deur1
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posted on November 23, 2008 06:04:28 PM
Subject: Seller special! 50% off Auction-style Listing Fees Received: Nov-23-08
From: eBay Expires: Nov-26-08
Seller special: Half off sale
50% off Auction-Style Listing Fees
2 days only! Nov 24-25
Good for Auction-style listings
Reach shoppers looking for deals
The more you list, the more you save
[ edited by deur1 on Nov 23, 2008 06:05 PM ]
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otteropp
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posted on November 23, 2008 07:44:19 PM
I just saw that in my Messages too!
When I read further on it seems that I cannot list during the special! It requires 4.5 DSR minimum over 30 days in all categories. We returned yesterday from what amounted to a 45 day vacation with about 8 days home in the middle of it. I have only received 3 DSR's in the past month so my total on my Dashboard shows ZERO for the 30 day rating!
I had prepared a lot of items to list when we returned and listed some this evening and thought it would be great to list for the next two days but I guess being at 100% and 4.94 over 12 months is not good enough for the total idiots running eBay these days!
Live Help is not available this evening so I sent an e-mail to Customer Support and will probably get a reply after the special is over.
Grrrrr....I should be in a good mood after my super vacation but funny how eBay can change my mood so quickly these days!
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ebabestreasures
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posted on November 24, 2008 04:33:57 AM
otteropp - I don't understand how you could have zero when you had 3 DSR ratings?
I know with other things tied to DSRs - if you don't have any for the 30 day period - they go by the 12 average. I hope, for you, that is the case here.
You should try listing one directly with ebay and see if it shows the discount.
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pmelcher
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posted on November 24, 2008 04:55:48 AM
That sucks!! It isn't much of a sale anyway. I hope your vacation was great, we all deserve some time off!
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cblev65252
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posted on November 24, 2008 05:12:08 AM
So, we can't take vacations now for fear eBay will shut us down because of our DSR's? As usual, eBay never thinks things through all the way.
Cheryl
Now you can buy Avon from me
from anywhere in the world.
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neglus
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posted on November 24, 2008 05:27:38 AM
otterop - could you try to draft a listing using the SYI form and see what your listing fees are? They say you won't see it if you use another listing tool. If it were me, I'd just draft a dummy listing on SYI and see what the fees are - probably faster than getting an answer from CS.
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http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards?refid=store
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ggardenour
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posted on November 24, 2008 09:32:37 AM
i just listed one fresh item and one re-list through VD and got the discount on both. Now the question is if my relisted items sell do I still get my original listing fees back?
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otteropp
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posted on November 24, 2008 09:35:51 AM
Good Morning!
Well...I am just as ticked off this morning as I was last night!
ebabes...I meant that I had three Feedbacks in the past 30 days not DSR's...my error!
Before I came in here to see what suggestions you had all made I had tried sending a Store item to auction and then checked my account...I was charged full listing fee.
Neglus, thank you for your suggestion, I tried the SYI form ( which I have never used before) with the same result.
To make it even worse our $ has dropped so with the exchange rate each listing actually bills me for 45 cents not 35 cents. That is great if I actually sell something but if it doesn't sell then it's not so great!
I guess that the bottom line is that eBay does not want to offer any breaks to me even though I have been around for a long time and treat my customers well (sometimes too well).
The moral of this story is....do not take any vacations or you will be penalised.
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neglus
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posted on November 24, 2008 11:41:28 AM
gg: you don't get your original listing fee refunded - you get the lower of the two. If you relist today and item sells, you get the relist fee refunded. If you originally list something today and relist later, you get the original listing fee refunded.
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http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards?refid=store
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ggardenour
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posted on November 24, 2008 04:39:38 PM
Neglus thats what figured but hey I gotta dreams.
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neglus
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posted on November 25, 2008 08:37:16 PM
It looks like the listing special coupled with the FP30 format is putting ebay's listings higher than ever - suppose the stockholders will be fooled?
Here's last year's chart:
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http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards?refid=store
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pixiamom
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posted on November 25, 2008 08:45:41 PM
I hope they won't be fooled. My guess is that eBay is choking with people abandoning auction listings for BIN 30-day listings and are doing a scramble with the "auctions are best for..." webinar and this promo. A lot of reshuffling is going on at the eBay think-tank,
[ edited by pixiamom on Nov 25, 2008 08:47 PM ]
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