ebay reduction to 300 listings for private sellers . scheduling holiday over changeover period. hel

[redconnboy]

Re the reduction from Ocober 1st in listings for private sellers.

i am a private seller , selling off a lifetime collection of books on ebay as im downsizing on retirement.

i currently have well over 1000 items listed which dont attract listing fees at the moment because books sell slowly and the fixed price listings roll over from month to month. i long ago finished listing the books in my library , so my ongoing  'new listings' are around 10 items per month or less.

i have two queries;

on october first will my 1000+ listings roll over without incurring listing fees?

Also i am due to go on an extended holiday over the period of the changeover date October 1st and was going  to  schedule a full months 'time away'.  I return in mid /late october.  at the end of my time away will my 1000 plus listings be subject to listing fees?

any thoughts would be welcome

[123michaelwh]

The auto realist is the ones after a brand new listing and that only happens once or twice then they class that listed item as an old item and they then come off the 300, so so if you have listed 10 items and they didn't sell first time around then they automatically realist and that doesn't come off, but then if they don't sell again, it's then an old listing and it count, as I got caught out by it and got a bill and they took the money straight out to pay by the method saved, so you only get that after a new listing doesn't sell and eBay does an automatic reliant but after the second time or third is comes off and it's 35 if your over your 300, and listing every 10 days it will go fast of the 300, if you have lot's of cheap smaller items 

[kempseykate]

Buy it Now Lisitngs are 'good til cancelled'. If you leave them running they don't come off your listing total again, and you have nothing to pay if you are already on 300 listings. You never need to 'relist' it, it will just run until you end it.

For auctions you have the option to tick a box which wil relist for up to 8 times. These relists also won't come off your total.

If you end a BIN and relist it it WILL count as a new listing and it will cme off your 300, or you will pay 35p if you are already over 300.

If an auction doesn't sell and you relist it, it will come off your 300 total, or you will pay 35p if you are already over 300.

[rob-lucas]

Oh, I didnt know that, thank goodness for your post. I think we all need to make sure we have under 300 on every time then and make sure we are on the My Ebay (old selling interface so we can check the circle showing used and what we have left. Also, can we disable the auto reist? If not I will switch to new seller hub and manually end them. This must be why they dont mind letting us list for free as we cant easily keep tabs on whats old and renewing and counting towards the 300..

[kath3735_wxmjn]

I agree with you, i think @123michaelwh  has either got it wrong or he is talking about something else.  My items are auctions, tick auto relist box and they relist for ages (never actually counted whether it is 8 times but i assume so as i do not get many to relist).   None of the ones automatically relisted have come off my total but the couple i have had to manually relist have.

[kempseykate]

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@rob-lucas wrote:

Oh, I didnt know that, thank goodness for your post. I think we all need to make sure we have under 300 on every time then and make sure we are on the My Ebay (old selling interface so we can check the circle showing used and what we have left. Also, can we disable the auto reist? If not I will switch to new seller hub and manually end them. This must be why they dont mind letting us list for free as we cant easily keep tabs on whats old and renewing and counting towards the 300..

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Why would you want to disable the auto relist? Auto relist items DO NOT come off your 300 listings.
If you manually end them and relist them, then they will count as new listings and WILL come off your 300.

If you have 300 items on today, and leave them all 'good til cancelled' (as BINs), you wouldn't have to pay any listing fees, ever! (Or until ebay change the system)

[megan1512]

thanks to ebays algorithms sellers of items like vintage books dont get priority in searches it isnt that they are "junk " its just that they have so little visibility
a proper street bookshop wil have books on its shelfs for decades doesnt mean theyre "junk "
just the right buyer hasnt seen them

[megan1512]

there is a diference beetween you relisting and auto relisting
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Listing fees

Private sellers get an allocation of 300 free listings each month (or, 400 free listings each month if you have an eBay Shop subscription). Once you've used all of your free listings, we charge 35p for each additional listing you create that month. Listing fees are non-refundable.

• Relists and renewals: When your existing listings are automatically renewed or relisted, we don't charge the listing fee again, and the renewal or relist won't count against your free listings allocation. If you choose to manually relist your item, it'll count against your free listings allocation, or we'll charge a listing fee if you've used up your monthly allocation

[megan1512]

Listing fees

Private sellers get an allocation of 300 free listings each month (or, 400 free listings each month if you have an eBay Shop subscription). Once you've used all of your free listings, we charge 35p for each additional listing you create that month. Listing fees are non-refundable.

• Relists and renewals: When your existing listings are automatically renewed or relisted, we don't charge the listing fee again, and the renewal or relist won't count against your free listings allocation. If you choose to manually relist your item, it'll count against your free listings allocation, or we'll charge a listing fee if you've used up your monthly allocation

[megan1512]

Listing fees

Private sellers get an allocation of 300 free listings each month (or, 400 free listings each month if you have an eBay Shop subscription). Once you've used all of your free listings, we charge 35p for each additional listing you create that month. Listing fees are non-refundable.

• Relists and renewals: When your existing listings are automatically renewed or relisted, we don't charge the listing fee again, and the renewal or relist won't count against your free listings allocation. If you choose to manually relist your item, it'll count against your free listings allocation, or we'll charge a listing fee if you've used up your monthly allocation

[123michaelwh]

They might as well be now, as if you go around all the charity shops in the country, they are all saying they can’t take donations as the are over stocked, and that’s is because everyone that is a private seller is now thinning their items out to keep them in line with 300 listed items per month, so it was 1000 so 700 and any over 300 now go straight to charity shops and they are now full, so all those sales have gone out of the system and then the way search works, you don’t get any watcher’s anymore
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[papso22]

You can't possibly have information from all the charity shops in the UK.   I use several locally and they all take donations still.

I also think paying to list over 300 items will not drive private sellers to give everything away, given that the no selling fees should more than cover it and they used to pay those instead.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

not many real private sellers (with the exception maybe of stamp collecters etc) list 1000 a month to start with.  I have never been over a 100 never mind a thousand.    Our charity shops are still asking for donations so maybe it is where you live, we have lots of them around here.  As for watchers, i get plenty, the only problem is they are not watching to buy generally but for other reasons.  I never actually bother with how many watchers i have, it means nothing in regards to sales.

[123michaelwh]

But you have realist every 10 days so spilt it up with all items then make a month, I had my 7 years of Nat geography magazines over 300 magazines then times 4 at 10 days? So a 1000 gone okay all now sold, so 300 spilt by 10 days so in real terms it’s just over a 100 items and is not as much as you are making out as okay it might not be all the time
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[papso22]

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@123michaelwh wrote:
But you have realist every 10 days so spilt it up with all items then make a month, I had my 7 years of Nat geography magazines over 300 magazines then times 4 at 10 days? So a 1000 gone okay all now sold, so 300 spilt by 10 days so in real terms it’s just over a 100 items and is not as much as you are making out as okay it might not be all the time
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I don't think you understand the relisting terms.  And I also think your maths is wrong, but as you only have 28 listings it's probably a moot point.

[123michaelwh]

Those were past figures before they changed it,? I have cleared most items out to charity shops as it was easier to than keeping them on eBay
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[megan1512]

if you had 300 on BUY IT NOW they would have relisted for free
and you would be able to list another 300 free

[1128septav]

High Megan, i ain't sure about that 

[kempseykate]

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@1128septav wrote:

High Megan, i ain't sure about that 

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It's true!

"Relists and renewals: When your existing listings are automatically renewed or relisted, we don't charge the listing fee again, and the renewal or relist won't count against your free listings allocation. "

From:

Fees for private sellers | eBay

[johnwash1]

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@123michaelwh wrote:
But you have realist every 10 days so spilt it up with all items then make a month, I had my 7 years of Nat geography magazines over 300 magazines then times 4 at 10 days? So a 1000 gone okay all now sold, so 300 spilt by 10 days so in real terms it’s just over a 100 items and is not as much as you are making out as okay it might not be all the time
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If that's what an iPhone does to plain English, remind me not to get one.

[mgirlingm]

Not really solved.

EBAY are not being responsible here.

If they want this count of 300 items per month they should show the number listed so it is visible to the customer. There are too many ambiguities otherwise.