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lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎01-09-2020

Another Promotion - Let confusion begin!! You’ll Love These Profits!

Save 25% on final value fees when you sell items in select gift categories.*

Watches, Jewelry, Fragrances, Hand Bags, Men & Women's clothing

https://pages.ebay.ca/promo/2020/0109/hotproducts.html

You've accepted the offer "List in-demand items and save on final value fees!"

*Insertion and optional advanced upgrade fees may apply.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Please note: Invited sellers must activate the Promotion by selecting "Activate offer" on the Promotion landing page.

What is the Promotion?

Invited sellers ("Sellers") who activate the offer and then list up to 1,000 Qualifying Listing(s)* in the fixed price, auction-style, or auction-style with Buy It Now format during the Promotion Period, pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth herein, will receive a 25% discount on final value fees ("Promotional Rate") on any Qualifying Listing that is listed during the Promotion Period (the "Promotion").

The Promotion does not apply to insertion fees or optional advanced listing upgrade and supplemental service fees. Discounted final value fees will be applied to the total amount of the sale, including the cost of the item and shipping, excluding any sales tax. All existing selling limits on your account (as well as category and item limits) still apply, and may prevent you from creating the maximum number of listings in this Promotion. View the everyday rate plan for full details.

*Qualifying Listings are limited to select categories as follows:

Clothing, Shoes & Accessories > Women > Women's Clothing
Clothing, Shoes & Accessories > Women > Women's Bags & Handbags
Clothing, Shoes & Accessories > Women > Women's Accessories
Clothing, Shoes & Accessories > Men > Men's Accessories
Clothing, Shoes & Accessories > Men > Men's Clothing
Jewellery & Watches
Health & Beauty

Who’s eligible?

This Promotion is available to Sellers who: (i) received an email and/or message in My eBay; (ii) activated the Promotion in the email or on the Promotion landing page; and (iii) meet eBay's minimum seller performance standards. Please sign in to My eBay and view your seller dashboard to verify whether your account is currently meeting the standards.

When is it?

This Promotion will begin on Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 00:00:01 ET (12:00AM plus one second), and will end on Friday, January 24, 2020, at 23:59:59 ET (11:59PM plus 59 seconds), for listings on www.ebay.ca (the "Promotion Period").

How do I activate the Promotion?

Sellers that have been invited to participate will automatically receive the Promotion after they activate the Promotion in the email or on the Promotion landing page, and then create listings on the Canadian sites at www.ebay.ca through the Sell Your Item form, eBay Seller Tools, eBay Mobile applications, and most third-party tools. Please note that the discount may not be shown during the listing process. Instead, the discount will be reflected in the "Seller Account" section of My eBay, under the Account tab, as well as in your next invoice.

In recent times ( The promotion with all the issues) it did not apply to GTC listings and anyone selling items that way did not qualify. For the proceeding promotion - 3 Items it appeared it also did not apply to GTC but have had 2 items sell that were GTC(Not manually relisted).

Can ANYONE confirm if GTC listings apply to this most recent promotion. Personally, the words chosen in promotions do not make the process of confirming if one has qualified or not, any easier.

-LotZ

PS, I just activated this offer in the past few minutes. It does not appear in Sellers Hub.

reallynicestamps · ‎01-10-2020

list up to 1,000 Qualifying Listing(s)* in the fixed price, auction-style, or auction-style with Buy It Now format

Looks like eBay has a post-holiday slump in Clothing listings and wants more stock on screens.

EBay promotions are for the good of eBay. Guess they are lower than they want to be on Fixed Price listings.

Also, do Auctions actually work for Clothing? Except perhaps at the very high end-- where there may be some competition for eBay from the ReallyReal.

Discounted final value fees will be applied to the total amount of the sale, including the cost of the item and shipping, excluding any sales tax.

It only applies to sold items.

It does include discounts on shipping FVF.

That's unusual isn't it?

It does not apply to sales taxes-- but Paypal will still be charging us fees on money that we only see fleetingly and never actually touch.

reallynicestamps · ‎01-10-2020

That fees listing shows something else.

EBay wants to get in on the lucrative sneakerhead market. Apparently the FVF for Men's Athletic Shoes -> over $100 is 0%.

Wonder if this has anything to do with the Reebok(?) fiasco of last autumn where eBay had to cancel thousands of sales (and FB) when a typo listed high value shoes for a dollar -or something like that.

pjcdn2005 · ‎01-10-2020

In recent times ( The promotion with all the issues) it did not apply to GTC listings and anyone selling items that way did not qualify. For the proceeding promotion - 3 Items it appeared it also did not apply to GTC but have had 2 items sell that were GTC(Not manually relisted).

Similar fvf promos HAVE included gtc listings if they renewed during that time. The last promo had some wording that made it seem to me they weren’t included but if you received the discount for gtc listings then I misunderstood the wording. I would think that they are included in this promo as well.

PS, I just activated this offer in the past few minutes. It does not appear in Sellers Hub.

The promo is for sold items so it won’t appear until you sell an item that qualifies.

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎01-10-2020

Once its activated in should show up in your list with quantity applied including the count down. Having offers act/react the same way each time should not be hindsight. This way no guessing for everyone.

-Lotz

mrdutch1001 · ‎01-10-2020

activated and does not show up anywhere...

pjcdn2005 · ‎01-10-2020

Fvf promos never show up until you sell something so it is consistent. If you want to double check that you’ve activated it, click on activate again and it will show you that it is already activated.

I don’t disagree that showing ‘activated’ would be a good thing although I don’t see why a countdown is needed until something that qualifies is sold. But all these things were said in the last promo and the promo before that and the one before that and so on... There are going to be people who don’t understand how it works but since we already know, why not enjoy less fees rather than complain about how you feel it should be done. It’s obviously going to deaf ears anyway.

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎01-10-2020

I'm just basing my points on consistency. It appears every special offer behaves slightly differently going by the confusion each one causes in its writeup. How many folks were sure they qualified for that past offer from "heck: when it turned out they didn't. It left a large number of sellers with a very bad taste in their mouth and pocketbook. See explanation attached.

"I've definitely made the teams involved aware of the traffic and volume here (that's where I've been most of this week).

I can't say what changes will or won't be implemented, but I'm definitely advocating for being clear and transparent with promotions. Thanks!"

-LotZ

mrdutch1001 · ‎01-13-2020

some of these more recent promos are clear as mud...there definitely is a need for some updated wording and terminology used instead of just latching onto a previously used promo and partially re-wording it.