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<p>[QUOTE="illini420, post: 704008, member: 19423"]Be careful with the 5 free listings though. I schedule 9 listings to start a few days ago and paid the extra $0.10 per listing to set the start time 5 minutes apart from one another. My 5 highest dollar auctions being the first 5 to begin to be my 5 free with the $20 final value fee cap. </p><p> </p><p>The auctions started as planned but when I checked my invoice the first auction to start actually showed up last on my bill with an entry time of nearly two hours after the auction actually started, so it didn't end up being one of my 5 free. After 45 minutes on the phone to eBay India, I was able to convince them to give me a final value fee credit, but I will have to call when the auction is over since they can't calculate the credit until the auction ends next week. They said the auctions are not billed when begun, but when they become searchable in their system. That can be anywhere from 30 seconds after listing to 6 hours after listing I was told. The only way they agreed to credit me in this case was because I was able to prove my auction was searchable before the time on my billing because I was fortunate to get a bid only a few minutes after I listed (that person had to find my listing somehow!!!).</p><p> </p><p>Just something to be aware of I guess. Sort of a pain, but it's a $2500 or so item so it being one of my first 5 of the month saves me around $50 I think.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="illini420, post: 704008, member: 19423"]Be careful with the 5 free listings though. I schedule 9 listings to start a few days ago and paid the extra $0.10 per listing to set the start time 5 minutes apart from one another. My 5 highest dollar auctions being the first 5 to begin to be my 5 free with the $20 final value fee cap. The auctions started as planned but when I checked my invoice the first auction to start actually showed up last on my bill with an entry time of nearly two hours after the auction actually started, so it didn't end up being one of my 5 free. After 45 minutes on the phone to eBay India, I was able to convince them to give me a final value fee credit, but I will have to call when the auction is over since they can't calculate the credit until the auction ends next week. They said the auctions are not billed when begun, but when they become searchable in their system. That can be anywhere from 30 seconds after listing to 6 hours after listing I was told. The only way they agreed to credit me in this case was because I was able to prove my auction was searchable before the time on my billing because I was fortunate to get a bid only a few minutes after I listed (that person had to find my listing somehow!!!). Just something to be aware of I guess. Sort of a pain, but it's a $2500 or so item so it being one of my first 5 of the month saves me around $50 I think.[/QUOTE]
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