Why do all free listing promotional offers now seem to exclude relistings?

[murrayw211]

Hello everyone.

I sell used CDs on eBay, and because of their low sale prices I can only afford to list items for sale when there are free listing promotions that include relistings. Since the beginning of 2015, i can't remember a single free listing promotion that included relistings. All seem to have explicitly excluded free listings.

Is anyone else noticing this?

[pjcdn2005]

You can use sell similar for those promotions so that you qualify.

[murrayw211]

Gotcha. it's just an irritant to see eBay exclude relistings, and they've really ramped up that exclusion this year. We're lucky if we can use the "sell similar" loophole.

[Anonymous]

I kinda of miss of "relisting" because with "similar", I have to remember which items I just "relisted" by using "similar" so I can delete them from my "unsold items" inventory after using similar each time.  Very tricky, sometimes I came up with "duplicate listings".  Wonder if it the purpose for eBay to not to include "relisting" so we get into trouble for "duplicate listing"?  I wouldn't be surprised!!  LOL.

[katlover1952]

I seem to be able to use "sell similar" with items that were fixed priced but when I try to use it with items that were auction & change to fixed it is charging. Anyone else finding this. I have always been able yo do this in the past with no relist offers. This is the first time I have had a problem.

[pocomocomputing]

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@katlover1952 wrote:
I seem to be able to use "sell similar" with items that were fixed priced but when I try to use it with items that were auction & change to fixed it is charging. Anyone else finding this. I have always been able yo do this in the past with no relist offers. This is the first time I have had a problem.

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The current promo is for 30 days only. Did you remember to change to 30 days?

[katlover1952]

Thank you Poco. I thought I had changed it to 30 but was using my iPad & sometimes when you change it it reverts back to what was there originally of you don't wait long enough for it to reload properly. Just tried again now & it worked. Thanks!

[reallynicestamps]

Wonder if it the purpose for eBay to not to include "relisting" so we get into trouble for "duplicate listing"?  I wouldn't be surprised!!  LOL.

More likely it is an attempt to discourage the listing of stale, low value and /or low demand items.

In the same vein, if you used Good Til Cancelled, after 16 months of automatic relists, you would get a Note on the aged listings letting you know that they have had no sales in all that time.

I sometimes ignore it, since my items can spend a long time in stock before finding a buyer and with my low purchase costs and Store fees at a nickel a month  I don't think this is significant is not significant,

The only 'trouble' I've seen on duplicate listings is the notification that I am about to duplicate a listing. If this really is a different item, I can then back up and rewrite the title to show the differences.