ebay listings offer - confused private seller with query

ANNA

I'm a private seller and get a fortnightly listings offer of 80% off. So if my items sell I get charged 2.56% plus 30p.

I have my listings as BIN or BIN with Best Offer. A lot haven't sold and auto-renew, which I can't switch off.

I read on the forum about sellers ending existing listings and relisting to qualify for the offer. Is this worth it at any price level? I'm unable to do the calculation. Also, should I go through my unsold list and choose "relist" or do I choose "sell a similar item" in order to qualify for the offer?

se2020

I just price my items at the price I need plus the normal listing fee and let them auto-renew.
If they sell within the discount period that's a bonus but I'm not bothered if they don't as I'm pricing them so the buyer pays the fees anyway. 

If an item does sell quickly within the discount period I worry that I priced it too cheap or think I should have listed it as an auction. 


You can end listings to take advantage of discount weekends but I think you have to use "sell similar" as "Relist" manually would be rhe same as them automatically relisting.
It's not worth the bother to me, mainly because I take the fees into account anyway.
Plus I have plenty of items that I haven't listed so I would make more spending the time listing them rather than ending & restarting existing ones.
My stuff is slow selling items though. Tends to be purchased because somebody needs it in a hurry, I rarely get any offers, just buy-it-nows.
If you have a few items any they sell quickly then yes, it would be worth ending and relisting.
Problem with "sell similar" is you loose all the watchers and on my items I think people watch them just in case they ever need one.
If they have to search again they might find a better/cheaper equivalent. 

On the other hand, "sell similar" seems to show up better in searches than an item that's been listed for ages and buyers with a saved search will get notifications when you list it.

km1500

as a private seller there is no fee to actually list so yes cancel all your listings and then accept the 80% offer and then relist them all.

BlueonBlue

Hope Im not mistaken as not sold anything recently but all I do is the following

Cancel the past 80% BIN listing when a new offer arrives
Accept the latest 80% offer 
Relist the advert within the dated time frame givern over the weekend.

Never had any issues always got the 2.56% on all listings which are BIN .

Only sold one or two items last year and nothing this year so I am a very minor seller but never had a issue 

steviebabes

se2020 said:

You can end listings to take advantage of discount weekends but I think you have to use "sell similar" as "Relist" manually would be rhe same as them automatically relisting.

The relist option works the same as the sell similar one, they both qualify for the FVF offers. You can confirm this by the offer counter reducing as you relist.