One day only, starting Tuesday, November 21, 2006 between 00:00:01 PT (12:00 AM plus one second on Tuesday, November 21, 2006) and ending that same day at 23:59:59 PT(11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).
What are the fees?
Insertion fees for Fixed Price and Auction style listings will be revised on the U.S. site www.eBay.com as reflected in the fee table below. This includes listings created prior to the promotion and scheduled to start during the promotional period November 21, 2006.
Starting Price, Opening Value
or Reserve Price Regular Price Sale Price
$0.01 - $0.99 $0.20 $0.20
$1.00 - $9.99 $0.35 $0.20
$10.00 - $24.99 $0.60 $0.20
$25.00 - $49.99 $1.20 $0.20
$50.00 - $199.99 $2.40 $0.20
200.00 - $499.99 $3.60 $0.20
$500.00 and up $4.80 $0.20
*All other fees (Final Value Fees and all other optional listing upgrade fees*) will still be charged.
What is excluded?
This promotion will not apply to the following types of listings: All eBay Motors listings (including Parts & Accessories, Passenger Vehicles, Motorcycles, Power Sports, Other Vehicles), International, Live Auction, Professional Services, Real Estate, Ad Format and Store Inventory listings. The following business and industrial categories are excluded from the 20¢ Insertion Fee Sale: tractors & farm machinery (91952), heavy equipment (25249), concession trailers, carts (67145), imaging and aesthetics equipment (92035), forklifts and other lifts (97185), manufacturing equipment (92080), metalworking equipment (92082) and commercial printing presses (26247).
The promotional rate does not apply to listings with a start date prior to November 21, 2006 - including those listings revised during the promotional period. The promotional rate also does not apply to listings created on November 21, 2006 and scheduled to start after the promotion ends.
How do you get the promotion price?
You can list Fixed Price and Auction-style items through Sell Your Item Form, eBay Seller Tools, and most third-party tools.
*Optional Listing Upgrade Fees: Border, Bold, Buy It Now, Featured Plus!, Highlight, Bold, Home Page Featured, Gallery Featured, Gift Services, Reserve listing fee, Listing Designer, Picture Services, Picture Show, Subtitle, Supersize Picture and extended duration surcharges.
posted on November 20, 2006 06:26:11 PM
Great!
Now I can relist all those auctions that didn't sell on the 10 cent fixed price listing day.
Hope springs eternal!
posted on November 20, 2006 06:49:26 PM
Pat - the time you can start auctions is one day. They can be the normal durations.
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posted on November 20, 2006 07:29:39 PM
Thanks for posting, Deur (and for the phone call, Neglus). My dilemma of replacing listings ending tomorrow with new lists or relists is solved. Relist it is - I'll be able to take most of the day off!
posted on November 20, 2006 11:14:27 PM
ebabestreasures posted - "Is ebay in real trouble or something - NEVER have they had so many cheap listing days before. NEVER!!!"
Traffic appears to be down. Go to the thread - What's wrong with this picture? - and check out traffic compared to other years.
posted on November 21, 2006 04:12:20 AM
I don't know about other categories, but listings are way down in my category. Normally, at this time of year, there would be 30,000-35,000 listings, but as of today, there are only 7,300.
posted on November 21, 2006 04:44:09 AM
Diane, mine are the same. I know that your category is crochet, mine is knitting, but even though the listings are down, for me the bids are down even more.
posted on November 21, 2006 07:29:34 AM
I saw on CNBC that analyst are looking at the number of listings on Ebay, not sell through to determine their ratings. Based on total listings, which are up year over year, the analysts are giving Ebay a BUY rating. This may be the reason for so many discounted listing days to inflate the value of the stock based on listings.
posted on November 21, 2006 07:52:01 AM
Analysts aren't worried about eBay sellers making money, they are concerned with eBay making money. My fees are way up so they must be very happy.
posted on November 21, 2006 08:08:27 AM
The listing period for this special also covers the Thanksgiving holidays when many are "out of town" or too busy to list or bid. Should expect that Ebay is just boosting their numbers in what would otherwise be a very slow time. Besides they can pick up not only all those exra 20 cents but those extra 35 cents for gallery photos that everyone now has to have
buyhigh
posted on November 21, 2006 09:21:37 AM
I've never taken advantage of one of those special listing days in eBay. Are we sure that listing through Vendio will get us the 20-cent special. The announcement did say "most third-party listings," and I'm assuming that means Vendio, but just checking. I'd like to try it this time.
posted on November 21, 2006 01:59:13 PM
There was a much better 10p listing day on eBay.co.uk last Monday since you can list for 10 days since there's no surcharge. Already sold around 25% of what I listed (mostly to European buyers) and have several offers coming in every day. I did Fixed Price listings with Best Offer and most of the offers have been within my target range so I've accepted a few.
I suspect I'll upsell a few more items to those buyers as I often include a small gift with my larger orders. The gift is one of a limited set of six and I get around three out of four customers buying the other five in the set. (The ones I give away as gifts cost me nothing - they are from incomplete or damaged sets.)
