Selling Limits

[eliklp_81]

I'm a private seller with more than 400 items for sale on Ebay but with the recent introduction of Ebay's maximum 300 listings per month, this means only 300 get listed in any month. If I want to list more, I have to pay a £0.35 per listing extra charge. 

My sales rate runs at about 5-10 items per month so you quite quickly realise that paying £0.35 per extra listing just doesn't make financial sense - getting the remaining 100 listings posted means £35.00 up front which would eat into monies made on sales of at least one third of that value.

Previous to this irritating novelty from Ebay, the listing maximum was well in excess of 400 and Ebay's charges only applied when a sale was made. This was clearly better as everything I had listed was visible to buyers, whereas now 25% of my listings remain invisible to buyers.

Not best pleased.

[john1297576]

As I can see nothing listed or sold under this ID, it is impossible to answer what is a complaint, not a question.

I do not know what you list, how you list, but presumably auction or duration. 

Listing as BIN relists every month, and does not get counted in the 300, which in any case should be adequate for a private seller.

[tommystrezures]

You just list the other 100 the following month as part of your 300 allowance no charge leaving you an additional 200 to list.

[eliklp_81]

Perhaps I'm not making myself clear.

At the beginning of each calendar month, Ebay permits me to list a max of 300 items. That leaves, in my case, 100+  items that I cannot list until the following month unless I'm willing to pay 35p per additional listing. This restriction did not apply previously i.e. I was able to list all 400 items with no charge, charges only being applicable when a sale was made; a much better way of doing things.

Plus, the maximum period permitted for each listing is 10 days. So, when the 10 days are up, all listings are removed and can only relisted on payment of 35p per listing because the initial 300 listings have used up my monthly 300 listing max allowance. I therefore have to wait until the next month to relist, because I don't want to pay 35p per listing. Again, previously I could relist all items as soon as the 10-day-max was reached, thereby keeping my listings visible on Ebay at all times, with no charge.

I can't be the only Ebay seller to be unhappy with the new regime.

[tressygirl]

Could some of your 300 auctions be listed in a Buy it Now format? 

If so, then BIN items if they do not sell , automatically relist the next month and so on , until sold or manually removed, and those do  not count in your 300 monthly listing limit.

@eliklp_81 

[*vyolla*]

Fixed price Buy it Now listings that carry over into the next month and Auction listings that are set to automatically (not manually) relist up to 8 times will automatically carry over into the next month and do not count as part of your 300 new listings allowance.