March 6th 2019 Weekly Session

[tyler@ebay]

Hi everyone - 

Opening the chat up for you to leave your questions. I'll be around tomorrow to work on getting answers!

Tyler

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

G'morning Tyler,

Thanks for opening the chat.

With GTC when it kicks in I still see any offers that we receive from eBay becoming very confusing to administer. Example attached.

Extra! Extra!
Extra Savings Are Coming Your Way.

List from 3/9-3/10 and sell within 30 days.
Limit of 5 items.

How will we, as sellers be able to choose which listings to apply when GTC will be ending, quite often, at any time during an offer?

-Lotz

[kawartha-ephemera]

An excellent point, GTC could easily foul up promotions. In the case of List for $1 FVF promotions a seller could easily have 5 very low dollar GTC listings  renew before the seller has a chance to list their 5 high dollar ones. In that scenario the $1 x 2 =2 FVF  charged if  any of those very low dollar (under $10) listings sell will actually result in higher fees being charged. 

 The only  way i see to avoid the problem described above will be to delay activating the promotion until all 5 listings intended for it are ready to list  immediately after activation. Even then one would need to run a report first to make sure nothing else was about to relist.

[tyler@ebay]

Hi @lotzofuniquegoodies  - I agree! I'm still waiting on clarification on how this will work and what process (if any) will be in place to help manage that, whether that be a special 'promotional duration' tag that doesn't make items GTC, or a new filter in Seller Hub that lets you sort by items that are on promotion with a countdown timer. Hoping to get some good clarification on that quickly. 🙂

[tyler@ebay]

Thanks for joining the chat this week - it's closed but you can always tag me on the boards or meet us next time!