300 listings per month for private sellers it is very bad as I am a Pensioner

[bumblebeecrafts-2008]

I am a pensioner and since my husband past I have been using nearly all of 1000 listings per month as I am trying to sell things  (down sizing) to try & help make life a bit more viable with the cost of everything nowadays. It is a huge reduction for  private sellers 1000 down to only 300 per month. Good for businesses less competition. I spoke to an ebay agent on the telephone and complained about it and was told it has brought us into line with Europe.  Doesn't ebay know we are no longer in the EU so that arguement  falls flat on its face.

I am hardly selling many items anymore because of this so, I will look at other sites to sell on . Ebay I have been with you for over 16 years shame on you.

[robbtyke132010]

My heart bleeds....

[kidmore_kats]

It's nothing to do with the EU, that's just their excuse to get you off the phone.

I'm a pensioner and one of the things that boils my urine is people playing the pensioner card as if that gives them some kind of entitlement over everyone else.

[roger_roger_over_and_nowt]

16 years on Ebay and under 1600 feedback means less than 100 feedback per year (without looking at what the feedback was for).

That only says to me that even if the feedback was all for selling then 300 free lisings per month would still amount now to 3,600 per year,over double the total for 16 years ???.

[*devils.advocate*]

You have 73 items on auction - so listed for 7 days each week will give 292 listings most months - under the 300 "limitation".

If you've more than the 70+ items available to sell, you have to consider yourself fortunate to have that many - irrespective of age.

If you were to list the items on a Buy it Now (BIN) basis, you’d have loads of 300 items per month.

The problem is what?

[jonatjonatjonat]

complained about it and was told it has brought us into line with Europe.  Doesn't ebay know we are no longer in the EU

last I checked we were still in Europe though…

[ile136yz]

A positive view no Private Seller's fees now which will enable reductions if an item has been for sale for months.

[tommystrezures]

Yep we are still part of Europe! You are not wrong there!

However on this occasion the CS rep did give the correct advice, it does bring UK in line with Europe, (EEA) Germany etc has only allowed 300 per month free listings for a good 12-18 months+ and also has the overseas fee too (%). I think it was march 2023 this started.

[krafty-kreations]

 It is a huge reduction for  private sellers 1000 down to only 300 per month. Good for businesses less competition

I think 300 is a fair amount for a private seller, especially with no fees to pay, and the only time business sellers and private sellers are in competition is when business sellers use private accounts to sell.

I do know how hard life can be when you lose a husband, have you thought about listing things on Buy It Now rather than auction, you'll get 300 free listings every month that way.

[lighting_signs_and_vintage]

Personal view - I can't believe anyone would want the stress of that after a loss, for gawds sakes if you are listing so much you really need more than 300 a month I suspect you need to make more real world connections and give the items to charity / auction house as appropriate. Speak to your GP about social prescribing (as you're a pensioner you're in target group although available to all ages). People handle grief in very different ways but I don't believe becoming an eBay mega seller, especially in the age of returns and scams, is a particularly healthy one, even if you think 'it's what they would have wanted'. Put bluntly, 'what they would have wanted' (e.g. 'you won't throw all my stuff away, will you?' etc...) is irrelevant now and it needs to be about you.

[blacksilk_79]

Hi, I'm sorry to hear of you loss, maybe try vinted. 

[lighting_signs_and_vintage]

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@blacksilk_79 wrote:

maybe try vinted. 

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Having had a very quick flash look at OP's first 2 pages of listings and not having the best knowledge of V1nted (but my partner does buy stuff on there, vibe I get is target market 'female 20s to 40s') I'd suggest they probably would be in the wrong venue and do no better, perhaps worse. And no good for non clothes. With the best will in the world I think my chazza shop suggestion was on the money.

[vintique*violet]

I am sorry to hear of your loss and hope you are taking care of yourself @bumbebeecrafts-2008 and hope that you have some support.  Good for you to be pro-active and do something which you have found some " joy" in, it can be very difficult to let go of items once appreciated by a loved one.

 It is a huge difference in the listing amounts, albeit this does not affect me,  but I do not think it is the amount of items causing less sales - it appears that the system, has for the most part, reduced or hidden visibility to encourage " pay to promote" so that eBay can garner fees since the " free to sell" ... Even with 20 items I am having zero views /watchers etc. and many business sellers are feeling the " pinch" so to speak too. 

It is as if all the " buyers" have left the building 😉 

[billtev]

I'm a pensioner too and still running a small business on ebay and quite honestly I had to reduce my listings to under 300 per month to keep coping. 

[kath3735_wxmjn]

well my sales seem to go in cycles!  couple of weeks of drought (lucky if i get one sale) and then a vertiable feast 4/5 over a couple of days.  Does not match up with end of month pay as you might think either.  There is usually the same drought in views which leads me to wonder if there is anything in the 'tin foil hat' theory of some kind of blanking over certain periods.  This has been pretty routine for me for the past couple of years.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

I am a private seller but sell my family stuff as well because i have the time and (used to) inclination but i have always kept my selling less than 100 because it would then become a chore.  As most of it is clothes, i have to sort out whether to car boot/e bay or bin, then launder, photograph and measurements.  Then we have the fun of listing and i like to try and cover all the details to try to avoid problems later down the line.  I will probably be increasing the amounts soon though because i still have quite a bit that i would like to sell (i know, ha ha) before simple delivery starts and i depart!

[vintique*violet]

I believe the " cycles" are due to algorithms "rules"  releasing certain items , categories, or an amount of, to be viewable as I have experienced this also. 

[johnwash1]

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@vintique*violet wrote:

I believe the " cycles" are due to algorithms "rules"  releasing certain items , categories, or an amount of, to be viewable as I have experienced this also. 

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I believe the cycles are due to the same reasons that buses arrive in groups.  I don't subscribe to all the conspiracy theories.  The one aspect that is certainly evident is that ebay's search has got worse and worse over the years.  It used to be so good.

Believe what you like, but there's no benefit in conjecturing about it.

[vintique*violet]

Algorithms are not conspiratorial... research... 

I cannot see any other plausible explanation for a digital platform using A.I. etc.

I do believe in my own thought process - like everyone should, I also use critical thinking and weigh up the bigger picture. 

Cannot comment on Buses, never used one. 😉 

[insidethe93]

Please accept my condolences.

If you're happy to sell on eBay, with all the time and effort that involves, fair enough.

But if you're interested in saving yourself some work, especially for non-sentimental items, some house clearance companies and other specialised firms (eBay selling agents; auction houses) can take items you want to sell, sell them on your behalf, and give you the proceeds minus a fee. There's often a 'service cost' deducted from their valuation of the items and then a fee (typically 20%) for items once actually sold.

House clearance firms: I picked one to clear a relative's house, a few years ago, that sold items for a fee AND if they couldn't sell them they'd "re-home" them to various places e.g. upcyclers or straightforward donations. I chose this as there was so many items plus furniture and I had the tight deadline of the house sale plus I lived hundreds of miles away. House-clearers know all kinds of traders e.g. not just the usual like plumber but jewellers who buy secondhand jewellery.

eBay selling agents: These specialists can handle the entire selling process on eBay for you. I saw one called Trade My Clutter in Hertfordshhire but I know nothing about them; their name just came up when I googled.

Auction houses appraise, handle, and auction off only valuable items like furniture, antiques, and collectibles.