eBay

skylarstuff · ‎08-08-2015

Good from today till the end of the month. By invitation only, must activate offer button.

What is the Promotion?

Sellers who activate the offer and then create a listing in the Women’s Clothing (15724) category in the auction-style format or auction-style with Buy It Now format, pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth herein (“Qualifying Listing”), will pay no insertion fee per newly listed item (relisted items not included) ("Promotion") for up to 500 listings during the Promotion Period (as defined below).

Only 7- and 10-day listing durations are included in this Promotion. The Promotion does not apply to relisted items, final value fees, or optional upgrade fees.

This is not a category I sell in so its of no use to me.......

pierrelebel · ‎08-08-2015

I have stamps with the picture of Queen Victoria wearing a dress. Would that qualify?

triber · ‎08-08-2015

If you have a picture of her wearing pants Pierre, it would be very valuable!

triber · ‎08-08-2015

Well, I got it! In about 15 years of selling on eBay, I have never listed anything in women's clothing.

pierrelebel · ‎08-08-2015

"... wearing pants"... Good old Queen Victoria would say "I am not amused!"

rose-dee · ‎08-08-2015

I do sell women's clothing on and off, but I've never done well in that category with auctions.

It's interesting to me how eBay has slowly narrowed down the listing promos over the past year. It used to be tens of thousands of anything and everything, then it was a thousand or so but no relists. Are they trying to selectively support sales in particular categories now?

lucitabby · ‎08-08-2015

Yes, this promo is quite selective.

I think I might be able to list some accessories under women's clothing - there are quite a few sub, sub categories.

I didn't receive the promo on .ca but it is on my .com. As usual, I didn't get an email or message about it so, thanks for the original post about this since I don't often go to .com

mr.elmwood · ‎08-08-2015

Good chance for me to dig into my closet and clean out some of my old dresses and frilly things.

I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay .....

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73rhc · ‎08-08-2015

This is the first time that I get promo on .com only. I usually get it on both. This may have occurred previously, but not to my knowledge.

looks like a .com exclusive!?

treasure.hunter.d · ‎08-08-2015

@rose-dee wrote:
I do sell women's clothing on and off, but I've never done well in that category with auctions.

It's interesting to me how eBay has slowly narrowed down the listing promos over the past year. It used to be tens of thousands of anything and everything, then it was a thousand or so but no relists. Are they trying to selectively support sales in particular categories now?

Indeed. They couldn't have picked a worse category for free auction style listings if they tried. This is becoming absurd!

My wife used to purchase a lot of clothing on Ebay, pre-Cassini, but now it's impossible to find anything and with all of the Asian sellers clogging the search results good luck buying from them and trying to get sizes right. Not to mention that the quality is absolute shyte! I bought her a t-shirt she wanted and it completely fell apart within 2 months, cheap Asian garbage but it is dominating the clothing categories on every level.

What next i wonder?

thD

73rhc · ‎08-08-2015

With a check of a box or two, you can easily search Canada or North America. And thus eliminating the Asian "shyte"

Anonymous · ‎08-08-2015

Me too it is for eBay.com, nothing on eBay.ca.

It seems that eBay is doing very strange things lately which I am not happy. I would prefer for all categories not to be limited to the specific category like Clothing that I listed on eBay.ca.

Not sure if I will move the items from eBay.ca to eBay.com? Not sure if it is worth time consuming.

tellephoto · ‎08-08-2015

Its crazy for the new incoming CEO to put any kind of limitations on the listing promos. In fact Ebay should have FREE listings, They can make up their fees through creative store options and FVF's. Let the floodgates flow. Who cares how much more listings get listed. All those who usually complain about how much "**bleep**" there is on Ebay can learn how to do better searches.

forester_studios · ‎08-08-2015

I only got the promo on .com as well. When I checked the category there were 3,080,216 listings on ebay. So ebay decides to have a promo for more than 3 weeks for a category that is already flooded with items? Makes you wonder what kind of logic ebay is using?

aubreyclay56 · ‎08-08-2015

yess really amazes me no free listings for vintage and old rare collectable items much anymore,best selling category for me but you get these young fellas lookin fer ladies underwear that seem to run ebay these days oh well cant please everyone

maximus7001 · ‎08-08-2015

Yea .com only. And what a stupid category. The new ceo just wants a bigger selection for when he plays dress up.

zee-chan-jpn-books · ‎08-09-2015

Oooooh. Buyers can buy my comic books and turn them into stylish clothes. Would that work? LOL

forester_studios · ‎08-09-2015

I'm planning on listing some LP records soon. Those record cover jackets would make stylish hats!!!

rose-dee · ‎08-09-2015

@73rhc wrote:
With a check of a box or two, you can easily search Canada or North America. And thus eliminating the Asian "shyte"

Well, IMO (and I do know something about the fashion world), sorry to say so, but simply filtering location isn't terribly effective in this category.

Cheap Asian clothing is being sold these days by hordes of U.S. sellers on eBay, many of whom are no doubt drop-shipping at a fraction of the minimal cost at which they're listing the items. It's a very crowded category, and there is very poor -- sometimes exceptionally poor -- quality generally. It is a highly exploitative and morally reprehensible industry churning out throwaway junk.

Why eBay would choose this category to run auction promos is beyond me.