100 free Buy it Now listings for Private Sellers
This weekend, 26th-27th May, private sellers can list up to 100 fixed price listings on eBay UK for free. The listings must be listed Fixed Price (not auction with buy it now added as a feature) and with a price of £0.99 or more (superfluous, have you tried listing a Buy It Now with a price less than 99p 
).
As per all eBay’s recent UK listing promotions items will only be eligible for this promotion if they are listed with the Advanced Sell (Sell Your Item) form or the eBay iPhone, eBay iPad, eBay Android, eBay Blackberry and eBay Windows Phone applications. The one slight difference is that you won’t be able to use the Quick Sell form this time around as it doesn’t support the But It Now option. TurboLister and SMP remain banned for the promotion.
You’ll also need to meet eBay’s minimum performance standards to be included in the promotion. Full details on the eBay Free listing weekend promo page.
Cassie says
9:50 pm on 25/05/2012
How pointless a free listing weekend will this be!
Due to best match a private seller, like me, who sells one-off items will never be found in search results. At least with an auction I had a chance of getting to page 1.
Chris Dawson says
9:52 pm on May 25th, 2012
That’s a very good point and one I hadn’t thought about! :O
Gerry007 says
11:58 pm on May 26th, 2012
I thought ALL auctions climbed through the search results as their time became less & usually end on the 1st page of best match during the last days or so.
ebuyerfb says
3:50 am on May 27th, 2012
Not if there are 1000′s of the same product or even 10′s for that matter. Also there is the problem that if your sell through rate is too low eBay silently gives you lowered search standing so nobody will see your auctions anyway.
Cassie says
3:55 pm on May 26th, 2012
Arghhh – is anyone else having problems with the free listing weekend?
I decided to have a go at listing some BINs and see what happens sales wise – I haven’t listed a BIN in over a year, instead sticking to auctions as I am only selling personal items now on eBay having closed my eBay shop a year ago –
However I have been trying to list using the “sell your item form”, it keeps demanding I put in a start price for an auction and telling me my fees so far are 15p. It is also automatically setting my postage as £10 – even though the cap for clothes, shoes and accessories is £4.75
Anyone got any ideas – has listing a BIN changed?
Cassie says
4:57 pm on May 26th, 2012
Ok _ I feel dumb. After playing around for ages I finally noticed the tabs – auction and fixed price. How I have not seen those in all this time is beyond me!
However I did discover that you can not list multiple quantities for free – and I had a couple of items where I had 2 or 3 of them – yep, they all got duplicate item violations slapped on them and pulled down by eBay.
It’s crazy, I used to be a power seller making £1000′s every month, I then got fed up with all eBays changes and only sold as a private seller for the past year. I thought I was still pretty clued up on eBay, but today has shown me I haven’t got a clue anymore how the site works.
Gerry007 says
12:02 am on May 27th, 2012
re; yep, they all got duplicate item violations…
Do what all the sellers do and vary the title. add something different to each one & in a different order, then it’s not the same, is it!!
Gary says
7:11 pm on 26/05/2012
Also fairly pointless is the ammount of the eBay giveaway.
BIN items cost a standard 20p or 40p to list depending on which catagories you are listing in.
Compare this with auctions where listing fees for items £15 and over range from £0.50 to £1.30.
Eric the Red(with anger) says
9:11 pm on 26/05/2012
Regularly I take advantage of the Free Listing Weekends. I list my 100 items. However ebay has stopped me listing this time.
Why?
Well for the last few weeks I have been under attack by a particularly objectionable “customer”. Initially because of circumstances I had to ask the manufacturer to send out the product because I am currently in the middle of a major re-organisation. This caused problems. So I asked for the order to be sent out direct(I have worked with this manufacturer for many years in various functions).
The goods have been received by the customer but he is continuing his campaignj against me. There have been negative feedbacks(often the complaint is shall we say fictional). There are cases against me(he is still continuing them AFTER he has the goods).
ebay has decided to ignore all of my positive Feedback(I have a high proportion of customers leave Feedback and a very high proportion of these are not just positive but glowing and very complimentary). Yet it is only the one customer who is running the campaign against me that ebay is taking notice off. I have called for ebay to investigate but to date nothing has been done.
It is so frustrating to be under attack and have ebay combine with the attacker to maximise the harm. Has anybody a similar experience and what did you do to sort it out.
Cassie says
10:04 pm on May 26th, 2012
My dad sells on eBay (only a couple of items a month) and recently he has had trouble with a buyer refusing to pay. The buyer was been threatening my dad with negative feedback if he didn’t get the item for free (he bid over £150). Well my dad didn’t send the item, but he didn’t know about reporting a non paying bidder. After about 2 weeks the buyer did leave negative feedback and probably low DSRs. My dad contacted eBay and sent them copies of the emails – eBay have sided with the buyer!
Chris says
11:58 am on May 27th, 2012
Of course there is a way of getting around ebays very shabby treatment of Sellers. That is to look for an alternative Site. I know that over the months and years ebid has been mentioned and there has almost been an organised campaign against it.
But while it does have a few weaknesses it does have something that ebay cannot even start to claim. That is that ebid is Honest and Decent.
So perhaps those of us who are totally dissatisfied with ebay should start to move, if not all, part of our stock onto ebid. Certainly this is my intention.
Then perhaps as I gain experience with ebid I will decide to move the lot. After all the way that I have been treated by ebay(especially when I am totally in the right) has been so appallingly bad that ebid can only be a very major improvement.
Eric the Red(With Anger) says
4:17 pm on May 27th, 2012
According to ebay their decision is final. In other words they do not accept that they are subject to the Law of the Land and indeed as so much these days is subject to EU Law they are not subject to that either.
Over the last few years such as British Gas and Talk Talk/Tiscali have received fines in excess of £1 million because their “Customer Services” are not fit for purpose.
Perhaps ebay should also receive one of these fines in excess of £1 million because compared to ebay British Gas and indeed Talk Talk/Tiscali are well run professional organisations. So come on Office of Fair Trading etc how about an in depth investigation into the total shambles at the heart of ebay.
Mark Nolan says
9:56 am on 28/05/2012
I wonder why they decided to make it Buy It Now free listings instead of the usual auction style?