posted on November 2, 2000 03:00:36 PM new
I think the answer to this Question.....
Will Ebay be able to take free listing load?
is NO *L* I was doing pretty well until I saw a difference in the amount showing on Ebay, and the amount of listings that SHOULD be showing. Okay, not a big deal. Right? I've had this happen. Went and found which 6 items were not listing in MY EBAY page. Went to do the fast solution and make a space to force it to show. ONLY, Ebay isn't taking it. I managed to get 1 done. It kept blowing my Netscape off the screen. Switched to IE, and wasn't able to verify changes there. It's a good thing I wrote it down, and will fix it later. Oh well. over 230 showing at last count. More to go.
edited to add a P to retty ( it's been a LONG day *L*)
[ edited by carolann56 on Nov 2, 2000 03:06 PM ]
posted on November 3, 2000 03:49:34 AM new
Well Rover - now Goto Auctions normally has around 95,000 auctions running on ebaY. after the free listing day they have 123,000. Unless my search is faulty, I don't think an increase of 28,000 auctions should have much if any effect on ebaY. According to ebaYs numbers, the actions listed have not changed at all during the last few days - stayed at around 5.1 mil. Medved shows higher numbers - around 5.6.
-Rosalinda
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posted on November 3, 2000 03:57:51 AM new
HI all !
I listed like there was no tomorrow all day yesterday. It was great. I'm not talking 300 (I don't have that much in my inventory!) but today I have 75 auctions up, compared to my usual 23. A few have bids, but I normally get the bids on the last day anyway.
I will continue to use the goto service, as well. This was simply a good incentive for me to (a) clear out inventory and (b) learn an auction-listing program. I kept putting it off. I did have trouble with the photos but it was my fault, I was doing something dumb. Once I figured it out, it went fast and smoothly.
Can't thank you people enough. Now, does anyone have any boxes to spare...? ; - )
posted on November 3, 2000 03:58:10 AM new
eBay doesn't usually give much notice, maybe a post on the Announcement Board the day before, and it's usually a few days before Christmas, about the 22nd.
I got 164 auctions listed with GoTo.com but only 134 are showing on my eBay seller list, although they're all listed on eBay. Real bummer!
Also, I listed without descriptions, intending to revise and add them once the auctions were on eBay, because GoTo.com's limitations don't allow for my long descriptions. I had a hell of a time revising yesterday morning (clear caches and reload before submitting, or it won't work), and it was impossible last night. I kept getting an error message that I was either using an old bookmark (not with revise) or my browser was incompatible (wasn't that morning). Finally, about 1:30 a.m. this morning, just before eBay's down time, revise was working great. I'm waiting now for eBay to come back up so I can finish revising.
posted on November 3, 2000 04:25:12 AM new
Make that 154,000. Title search is running 6 hours behind - so that gives Rover two more hours worth of auctions to index, so it might approach 200,000 - so possibly an increase in the 100,000 range over normal. ebaYs numbers are still not showing the increase, but that also might just be an indexing problem. - Rosalinda
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posted on November 3, 2000 10:16:31 AM new
Bookdealers
I have 355 auctions listed only 305 are showing up in my ebay and only 331 in Seller search what a bummer and revise auction isn't working to bring them up as it usually does . . .
Ask them to reset your auctions. They usually respond within a couple hours. Once they reset your auctions they will all be showing up in your seller's list.
posted on November 3, 2000 11:59:26 AM new
Waaaaah. Well, that teaches ME not to check AW's eBay board every single day.
I have about 100 auctions in the works.. if I'd paid attention and knew about this promo I could have certainly hurried things up a bit, but I didn't see this until today, a day late, as usual.
posted on November 4, 2000 09:21:00 AM new
A sign that eBay is really starting to croak, maybe because of that measly extra 100,000 listings: How many of you noticed in your account detail page that about half of the items listed Thursday had "Relisting: default" added to their entry? These same auctions had a note in the Listing Confirmation email that the listing fees would be refunded if the item sold. This is probably a glitch that combined reserve fees with listing fees, but it will be interesting to see how eBay deals with it.
