eBay.CA promo: Save 50% on final value fees for up to 10 sales.

[ypdc_dennis]

Check your promo section to see if you got the latest offer.

Save 50% on final value fees for up to 10 sales.

For listings on ebay.ca and cafr.ebay.ca

Requires activation.

If it is like previous offers of this type, it is applies to listings created Friday, December 8 to Tuesday, December 12 and is credited to the first 10 of those listings that sell.

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[momcqueen]

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@ypdc_dennis wrote:

Finally got an email with promo fine print:

"Invited sellers who activate the offer, list in the auction-style, auction-style with the Buy It Now feature added, or fixed price formats (including Good ‘Til Cancelled listings), with any listing duration, during the Promotion Period, will receive a 50% discount on final value fees (collectively referred to as "Promotion") for the first 10 items sold."......

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Oh, please. List and sold. I have 1120 items listed at the moment and none sitting on my desk waiting for only a sweet promo like this. As if I would be just sitting on a hot hot hot item left unlisted in case some promo came along. 

[momcqueen]

I'm not going to waste time trying to strategically plan to use a promo like this, all my items are listed that are going to be listed. Thanks to the watermark controversy, I'm 250 items across a dozen new product lines behind in ebay listings but it's not like I'm going to shut down my store and stop dispatching toy orders at Christmas to try to take advantage of something like this.

Good luck to those of you who can make it work. I can't fart around with a promo like this, every second I spent typing here is time I should be otherwise packing orders for same-day dispatch before my postal counter closes.

[tellephoto]

Wishful thinking............., USA users got 500 auction or fixed listings for this week........we get this promo instead.

[pjcdn2005]

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@mjwl2006 wrote:

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@ypdc_dennis wrote:

Finally got an email with promo fine print:

"Invited sellers who activate the offer, list in the auction-style, auction-style with the Buy It Now feature added, or fixed price formats (including Good ‘Til Cancelled listings), with any listing duration, during the Promotion Period, will receive a 50% discount on final value fees (collectively referred to as "Promotion") for the first 10 items sold."......

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Oh, please. List and sold. I have 1120 items listed at the moment and none sitting on my desk waiting for only a sweet promo like this. As if I would be just sitting on a hot hot hot item left unlisted in case some promo came along. 

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If you have some higher priced items without any recent selling history you could end those and then relist or use sell similar. I'm sure that those would be considered as being relisted within the promotion period. If you sell any of them you could save a few dollars. 

[pjcdn2005]

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@recped wrote:

Items have to be LISTED during the promo, they have to sell at some point which for a Fixed Price listing could be up to 30 days, for an Auction up to 10 days.

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I've always understood these fvf promotions to work in that same way....list during the promotion period and receive the fvf discount if they sell throughout the length of the listing. But just now when I looked at promo in my messages, on the graphic part it states

Sell by December 12
Applies to first 10 sales

I wonder if that is a typo...I know that we have to list by Dec. 12 but sell by that date too???? That isn't the norm as far as I know.

[momcqueen]

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@pjcdn2005 wrote:

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@mjwl2006 wrote:

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@ypdc_dennis wrote:

Finally got an email with promo fine print:

"Invited sellers who activate the offer, list in the auction-style, auction-style with the Buy It Now feature added, or fixed price formats (including Good ‘Til Cancelled listings), with any listing duration, during the Promotion Period, will receive a 50% discount on final value fees (collectively referred to as "Promotion") for the first 10 items sold."......

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Oh, please. List and sold. I have 1120 items listed at the moment and none sitting on my desk waiting for only a sweet promo like this. As if I would be just sitting on a hot hot hot item left unlisted in case some promo came along. 

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If you have some higher priced items without any recent selling history you could end those and then relist or use sell similar. I'm sure that those would be considered as being relisted within the promotion period. If you sell any of them you could save a few dollars. 

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Yes, that might work for another seller but any of my higher-priced items also have 20+ Watchers that I'd lose if I did that. Of course, we all know watchers aren't necessarily buyers and it might be good to put the fear into them..... However, it've had 50 auctions end and relist automatically since yesterday morning and those have already taken my place in the promo. It's not an easy promo to use. A seller would have to be just sitting on a goldmine of hot, high-priced items sure to sell. And have let them sit unlisted. And haven't any GTCs renewing to take the place of the ones they might want to use. I really have to stand by my earlier assertion it's not a promo that's really any good to me.

[ypdc_dennis]

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@esclyons wrote:

so to clarify, it says for 5 days "only", so does that mean the items you list in the window apply to the first 10 that sell.., or only to items you list that sell in the 5 day window..

for example if i list 30 items today after activating the offer, and they are 30 day auctions, are the first 10 covered in this deal until 30 days expire..

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If you list 30 in the time period the first 10 of those that sell get the discount. Even if it takes until January 12.

The listing time limit is until December 12.

The selling time limit is when the last of the listings expire or there are 10 sales of eligible listings (which ever comes first). 

[ypdc_dennis]

It won't be the first time that the eBay pretty picture and the eBay fine print say different things.

[momcqueen]

I'm no doubt misunderstandings it then. Oh well. 

[tyler@ebay]

Sorry to be so late to this thread everyone -

I do want to confirm that this promotion was only for items newly listed and sold within the time frame.

I know the terms and conditions were confusing on this point, and I have given this feedback to the proper teams so we can set much clearer expectations in the future.

Thanks!

[pjcdn2005]

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tyler@ebay wrote:

Sorry to be so late to this thread everyone -

I do want to confirm that this promotion was only for items newly listed and sold within the time frame.

I know the terms and conditions were confusing on this point, and I have given this feedback to the proper teams so we can set much clearer expectations in the future.

Thanks!

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tyler@ebay

tyler@ebay   ??
( I have no idea how that works on this board)

Within what time frame?  It doesn't make sense that they have to be listed and sold within a few days which is what the graphic suggests. I'm sure that with other similar promotions the items had to be listed within that time frame and then sold before that item was ended or before it was relisted.

[recped]

tyler@ebay

If the sale had to be within the promo period why were Auction listings included? Given the normal duration for Auctions is 7 days even if they were listed on day 1 of the window they would end outside the window.

That makes no sense at all!!!!!!!!!!!!

How about a Fixed Price listing that was started on the evening of the 12th....would it really need to sell in a matter of a couple of hours to qualify? In many cases that listing would not even be indexed in Search.

[tyler@ebay]

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@pjcdn2005 wrote:

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tyler@ebay wrote:

Sorry to be so late to this thread everyone -

I do want to confirm that this promotion was only for items newly listed and sold within the time frame.

I know the terms and conditions were confusing on this point, and I have given this feedback to the proper teams so we can set much clearer expectations in the future.

Thanks!

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tyler@ebay

tyler@ebay   ??
( I have no idea how that works on this board)

Within what time frame?  It doesn't make sense that they have to be listed and sold within a few days which is what the graphic suggests. I'm sure that with other similar promotions the items had to be listed within that time frame and then sold before that item was ended or before it was relisted.

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Within the time frame of the promotion, by the 12th.

I realize how limiting that is - and have included many of the comments here in my feedback to the marketing team specifically.

Thanks for the input @recped - I agree that it is a promotion that was not as helpful as it originally sounded, and that the wording was vague. Hoping to see something better in the future!

[lady.stark]

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tyler@ebay wrote:

Thanks for the input @recped - I agree that it is a promotion that was not as helpful as it originally sounded, and that the wording was vague. Hoping to see something better in the future!

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This was a totally ridiculous and totally useless promo then. A promo like this doesn't make sense at all.

[momcqueen]

So it seems that I did, in fact, read it correctly: listed and sold. By sheer coincidence due to my GTCs renewing themselves during that time period, I did actually have one item selling for $90+ CAD that fell into the terms of the promo through no design of mine. Lucky me. It wasn't a total loss. 

[momcqueen]

Oh, and here. I'll just throw some more fuel on the fire. I got this to the ebay.com account I use to buy. Never sold anything from it. 

If I've said it once, I've sent it a hundred times: it's ill-advised to throw promos like this at users who've no idea how to sell anything  on the site because all ebay is going to do is drag unlikely/unwilling/untrained sellers to the table to screw up buyer experiences at a critical time like Christmas. 

[momcqueen]

This ebay.com promo applies only to high-ticket items, I might add. A hundred dollars of more each. In the last week to shop before Christmas. And it's being sent to users who've never sold anything on ebay.

How is it blatantly obvious to only people like me that this is a terrible, terrible idea from a buyer perspective, both in the short-term and the long-term? If the team tasked with recruitment manages to get ten new sellers to the table and nine of those transactions end in some form of disaster or disappointment for the buyer, is this considered a win or a loss for ebay? Short-term win, long-term loss?

Brand new sellers make a dozen mistakes in their first dozen transactions. I did, and I'm among the most overly-serious and **bleep**-retentive sellers that I know. Right from the start. I made a dozen mistakes with my first dozen orders and that was with me TRYING my hardest not to make any mistakes. Promos like the one above only rope in would-be sellers who most likely don't care about selling here. Ebay should be catering to the sellers already here who actually try to make it all work. 

[recped]

Can you dig up the fine print for this Max $10 offer? Interested to see if it's as vague as the 50% deal.

Oh by the way.....you were the one that read the offer as meaning listed AND sold in the period....sorry I doubted you!

[momcqueen]

It's a wall of text. Sorry. The good news is there was an actual link to Learn More on it. 

*Insertion and optional advanced upgrade fees may apply. Included categories require specific item conditions. See below for more details.

Please note: Invited sellers must activate the Promotion by selecting “Activate offer” from within the invitation email, the Promotion landing page, or from within the Promotional Offers module within My eBay. Items listed prior to a seller activating the Promotion not be eligible for the Promotion.

What is the Promotion?

Invited sellers (“Sellers”) who activate the offer, and pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth herein, list during the Promotion Period, will pay maximum final value fees of $10 per item for the first ten items that sell for $100 or more (“Promotion”).

Eligible listings for the Promotion include auction-style, auction-style with the Buy It Now feature added, or fixed price formats (including Good ‘Til Cancelled listings), with any listing duration.

Final value fees will still be applied to the total amount of the sale including the cost of the item, shipping, and any other fees a seller may charge(excluding any sales tax. However, the maximum final value fees have been reduced to $10 per item sold for $100 or more (excluding taxes and shipping).

Please note: All existing selling limits on your account (as well as category and item limits) still apply. Listing fees may apply, depending on how many listings you have already created; learn more about seller fees, including number of free listings per month, by viewing our everyday rate plan.

Who’s eligible?

This Promotion is available to invited sellers who: (i) received an email and/or message in My eBay; (ii) activated the promotion; 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 the date specified in the message you received through email or eBay Message Center, at 00:00:01 PT (12:00AM plus one second), and will end on the date specified in the message you received through e-mail or eBay Message Center, at 23:59:59 PT (11:59PM plus 59 seconds), for listings on www.ebay.com (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 from the invitation email, the Promotion landing page, or from within the Promotional Offers module within My eBay. Sellers must then create listings on the US site at www.ebay.com or eBay Motors at www.ebay.com/motors (Parts & Accessories and Automotive Tools & Supplies only) through the Sell Your Item form, eBay Seller Tools, eBay Mobile applications, and most third-party tools. The Promotion does not apply to items sold through eBay Valet. Any listings created prior to the time of activation will not be eligible for the Promotion. Please note that the discount may not be shown during the listing process. Instead, the discount will be reflected in the “Seller Account” section in My eBay, under the Account tab, as well as in your next invoice.

Summary of Restrictions & Exclusions

Please take time to read the full terms for all the details.

1. This Promotion is only valid for listings on the US site at www.ebay.com or with an eBay Mobile application in the US.
2. Promotion is available only to non-Store sellers only.
3. The following categories are excluded from the Promotion: eBay Motors Passenger Vehicles, Motorcycles, Boats, Power Sports, Other Vehicles, Motors Local Market, Real Estate, Classified Ad listings, Heavy Equipment, Concession Trailers & Carts, Imaging & Aesthetics Equipment, and Commercial Printing Presses, Guitars & Basses.
4. Fees for optional features (such as reserve price, subtitle, Gallery Plus, listing in 2 categories, etc.) and any applicable PayPal fees will still apply. Please note: Not all features are available in all listing flows.
5. The Promotion excludes listings created prior to activating the offer and listings with a start date prior to, or after the Promotion Period.
6. All listings must comply with all applicable eBay policies, including eBay’s Duplicate Listing policy that allows for the removal of duplicate fixed price listings.

Reference Code: 5582

[tobyshitzu]

Even their staff didn't understand the promo.   it was clearly Listed during the promo then sold during that listing at any time.  The counter disappeared but they still get the promo.  I lalready used the 10 on one id by today (all low price) 

 15-Dec-17 08:33:33 EST Final Value fee PROMO C $1.05 --