Free listing day TODAY

soolin

The community boards are suggesting that the 'no turbolister' may well be designed to catch out business sellers masquerading as private sellers who may just upload tomorrow thinking it is free. We've got used to TL showing fees when in fact there are none due so it won't look odd to see fees being calculated and they might not think to check their account.

I couldn't possibly comment on any of the many and varied conspiracy theories but the no third party lister exception isn't exactly obvious on the main page. I tend to be a bit paranoid about terms and conditions and spotted it almost immediately, but I can honestly see how it might get overlooked if you read just the main bits.

soolin

Bumping so you can list before ebay gets overloaded.

Mayday

stevew8975 wrote: »

There is a very easy way around this though.

Create the listings this week, schedule them to start on Monday 18th, and then edit the scheduled listing on sunday to list immeadiately.

The schedule fee is only charged at the time the listing goes live.

Thanks for this tip as I'm using it

cyberbob

I give it till this afternoon before the servers collapse with all the crap being listed

Mayday

And a warning about re-lists -

Do them individually from your 'Unsold' list, not as a bunch as you'll be charged insertion fees :mad: I've just been caught out on this :mad:

soolin

Mayday wrote: »

And a warning about re-lists -

Do them individually from your 'Unsold' list, not as a bunch as you'll be charged insertion fees :mad: I've just been caught out on this :mad:

That's worth knowing and would support the theory they are trying to catch out wrongly listed business sellers.. Does the fee actually show when you check your account as I've noticed when I relist 'free' media items I am always shown a fee but am never charged it in the account.

Mayday

The fee showed on the re-listing/edit page under the five items before I hit submit. Then checked my account summary, and there it was.

Won't be doing that again in a hurry!

soolin

If that is the same for everyone then I imagine a number of people will be caught out.

ravenjet

I already had something scheduled on auctiva before I read the terms, it has uploaded this morning and fees are showing as 0 - promotional rate. Will they charge me later?

powertron

They just charged me for 30 listings I made. :mad:

I thought it was supposed to be a free listing day.