Auction extensions banned on eBay UK?
by Sue Bailey
Actionbytes reported earlier this week that auction extensions were to be banned on eBay.com. This practise, whereby sellers list for the shortest time period possible, and then extend auctions with no bids, gains extra exposure at no extra cost. Several tools are available to sellers to do this automatically.
Though there has still been no official announcement for any of eBay’s sites about this change in policy (I think I may have said that once or twice before…), sellers are now reporting that revision tools are no longer working. Those who rely on this method to gain extra exposure for their items need to think again, and fast.
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At last an announcement – well at least on the .com site – who know’s when the eBay in the UK will clarify the situation?
[...] eBay have just announced that the option to revise listing durations will now disappear just two hours after the item is listed. eBay policy was changed earlier this year to stop sellers extending auction durations to gain extra time at the top of search results. [...]