parkman
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posted on December 19, 2003 08:22:56 AM new
Anybody got any bets on when and if there will be a free listing day!!
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dodobird
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posted on December 19, 2003 08:52:40 AM new
who will be doing the bidding??
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auctionACE
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posted on December 19, 2003 09:10:39 AM new
12/26/03 ... a 'mortal lock' as Lisa Simpson said in the episode where Homer got addicted to sports gambling.
( boy, I'm I going to be eating a lot of crow if it isn't 12/26 )
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dodobird
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posted on December 19, 2003 09:33:29 AM new
it is better to pay the listing fee and get good bids than to pay no listing fee and get no bid.
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parkman
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posted on December 19, 2003 09:36:31 AM new
auctionAce, I hope you are right about it being the 26th ...I am scheduling a lot of stuff to launch that day and if it doesn't happen I will be hustling to get most of them stopped.
dodobird...As far as what will sell...I have had very good luck on sales every free listing day for the past 5 years. Seems people get money for Christmas and want to spend it so hope they will spend it with me.
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dodobird
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posted on December 19, 2003 10:00:36 AM new
good point,thanks
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lindajean
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posted on December 19, 2003 10:22:48 AM new
I also have very good luck on FLDs but I am using Vendio offline lister and they are just sitting in files marked FLD #1, 2 etc. Whenever the day comes all I have to do is click the upload button.
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vvalhalla
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posted on December 19, 2003 04:54:26 PM new
Probably will be a fixed price free list.
dd
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replaymedia
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posted on December 19, 2003 05:18:22 PM new
Nothin' wrong with that. I prefer fixed price.
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peiklk
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posted on December 19, 2003 08:08:59 PM new
Downside of the free listing day being the 26th is that it is a Friday. No way to get your items to end on Sunday then.
Might be better to just list THIS Sunday for one week. You hit the dead times of Thursday and Friday when less bidding is going on anyway, and perhaps get the good traffic on the weekend after Christmas, with your auctions ending on busy-Sunday.
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sparkz
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posted on December 19, 2003 08:45:09 PM new
My guess would be the 23rd or the 26th. If they want the final value fees from the 7 day auctions to show on the December books, it will be the 23rd. If they want to start out the new year with a big bang and have the fvf's show up in January, it will be the 26th or 27th. It just depends on how rosy a picture they want to paint for the stockholders on their quarterly report. If they want to end the year with a high number of listings showing on the 31st, it will have to be the 26th or later. Then again, they could always flip a coin 
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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paws4God
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posted on December 19, 2003 08:49:16 PM new
I start more auctions on Thurs. & Fri as they do better for me than Sundays. There is so much competition on Sundays I prefer ending on other days. My dead days are Mon, Tues and Wed. Besides I doubt I'll list anything over $20 on a free listing day, but who knows I may change my mind. There is also the argument that there is so much clutter with junk auctions that FLDs are worthless. I'll give it a try regardless just to see what happens.
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stonecold613
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posted on December 19, 2003 11:23:21 PM new
You hit the dead times of Thursday and Friday when less bidding is going on anyway
I agree about Fridays, but in my experience over the years, Thursday is by far the best day to have an auction end especially for sniped bids. Sunday comes in a distant second.
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toolhound
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posted on December 22, 2003 01:30:07 PM new
I guess I do FLD backwards from most here. I only list auctions over $25.00 and have done very well. Last year 168 auctions listed 160 sold. I can list cheap stuff (.30 cent listing fees) anytime why not use FLD to list the auctions with the $1.00 + listing fee. I saved over $400.00 on FLD last year and I am looking at saving over $600.00 this year. Christmas only comes one time a year take advantage of it!!
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buyhigh
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posted on December 22, 2003 06:40:18 PM new
They already posted that FLD will be on Dec 26 on their announcement board several months ago. They would hardly go back on their word. Also they did not specify that it would only be for fixed priced auctions - only that gallery pics , 10 day auctions etc would at an additional cost. They should pick up some revenues for all that plus the FVF from all those listings that do sell. Ofcourse their servers might crash under all that weight.
buyhigh
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horsey88
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posted on December 22, 2003 07:46:40 PM new
"Last year 168 auctions listed 160 sold."
So let me see you had a 0% sell through rate last week but you are hoping for a 96% sell through rate during FLD.
I am from Misssouri,you gotta show me.
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parkman
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posted on December 23, 2003 03:07:37 AM new
I see that ebay is having their maintenance day tomorrow (wednesday). Don't they usually have it on Friday? If so, maybe this means Friday WILL be the fld.
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dcpent
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posted on December 23, 2003 06:21:30 AM new
I see that ebay is having their maintenance day tomorrow (wednesday). Don't they usually have it on Friday? If so, maybe this means Friday WILL be the fld
Or maybee it means that some people at ebay just want to take Friday off so they can have a long Christmas vacation.
[ edited by dcpent on Dec 23, 2003 06:22 AM ]
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parkman
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posted on December 23, 2003 06:36:56 AM new
Rats dcpent...I didn't think of that.
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vidpro2
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posted on December 23, 2003 06:51:59 AM new
Actually, eBay usually holds Free Listing Day on Thursday. Last year it was Dec. 26th, in 2001 it was Dec. 20th. In 2001 they also had one on June 28th, which was a Thursday...
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neglus
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posted on December 23, 2003 07:06:06 AM new
Would they DARE have a FLD on Christmas Day?? THat would be the WORST!!!!!!!!!! I take that back..Christmas Eve would be worse! Probably could count out a couple of million listings if they went for either one of those days!
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horsey88
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posted on December 23, 2003 07:15:52 AM new
I still think that FLD this year will be replaced by a hodge podge of 1 cent gallery,store,BIN & 1/2 price sub-title giveaways
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buyhigh
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posted on December 23, 2003 08:24:29 AM new
I guess nobody believes me when I said the announcement on their bulletin board stated that Fri DEc 26 would be a free listing day in appreciation. Would stand to reason that Wednesday would be maintainance day since Thursday is Christmas day and free listings would begin right after midnight Fri morning.Wish I could take bets on this.
buyhigh
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NearTheSea
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posted on December 23, 2003 09:17:53 AM new
buyhigh, I believe you. Wish I could take bets too on it
Its gonna be on Friday
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auctionACE
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posted on December 23, 2003 10:07:22 AM new
I saw what you saw buyhigh. I predict that there will be as many as 12 million free listings listed on Friday and the ebay system will fail miserably and make ebay like look like fools.
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horsey88
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posted on December 23, 2003 11:14:56 AM new
I predict that the majority of the 20 million free listings will be of equal or lower quality than these two.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2973283222&category=1467
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2974078340&category=1468
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tomwiii
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posted on December 23, 2003 11:23:02 AM new
THANK YOU horsey! I was having a really hard time trying to find the perfect XMAS gifts for StopWhining -- you solved my quandry!
As Bill Murray says in "Caddyshack" ~ Doodie!
Ralphie loves Mr Blonde:
"Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"
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buyhigh
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posted on December 23, 2003 12:36:00 PM new
Do not think e-bay will look like fools if their system goes down sice there have been all sorts of problems in previous years on FLD and it has had no long term effect. They can always claim that the volume far surpassed their expectations. Meanwhile their stock keeps going up and Wall Street has had it on their "Buy" list for quite awhile
buyhigh
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toolhound
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posted on December 23, 2003 03:18:55 PM new
horsey88 wrote "So let me see you had a 0% sell through rate last week but you are hoping for a 96% sell through rate during FLD. "
I can't argue with you on that since I didn't run any auctions last week. Of course that also means I didn't have any auctions running that didn't sell.
That is what I had last year I didn't say that is what I was hoping for this year. I am of course hoping for 100% this year.
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