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

[kempseykate]

I was looking as some of my 'favourite' private sellers this morning. Some of them have sold up to 100 items from the same listing. I think this is something ebay should have addressed years ago. Private sellers should only be allowed to list single items. If they do have a couple, it's no real hardship to list them separately - I have done so myself on occasions - but 100 is taking the mickey.

[jpw_17]

I'm also in the process of reducing my listings to below 300, to ensure I avoid any possibility of being charged £0.35 per listing over this number.

[anne.craig]

I'm a bit confused by all of this - I guess I'm not alone.  I have about 160 active listings at the moment as auctions.  I guess when they auto-renew as unsold at the end of the 7 days those will then double the number of listings to 320 and I'll be over my free allocation for the month?  I only just realised this, guess I need to edit them all before October to not auto-renew.  I suspect my glacially paced clearout of unwanted stuff is going to get even slower!

[jpw_17]

Hi Anne,

The limit of 300 listings does not start until 1st October.  As a result, the 160 active listings that you have as auctions at present, don't count towards that 300, as you listed them in September.  Only any of the 160 that don't sell at auction, that you relist in October, will count towards your October 300.  They won't be counted as 2 x 160.

I hope this helps.

[anne.craig]

Thank you jpw, pretty sure that will be all 160 lol.   I then need to take the auto renew off 20 of them the first week after, then off the rest the week after that.  Which will also mean that all the more expensive items I normally list if I get a fees discount will not be able to be listed.  Oh well, that's a shame but I just need to suck it up I guess, it's not like I have any say in the matter!  Must transfer as much as possible to Vinted ASAP!  Otherwise nothing will ever shift!

[pitchkihub]

Sorry to sound dumb, but l currently have 300 buy-it-now listings and if none of them sell, all will automatically relist next month. Does that mean l have used up my free listings allowance for next month, or can l list ANOTHER 300 items next month for free?  (ie. have 600 items listed in total over a two month period). 

[rob-lucas]

Auctions dont usually auto relist...its usually the buy it nows that do...my auctions never auto relisted. Buy it nows tend to always be better anyway because with an auction you are governed by the time period only and hoping someone sees it in time before it ends. I recommend selling as buy it nows unless you have something that is valuable in whivh case start at the minimum you want for it. Reserve prices never seem to work.

[anne.craig]

My listings auto relist - there's a tick box on the listings page (see screenshot)

[rob-lucas]

Are they buy it nows?

[jpw_17]

Hi pitchkihub,

Your question is not dumb.

I spoke to 2 different eBay Customer Service agents last week and both said relistings, including 'Good till cancelled, would count towards your 300 monthly limit.

Some on here say the 300 limit doesn't include relistings but I guess it will become clear over the coming days, when sellers listings relist.

I had around 436 listings and have ended around 150 to be on the safe side.

Regards

Jonathan

[kath3735_wxmjn]

I only do auctions and they do auto relists just have to tick the little box.

[tressygirl]

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@rob-lucas wrote:

Auctions dont usually auto relist...its usually the buy it nows that do...my auctions never auto relisted. Buy it nows tend to always be better anyway because with an auction you are governed by the time period only and hoping someone sees it in time before it ends. I recommend selling as buy it nows unless you have something that is valuable in whivh case start at the minimum you want for it. Reserve prices never seem to work.

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Auctions can auto relist,  but you have to manually select that option,  so it relists automatically 8 times.

Buy it Nows as you correctly say,  are listed Good Till Cancelled and will auto relist every 30 days untol sold or manually ended.

@rob-lucas 

[downsizing-collection]

Thanks Jonathan, 

I had over 300 listings too and like you l ended over 100 to be on the safe side.  The wording in Ebay's message is confusing!  I started October 1st with 300 buy-it-now listings that had carried over from previous months, but my allowance of 300 free listings in Seller Hub was zero, which would imply that the auto-renewed listings don't count as part of the following month's allowance... but I also spoke to Customer Service who said auto renewals DO count!

As you say, all will hopefully become clear as the weeks go by. 

[vintagetransportmodelsandbooks]

I've had the same experience. I had 1800+ listings with variations running, all good til cancelled, all auto renewing every 30 days. Each one is for a different one of my photographic images, with cards and prints starting at £2.50 - not viable to pay insertion fees for. I only got the email about free listings reducing to 300 per month in the afternoon of 1st October after it had taken effect! I panicked and immediately contacted eBay customer service who confirmed they hadn't already taken any fees (because luckily none were due to auto renew on 1st) and I was told that I'd have to reduce my running listings to a total of 300 at any one time to avoid fees. GOOD TIL CANCELLED AUTO RENEWALS DO COUNT TOWARDS THE 300 FREE LISTINGS. As there are notes on eBay saying they don't , I've spoken to Ebay again this evening and again they have confirmed that they do.

It took me years to create all those listings and I don't want to lose them. The eBay agent tonight told me to start up several new eBay accounts, download the listings and re-upload them across the new accounts, but the link I was given to a downloads area doesn't have a facility to actually do he downloads. I can't find that anywhere. The ended listings disappear after 90 days. If anyone knows how to save them I'd be very grateful!

[vintagetransportmodelsandbooks]

I'm thinking they haven't updated that info yet as it's the opposite of what eBay agents are telling us in person. I've now been told three times that when good til cancelled lustings auto renew, they do count towards your free 300 listings. We won't be able to have more than 300 listings running in total now without being charged insertion fees.

[vintagetransportmodelsandbooks]

Unfortunately the guidance hasn't yet been updated

[vintagetransportmodelsandbooks]

I've now been told by ebay 3 times that auto renewing good til cancelled listings DO count towards our 300 free listings and that we can only have a total of 300 listings running without being charged insertion fees each month.

[vintagetransportmodelsandbooks]

I've been told by three different eBay agents that the existing good til cancelled lisings WILL count towards the 300 free listings limit when they auto renew each month. We'll only be able to have a total of 300 listings running without paying insertion fees. It seems they haven't updated the guidance notes yet!

[vintagetransportmodelsandbooks]

They haven't updated that guidance yet. When you speak with ebay they tell you that the auto relists of good til cancelled lisings DO count towards the 300.

[rob-lucas]

I thought that would be the case, so I took most of my listings off. I think they should have a prompt in red writing letting us know when its gone over the limit.