Eligible for relist fee credit - what?

[ight.coin]

When I go through my UNSOLD listings for AUCTIONS only. Using STATUS & AUCTION & LAST 90 DAYS, I can see about 1/2 of my unsold auctions are "Eligible for relist fee credit" and about 1/2 are not.

How did ebay choose which goes in each category?

And how would I take advantage of getting the relist credit?

[momcqueen]

I recall that 'Eligible for relist fee credit' is for recently-created item listings which will be credited if sold this time you list them. 

[ypdc_dennis]

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@ight.coin wrote:

When I go through my UNSOLD listings for AUCTIONS only. Using STATUS & AUCTION & LAST 90 DAYS, I can see about 1/2 of my unsold auctions are "Eligible for relist fee credit" and about 1/2 are not.

How did ebay choose which goes in each category?

And how would I take advantage of getting the relist credit?

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http://pages.ebay.ca/help/sell/insertion-fee-credit.html

[ight.coin]

I see...I assume you are referring to:

"If your item qualifies for an insertion fee credit, we automatically apply the credit to your account in some cases when your listing meets these requirements:

-Your listed item must be in auction-style format. Fixed price listings, Classified Ads, select Business and Industrial categories, Motors vehicles, and Real Estate listings aren't eligible for insertion fee credits."

we automatically apply the credit, when?

in some cases, OK...which cases?

[momcqueen]

We don't know what unsold listings where you're seeing it. You'll have to be the best judge of where this applies to your unsold items.

[tobyshitzu]

Haven't used that in years, but used to get piles of credits from it.  It was always advertised as relist within (30 ror 60??) days,and if  it sold the second insertion fee was refunded.  Despite it saying that, for many years it actually worked regardless of how long after it was as long as the original listing was still on the site (which was longer then it is now). So we'd get the occasional 5 or 10 cent listing day when listing fees were much higher, then use relists on things that were virtually certain to sell to never pay the listing fee.

With few using auctions, much lower listings fees and so many free listings its barely relevant now

I think I remember at some point it changed to you'd only get the lower of the 2 insertion fees refunded, so if you relisted a free one you didn't get it back?   Not  sure, those days seem like so long ago

[recped]

Toby has it pretty much right.

As far as why are some eligible and some not, an eligible item would be:

A "new" listing (sell similar is ok but not relist)

Unsold on first listing

Relisted from that listing

A listing fee paid on both the original listing and the relist

I also used to get a lot of these credits back in the day when if it didn't sell the first time it often did the second time (not like today where it doesn't sell until the 20th time). Nowadays not so as I am only using my Store allotment, basic freebies on my non-store accounts or listing promos. If there is no original fee there is no re-list credit.