going to pay to list on a site where stuff doesn't sell. They need to go back to the fee structure that was in place in 2006 or one similar. The site was exponentially more vibrant back then and was not flooded with junk no one wants. Selling fees were reasonable and sellers thought twice about listing things that had little chance of selling because it cost money to list duds-as it should.

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mallontown · ‎01-28-2018

What an awful idea, hopefully ebay won't see it.

A better idea would be to remove the duplicates, counterfiets, and items breaking ebay rules like special characters and keyword spaming.

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city*satins · ‎01-28-2018

I love it when sellers relist stuff. Often they relist it at a lower price.

There is one seller who has over 200 thousand listings, but only 2242 in sales for a whopping .008% sales rate.

That is awful in many ways. The main reason is because other sellers become buried. When scrolling through listings one seller should not be able to occupy 1000 pages (at 200 items per page).

That seller is paying a big chunk of change to eBay every month to enable that. Why would eBay want to kill that cash cow?

Also, if you had a limit on relists - e.g. 10X then all a seller has to do it relist instead as SELL SIMILAR and if bots restricted that on the grounds it was identical to the last 10X it was listed, then change a word in the title.

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bambopbam · ‎01-28-2018

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What an awful idea, hopefully ebay won't see it.
A better idea would be to remove the duplicates, counterfiets, and items breaking ebay rules like special characters and keyword spaming.

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If my response assisted in resolving your question, please click "Accept as Solution."

You are a seller .. who relists unsold items I just checked. Do you really think buyers need another chance to buy your umbrella or lunch bag or hogwarts dress - every week?

bambopbam · ‎01-28-2018

It's not a cash cow for ebay - listings are free.

luckythewinner · ‎01-28-2018

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It's not a cash cow for ebay - listings are free.

Can you tell us which seller is getting 200,000 free listings every 7 days?

city*satins · ‎01-28-2018

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It's not a cash cow for ebay - listings are free.

50 are free

200,000 listings - that would be a seller with some kind of premium $ ebay store

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lookng2015 · ‎01-28-2018

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It's not a cash cow for ebay - listings are free.

Not if you pay for a store they're not.

"If a product doesn't sell, raise the price" - Reese Palley
"If it sold FAST, it was priced too low" - also Reese Palley

thallidguy · ‎01-28-2018

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It's not a cash cow for ebay - listings are free.

Not if you have a store subscription.

Besides, if eBay really wanted to cut down on the number of listings, instead of putting in an unrealistic and unenforceable (city*satins correctly points out the "Sell Similar" workaround) restriction on relists, they'd go back to the old graduated listing fee structure. Charging to list forced sellers to think carefully about what they listed and how much they asked for it.

But you know why they won't? You know why they went to "free" listings in the first place? Because the Wall Street analysts whose opinion moves the stock price decided a while ago that the number of listings was an important metric. The more listings (regardless of sell-through, apparently), the more optimistic the analysts are about eBay's prospects.

bambopbam · ‎01-28-2018

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It's not a cash cow for ebay - listings are free.
Can you tell us which seller is getting 200,000 free listings every 7 days?

Go to eBay France, seller cpaphil. Active listings: 257,919 - completed listings 1,835,574 (almost 2 million!) Sold: 2251. How is that good for eBay?

dazzlecity · ‎01-28-2018

Why would eBay want to kill that cash cow?

well for buyers it's a turn off - never could figure out why anyone would want to see pages and pages of the same items from china - if ebay would just consider the buyer once in awhile and their experience shopping here it would probably improve sales.

chrysylys · ‎01-28-2018

There has been talk if them de-listing stale items, but I don't know the paremeters or who it applies to.

Personally, I would tend to agree. Change Good Until Cancelled to Good For 10 or something. After 10 relists, the item could not be listed for 30 days for example.

I've been watching an item that has been listed for over 3 years continously. Initially they wanted $25 for it. About 3 years ago, I offered $17 based on a number of similar items. They declined. They have now lowered their BIN to $16, but since they never replied to any of my inqiuiries, I'm not interested in buying from them. I have no idea what they've paid in listing fees for this item since they first posted it.

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bambopbam · ‎01-28-2018

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Why would eBay want to kill that cash cow?

well for buyers it's a turn off - never could figure out why anyone would want to see pages and pages of the same items from china - if ebay would just consider the buyer once in awhile and their experience shopping here it would probably improve sales.

Exactly the point. Thank you.

emerald40 · ‎01-28-2018

I agree with you OP.

If a B&M store never changed up its inventory, just sat there frozen in time, would you go back to the store?

I see it in my categories all the time - items scroll off and back on month after month, year after year.

I just add the seller to my blocked list.

And ebay, again, give us unlimited space to put them all in there. It would make it much more pleasant for buyers, if every 30 days we did not have to keep scrolling past them.

chipper01work · ‎01-28-2018

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Why would eBay want to kill that cash cow?

well for buyers it's a turn off - never could figure out why anyone would want to see pages and pages of the same items from china - if ebay would just consider the buyer once in awhile and their experience shopping here it would probably improve sales.

The best thing eBay could do for the site is to significantly lower final value fees and significantly RAISE listing fees. They need to reward those who actually sell things and punish those who just list them.