Another eBay change has started that was in the last seller update. Be careful timing your BIN listings now as the only option for fixed price listings is now the Good Till Canceled option. No more 30 days or other options. Another poor change by eBay in my opinion If you mistime the starting days for your listings so that they overlap to much you'll automatically get charged listing fees when they relist if your free ones have run out.
eBay and its payment-processing subsidiary Paypal are so greedy it makes me sick. Check out what the seller says in this auction: https://www.ebay.com/itm/192854698493. $65 in fees on a $425 item is abhorrently excessive!
I've been dreading this change since I saw it announced. I didn't know when it was going into effect though. There's absolutely no good reason for this change except that it tricks people into paying fees. There's no way to sell this as somehow helping sellers out since this was already an option among many, not the only option. Now I need to be sure to cancel my listings early, which is bad because the last day or two before the listing ends is one of the times they sell best.
Completely agree that it's just a creative way to try and get extra listing fees. Today was the first day that I noticed all other time options were gone. I don't believe they applied it to the currently active ones but everything upon relist is getting locked into that which I really don't like. The other thing is it almost nullifies the free extra listings offers now. You either have to make sure everything sells or remember to cancel the extra listings before getting hit with the hefty listing fee the next month
Thanks for the heads up. This is why I have hundreds of feedback on eBay but only one of them are for sold items. After paying all the fees, I called it quits.
I only sell when there are free listings promos and I have a lot of coins that can take months to sell, so this is a big problem for someone like me. Since I hadn't heard anything more I was hoping maybe they got a lot of complaints and quietly decided not to do it.
I wish the coin market would carve out a respected and well trafficked niche fixed price online marketplace like Reverb.com did for musical instruments or Discogs did for vinyl records. eBay has become so, so awful, such a minefield but the inescapable problem is that everyone's there, meaning that nobody wants to sell anyplace else.
These are all worth browsing: http://www.collectorscorner.com/ https://www.vcoins.com/en/Default.aspx https://www.ma-shops.com/
I'm not too happy about this change, but I will be listing the same amount of coins for cheaper, actually. For the better part of a year, I have had an upgraded eBay store ($59.95/month) which allowed me 1000 free listings per month. However, I have been running 3 day buy-it-now listings that entire time... purely because I get more sales when my buy-it-now listings are just starting or just ending. Now, this meant that I was paying $59.95/month, plus roughly $90/month in listing fees because I would run out of my 1000 free listings after about the 1st 10-14 days of the month. (Yes, it was worth it in my eyes due to the notable increase in sales as the listings expired and got relisted [because many buyers search newly listed or ending soonest listings rather than Ebay's default "best match" option]). However, with this change, I downgraded my store to basic for only $21.95/month, and I get 250 free listings per month, meaning I really only have $10-$15 in additional listing fees per month for my 300-350 coins. So now, I'll pay eBay $32-$37/month instead of $150/month. Way to go me! In the meantime, we shall see if my sales drop off.
MA-Shops (in France) is the place to sell your 90% junk silver coins one at a time : https://www.ma-shops.com/cdma/item.php?id=406091&lang=en
That's a crazy amount of fees. Between their promoted listings and their search manipulation I refuse to pay them a single penny for listings aside from what the store provides. Once they started the Cassini search engine a while back sales seemed to slow down and I know a lot of people that happened to, then again slowed with the promoted listings. What isn't clear is how Cassini is going to treat the good til canceled. Will the relist be treated as a new listing for the algorithm or just assumed to be an old one? I strongly suspect the level of store plays a role is how their algorithm ranks results so you might see them fade with the lower level store. To me this is nothing more than another example of something that makes sense in some categories but not all being implemented site wide. If you're selling clothes, or shoes, or DVDs etc it makes sense. They never seem to be able to figure out that they need to treat the collectables differently than normal every day items
