Has eBay.ca stopped offering extra free listings to non store subscribers

[femmefan1946]

Promotions are for the good of eBay, not presents for sellers, or for buyers.

If eBay thinks they need a lot more listings, they will hand out Free Listing promotions willy-nilly.

When eBay was trying to persuade Canadian sellers to list on eBayCanada, as they were last year,for example, we got 50,000 Free Listings on dotCA for a couple of months, as long as we listed in Canadian dollars.

If there is a category with fewer listings than eBay wants, Free Listing promotion.

If there are too few Auction listings for eBay's branding *, Free Auction Listings to persuade the 85% of sellers who have found Fixed Price Listings more profitable.

Without a Store, you have 50 Free Listings a month on dotCA and another 50 Free Listings on dotCOM if you want to use them.

With a Store, those disappear, but you get reduced rates** on your store items, from 10 cents to 3cents each depending on the type of Store.

http://www.subs.ebay.ca/feeweb/feeillustrator

*EBay is almost the only Auction generalist site around. Certainly the best known.

**EBay calls these 'free' but in reality you should divide the monthly store rental by the number of listings you have each month.

[mcrlmn]

You already get free listings.

I pay for a store, and don't get free listings.

I could sure use some of those 'extra free listings' you refer to.

[mcrlmn]

 "Has eBay.ca stopped offering extra free listings to non store subscribers"?

I hope so.

[mapleleaf-collectibles]

Why would you hope so? That does not make much sense. Without the 100% FREE listings myself and thousands of others probably would not sell on here, and Ebay will become more of a ghost town than it already has become.

[momcqueen]

Store Subscribers pay a good dollar every month for a certain number of 'free' listings to be included in that monthly subscription.

If ebay gives away 1,000 listings, every non-store seller who's been invited to that promo is given the same advantage that I pay $65 a month to use. Without having to build that $65 fee into their prices. It places the long-term, serious sellers at a major disadvantage while increasing competiion for the same number of buyers looking to spend the same number of dollars. 

If you need listings, consider a store subscription.

[mapleleaf-collectibles]

Very good point, but to make Ebay viable, there has to be competition, or there would not be any good deals.
My way of selling on Ebay is to find stuff super cheap, buy in Canadian dollars, and resell in American dollars. The exchange on the dollar pays for the Ebay fees most times. When I get a item to sell, I search Ebay.ca and Ebay.com, Amazon, and other sites and make sure mine is the lowest price available, even if it means only making a few bucks profit, as that is better than none.
I choose my 100 most likely to sell items a month, and list them for free. To spend $780 a year to open a store really cuts into the bottom line. I almost opened one in the height of my selling frenzy a decade ago, and the store price then was around $29.00 a month. Even that was to much. To keep people joining and buying on Ebay, they need people like me, driving the prices down, not sellers rehashing the same stuff over and over at top dollar. 100 free listings a month is the best thing Ebay has ever done to encourage new sellers, increase competition, and give buyers what they want, and that is the lowest price available.

[mcrlmn]

"Without the 100% FREE listings myself and thousands of others probably would not sell on here"

But you do sell on here with your monthly allotment of free listings.
I don't get any free listings. I pay for each one, monthly with my subscription.

I have plenty of competition thank-you.

Like you, every month I could use extra listings, and hope eBay draws my name.
I often close the month with items waiting to be relisted because I haven't any remaining.

If they're going to give freebies to non-subscription sellers, I'd be for auction listings only.
They're of no use to me, but I could use more auctions to pull from.

A windfall for me if there were 500 free 'Buy it now' every month, I wouldn't need to pay for a store subscription anymore.

[mapleleaf-collectibles]

I was wondering the same thing, but I suspect due to the amount of increased traffic due to Christmas, they just are not giving them out this month. Oh well, by Ebay not giving out free listings, they are only hurting themselves. I have not paid a listing fee in years, and never will again. 

[reallynicestamps]

You get 50 Free Listings on dotCA if you do not have a Store.

You get another 50 Free Listings on dotCOM if you do not have a Store.

It is possible to that the same promotion is available on every or many sites.

I understand there are about 35 different eBay sites.

Which would be 1750 Free Listings.

But each lists in it's own currency.

And you can only use Calculated Shipping on dotCA.

Still there are five or six English language sites, four French and three Spanish.