Another private seller free listing weekend 29-30th Oct
There’s yet another free listing weekend for private sellers coming up. For the 29th and 30th October they can list up to 100 auction style listings with a start price of £1 or more (they already get free listings with start prices up to £0.99.
Again no professional tools can be used and only the Sell Your Item form or mobile apps will qualify them for the free listings. Full details of the free listing weekend are on the announcement page.
eBay are running these promotions so often now it would be no surprise to see free insertion fees extended for private sellers in the near future. Can you see that happening?
Mark T says
10:23 am on 28/10/2011
It says to me that they are possibly struggling to get used inventory on the site.
Auction prices have been terribly low recently and I think that there is an issue here.
Chris says
12:46 pm on 28/10/2011
It is to be regretted that the restriction of 100 items is still there. This is probably the latest Free Listing Weekend that will really make a differance to Christmas(Remembering that December is expected to be bitterly cold and snow everywhere).
The Private Sellers often seem to finance their Christmas Purchases from Traders from their own Sales. So the more they list, the more(hopefully) they sell, the more money they have to buy from Traders.
So I suspect that including the 100 limit will have the effect of reducing volumes and cash receipts for Private Sellers and consequently what they have in theit Paypal Accounts to spend on Christmas with Traders.
fozz says
1:33 pm on 28/10/2011
I’ve never minded seeing private free listing days , if it boosts buyers paypal funds by a few quid , thats surely no bad thing.
In answer to Chris D , I wouldn’t be surprised to see something similar to the current “list 100 items free each month for under 99p” , but without the price cap.
paypalhater says
7:40 pm on October 28th, 2011
On Ebay Belgium privat sellers can list as much as they want at whatever price they want since a few months.
Trust me, as a business seller this is nothing that you want to see happening.
The site has been flooded with auctions. Nothing sell. Listings are listed over and over again. Auctions with a low starting price sell at rediculous prices. Auctions with a higher prices don’t sell. There are hardly any BIN’s that are sold. 3 Months ago I was selling 10-20 items a day. Yesterday I sold 3, today 5 and it’s getting worse every day.
Chris says
11:21 pm on October 31st, 2011
I note in the News that today(31/10/2011) there has been a Free Gallery Plus & insertion Fee Charge in Motors Category on ebay.co.uk. I have checked on Tamebay but I cannot find a note of this. I hope nobody would have taken advantage of it and missed it.
With Christmas rapidly approaching perhaps ebay can further boost sales generally by Free Listing Weekends and indeed days in specific categories.
Chris Dawson says
11:29 pm on October 31st, 2011
Hi Chris, I’m afraid that’s all eBay marketing spin. They’re not giving anything away for free this time.
What they actually mean is that “There’s a Fee increase of £2.00 for listing a car because we’re going to include the previous Gallery Plus fee of £2.00. This means you can’t choose not to pay for Gallery Plus so you might as well use it as you’ve no choice but to pay for it”
We did write about the fee increase for eBay UK Motors when it when it was first announced.