20 Free listings every month

Reef1234

Mandy44 wrote: »

No private seller needs 100 listings a month and all the ever sold, or should I say relisted, was junk for 99p. 20 fixed price auctions is so much more useful as you don't have to wait for the regular free listing day to come along and can start when you want.

Lol utter rubbish! As a private seller I rarely use the 99p auctions, instead listing items on fixed prices. With 20 free a month and an average of 20% sales a month it would take me over ten years to clear the stuff I'm trying to get rid of for the right price.

Kernow666

Mandy44 wrote: »

No private seller needs 100 listings a month and all the ever sold, or should I say relisted, was junk for 99p. 20 fixed price auctions is so much more useful as you don't have to wait for the regular free listing day to come along and can start when you want.

i am a private seller and sell at least 50 items a month sometimes over 100 i rely on the free listing weekends as i am selling off all my action figures from the 80s/90s as well as some collectable vinyl on top of that clothes , football shirts , DVD boxsets as going over to blu-ray and quite a lot more

Rotti

Mandy44 wrote: »

No private seller needs 100 listings a month and all the ever sold, or should I say relisted, was junk for 99p. 20 fixed price auctions is so much more useful as you don't have to wait for the regular free listing day to come along and can start when you want.

Please don't make sweeping statements like this based purely on your own needs and opinions. This has been covered so many times on the eBay boards and on here, but I am a private seller decluttering and can easily fill 2 accounts with 100 free listings on a FLW as around 80% of it will be relists. With family members giving me stuff all the time and my own collections being broken down (records, crystal, plush, china to name but a few) I can keep going for a long time yet and am definitely not a business! I would never list anything at a 99p start (except for a 14 year old working washing machine that made an astounding £51!) as it is not worth the effort but I accept that there are other genuine private sellers breaking down collections of low value items to whom they are invaluable. If they are now looking at a whopping 35p after reaching listing number 21 it will not be worth them doing it and eBay will lose not only and army of sellers but also their buyers. This makes no kind of business sense and definitely rates as one of their loopier decisions.

Mandy44

Rotti wrote: »

as around 80% of it will be relists.

I'd have thought you were exactly the type of seller eBay are hoping to target, continually listing at unrealistic prices.


I guess our versions of what's a private seller differ, mines probably closer to what the HMRC would have I suppose :j

Anyway ebay aren't going to change so you'll either have to pay as everyone else or find somewhere else to continually relist your 99p junk sales.

Rotti

Mandy44 wrote: »

No private seller needs 100 listings a month and all the ever sold, or should I say relisted, was junk for 99p. 20 fixed price auctions is so much more useful as you don't have to wait for the regular free listing day to come along and can start when you want.

As an example, I listed 55 old EP records and gambled £5.50 on those listings just for fun. I have sold 4 which were free postage but had some airmail added so brought in a total of £25.96, of which eBay and Paypal will take their cut totalling £4.28, leaving me with £14.28 after paying the postage. That same gamble under the new system would cost £12.25 for the 35 paid listings as media will jump 250% from 10p so that would be a gamble I wouldn't take. Bye bye eBay!

Rotti

Mandy44 wrote: »

I guess our versions of what's a private seller differ, mines probably closer to what the HMRC would have I suppose :j

Anyway ebay aren't going to change so you'll either have to pay as everyone else or find somewhere else to continually relist your 99p junk sales.

Spiteful! Nothing is "junk" as you call it if someone somewhere needs or wants it and your attitude is far too commonplace these days with words like "junk" and "tat" bandied around by naysayers. It is nothing to do with anyone's "version" of a private seller and certainly nothing to do with you! You are only a business if you buy to sell, not if you are clearing your own things or items given to you by other family members too lazy to deal with them themselves. And something you view as "junk" might prove to be worth a lot so don't dismiss it too readily - one man's trash is another man's treasure!

Mandy44

With 80% relists I guess we know which category your's fall into :money:

Rotti

Mandy44 wrote: »

I'd have thought you were exactly the type of seller eBay are hoping to target, continually listing at unrealistic prices.

I missed this bit and will use another example to highlight this inexperienced and ridiculous observation.

If you start something high the first time out and it doesn't sell you relist it slightly lower to get it going and sometimes it makes more than the first start price - that's the buzz of auction and it is a lottery. If you start too low and it sells for a maiden bid you may lose out. I have relisted stuff several times and eventually sold it for a great price but it all depends on who is looking at the time and what they are looking for, just like a shop window. If you had a shop and dressed the window would you change it the next day if everything in it didn't sell? NO - and eBay is only a very big, global in my case, shop window which everyone will not necessarily pass on the first listing attempt.

I hope this clarifies it for you.:)

Rotti

Mandy44 wrote: »

With 80% relists I guess we know which category your's fall into :money:

Yes - the category is a sensible private seller with nice things to sell who gives them plenty of opportunity and isn't stupid enough to take them off after one listing! :T

Rotti

Mandy44 wrote: »

With 80% relists I guess we know which category your's fall into :money:

........and doesn't use an apostrophe where is is not needed!