Promoted listings now at a higher minimum?

[bentley65]

Hi. When I view my active listings (I do not have a store). I see every listing has "ad not showing. Your ad rate is below the minimum." Then there is a blue edit listing button. 

Anyone else getting this? Are we now forced to pay more for promoted listings like the US sellers were recently? I also noticed my views were very low just recently.

Wow. Just wow.

[reallynicestamps · Accepted solution]

Yes. The PL minimum is now 2%.

I just noticed this myself and have been bulk editing to increase the fee (if the item sells) and to adjust asking prices while I'm at it.

Annoyingly, I can't change the percentage in bulk, only one at a time, so it's slower than I like.

This may be me missing something.

We got some warning but the date was vague and the "invisibility" of the PL listings was a shock.

Of course, you can also remove the PL entirely and eBay loses that fee. Mwah hah hah haaaah.

[kawartha-ephemera · Accepted solution]

@reallynicestamps Upon checking the situation I discovered a banner stating I had 20 odd listings below the minimum rate, just had to click on the link there to set the 20 odd to the new minimum, took just a second to get them visible again with 2 % rate. Now I'll need to decide how to proceed going forward.

[reallynicestamps · Accepted solution]

Since I use it mostly on stuff I want to get gone, and since a lot of what I sell is based on turning stuff into money(shop inventory left after retirement) I don't mind paying the extra one percent. If I were trying to make a living it would be vastly different.

[bentley65 · Accepted solution]

I can't get seen without the pls. I was just starting to get views and had a few sales. No choice but to adjust. Thanks for your response.

[lady.stark · Accepted solution]

I just ended all my PL promotions... ebay won't force me to pay extra than what I'm comfortable with. They are already making too much money on us with the fees on taxes.... Your loss eBay. They are becoming very gready. 😞

[mrdutch1001]

eBay raised the minimum so yes now you will need to assess how you use PLs.

BTW eBay also changed the way views are tallied/accounted for,  so all around listing views may be observed as considerably lower than in previous months...

[bentley65]

Thanks for the info on the views. It just seems like my tiny nest egg keeps getting more and more bites taken out of it! Lol.