posted on August 13, 2002 09:38:25 PM new
Here is the latest from the screw the auction sellers general announcement boards.
***eBay Stores Free Listing and Penny Gallery Days***
As a thank you to our Store sellers, we are holding Free Listing & Penny Gallery Days for four days for all durations of eBay Stores Inventory items. The event runs from Monday, August 12, 2002 between 00:00:01 PST (12:00 AM plus one second on August 12, 2002) thru 23:59:59 PST Thursday, August 15, 2002 (11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).
During this Free Listing Day, all insertion fees for Store Inventory items will be $0.00 for all durations, and all Gallery fees for all durations of Store Inventory items will be $0.01 on the U.S. site (www.ebay.com), excluding "Featured Gallery".
Regular auction-style listings, Fixed Price listings, eBay Motors, Premier, Real Estate, International, and Professional Services listings are excluded from the eBay Stores Free Listing Day.
All other fees (auction-style listing fees, "Buy It Now" feature fee, featured plus, highlight, bold, gallery for auction-style listings, gallery featured, extended duration surcharge for eBay Stores Fixed Price listings, extended duration gallery fees, etc.) will still be charged.
During the eBay Stores Free Listing Day, you may list using the Sell Your Item form, Mister Lister, Seller's Assistant Basic and Pro, and the eBay API.
Thank you for your continued support of eBay Stores!
posted on August 13, 2002 11:35:29 PM new
Evidently eBay stores are not doing very well and eBay is not making the money that they would like. So they are asking their store owners to help them make more money by offering a free listing day. I never go to a eBay store. If it is not on the auction site I won't buy it...
posted on August 14, 2002 06:03:36 AM new
Same here .. I don't like shopping the ebaystores ... love the thrill of the auctions !!! !!
ebay needs to bring that back .. just too much stuff on their site
posted on August 14, 2002 08:31:54 AM new
I got this notice and at first thought "Cool! 120 days of free listings." But then I remembered the $9.95 store basic fee and figured it STILL might not be worth it. 120 Days of eBay store will still cost 4x$9.95=$39.80
I had an eBay store for 6-8 months and never sold a single doggone item. The listing service I use supports eBay stores, so it would be easy for me to plop down 300 or so items.
It's probably just a ploy to lock people in to four months of the store service. As long as you've got the store open, y0u may as well list more items in it at full price next month... Pretty smart move on eBay's part.
I'm just trying to decide if it's worth it to try again.
!!