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Another worthless promotion...........
***Start Low, Pay Less - Insertion Fee Sale***
Date: 10/06/03 Time: 05:02:32 PM PDT
As a special offer to Collectibles, Coins and Stamps sellers, we will be holding a three-day 50% off insertion fee sale from Tuesday, October 7th, 2003 between 00:00:01 PDT (12:00 AM plus one second) and 23:59:59 PDT Thursday, October 9th, 2003 (11:59 PM plus 59 seconds). During this sale, items in these categories starting at $0.99 or below with No Reserve on the U.S. site (www.ebay.com) will have their insertion fee reduced by 50%. Listings created prior to October 7, 2003 and scheduled to start during the promotional period October 7-9, 2003 will be eligible for the promotional rate.
During the 3 Day Start Low, Pay Less promotion:
The insertion fees for single-quantity Auction-Style and single-quantity Fixed Price listings in the Collectibles, Coins and Stamps categories whose starting price is less than or equal to $0.99 will be 50% Off. This promotion will not apply to any categories not listed, multiple-quantity listings, Live Auctions, Professional Services, or Store Inventory listings.
Please Note: the discounted fees will not be immediately reflected on the site. You will see a credit to your seller's account by mid-November 2003. In order to be eligible for the promotion, you must list your item in the Collectibles, Coins or Stamps categories during the promotional period.
All other fees (including Insertion Fees for starting prices greater than $0.99, Reserve Fees, Final Value Fees and all other optional listing upgrade fees, such as Buy It Now, Highlight, Gallery Featured, Featured Plus!, Listing Designer, Gift Services, Bold, extended duration insertion fees, etc.) will still be charged at their regular prices. The promotional rate does not apply to listings with a start date prior to October 7th, 2003, including those listings revised during the promotional period. The promotional rate also does not apply to listings created during the promotional period, October 7 -9, 2003 but scheduled to start after October 9th, 2003. If you choose to List in 2 Categories, the standard insertion and listing upgrade fees for listing in the second category will still apply.
We hope you enjoy Start Low, Pay Less!
Regards,
eBay
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And of course they continue to foster the bargain basement mentality. Start low ... and who cares about the work you invested in your auction! It's so eBay!
[This message was edited by Brodysmom on MON October 06, 2003 at 07:31 PM.]
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I was gonna list some coins this week.
Guess not.
The dollar-no-reserve crap was one area that coins seemed to avoid by and large.
And they pretty much maintained decent prices.
No more, I guess.
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just exactly what purpose does this serve to ebay's bottom line
more yard sale mentality training for the bidders????
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Read the sentence carefully(bolding is mine):
The promotional fee will apply to listings created prior to Oct 7, 2003 and scheduled to start during the promotional period Oct 7-9, 2003.
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The promotional fee will apply to listings created prior to Oct 7, 2003 and scheduled to start during the promotional period Oct 7-9, 2003
Nice catch. And anyone who doesn't catch it will not realize it for over a month:
Please Note: the discounted fees will not be immediately reflected on the site. You will see a credit to your seller's account by mid-November 2003.
If I worded my listings like this, I would be a scumbag with crappy feedback from people who didn't read very very carefully.
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I'm too slow to sell items at 99 cents.
If I understand this promotion correctly, I would get a .15 cents discount for a .99 cents starting price.
Hopefully the promotion will attract enough attention that items sell that might otherwise go unsold and the final price would be above what a higher opening price would generate.
I would be interested in the results experienced by someone who normally lists a range of items at, say, $9.99.
I realize factors like profit built into S/H, loss leader promotions to develop additional immediate or future sales and redirection to websites could benefit sellers.
I'm always hesitant to start anything this low unless I'm certain there is a large and active market.
I understand how eBay profits from this promotion and that buyer are interested in potential bargains but how do sellers make money?
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and it doesn't apply to the second category....
is it my imagination, or are ebay's freebie offerings getting cheesier and tackier every month...
why not just toss out a free listing day and be done with it, how many people are they paying to come up with these brainwaves, let alone the programmers to co-ordinate all the 50 percents off's and discounts etc....
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That means I had to read that starting price twice. http://community.here.com/infopop/em.../icon_wink.gif Yep, I really plan to take advantage of this wonderful promo. http://community.here.com/infopop/em...n_rolleyes.gif http://community.here.com/infopop/em...n_confused.gif http://community.here.com/infopop/em...n_rolleyes.gif
Not impressed here,
Lisa
My eBay Auctions...Hey, I listed a few!
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>I would be interested in the results experienced by someone who normally lists a range of items at, say, $9.99.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
My experience has been that a 99 cent opening bid seems to attract lots of bottom feeders.
Whenever I've tried listing $10 stuff for 99 cents, the result seems to be that after 8 bids, the price is up to $2.99. I'd hoped that maybe those bidders would look at my other stuff, but they generally seemed interested in only the 99 cent items.
I don't do 99 cent opening bids anymore.