eBay.com ending GTC listings without returns, handling info
by Sue Bailey
eBay.com are taking steps to enforce their recently-introduced policies that all listings must show returns information and handling time. Good Til Cancelled istings which do not display the required information will be ended, and placed back in sellers’ unsold items section of My eBay. Shorter-length listings have had the policies enforced since June, but eBay had extended the deadline for GTC to give sellers time to edit their listings.
I have to hand it to eBay with this one: they’ve made it much easier than they normally do to ensure listings are compliant with their policies. A special website allows you to download a list of items you need to change, and changes to the rules for editing listings have been introduced before the policies were enforced, meaning that sellers can edit listings which have had sales.
But do check your listings: it’s all to easy to forget about GTC and assume everything’s running correctly (writes the woman who had a listing still running from 2005…). It’s worth giving your unsold items more of a glance over than you normally might.
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it’s all to easy to forget about GTC and assume everything’s running correctly (writes the woman who had a listing still running from 2005…)
Lol! Ebay would be doing her a favour ending that listing! Surely she’s paid more in fees than the listing’s worth?
I’m sure, Debs – only a few pence a month, but for beads that cost a couple of quid, I really wish they *had* ended my listing
Nice. No listings need updating for me. Of course I’ve included this information with all my listings for several years. Not sure why people would skip this information information in the first place.
Because as Sue said above some GTC listings have been running for five years or more and the eBay return policy field didn’t even exist then.
Easy to miss updating a listing
It is a shame Ebay.co.uk did not have this tool to check listings.
Mark
Thanks for the great tip -There is nothing nicer than downloading an empty file and thereby proving that all the checking I did the other night on turbolister just to find the two darn listings that had apparently lost their dispatch time (for no particular reason) was worth it. Especially on a friday evening which means an early finish for me – blissful – thanks Sue I feel virtous!