500 Free listings, Auction or Fixed Price, Mar 16-19th

[007steveb16]

Well now this is rare I got an invite for the first time in awhile!!

Anyone else?

[Anonymous]

I got free promos for 2 accounts, 1 for store and 1 for non store.  It is about time for a store subscriber which was way tooooo long since the last time in June 2012.  But I am amused at what they offered to us only 500.  With the other free listing promos, they offered 50,000 or 75,000 which I thought was off the wall as we cannot have plenty of time to list that much amount.  And here eBay is offering us just 500 which is peanuts or bread crumbs.  I wouldn't mind if they offer us 1,000 or 2,000 which we can list that much faster.  Oh well, we cannot win with eBay's bizzare ways of dealing with us like playing games with us.

Hopefully they will offer us this free listings promos again on a regular basis and not "by invitation only" again. 

eBay, thank you so much for this free listings promos which we really appreciate and hope you will offer us again on a regular basis like every 10 days or every 2 weeks. 

[imbuzzy]

@collectors52:

It's 1000 ZIF per account (500 on ebay.ca and 500 on ebay.com), so that gives you 2000 items to list with this promotion

[rose-dee]

I haven't checked my regular email, but I didn't get this news through my eBay messages or anywhere else.  Thanks so much for being our "Town Crier", otherwise I would likely never have known (not that I have 500 items ready to list). 

I'll certainly start looking at "Announcements" regularly now. 

Cheers!

[brandeentertainment]

Ya for me it just showed up on my summary page ... I scrolled down to see I used 11 of my free listing ?? Then read steves note ... Yaaaaaa it is time for auctions...

[recped]

Though there hasnt been nay "deluge' of listings with these promos in years.  Take not of some category listings number counts now and on Monday night, doubt anyone can find any that move more then 5-10%

Exactly! I monitor the number of listings in my Category which is one of the old standards and largest on eBay (record/cd), the increase in listings during the promos is negligible, rarely more than 5%.

However, all those sellers who want to decline the opportunity please continue to do so!

[lovbugshop]

Old enough to know better. Young enough to do it a
Old enough to know better. Young enough to do it again. Crazy enough to trygain. Crazy enough to try:^O

[007steveb16]

So, just got the promotion message in my eBay inbox just now!! 5:47pm Sunday LOL.......got the original message on Friday night directly into my email account at around 8pm.......Good job eBay 😉

[tot2teenears]

I received one also but I have a question that perhaps you can answer. With the removal of double listings now.... can you list the same item for a 1 day, 3 day, 5 day and 7 day listing? I understand they wouldn't list all four... they wait until the 1 day is finished before listing the 3 day etc..... is that true?

What is the point of free listings if you cannot list an item more than once?

Any help would be appreciated

[pierrelebel]

"What is the point of free listings if you cannot list an item more than once?"

If you list at auction, there is nothing to prevent you from listing for one day duration and relist all unsold items daily for every day of the promotion.

On the last day, you bulk relist unsold items for 7 day duration or move them to 30 day fixed price. 🙂

In the "good old days", before they introduced the anti-duplication rules, it was fun to list for 1, 3, 5 and 7 days. That was then, this is now.  Adapt. 🙂

[tobyshitzu]

". can you list the same item for a 1 day, 3 day, 5 day and 7 day listing?"

YES.  As long as they are auctions without BIN.  The extras wont show in search until one has a bid  or ends.   If you are doing real .99 auctions with demand you can quickly have them all in search results.

[brandeentertainment]

245 down 1 days to go another 255 auctions to list ... I am just setting myself up to probably lose a couple $100 here but whatever it is mostly stock that I have 100's or 1000's off ...

I consider this my spring clean up LOL

[brandeentertainment]

YAaaaaaaaaaaa boy with 29 minutes go I am done .... First time I ever really used an ebay promo .. Sav myself $50 .... goodnight LOL

[007steveb16]

YAaaaaaaaaaaa boy with 29 minutes go I am done .... First time I ever really used an ebay promo .. Sav myself $50 .... goodnight LOL

It's tomorrow at 11:59:59pm that it ends 😉

[brandeentertainment]

Man I begged my boss to let me work on my store at work and he let me and I didn't have to ... o well guess i killed to birds with 1 stone anyways

[brandeentertainment]

Wow way to kill my own sales with auctions LOL next promo I will just ignore LOL

[bb_cool_stuff]

Worth a shot though.

38 auctions ended tonight, sold 1.

Ready to book the cruise now.

[brandeentertainment]

Well I listed close to 500 and so far 70 have bids and the rest still have about 5-6 days left .. I figure I will get alot of bids but most things will not catch that good of a price....

Either way I have a 20k bill due the end of month with supplier so sellllllllllllllllllll baby sell ....