posted on May 8, 2006 05:23:51 PM new
***10¢ Auction-Style and Fixed Price Listing Day Tomorrow, May 9th***
May 08, 2006 | 05:08PM PST/PT
As a special offer to our sellers, we are pleased to announce a one-day promotion for www.ebay.com, www.ebay.ca and www.ebaymotors.com (for Parts & Accessories listings), where the insertion fees for Fixed Price and Auction-style listings will be 10¢!
The promotion starts on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 at 00:00:01 PT (12:00 AM plus one second) and ends that same day, Tuesday, May 9, 2006 at 23:59:59 PT (11:59 PM plus 59 seconds). Listings which were created prior to May 9, 2006 and scheduled to start during the promotional period will also be eligible for the special promotional rate.
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posted on May 8, 2006 05:27:41 PM new
Well, they sure picked an off day to do this, didn't they. How many of us are really going to jump at this chance? Not me!
posted on May 8, 2006 05:34:40 PM new
Excellent, I decided I wasn't going to put anything new up for auction this week, sort of taking a week off...Now it turns out to be a good decision, with all the extra listings there will be because of this.
posted on May 8, 2006 07:16:33 PM new
Lessee, first they ruined Stores by wrecking the search function, and then they whined about how their earnings were down for some "unknown" reason. Now they pull the usual gimmick out of their collective butts to tempt us all into listing more.
Screw 'em. I'm through jumping through hoops for eBay. I want my Store search back!
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posted on May 8, 2006 07:29:46 PM new
I have approx. 900 items in my Ebay Store. I want to list some of those items for the 10 cent special for either auction or fixed priced format. What is the best way. Should I relist from the Ebay website or use Vendio? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks
posted on May 8, 2006 08:13:14 PM new
Dorrie - unless you want to edit each one of those listings individually (laboriously) I would do it through ebay and then import to Vendio for post-sale. Vendio does not have a decent bulk reviser (you need to revise to change format from store to auction or FP).
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posted on May 8, 2006 09:43:48 PM new
You can go to selling manager in eBay and change the listings to fixed price from the store with a few clicks in bulk. You can also get rid of the gallery image at the same time so you just list for a dime.
posted on May 9, 2006 06:52:56 AM new
Does anyone find it a strange coincidence that the Vendio price raise is today, the same day of the 10 cent listing day? It will soften the blow of the more than 50% price hike per listing (after the first 50 it used to be only 5 cents, now it is 12 cents no matter how many listings) I am cranking them out today, I have been lazy lately.
posted on May 9, 2006 07:32:00 AM new
pmelcher, Yes I would say it really is just a coincidence. eBay doesn't tell third party sites like Vendio anything like that. If they did, SOMEONE would leak it, and eBay doesn't want people to know about "sales" in advance.
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posted on May 9, 2006 07:56:53 AM new
Yeah a little more notice would have been nice.
I will take advantage it as much as I can but it's a lot of work.
posted on May 9, 2006 08:53:01 AM new
another problem with these 10-cent fixed price/auction listings is...at the end, when you put everything back in your store, you've got a huge number of things ending on the same day 30 days from when you relisted after the sale, and any promotion boxes with featured merchandise have to be redone because the listings got new item #'s during the 10-cent sale. plus, you have to pay eBay another three cents to put the listings back. so actually, you have even _less_ visibility when you relist what didn't sell during the 10-cent sale, because it's all bunched up on one day.
i agree with the others, this "quick fix" solution by eBay instead of addressing including stores in the general search especially during a time of anemic sales in general, is well, almost kind of insulting. but eBay gets to tell the stockholders that we had x million number of items listed during the last quarter and enough people will participate in the 10-cent listings to prop up sagging revenue numbers a little bit, too.
posted on May 9, 2006 08:59:51 AM new
What I don't understand is why people feel they have to take the item out of the store in order to do the auction/FP listing.
If you have used a listing service then you have the listing in your inventory thru the service... just list it as an auction or FP and then end the corresponding store listing if the item sells.
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posted on May 9, 2006 09:07:43 AM new
Fenix - it would be my luck to sell it in the store and the auction at the same time!!!I don't have but one of each item.
posted on May 9, 2006 05:44:54 PM new
Fenix, for people with unique items who list them first at auction and then send unsold items to their store, having dual store/auctions listings would be one heck of a nightmare. When the party's over in 7 days, how would I know which items to relist as store inventory vs. which one's are already in the store? With Vendio hiccups and eBay glitches, I have enough duplicate listings without creating new ones!
posted on May 9, 2006 05:53:14 PM new
Pix - I would think that you would know from looking at the listing if it is something that you feel should just go to the store or is better off trying an auction again.
My question is - how do you know what to do with it if you end the store listing to start the auction? Don't you have the exact same question? If the delema is a nightmare, how does one nightmare differ from the other?
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posted on May 9, 2006 06:16:47 PM new
If you send a store item to auction in eBay, it's only one step. Ebay will end the store item, relist it as an auction, and put a reference link to the new listing in the ended listing.
posted on May 10, 2006 09:49:50 AM new
Im with Fenix on this one. It is not rocket science to keep track of what you have and if something sells. If something does sell, it is a few simple clicks to get rid of the other listing. I do it with my items at other auction sites. Not difficult at all.
