posted on February 27, 2006 05:17:20 PM new
As a special offer to our sellers, we are pleased to announce a one-day promotion for www.ebay.com, www.ebay.ca and www.ebaymotors.com (for non-vehicles listings), where the insertion fees for Fixed Price listings will be 10¢!
The promotion starts on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 00:00:01 PT (12:00 AM plus one second) and ends that same day, Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 23:59:59 PT (11:59 PM plus 59 seconds). Listings which were created prior to February 28, 2006 and scheduled to start during the promotional period will also be eligible for the special promotional rate.
The 10¢ Fixed Price Sale will not apply to eBay Motors vehicles, International, Live Auction, Professional Services, Real Estate/Ad Format, and Store Inventory listings. Also, the following Business & Industrial categories are excluded from this promotion: tractors & farm machinery (category #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). Please click here for more details.
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We hope you enjoy the one-day 10¢ Fixed Price Insertion Fee Sale!
posted on February 27, 2006 05:27:25 PM new
Oh, boy.
After all of the bugs that Ebay has had the past week, not to mention the helz that they put alot of sellers through by not even acknowledging that there WAS a problem, they want to increase the amount of listings?
posted on February 27, 2006 05:31:29 PM new
Must be karma -- planning to take a week off and will start re-listing items that won't conflict with all the flotsam that will find itself onto the site.
In the past, I would have complained about missing this "cheap" listing day....
Now, I think it's a good thing to not participate.
Good luck to all who get to take advantage.
Wayne
Never explain -- Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
~ Elbert Hubbard
posted on February 27, 2006 06:50:47 PM new
I'm with you Wayne. I think I'll pass on this 10 cent day. Recently they are so flooded with stuff I usually end up with less bids. I'll wait until later in the week.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
posted on February 28, 2006 07:40:29 AM new
I'm going to list fewer than usual today. If I want fixed price listings found in the middle or at the end of a myriad of other listings, I can always list directly to my store.
posted on February 28, 2006 09:03:54 AM new
Wonder what Ebay's rationale is behind a 10cent fixed price listing day. Sellers probably move a lot of stuff out of their stores and very high priced collectables which never sold at auction show up again. Does more stuff sell or do just the listings go up?
buyhigh
posted on February 28, 2006 03:06:06 PM new
With auction and store items now showing up on the same page, is there any reason to do a FP for 10 cents versus a store for 2cents?
Just wondering.
Beth
www.vintageads4u.com
posted on February 28, 2006 05:00:01 PM new
Most sellers don't have stores is a good point. Another thing to think about is that the FP listing's show up in the norman auction results at the begining and move to the top as the end time approach's. Store listing's are still stuck at the very end of search results. So if a potential buyer only searchs the first couple of pages in a search they will never see the store listing's.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
posted on February 28, 2006 05:12:32 PM new
"With auction and store items now showing up on the same page, is there any reason to do a FP for 10 cents versus a store for 2cents?"
FVF
5.25% vs 8.0%
Auction vs Store
That difference could make a fixed price listing more attractive than a store listing.
Additionally Auction listings showing on top compared to store listing showing on bottom. This added is probably worth the additional $.08 in many cases.
posted on February 28, 2006 05:15:46 PM new
No gallery for store items either. This way if you spend an extra .35 cents, the item moves to the front pages with a photo. Ofcourse as I recall Ebay upped the gallery cost by 10 cents giving the reason that all the gallery photos were a strain on their servers. I am hesitant to believe any of their excuses however.
buyhigh
posted on February 28, 2006 07:41:55 PM new
I fixed up all my relist last night for FP and let them list today to see if any would sell as they were headed to a new home one way or the other- file 13 or GS. Nothing ventured nothing gained they say.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein