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From the eBay Canada Announcement Board:
***1 Cent Listing Day - March 18, 2005***
Date: 17/03/05 Time: 03:14:38 PM EST
1 CENT LISTING DAY - MARCH 18, 2005
Get ready to list! March 18, 2005 is 1 cent Listing Day. List all you want, no matter what your starting price, for just a penny per listing! Here are the details...
It all begins Friday, March 18, 2005 at 00:00:01 EST (12:00 AM plus one second on March 18, 2005) and ending that same day Friday, March 18, 2005 23:59:59 EST (11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).
Auction-style listing insertion fees for Canadian residents only, using either eBay.ca or eBay.com, will be reduced to 1 cent (CDN or US). Only listings available worldwide will be eligible for this promotion. International sellers who switch their registration and residence to Canada after March 15, 2005 will not be eligible for this particular promotion.
Please note: the discounted fees will not be immediately reflected on the site. You will see a credit to your seller’s account within 60 days. Click here for more details on the promotion.
Items that are made available to Canada only will be excluded from the promotion. Fixed Price Listings, Motors vehicles, Stores Inventory Format Listings, Real Estate Ad Format and Sellers who do not meet the eligibility requirements listed above will also be excluded. The promotional rate does not apply to listings revised during the promotional period. The promotional rate also does not apply to listings created during the promotion March 18, 2005, but scheduled to start after the promotion ends. Read more about this great selling event!
Good luck with your listings, have fun!
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The web page stating details of the promotion states:
This promotion is open to Canadian resident users who have registered on or before March 15, 2005. The promotion will also be open to all new registered users. International sellers who switch their registration and residence to Canada after March 15, 2005 will not be eligible for this particular promotion.
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I am confused about one thing. I registered on eBay U.S. originally because at the time eBay Canada did not exist. I am a resident of Canada. Was my registration automatically switched to eBay Canada when eBay Canada was born and how do I confirm that? A test listing on Friday won't answer the question because the Announcement says fee credits may take 60 days.
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Gabsy best get her "switch from store to 5 day auctions" finger limbered up......looks like she is in for dumping about 2,000 new ones tomorrow!
I am actually beginning to almost look forward to the deal of the week announcements......
.....one of these days they will have one that is free listing & no FVF on every auction for purple hearses and I am gonna be ready!
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Irene I don't think you and I qualify, technically, we are not eBay.ca-ers nor are we dotcommers either.
but two of my students do qualify, I'll use one of their alias'
and I am not pounding 2,000 items on to find out in 60 days that we didn't qualify
and after that last round I only have about 1500 items left.
of course I just finished hustling and doing up a whole bunch today and they are already listed, I just turned down 200.00 for an item I started at 9.99.....hummm....might be an interesting week after all.
Meg ran out of columns to jumble around on the books so now they learned something from PP.....earn money off the float
let's see, people list 1,000,000 good items at 1.00 per item start....
so they get use of 1 mil for 60 days.......at todays interest rates and eBays poor bookkeeping skills, is this promo any good for either side.
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Well, in my eBay account information section, there are 3 addresses listed - registration address, shipping address and payment address. All 3 show my address in Canada.
I'm now inclined to think we do qualify, Gabs. The details mention that those who switch their registration (and residence) to Canada AFTER the 15th aren't eligible. That implies there is a way of switching. The only thing I can see that a user can switch in the Account Information area is the registered address from outside Canada to inside Canada. There is no where I can see that allows a user to switch auction site registration.
I wish it was clearer though.
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about as clear as mud it is
well, I am not using my main alias' for this one, we have one set up ready to go now, but we are only doing maybe 50 things on it. ....I am playing it cool with this one...
wonder why they limited themselves to so few participants?
and why right after a 1/2 price promo too.
weird.....gotta figure this one out, it is bugging me....
or making me nervous not sure which.
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Is this the first time they've done a "Canadian Residents Only" listing day? I just don't remember them ever limiting it before like that.
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I think its idiotic to just limt it to Canadians (no offense)
I mean,they can do all these 50% off fixed-price discounts,but what about a free listing day again??? When was the last time they had one? seems like forever...then they do a 1 cent listing day which is pretty much just as good....and its only for Canada??? What up?
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The last time that I know of that they had a free listing day was in december 2003, but I didn't get to participate because I was recovering from having my wisdom teeth hacked out
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I want a one cent listing day (off to list about 100 items at 70 cents ea darn it).