posted on October 30, 2002 10:31:58 PM new
Thursday, October 31, 2002 between 00:00:01 PT (12:00 AM plus one second on October 31, 2002) and 23:59:59 PT October 31, 2002 (11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).
All insertion fees for Fixed Price listings will be $0.00 on the U.S. Site (www.ebay.com) and eBay Motors. This includes listings created prior to October 31, 2002 but are scheduled to start on October 31, 2002. There will still be a 10 cent fee for extended 10-day listing.
Feedback requirements apply to list in the Fixed Price Format. All insertion fees for other listing formats, final value fees and Optional Feature Fees including Buy It Now, Featured Plus!, Gallery, Bold, etc…will still be charged.
Regular auction-style, Regular auction-style listings with Buy It Now, Real Estate, Ad Format, Live Auction, Sothebys.com, International, Professional Services and Store Inventory listings are excluded. Fixed Price listings created during the promotion on October 31, 2002, but scheduled to start at a later date will also be excluded.
posted on October 31, 2002 03:30:03 AM new
I guess this would be a free for all for sellers as a gift for the 60 minutes tv promo.
Funny thing is this should have been set a few days ago in anticipation of the show airing so the site would be fully stocked for the millions of viewers who may take their first peak at the online home we call Ebay.
The show claimed like 13 million items or something like that but I remember the last real statistics hovering in the 7-8 range.
I guess my list of auctions traditionally ending on sundays and wednesdays will get a temporary addition of a one time thursday list.
posted on October 31, 2002 10:48:00 AM new
WOW!!! A whole 0.05¢ savings for each listing. Now let me see I usually list 300+ auctions so if I list them all with a fixed price i'll save a whole $15.00
posted on October 31, 2002 07:21:38 PM new
The banner ad announcing the Free Fixed day appeared on the ebay pages about 5 hours before the start of the freebie. I posted it here soon after.
It's much more than a few dollars that can be saved today. If a sellers lists a lot of fixed items in fixed price auctions it can be a huge savings. When there are listing fees with the Fixed Price setup a seller has to be careful with the number of items listed in each auctions because that determines the listing fee but as a freebie a seller can plave a large number of items in each auction.
I already got one sale in a few hours after the listing started.
posted on November 1, 2002 03:24:28 AM new
I was all over free fixed price day.....
I find it strange that I even get bidders that out bid each other on my stuff. I do not sell one of a kind anything. I have an established product line .
Anyone with one of a kind things or collectibles...I'm sorry it didn't work out for you. Since Ebay sort of pushed the instant purchase concept on 60 minutes I guess thay wanted a flood of goodies for first time potential bidders who saw the show.
The 3 house wonder family bragged about the Prada shoes listed and sold in about 10 minutes..... lol funny as it takes longer than that for stuff to even show up on the site lol.
posted on November 1, 2002 04:56:53 AM new
There's an indexing cycle on ebay where their listings computer loads all of the stuff in the last hour or two and updates all of the ebay searches and listings pages. If your auction item just missed the bus or index cycle it sits there till the next cycle but if your auction item just made the bus or cycle it appears on searches and listing pages right away. After four years of selling on ebay I'm fairly certain that that is how the ebay listing computer works the new listings.
So it is possible to list an item and sell it in a few minutes.
posted on November 1, 2002 05:22:17 AM new
Hey tooltimes - I was wondering about that! I have items that sell within 15 minutes sometimes and other times I can't find them for awhile after they post. Now I don't think I'm going crazy anymore!
edited to try to get my smiley to work - couldn't do it.
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