new policy changes

[amsl]

Can Ebay make things more complicated?

I am discouraged by Ebay's continued unwarranted policy changes restrictions on sellers.

Here in rural New England, the most widely-agreed upon policy is "if it ain't broke, dont fix it".

Do I interpret the following 2 particular Ebay policy changes correctly?

1) "When you use the consumer seller listing tool to create listings, your fixed-price listings may renew automatically every 30 days, based on the listing terms at that time, until the quantities sell out or until you cancel the listing."

Will this mean that beginning in March 2018, all my fixed-price listings will become "good 'til cancelled".  I sure hope not because we sell mostly unique or highly specialized items, and need to remove them from sale for periods of time as we feel appropriate when markets are affected by competing seller's offerings or the unthinkable (all too frequent national or international events in the news.

2) FVF will be as high as a maximum of $750 per sale for most categories (just for the service of moving a few electrons around for the seller). I understood that up until now the FVF has been previously capped at $250 per sale for me as a seller with an Ebay Store subscription.

Are these 2, + other increasingly totalitarian changes to the user agreement really happening in a slow-motion nightmare?  Or do I misunderstand.  Someone say it all isn't so!  Thank you in advance for clarifications.

[partial*eclipse]

@amsl

As I noted in your other thread, you haven't been paying attention. Those are not new policies.

The maximum FVF for sellers who don't have a Store is already  $750, and it has been for several years.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

Sellers who use the "Quick" version of the listing form will find that it automatically uses the "Good until canceled" option for listing duration, with no way to change it.  Note the phrase "based on the listing terms at that time".  The form also uses 7 days as the duration for all auction-format listings.  This, too, as been true for quite a while.

So there is nothing for you to fret about.

[gracieallen01]

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@amsl wrote:

Can Ebay make things more complicated?

I am discouraged by Ebay's continued unwarranted policy changes restrictions on sellers.

Here in rural New England, the most widely-agreed upon policy is "if it ain't broke, dont fix it".

Do I interpret the following 2 particular Ebay policy changes correctly?

1) "When you use the consumer seller listing tool to create listings, your fixed-price listings may renew automatically every 30 days, based on the listing terms at that time, until the quantities sell out or until you cancel the listing."

Will this mean that beginning in March 2018, all my fixed-price listings will become "good 'til cancelled".  I sure hope not because we sell mostly unique or highly specialized items, and need to remove them from sale for periods of time as we feel appropriate when markets are affected by competing seller's offerings or the unthinkable (all too frequent national or international events in the news.

2) FVF will be as high as a maximum of $750 per sale for most categories (just for the service of moving a few electrons around for the seller). I understood that up until now the FVF has been previously capped at $250 per sale for me as a seller with an Ebay Store subscription.

Are these 2, + other increasingly totalitarian changes to the user agreement really happening in a slow-motion nightmare?  Or do I misunderstand.  Someone say it all isn't so!  Thank you in advance for clarifications.

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That IS one of the stipulations in the UA as of March. however, it does say 'may renew automatically' - which, I believe, means 'at ebay's sole discretion' (and, perhaps, if it is a good selling item - has velocity - and the bots determine that it is good for their bottom line).  Of course, if it isn't in the product catalogue, you may not have to worry about it.

Personally speaking, I think there should be an addendum to 'Murphy's Laws' that says, 'If it ain't broke, send it to ebay and they may fix it'.

[partial*eclipse]

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@gracieallen01wrote:

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 ... That IS one of the stipulations in the UA as of March. however, it does say 'may renew automatically' -...

No, it's in the current version already.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/ua_previous.html

[gracieallen01]

I wasn't sure, so that is why I just put that it IS in the one for March.  It is way too early to read too many UAs! 

[preludetek]

Just noticed all my "free listings" that were set to 30 day only,  NOT Good till cancelled were thrown into this new category smacking me with nearly $40 in fees.  

They should not have auto renewed when they were listed not to auto renew. 

It's hard enough to make profits today add it is then they pull **bleep** line this? 

I looked back and didn't receive any messages through Ebay nor did they even drop me an email. 

When you are going to change something that adds additional fees to a person every month,  the least you can do is send an email warning them. 

Corporate greed at its best. 

[coolections]

@preludetek wrote:

When you are going to change something that adds additional fees to a person every month,  the least you can do is send an email warning them. 

Corporate greed at its best. 

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@preludetek 

There has been announcements about this for months. If you prefer freebies and do not want to run them again you have to cancel before the 30 days are up.

[spydee00]

The first thing I did was go back through my Ebay messages and check my email messages from Ebay and I didn't receive anything.  

If I found one notice to me, I would deal with it and move on.  But nothing was sent to me in regards to these changes.  

They should email or message us directly through Ebay to update us.  We shouldn't have to dig through the internet or chase down these policy changes in forums.  

Anyone in business will usually have you sign or acknowledge in an agreement that there will be changes that will greatly affect the amounts you pay out to them weekly, monthly or yearly.  

Poor business on their part.