[Updated] Free listing for private seller auctions 18th & 19th February
15/02/2010 at 10:08
On Thursday 18th and Friday 19th February, private sellers will be able to list auctions on eBay UK with no insertion fees. All other normal fees will still apply. There is, of course, small print; the usual category exclusions apply, and sellers will need to list using the Sell Your Item form; items listed with tools such as Turbo Lister and SMP are excluded. Page has been amended now to remove prohibition of listing tools.
Thanks to the lovely Magnum Opus for the link.
KeithS says
4:43 pm on 15/02/2010
According to the terms it doesn’t exclude Turbo Lister and SMP.
Unlike the terms in the promotion on 17th January. *Items listed using professional tools, such as, Turbo Lister, are excluded.*
Sue Bailey says
5:02 pm on February 15th, 2010
As Gary says, looks like the terms have been changed.
Also looks like I’m going to have to start taking screenshots of eBay offers in future
Gary says
4:54 pm on 15/02/2010
The terms have changed. The section shown when the promotion first appeared which excluded the use of professional listing tools has now been removed.
whirly says
5:18 pm on 15/02/2010
eBay, a question for you.
Why would a private seller need to use Turbo Lister?
If you removed the ability it may put a stop to private sellers who have 10,000 private 99p start auctions ending every day and thus improve the browsing experience for buyers who *don’t* want to buy a load of old pony.
Sue Bailey says
5:23 pm on February 15th, 2010
This guy (#4) would disagree:
http://tamebay.com/2010/01/free-listing-for-casual-sellers-on-sunday.html#comment-55394
How dare any of us try to protect our commercial interests?
Christine says
5:54 pm on February 15th, 2010
All they need to do is put a limit on the number of free listings, regardless of how they are listed.
I am a very low volume private seller. I start all my items at realistic prices so have never benefitted from a 99p free listing, but still have to pay 10% FVF every time.
I put a lot of effort into my listings. I don’t have time to drop everything and spend all day on eBay when there is a free listing day. I need to be able to prepare a few items in advance so I can check them and be sure they are as accurate as possible.
Richard says
12:10 am on February 16th, 2010
Why eBay continually want to bung up the site with tat that goes round and round time after time unsold with free listings is beyond me. What happened to keeping the site vibrant and exciting?
It’s one of the main reasons I closed up shop this past weekend, you can’t see the wood for the trees on eBay.
northumbrian says
5:42 pm on 15/02/2010
may be the penny has dropped ,
ebay have allowed
turbo lister ,knowing its every chance of listing nowt ,and buggering up the listings
Sue Bailey says
7:17 pm on February 15th, 2010
Cunning plan, Northric.
Jez says
7:06 pm on 15/02/2010
There are ways around the ebay rule *Items listed using professional tools, such as, Turbo Lister, are excluded.* if it had of been implemented.
I have never got my head around why ebay disciminates between private and business sellers. No other media sites such as Amazon or Biblio disciminate in such a way.
It must cost ebay a fortune in lost sales when media sellers list their stock elswhere where its free to list a book of any price .
Steve says
6:25 pm on 18/02/2010
After the number of people that complained about being charged for relists/turbo lister/auctiva etc after the last event, many of whom were subsequently refunded, it doesn’t surprise me that eBay made the amendment to the T&C’s. There were plenty of threads on MSE, Q&A etc about this.
Rather than fix the problem at root cause (limiting numbers of free listings) they come up with a convaluted plan that backfires on them.