Ebay 2015 Spring Seller Changes

I heard there are a lot less free listings, which is a good thing.

The beginning of the downward slide for ebay was free listings. Without all the free listings Uncle Billy Joe Jim Bob might stop relisting his bottle cap collection over and over and over again for 4 million dollars and never pay a dime.

If the bar owner wants to get rid of the pathetic piece of slime on the stool next to you he doesn't lower the prices.... that just makes him call his friends.

I have a basic store & the amount of listings I get with the subscription was reduced. That's not something I'm happy about. I guess I understand cutting down the amount of free listings will lower the amount of garbage listings & can see where ebay would want to do that.....but that doesn't mean they should penalize people doing things the right way.

Auction style listings for the basic store are limited to 100(free) & only in what they are calling collectibles. I'm about 90% sure that's a numbers reduction & 100% sure restricting it to "collectibles" cuts out other categories.

I totally agree...and I also see Bobby's point which, I admit, I had never thought about until he spelled it out so eloquently.

It seems like ebay ought to be able to come up with some sort of formula that figures out the INITIAL success rate sellers have of selling their items and allow those sellers more free listings. As an example of what I mean - I might sell 500 coins during the course of a year and probably 20 or less of those would be RE-listings that didn't sell the first time around. Uncle Billy-Boy Jim-Bob would not have anywhere near that level of initial success so he should probably be charged a listing fee on EVERY listing until his success rate improved.

Of course...I'm just talking about auctions...which is all I do. I don't know how or if this logic would work as applied to ebay stores.

......IF you buy into the idea that a fixed price listing is the same as an auction.