I also received the invitation and decided not to participate.
Make sure to check both your email messages and eBay's "my messages'.
In the "good old days", eBay used to send me notices to both my email address and "my messages"
Lately, It seems to be one or the other - quite arbitrarily as I have never changed my settings.
Two invitations were received for this promotion on my two selling IDs. One by email and the other through "my messages'. Go figure!
At first I thought it was a promo only for store owners, but that proved to be wrong. I was thrown off by a sentence under the invite of the free listing that read......Free listings with Ebay Store Subscriptions. Glad to see that Ebay is continuing the free promo listings.
I wish eBay would let me give you one of my invitations. However, they won't. 😞
I just noticed that you can not list Store items for 3, 5, 7, 10 or 20 days. This is a turbo lister notice when doing an update tonight. I didn't even know there was a 20 day listing? For those who do not have a store and are listing during the promo it should still work for you? Interesting. So if you are a store owner and get a listing promo you have now lost the ability to list fixed price goods for shorter periods of days. I did not see this announced anywhere, any one else run into this?
"for up to 20,000 listings during the Promotion period as defined below. 3, 5, 7, 10 and 30-day listing durations are included in this Promotion"
"store items" as such no longer exists.
This promotion is for fixed price listings (same as store items), not auctions.
I know it sounds crazy but when you see a copy of the print screen, you will see what I mean. Must be a glitch in the latest revision of TL. Maybe a proto type of some ideas tossed around.
"I just wonder how random the selection really is! "
There is NOTHING RANDOM in how eBay selects sellers who receive invitations to their "free listing" promotions.
eBay changes its criteria from promotion to promotion based on what they want to do, what they want to test.
It is quite apparent that feedback and DSRs have nothing to do with the selection process unless a seller's DSRs are so low as to not qualify.
Having a store or not has often been a determinant factor, but not always.
eBay will NOT let sellers know how and why they select some sellers for promotional activities. However, when looking at the big picture, it would be best for most sellers not to obsess about promotions. Sellers who refuse to list their "stuff" because listing fees may cost them $0.05 to $0.30 demonstrate little confidence in their ability to sell the "stuff" for the price they want.
Use eBay to sell your "stuff" based on the current relatively low cost listing fee schedules. The real fees sellers pay are in FVF and PayPal, not listing fees.
Sellers who refuse to list their "stuff" because listing fees may cost them $0.05 to $0.30 demonstrate little confidence in their ability to sell the "stuff" for the price they want.
If you sell low value items that have to be listed many times before they sell the listing fees ARE a big deal.
A $5 item when sold has a FVF of 50 cents (non-store), if you list it 3 times that's 90 cents in insertion fees!
