posted on June 27, 2001 05:34:45 PM
From the announcement board:
***Free Listing Day***
In celebration of the American collector, eBay is hosting Collectibles Month throughout the month of July. To kick-off this month-long event, eBay will hold a Free Listing Day on Thursday, June 28, 2001.
Free Listing Day will start at 00:00:01 PDT on Thursday, June 28, 2001 and end at 23:59:59 PDT on Thursday, June 28, 2001.
During Free Listing Day, all insertion fees will be credited for new listings on the U.S. site (www.ebay.com), eBay Motors and eBay Premier.
Listing fees for items listed in eBay Live Auctions, Real Estate or any of eBay's International sites will NOT be credited.
During Free Listing Day, the insertion fee will be charged and then immediately credited to your eBay account. All other fees (home page featured, featured plus, highlight, bold, gift icon, gallery, gallery featured, etc.) will still be charged. eBay Premier listings will not be immediately credited, but will be credited sometime after the close of the promotion.
During Free Listing Day, you may notice a slowdown in search indexing.
Free Listing Day and Collectibles Month are your chances to discover a wide variety of items to satisfy the collector in all of us. We encourage you to share your collectibles with others and get in on the action!
posted on June 27, 2001 09:44:04 PM
What a bunch of BS!!!!!! This is no celebration -- it's a gimmick to get sellers to list despite the fact that 7-day auctions will end the day after 4th of July. How DUMB do they think we are?!?!?! (Don't answer that, please!)
posted on June 27, 2001 10:17:13 PM
Sunday isn't going to be much better. Free listing days are always!! a bid to increase listings at a to-be-expected "down" time. Their attempt to sugar-coat it makes me laugh!
There's usually a lot of activity (i.e. downtime) on Sunday night, and a free listing day will compound that problem. Many sellers will choose to spend the extra dime to end on Sunday in order to avoid having an auction close on a holiday.
don't know what everyone's complaining about - a free listing day's a free listing day! would have been nice to know about it before now, but what the hey.
posted on June 28, 2001 12:41:04 PM
eBay's quarter ends in 2 days. All of those free listing charges show up as revenue for this quarter - just in time for the quarterly results. I imagine the refunds are an advertising expense. Any deferred refunds (like on July 1st) are an advertising expense showing up in the next quarter rather than this quarter.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch! 
how cool!
