Cyber Monday and NO LISTING SPECIAL WHY????

[katelinsklutter]

I can't believe eBay has not run a free listing special for the busiest day of the year for internet sales.  I guess this is why eBay has dropped to the sixth largest internet sales  What does everyone else think of this?

[silverpinups]

eBay runs free listings specials for eBay's benefit not the sellers.  

There is currently over 1.1 Billion listings on eBay worldwide so the company doesn't need to run any free listing promotions at this time and knows that sellers will be motivated enough to pay for additional listings in order to take advantage of any potential sales that Cyber Monday may generate . 

[femmefan1946]

Yep.

And retail stores have sales to get rid of out of season merchandise and 'deadstock'.

Or they bring in specially priced merch. for special sales.

When I was selling patio furniture and woodstoves our year went

January/ February - patio furniture arrives- full price,large selection

March- Home Show - full price, large selection/ some highend stoves in display/ BBQs full price

April- Easter - BBQs selling large selection, full price/ patio furniture has low end on sale

May- Mother's Day- furniture on sale BBQs full price

June- Father's Day- furniture on sale, small selection/ BBQs on sale.

July- stoves arriving for busy season full price/ large selection - furniture and BBQs moved to back of shop

August- furniture and BBQs to back room- stoves at full price

September- Home Show- low end stoves on sale - installation in October

October- high end stoves on sale- installation in December

November - stoves on sale chimney on sale - installation in January

December-  some high end patio furniture arriving - full price.

Note that we sold more patio furniture in winter/early spring than in warm weather and more stoves in August and September than in winter.

[musicyouneed]

Sorry but I am happy there are not any listing specials.  We don't need more sellers or stuff on ebay, we need buyers.  

[momcqueen]

I tend to agree. I pay a tidy sum of money monthly for my store subscription and the listings it entails. Promos put store owners at a disadvantage because ebay gives away for free what store subscribers have to pay to use. 

[hlmacdon]

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@mjwl2006 wrote:

I tend to agree. I pay a tidy sum of money monthly for my store subscription and the listings it entails. Promos put store owners at a disadvantage because ebay gives away for free what store subscribers have to pay to use. 

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Agree as well. If they are going to charge for stores where the primary benefit is the number of "free listings" with a given tier they shouldn't be doling out free listings. The people I speak to who don't sell on ebay are rarely concerned about the cost to list, just the number of scammers in specific categories and the final value fees. If one is actually interested in seeing their item sell and prices it accordingly, the cost of a listing is insignificant.

[ypdc_dennis]

eBay does the free listings for their benefit, at this time of year they have lots of listings in most categories, so have no need to pump up the volume. I predict free listings will return when things get slow next year.

[tellephoto]

We do not get any. but the USA does......they just got a 100 list free promo fixed or auctions.  So everyone here in Canada can say that Ebay has enough listings not to warrant free listing, but that is BS.  As the USA users continue to get monthly free listings while we CDNs do not.

[ypdc_dennis]

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@tellephoto wrote:

We do not get any. but the USA does......they just got a 100 list free promo fixed or auctions.  So everyone here in Canada can say that Ebay has enough listings not to warrant free listing, but that is [bleep].  As the USA users continue to get monthly free listings while we CDNs do not.

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The typical eBay.CA free listing offer when it happens is 500 free or above.  The USA gets chump change.

eBay has the numbers, not you or any of the other posters on this forum.  And eBay uses it for their benefit as they see fit.

As a non-store I  use my free 100 listings every month (50 on both .com and .ca) plus pay for selected listings beyond that. There is also the other arm of eBay (kijiji) for free listings.

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[the_rookie_factory]

eBay wants store subscriptions.

Dedicated Sellers would like a break on fees without saturating the market.

suggestion: 

Why not have Free listing promos directed to store subscribers equal to the level of investment?

EX. Once a quarter double the FREE Listings offered for each store owner? 

promotes store subscriptions & gives break to invested sellers  .... Everyone wins.