Free Listing on Sunday June 6th....

StaffsSW

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/promos/0IF_100606/index.html

Private sellers only again, but in the small print...

If you list items in the promotion period with a starting price of between £0.01 and £0.99 they will still count towards your limited 100 new listings/month.

If you go over the 100 new listings with a starting price of between £0.01 and £0.99 on the promotion period you will be charged the promotion insertion fee of £0.00, however, after the promotion period if you list items with a starting price of between £0.01 and £0.99 you will be charged the standard insertion fee of £0.10, £0.05 for media.

So it's not as free as it first seems - it simply encourages people to move their allocation of free listings to the start of the month, possibly to increase the number of insertion fees paid by sellers towards the end of the month...

Clever.

cally6008

Terms and Conditions

What is it?

On Sunday 6 June 2010 (local UK time), eBay.co.uk registered Private Sellers who list item(s) (with any starting price) in an eligible category using the Auction-style format on eBay.co.uk, will not pay an Insertion Fee per listing.
To take part in this promotion, sellers must be registered as resident in the UK.
Please refer to "What's Excluded?" for more details.
When is it?

Sunday 6 June from 00:00:01 until 23:59:59 local UK time (promotional period).
What's included?

• Only items listed on eBay.co.uk using the Auction-style or Auction with Buy It Now option formats are included. Listings using the Auction-with-Buy It Now format will be charged the Listing Upgrade Fee for Buy It Now.
• Any item previously scheduled to go live during the promotional period will qualify for the promotion.
• During the promotional period, if sellers re-list an item that had previously closed without a successful sale, the re-listed item will qualify for the promotion.
• If the re-listed item sells and is eligible under the eBay re-list policy, eBay will not refund the Insertion Fee, as sellers would not have paid an Insertion Fee (the promotional Insertion Fee price of 0 pence) for re-listing the item.
• Items listed in the”Vehicle Parts & Accessories” category are included.
• To take part in this promotion, sellers must be registered as resident in the UK.

What's Excluded?

• Business Sellers are not eligible to participate in this promotion.
• PowerSellers are not eligible to participate in this promotion.
• All items listed in the "Cars, Motorcycles & Vehicles" category.
• Items listed in the "Residential Property" category.
• Items listed in the "Mobile Phones with Contract" sub-category of the "Mobile & Home Phones" category.
• Identical listings that do not comply with our Duplicate Listings policy.
• Buy It Now (Fixed Price) format listings.
• Any item listed during the promotional period but scheduled to start after the promotional period does NOT qualify for the promotion.
• Any items listed which do not comply with eBay’s Listing Policies or Prohibited and Restricted Items Policies.
• Items which are listed with a Reserve Price are excluded from this promotion.
• Only the basic eBay Insertion Fee will be reduced to 0 pence (£0.00). All other eBay selling fees will still apply, including but not limited to Final Value Fees, optional Reserve Price Fees and all Listing Upgrade Fees such as "Gallery Plus" or "Subtitle”; See the full details about eBay fees.

Members listing using the Auction-with-Buy It Now format will still be charged the Listing Upgrade Fee for Buy It Now.
Further information

• If you list items in the promotion period with a starting price of between £0.01 and £0.99 they will still count towards your limited 100 new listings/month.
• If you go over the 100 new listings with a starting price of between £0.01 and £0.99 on the promotion period you will be charged the promotion insertion fee of £0.00, however, after the promotion period if you list items with a starting price of between £0.01 and £0.99 you will be charged the standard insertion fee of £0.10, £0.05 for media. Please see here for more details about the 100 new listings per month limits.
• If the item is listed in 2 categories, the Insertion Fee will be 0 pence (£0.00) times 2 i.e. 0 pence (£0.00).
• If the item qualifies for the promotion, the "Sell Your Item" form will indicate to the seller that they have been charged the Insertion Fee of 0 pence (£0.00).

General terms

• eBay reserves the right to suspend, change or cancel the promotion at any time, in the event of circumstances arising which, in eBay's opinion, make it necessary for it to do so. eBay reserves the right to add additional terms and conditions for certain parts of this promotion.
• The decision of eBay regarding any aspect of this promotion is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

cally6008

Free insertion fees

Your first 100 single-quantity auction-style listings in a calendar month won’t be charged an insertion fee if:

• You are a private seller
  
• The item is listed in an eligible category
  
• Your starting price is between £0.01 and £0.99
  

If your listing is eligible for a £0.00 insertion fee, your insertion fee will appear as "Free" in the listing form. If you're relisting an item, the relist is eligible for £0.00 insertion fees under the same guidelines as a new listing. All listings (including relisted and cancelled listings) count toward the 100 listings limit.
Only auction-style listings are eligible. All other fees, including listing upgrade fees (such as bold or listing in two categories) and final value fees, still apply. If you list items in a second category, this will be charged the standard fees for listing in a second category.
eBay Motors, Classfied Ads, Property and Multiple-Item Buy It Now listings have their own Insertion Fees.


Clarification at last - http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/insertion-fee.html

DaveAshton

cally6008 wrote: »

Clarification at last - http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/insertion-fee.html

Not sure why you say at last. It was announced over a month ago: http://www2.ebay.com/aw/uk/201004.shtml#2010-04-30124413

Gotta say, this is probably the best thing I've ever been given for a birthday present. A culling of worthless tat on ebay, and possibly the beginning of the end for private business sellers.

soolin

I did wonder if they would do a free listing day to encourage private sellers to keep listing. The restriction highlighted by Steve suggests that buyers must be careful to use the free listings for items over 99p otherwise all they are doing is using their private listing allocation. Clever.

Watch this exclusion as well:

Items which are listed with a Reserve Price are excluded from this promotion.

cally6008

DaveAshton wrote: »

Not sure why you say at last. It was announced over a month ago: http://www2.ebay.com/aw/uk/201004.shtml#2010-04-30124413

I hadn't seen that one

macfly

The sooner this free listing nonsense is over the better.

soolin

macfly wrote: »

The sooner this free listing nonsense is over the better.

Before they announced this free listing day I had great hopes for some normality in 10 days time, that being 10 days after the new capped limits coming into force.

cyberbob

soolin wrote: »

Before they announced this free listing day I had great hopes for some normality in 10 days time, that being 10 days after the new capped limits coming into force.

My listing plans for the weekend have been scuppered.

macfly

The problem is they tend to condense sales for business sellers. I don't think my sales suffer over all, but are put on hold. Having said that, things went mad over the bank holiday so I could do with a break.

cyberbob

macfly wrote: »

The problem is they tend to condense sales for business sellers. I don't think my sales suffer over all, but are put on hold. Having said that, things went mad over the bank holiday so I could do with a break.

I gave up listing over these weekends a few months ago. My BIN sales are fine but the Auction listings if they sell get a lot lower prices. So its just not worth it