| Author |
 Replies: 8 / Views: 1,803 |
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
2077 Posts |
I've recently started listing on ebay. Normally I get 50 free listings a month. Last month they added 500 extra, and this month it was 1,000,000 extra. Is this something they are doing because I'm a new seller, or does this happen frequently? |
|
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
13014 Posts |
They seem to be doing special promos more often. Hopefully they keep it up. I've been hoping for a while that they would just go to free listings period, Id bet the extra sales would make up for any lost listing revenue
|
|
Pillar of the Community
Canada
3167 Posts |
|
|
Pillar of the Community
 United States
2077 Posts |
Yes, that would be better. Problem is with the promos is that once they expire, you can't relist anything for free until your monthly allotment comes back up. ebay could give a lot away for free and still make tons of money. Between ebay and paypal, they get 10 to 15% of all transactions that they process. There are real retailers that survive on the same margin, but also have to handle merchandise and staff stores and warehouses. |
|
Bedrock of the Community
13014 Posts |
Quote:
Problem is with the promos is that once they expire, you can't relist anything for free until your monthly allotment comes back up. I try and set them up so you get the max out of them. Like the free auction or buy it now promos Ill do auctions and have them end by the final day and on the final day do a 30 day BIN if it hadnt sold by then. Im sure there concern is it would discourage people from doing stores, but people do those more for the reduced fees so I doubt that would greatly affect it. They could even leave a fee for putting a reserve on the auctions if they wanted. Im assuming that they make more running the promos since they keep doing it which would beg the question why not just keep doing it. At the very least jump the free ones up to 100 a month |
|
Valued Member
Canada
227 Posts |
Just wondering... can you really knock free?  |
|
Valued Member
United States
286 Posts |
What exactly is free? Can you list for Auction or Buy it now for free? Do setting minimums cost additional?
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
509 Posts |
It's free to list, not free to sell. So they may give you 500,000 free listings, but they take their cut on anything that sells.
I think they do so because they have quotas of how many listings to have at any one time, or want an increase for holiday weekends.
If they feel they aren't going to meet their quota, they offer free listings to everyone, or at least to a selected group of members.
As a buyer this is very frustrating. You can see when the sellers have bonus free listings, because there's a sudden increase in listings, often at pie-in-the-sky prices. This makes it a lot harder to sort through and find a good deal.
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
13014 Posts |
Quote:
Do setting minimums cost additional? Depends how you do it. Buy it now obviously not. An auction where you start it at the price you want doesn't cost extra, but it does cost extra to do a 99 cent auction with a reserve price. Pretty much everyone now though gets 50 free listings a month for auctions or buy it now and they run specials from time to time as well. |
| |
Replies: 8 / Views: 1,803 |
|
Posted 09/15/2013 2:10 pm
