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We test eBay vs Facebook selling prices - which wins?
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They are also limiting you to a certain number of promotional items per year.
As you say the BIN listings can now only be GTC, I put a sticky announcement up as there was a lot of talk about it on various forums:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5984456
Ebay have confirmed that as long as you have available listings when it renews then you will not be charged a listing fee on the relist. Also the business news released yesterday has made some additional changes to the way the billing period on GTC listings work:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5996323
Virtually all of the private seller offfers include auction, so you don't have to use a BIN if you don't want.
As for limiting the promo offers, I'm not entirely sure what you mean. There is no cap on the amount of offers that sellers receive, although not all sellers get the same offers at the same time. There is also the big difference between private and business sellers. There is a long running thread that you can subscribe to that notifies when people see offers so that you can check your own account, the thread is here:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3824175
All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.
I sell a lot of stuff via FB, often large items we no longer want - Id hate the think what the postage would be for a table tennis table for example
Also because its a local group I sell on, I quite often buy from people I actually know and I know Im getting good quality - esp when it comes to children clothes and toys
Because theres no fees, no postage etc, prices can be a lot lower than eBay . And posts stay on the page until they sell. Ive listed things, had no interest, forgot all about them, then 3 or 4 months later, someone messages and voila - sold
The problem we've been having is that sales posts frequently fall foul of the Facebook "prohibited items" filter because the books are "young adult" and involve terms which Facebook's automated systems frequently misinterpret. So for example, books called "A Walk in Wolf Wood" and "They Both Liked Dogs" were removed because you are not allowed to sell live animals. And books involving cowboys have been taken down because the cover illustrations sometimes show young men in ten gallon hats riding horses with guns strapped to their saddles and this violates the firearms policy! So although we enjoy buying and selling with others who share our collecting interests, it is not without problems.
I am unable to sell a Beswick horse as it violates their live animal policy. This week as well I was warned that my vintage brass vase violated their animal policy as well- although I have absolutely no idea why.
All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.
The very idea! How dare you! Trying to sell a Beswick, even if it not such a rare horse! Next, you'll be wanting to sell a matching pair of Staffordshire China dogs!!
Im confused regarding why this happened and despite many attempts to make contact via various fb forms, I've had nothing back to help resolve what i may have done wrong.
I opened a private account and then a business page and next i joined as many local selling groups as i could. Next thing i new, account disabled!????
^^ exactly this.
Frustrating part is when 'buyers' don't bother to come and collect the items they want and don't tell you they've changed their mind but worth the hassle imo for a number of items when you factor in postage, paypal and eBay fees.