merrie
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posted on January 2, 2009 10:55:26 AM
Save big! January 3-31
Good for 1 and 3 day Auction-style Listings
Attract ready buyers and increase bids
Start the new year with fast results
* Please note: DSR requirements and category exclusions apply.
See the promotion page for details.
Many, many exclusions. Whoppee!! (NOT!!)
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pmelcher
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posted on January 2, 2009 12:12:20 PM
especially when they exclude all collectibles categories..I will make my own sale by boosting my handling fees 25 to 50 cents
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discount4dealers
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posted on January 2, 2009 12:26:00 PM
Where are you finding the announcement posted at. I don't find it in my Ebay nor in my Email.
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sthoemke
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posted on January 2, 2009 12:41:09 PM
I don't see the announcement either.
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eauctionmgnt
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posted on January 2, 2009 12:53:53 PM
Don't worry... you're not missing much... notice how they're rounding up too... for most people, I doubt this sale would be worth the time spent switching to 1 or 3 day auctions and back again on their listings....
http://pages.ebay.com/promo/13Auctions09/
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http://www.vintagepaperads.com
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merrie
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posted on January 2, 2009 02:40:07 PM
I got my announcement emailed to me.
No thanks, 50% and only 1 or 3 day auctions!!
Who dreams up these "deals?"
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sthoemke
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posted on January 2, 2009 02:54:16 PM
A blast from the past:
http://pages.ebay.com/promo/usdofl/
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jtomp
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posted on January 2, 2009 03:25:12 PM
Wow, the sheer excitement of this offer takes my breath away......or maybe its the fact that the promotion stinks that is affecting me!
Jane
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carolinetyler
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posted on January 2, 2009 04:32:54 PM
They should be ashamed to even offer this - after all they've done in the past year - the changes, the 18,000 new rules, the slumping sales, the slumping economy - shame on them!
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 Caroline
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watchguy
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posted on January 2, 2009 04:42:14 PM
I threw up a few quickie 1-day auctions on higher value items...just for schatts and googles. We'll see if any of these sell.
This would qualify as a 2-bit offering from Ebay, which as we start the New Year continues towards it's destiny...death or takeover.
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pmelcher
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posted on January 2, 2009 05:25:45 PM
umm, the sale does not start until tomorrow
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watchguy
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posted on January 2, 2009 07:12:32 PM
Yes, I know.
I scheduled them to start tomorrow.
sigh
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stonecold613
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posted on January 2, 2009 09:09:18 PM
Removed so I don't give poor advice. Now that I fully read the terms, this so called special is not worth the lack of paper it's written on.
[ edited by stonecold613 on Jan 2, 2009 09:26 PM ]
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stonecold613
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posted on January 2, 2009 09:24:44 PM
Although there was one prediction of mine that did come true.
This special is for auction style listings only. No fixed price or store items. It also appears that ebay motors is also excluded.
Holy cow. Now that I read the whole "What is excluded" section. Is there anything that will qualify for the reduced listing fees?
Excluded categories: All Collectibles categories
What else is there?
Hey eBay. How about telling us what catagory qualifies. That is a shorter list.
[ edited by stonecold613 on Jan 2, 2009 09:44 PM ]
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rhpepsi
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posted on January 3, 2009 02:10:10 AM
like pmelcher stated and I also stated in another post;
simply increase your S & H fee and you have a FREE listing day EVERYDAY! No exculsions, no requirements, no busting your hump to get DSRs up. Let the added 25¢-50¢ cover the listing fee. Ebay is just trying to get these new sellers(if there is any) to list more. Eventually the EBAY REDUCED LISTING FEE DAY will come down to something like this;
On January 23rd, sellers will be able to list a BLUE WIDGET for $1.99 with free shipping and PAYPAL payment only between the hours of 2am-3am PST. All other listings - normal fees apply. Hope you enjoy these great savings. Your "don't have a 7777 clue" ebay staff.
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neglus
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posted on January 3, 2009 05:49:31 AM
Gotta love ebay math! This listing "sale" ends up costing more/day than regular listing fees for seven days. I wouldn't participate if I could.
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http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards?refid=store
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bjboswell
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posted on January 3, 2009 05:51:41 AM
As Caroline said so perfectly -
"They should be ashamed to even offer this - after all they've done in the past year - the changes, the 18,000 new rules, the slumping sales, the slumping economy - shame on them!"
And I will add my favorite new way of expressing displeasure - "BITE ME" eBay
I'm keeping my stuff selling on RL for less $ and certainly no DSRs, negative feedback, paypal only and the scads of other hoops one has to jump through to be an ebay seller.
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stonecold613
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posted on January 3, 2009 04:06:28 PM
I hope eBay is happy with what it has done.
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stonecold613
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posted on January 3, 2009 04:21:02 PM
Ebay just anounced another listing fee promotion. Here is a copy of that notice.
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ladyjewels2000
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posted on January 4, 2009 03:08:54 AM
Yeah no collectibles knocks me out too - not that I planned to do 1 or 3 day auctions anyway.
I bet a lot of sellers won't read the exclusions and it ends up costing them double to list.
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otteropp
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posted on January 4, 2009 11:06:27 AM
Same here....most of what I sell is under the Collectibles category and I won't do 1 or 3 days auctions either.
I have done many 5 days in the past which work well for me especially on one of the older style specials where most folks would list 7 days I would try to get ahead of the pack with 5 day auction.
Ah...well..just carry on as normal!
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stonecold613
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posted on January 6, 2009 08:50:26 PM
I just realized something that hasn't been said here nor have I read it on any other forum.
But this so called listing fee sale really isn't a good deal, even if they didn't have all the restrictions on which catagories you can list in.
Let's say you have an item that you wish to list (for argument sake) let's say at $75.00. The regular listing fee would be $2.00 , making the 1/2 price at $1.00. And you only get one or three days of exposure.
Now list that same item as a fixed price item, and it will only cost you 35 cents and you can list it up to 30 days.
It's pretty much a no brainer what I would do.
This just reinforces at how much eBay scrooged it's sellers.
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otteropp
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posted on January 6, 2009 10:47:18 PM
Excellent point!
I looked at some of the eBay Forums and when the 'special' was first announced a few folks posted about it but not too many and then the threads died!
I think that everyone was pretty disgusted and just decided to ignore it.
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merrie
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posted on January 7, 2009 06:16:38 AM
stonecold, you are absolutely correct!! Ebay used to tout that auctions got higher search visibility, now they claim that for FB depending on your "seller status."
1-3 day auctions are only useful for very limited, high volume items.
The only real difference is that you pay a lower FVF for auctions than for FP.
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