New promo to start tomorrow, early notice. Does not appear to have the usual restrictions.
3, 5, 7, 10, and 30-day listing durations are included in this Promotion. This Promotion does not apply to the following: items listed in eBay’s auction-style format, Good ’Til Cancelled durations, eBay Motors Passenger Vehicles, Motorcycles, Boats, Power Sports, Other Vehicles, Motors Local Market, Real Estate, Commercial Printing Presses, Concession Trailers & Carts, Imaging & Aesthetics Equipment, Heavy Equipment or Classified Ad listings.
If you click on the "Activate Now" from the link supplied above, you get:
You've accepted the offer "Pay no insertion fees for up to 5,000 fixed price listings".
The promotion does not yet show in Selling Manager (or "my eBay"") since it starts tomorrow.
"So I assume I am not invited"
That is too bad.
I have not been invited to the last three invitational promotions - when I could have used a promotion.
Now I (maybe) got invited (no official invitation received yet) while I am getting ready to close my eBay store in the next few days until next year.
Oh well, life does go on.
Hi those are not the same category limits that you are thinking about ie. fixed price listing in certain categories..........if you click on the link it describes what they mean. .........For some sellers, we limit the number of items that can be listed in a calendar month in some categories.
Try what Pierre did by clicking on the link earlier up in the messages that someone posted here. It works if you are invited, even if you did not receive the email message yourself. Then just list one fixed price item in the category you want to test when the promo starts. See what happens.
I do not think that the category limit mentioned in the promo refers to the fixed price option not being available in some of the categories where fixed priced listings are usually not at option during a promotion. What I believe that the promo is talking about is if a person has a category limit of say 500 listings in the stamps category. Then they could only list 500 items in that category and no more than that. I could be wrong about this, but that is the way it reads to me. After midnight tonight I will test out my theory and report back here. As I plan on listing just over 3000 items in the collectibles category on Ebay @ ca.
I just did a test, and it appears that the promo works for collectibles at a fixed price. I say it "appears" because the normal counter is not working for listings on the CDN site. The only way I can tell that I am not being charged is my fees have not moved, and I have surpassed my normal store allotment for the month so all is good to go.
Once again, I have NOT received an email from eBay advising of the promotion.
Yet, I am eligible to the promotion as evidenced in my Selling Manager
Pay no insertion fees for up to 5,000 fixed price listings 5,000 free insertion fees on fixed price listings. All existing selling limits apply. Start: 10/06/14 00:00:00 PDT End: 10/10/14 23:59:59 PDT Available at ebay.com | 0 / 5000 | Active  |
5 000 frais d'insertion gratuits- annonces format Prix fixe Limite de 5 000 annonces format Prix fixe. Les restrictions actuelles s'appliquent. Début : 06/10/14 00:00:00 HAE Fin : 10/10/14 23:59:59 HAE Disponible cafr.ebay.ca,ebay.ca | 0 / 5000 | En cours |
This problem of lack of notification for Canadian sellers has been mentioned several times over the last three months. The staff at eBay is still ignoring the issue.
In addition to the lack of communication from eBay, there has been a technical problem (bug or glitch) with the information provided in the Selling Manager Summary Page - "Promotional Offers" block at right - whenever eBay offers a promotion requiring acceptance - like this one.
If the seller checks Selling Manager on eBay.com, the information for eBay.ca or eBay.cafr does not show up.
This problem only occurs when sellers need to accept a promotion.
Since that problem only affects Canadian sellers using both eBay.ca/cafr and eBay.com I expect no priority will ever be given to it and it will never be addressed. We will have to live with it. 
