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eBay $.10 Fixed Price Listing Day

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TvComics

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If you did not sell all your overpriced junk last month.....It's back......

 

When Is It?

 

One day only, starting Wednesday, March 15, 2006 between 00:00:01 PT (12:00 AM plus one second on Wednesday, March 15, 2006) and ending that same day, Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at 23:59:59 PT(11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).

 

What are the fees?

 

Insertion fees for Fixed Price listings will be revised on the U.S. www.eBay.com and Motors (Parts & Accessories only) www.eBayMotors.com as reflected in the fee table below. This includes listings created prior to the promotion and scheduled to start during the promotional period March 15, 2006.

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They always do this like the day after I load a bunch of my auctions. Now, I really don't have anything on hand to put up for the 10 cent day. I had pretty good luck with this last one though.

 

I wonder why they're doing it again so soon?

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They always do this like the day after I load a bunch of my auctions. Now, I really don't have anything on hand to put up for the 10 cent day. I had pretty good luck with this last one though.

 

I wonder why they're doing it again so soon?

 

I was wondering the same thing - this is very unusual and could be indicative of eBay wanting (needing) to increase listing volume due to fairly flat to downward trending stock price - seems the analysts are more impressed with the number of listings than if eBay is actually receiving any revenue for those listings

 

I hope I did not offend anyone relative to my "Overpriced Junk" comment - what I meant was that a $.10 listing day is a great day to put out a $500 comic which has a low potential to sell (you only have $.10 to loose). The result of this is that the listings are full of overpriced stuff and finding something good gets a little more difficult during these times for buyers.

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yeah, my expensive stuff is up, moved from the store to auction. knocked a few bucks off most of them. but i don't think i'm going to dip into $9 and $10 type books I have in my store, even though I've sold some during 10 cent days in the past. I think I stopped at $25.

 

this is a bit too soon after the last one. I think the last 10 cent auctions ended only 10 days ago. I had put the stuff back in my store and had not even gotten my full 2 cents worth. so really, these are costing me 11.3 cents.

 

desperation move by ebay to boost revenue this quarter. don't get me wrong, i like these, but this is simply too soon. i still haven't gotten paid for a few of my sales from the last one!

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why doesn't it increase their revenues?

 

I sell perhaps, on average, $100-$150 a week in comics out of my store (and that'll often be selling one slab for a couple of hundred and a bunch of smaller stuff)

 

The last few 10 cent days I've done $600-$900. Same stuff for sale.

 

Ebay doesn't make a lot on the 10 cent listings themselves (I suppose they got about $4-$8 out of me they wouldn't have normally gotten), but they got themselves a bunch of extra final value fees!

 

Of course, doing it every 2 weeks will kill the golden goose.

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Most sellers list their stuff to end on a Sunday. Results for those days are usually better than their 10c listing days, even though the number of books listed is around 10 times that of the usual Sunday-ending listings.

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yes, but I think the action ebay is getting on these is people converting store listings into auctions for a week, not setting up a bunch of new auctions. Unless you have a few hundred loaded up in turbo lister ready to go, who has the time to list more than a few new auctions when they give you no notice of 10 cent listing day? I might list some new auctions tonight, but probably won't have the time, whereas converting a store item into an auction takes about 5 seconds. so, they get a "second sunday" (sort of) with these mid-week 10 cent days.

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yes, but I think the action ebay is getting on these is people converting store listings into auctions for a week, not setting up a bunch of new auctions. Unless you have a few hundred loaded up in turbo lister ready to go, who has the time to list more than a few new auctions when they give you no notice of 10 cent listing day? I might list some new auctions tonight, but probably won't have the time, whereas converting a store item into an auction takes about 5 seconds. so, they get a "second sunday" (sort of) with these mid-week 10 cent days.

 

But the end result is to sell the stuff right? Otherwise 10c on a listing doesn't make for any increaes in revenue. The evidence is that very few of the thousands of listings sell and of those that do tend to be low-$ books.

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