5 Free Listings.

pfc4life1

Hi Everyone.

I know Ebay have a free 5 listings a month promotion, but I can't use it.
Listed my last free item months ago, went to sell a new one just a minute ago and it wants to charge me.

Am I doing something wrong, or just plain stupid :rotfl:

Thanks
Sam

chezba

pfc4life1 wrote: »

Hi Everyone.

I know Ebay have a free 5 listings a month promotion, but I can't use it.
Listed my last free item months ago, went to sell a new one just a minute ago and it wants to charge me.

Am I doing something wrong, or just plain stupid :rotfl:

Thanks
Sam

Never heard of that one!

borders_dude

pfc4life1 wrote: »

Hi Everyone.

I know Ebay have a free 5 listings a month promotion, but I can't use it.
Listed my last free item months ago, went to sell a new one just a minute ago and it wants to charge me.

Am I doing something wrong, or just plain stupid :rotfl:

Thanks
Sam

DaveAshton

pfc4life1 wrote: »

I know Ebay have a free 5 listings a month promotion, but I can't use it.
Listed my last free item months ago, went to sell a new one just a minute ago and it wants to charge me.

And you heard this... where?

The only free listings ebay give are everything private sellers list for less than 99p. They do promotions from time to time offering free listings to every private seller no matter the price, but they're few and far between (about 1 day a month on average).

upsy-daisy_3

Since when?????

cyberbob

Love to know where you heard that one. How do you know this?

chezba

Just googled it - looks like ebay.com thing

eBay to Give Sellers 5 Free Auction Listings per MonthBy: Ina SteinerTue May 12 2009 15:22:33eBay is giving sellers the opportunity to list five auction-style listings per month with zero listing fees if they use eBay's Sell Your Item form or Simple listing form. Under the new pricing, Final Value Fees will be 8.75% of the sales price or $20, whichever is lower. Any additional items sold during the same 30-day period will have the same Insertion Fees and Final Value Fees as they do currently. (Link to announcement.)

The new listing fees go into effect on June 16, 2009. Sellers who use an eBay tool or third-party listing tools will not receive the special pricing.

According to eBay's announcement, "We're continuing our efforts to lower the upfront costs of selling on eBay. The 5 listings with $0.00 Insertion Fees are especially helpful if you don't sell a high volume, but offer the kind of unique and hard-to-find inventory buyers expect to find on eBay."

eBay has been encouraging high-volume sellers and fixed-price formats, which make up about half of eBay's Gross Merchandise Volume. In the first quarter of 2009, Fixed Price format grew 12 percent, while Auction format listings declined 20 percent.

A CitiGroup analyst commented in March on eBay's move way from the auction format as it became less relevant than in the past, but said he believed eBay would likely benefit for some time from hosting a vibrant, core Auction marketplace. "The operating questions for eBay are: What is the right size for its Auction market? And how does eBay preserve this differentiating feature while still promoting Fixed Price sales?"

By limiting the free auctions to five per month and excluding the use of eBay and third-party tools, eBay is trying to attract unique items in the auction format without diverting multi-quantity, fixed-price listings.

montyrebel

as all the money values in the above are in dollars i am guessing it is for .com users only

*LoopyLaura*

.com not .co.uk.......... This is for our American friends I guess!!

Mayday

That's right - I got the email from eBay.co.uk about a month ago and got caught out - which is probably what they intended :mad:

cyberbob

pfc4life1 wrote: »

Listed my last free item months ago, went to sell a new one just a minute ago and it wants to charge me.

So looking at the information others have found its a .com only offer. Did you mean to list there?