@ilikehockeyjerseys I think the need to haggle is category dependant, however the low cost "its still there" reminder is a good point.
In my sad progression toward being a grump old man, I'm noticing with frustration the increasing need to pay more to sell stuff here and on other sites (one of the others I'm on has recently "created" basically the same promoted listing process as here).
I have various levels of promoted items, with the "oldest" stuff the most promoted. I'm suspecting that the average seller must be paying less high promoted rates because my old stuff with the largest promoted rate (but still less than half of what was being suggested at one time) is selling much more frequently, this is stuff that has sometimes been listed for more than 10 years!!!
In my grumpiness, I've not added any newly listed items to my promoted categories for over a year now because I don't like having to add 2% or more drop on everything on top of the regular fees to make stuff move, especially new stuff that gets better views naturally at first. This is because anything promoted still encounters the promoted fees if the buyer buys something else what was promoted then buys the "new" promoted item (Up until that 30 day everything rule came into place I did have promoted rate on everything I sold) it gets zapped the promoted fees too, and this lasts for the next 30 days from the last item purchased that was promoted. I have a lot of repeat customers so the everything promoted for 30 days change was costing me a fair bit of unnecessary fees.
Because I've started to try to semi-retire and migrate some of my venues away from online/postal reliant ones, I'm not feeling the need to put as much energy and $$$ into the "advertising" (as a medium old timer this is how I've always viewed the add on selling costs like promoted listings) as I once did and just let what happens happens...
