quickdraw29
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posted on December 20, 2002 09:15:07 AM new
They're down 3.5 million listings from their peak and no indication of a free listing day to boost the count. Of course Saturday makes the most sense, 3 days= Christmas Eve; 10 day= New Years Eve, not to mention this weekend is the biggest shopping weekend of the year.
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Twelvepole
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posted on December 20, 2002 09:18:28 AM new
Why would they give a FLD? That makes absolutely no sense.
eBay has been profitable all year and with Christmas next Wednesday, people couldn't expect to receive the items in time. So how many items would actually sell?
All it would do is clutter up already crowded categories.
Ain't Life Grand... 
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quickdraw29
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posted on December 20, 2002 10:01:03 AM new
Why would they give a FLD? Because they have in years past, and they were profitbale then too! They want to generate more cash at a time when people drop off listing, that makes perfect sense.
How many items would be expected to sell? Based on my own sales post Christmas week, I'd say a lot of people want to buy, it's traditionally my best sales week of the year.
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lindajean
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posted on December 20, 2002 10:14:21 AM new
I agree. I always do well during the Christmas FLD.
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replaymedia
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posted on December 20, 2002 10:24:27 AM new
Why?
Take me for example...
All my auctions ended last Sunday night. I'll probably start up again listing auctions on the 29th to end on the 5th. EBay makes absolutely zero money from me for two solid weeks. No Listing fees, no final value fees.
If they offer a FLD, I *WILL* take advantage of it, and list several hundred items. They will make SOMETHING off the FVF's, even though they may be somewhat smaller than usual, do to lack of Holiday bidders. If they do it on a Thursday, I'll probably also spring for the extra fee and do 10 day auctions.
I'm not sure why everyone seems fixated on the NUMBER of listings at any point. eBay's PROFITs are all that really matter to them, and they WILL make money off a FLD.
And yes, I am already starting my "eBay Withdrawal" Symptoms. I keep checking my listings, only to find nothing there!
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toolhound
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posted on December 20, 2002 10:26:13 AM new
I think it will be on Monday that way 3,5,7,or 10 day auctions will not end on any holiday. I hope anyway I have been getting auctions ready for 2 weeks.
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tooltimes
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posted on December 20, 2002 11:50:21 AM new
List now to garner some of the Christmas cash that will soon be out there.
If ebay stops the Christmas FLD like it has all year with no other FLDs then the ebay FLDs will be unofficially dead. That may be what ebay wants. To end the FLD mentality for once and all.
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quickdraw29
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posted on December 20, 2002 12:01:54 PM new
True, people hold off listing until the FLD and ebay could lose money that way. ebay may be playing chicken seeing if people list anyway these last few days before Christmas, and if they don't, ebay will go ahead with the FLD.
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tooltimes
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posted on December 20, 2002 12:13:24 PM new
If there is no FLD then the few listed items will do better raking in the Christmas Cash. That may be true the 'window of opportunity' and not the FLD.
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stonecold613
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posted on December 20, 2002 08:40:15 PM new
I for one must eat crow. I said it would be either the 19th or 20th. My guess is there will not be a FLD. Since they did the one on Halloween night, they could be in the mind set that is wasn't that long ago, so they don't need to do one for Christmas. To me, it appears Ebay has become the scrooge of the internet. Don't reward their sellers at the most giving time of the year. Me for one, will go back to my normal non-holiday schedule. Meaning enough to be there, but they won't keep the door open on my listings.
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lindajean
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posted on December 20, 2002 09:04:44 PM new
If they had one on Halloween it wasn't a true FLD but a fixed one or some other special.
They haven't had a "real" FLD since last December. That is the only kind I can take advantage of since I don't have an Ebay Store and I don't do FPL.
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bkmunroe
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posted on December 20, 2002 10:33:09 PM new
There was no FLD on Halloween. I just checked my account and I paid 30c for each listing on Halloween night. Maybe one of the foreign Ebays had a FLD.
In the past, the Dec FLD happened early enough so that you could get a 10-day auction completed befor the end of the year. So, it looks less and less likely that we'll have a FLD this year.
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ewora
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posted on December 21, 2002 01:03:37 AM new
Well....crap
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quickdraw29
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posted on December 21, 2002 09:13:29 AM new
The FLD for Halloween was on Fixed Price listings only.
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fonze
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posted on December 22, 2002 01:46:43 PM new
Hi.
I hope they will have a free listing day too. Please tell me where I can see how many listings are on eBay or that they went down? Thanks.
fozne
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vvalhalla
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posted on December 22, 2002 01:59:18 PM new
Now below 6 million:
http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?EIND
dd
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lindajean
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posted on December 22, 2002 01:59:55 PM new
http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?EIND
I don't know how to make it clickable so you will have to copy and paste.
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toolhound
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posted on December 22, 2002 02:19:31 PM new
http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?EIND
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lindajean
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posted on December 22, 2002 03:02:56 PM new
Thanks Toolhound!
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betfran
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posted on December 24, 2002 07:57:58 PM new
Each year in the past, just as I was too tired to do anymore listings and had decided to take a "break" to enjoy the holidays and take a "mini vacation", Ebay had the FLD. That spurred me on to put on listings when I certainly would NOT have put anything "on".
The same is true this year. If Ebay doesn't have a FLD, I won't list anyting at all. I DO think they are SCROOGE.......stopping the CHRISTMAS PRESENT that they have always given. What are they saying to us, their faithful customers (sellers)? We made them what they are and they can't "afford" to give us a Christmas Present? That "Christmas Present" also "gives" back to them!
Perhaps we get what we expect.....many have said that they thought Ebay would quit the FLD.....and don't you think that they, too, read these comment boards?
Just my opinion.....Crownroses
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sparkz
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posted on December 24, 2002 09:35:17 PM new
They had 10,400,000 listings the first week of this month. It has plunged to 5,400,000 as of now. We sellers know the reason for this drop, but do the stockholders? Seems to me that it would be a lot easier and safer to have a FLD than to try to explain this to a Wall Street analyst and risk getting clobbered by a lowered rating. When Wall Street leaves you a neg, it hurts big time!
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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sparkz
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posted on December 25, 2002 07:48:56 PM new
OTOH a positive feedback from Wall Street can sent their stock through the roof.
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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