auto relist

[i_sell_4_you]

did auto relist up to 8 times go away?

[hurryagain · Accepted solution]

@i_sell_4_you 

I have heard that under the new listing tool, that option has been removed.

[tutwa-20]

No, well, kind of...

They did away with 7, 10 and 30-day listings.
It's all GTC now, and those relist automatically.

[chapeau-noir]

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@i_sell_4_you wrote:

did auto relist up to 8 times go away?

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That was there for new sellers to help them get traction.  Once someone gets enough feedback and experience under their belt (I have no idea what the metrics for that are), the 8 free relists go away.  

[bimm_corp]

This problem has already been discussed on several threads to no definite conclusion. eBay seems to be making the 8 relists for auctions available to select sellers in a random manner. An eBay CS has told several users that this perk is available only to new sellers to help them get going, but we have seen long-standing sellers get it too. My guess is it's controlled by an eBay bot that looks at your current and past sales history and decides if you get it or keep it. Your recent sales have been good so perhaps the bot has decided you no longer need help. It really seems to be a hit-and-miss thing.

[coolections]

You are already using the best offer option. You should stop the auctions if you want to continue to use best offer and instead use BIN with best offer. You are defeating the purpose of an auction the way you are doing it.

[bimm_corp]

@coolections 

>You should stop the auctions if you want to continue to use best offer and instead use BIN with best offer.

Why? I list only auctions with Best Offer and it works fine for me.

[coolections]

@bimm_corp 

Just my opinion but it is NOT an auction. Auctions have been around for a hundred years and they have always been used to allow buyers to bid and outbid each other until the end allowing the highest bidder to win. What you are doing is making anyone interested in your auction upset and wasting their time when you end a listing before an auction ends. Ebay should put an end to that practice. It is one of the reasons why many buyers have lost interest in auctions. The less people interested in auctions hurts all auction sellers.

[bimm_corp]

@coolections 

>Just my opinion but it is NOT an auction.

Any buyer who has been on eBay for a while knows that you never show your hand by bidding on an auction some time before it ends. You wait until the last possible second to bid (sniping). AND, if you REALLY want the item, you bid at least twice the last highest bid. Been bidding on auctions this way for years.

BTW, as for auctions with Best Offer, when the item gets a bid the BO goes away.

[coolections]

@bimm_corp 

Once again it ruins the auction. A bidder places a snipe thinking they have a chance of winning and the auction is gone two days later. It is not an auction but a pretend auction.

[bimm_corp]

@coolections 

> A bidder places a snipe thinking they have a chance of winning and the auction is gone two days later.

This doesn't make any sense. By definition, a snipe is a bid placed during the last few seconds of an auction. What do you mean by "the auction is gone two days later"?

[coolections]

@bimm_corp 

OK, you must not be familiar with a snipe a bidder uses to place a last second bid. What happens is a bidder will place a snipe bid on Ebay on day one of the auction but the actual bid goes in within the last few seconds of the auction ending. If the auction ends early the snipe bid has no chance as the auction is over. What that means is it was really never an auction because even though the bid was placed, it never gave the bidder an opportunity to win. Hopefully you understand how both auctions and sniping programs work now.

[bimm_corp]

@coolections 

>you must not be familiar with a snipe a bidder uses to place a last second bid.

You are still making no sense. Your assumption that,

1) the auction will somehow end early and

2( the bidder will not take the precaution of making a last-second bid large enough to top any other bidders' last-second snipe.

Since you have assumed that you need to "educate" me about sniping, I await your further instruction.

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[coolections]

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@bimm_corp wrote:

1) the auction will somehow end early and

2( the bidder will not take the precaution of making a last-second bid large enough to top any other bidders' last-second snipe.

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OK, more help for you.

1) The OP is offering BEST OFFER. If the OP accepts a best offer it will end the auction early.

2)The person who sets a snipe bid on day one of $1,000,000 (taking a precaution to win the auction), will never have their snipe bid entered because there was no auction as it ended early to the best offer.

[bimm_corp]

@coolections 

>OK, more help for you.

1) The OP is offering BEST OFFER. If the OP accepts a best offer it will end the auction early.

2)The person who sets a snipe bid on day one of $1,000,000 (taking a precaution to win the auction), will never have their snipe bid entered because there was no auction as it ended early to the best offer.

Sorry, but your facts are unco-ordinated.  A buyer who is looking at an auction that he really wants to win, BUT has a BO would logically make a token bid early (preferably from another ID) so the BO goes away, THEN making a last minute snipe to win. I have done this myself more than once. Works every time for me.