Have yet to receive an email about this but it appears as this link is offering everyone 500 free listings until 6th April. You need to accept the offer. Worked on my account just now, and didn't receive invite.
This offer is available to both non-store and store sellers
Get selling OzBargainers!
P.S. Please don't neg this deal because of eBays FVF fees and other gripes with eBay. Just letting people know who can take advantage of this offer that seems to currently be unadvertised.
Yep, I get 100 free every month. It's also worth mentioning that FVF includes shipping cost now too..
Changes take effect 6th May
You get 40 per month free. This gives you an opportunity to list many items and still keep your normal 40 for the rest of the month. It's good for people who sell lots of cheap things.
Fark… they jacked up the transaction fees AGAIN!? So its now 15% on the final selling price. Lovely!
Paypal is $0.30 + 2.4% of sale. Not to mention there's a listing cap on most personal accounts (100?) so you won't be able to list 500 items anyway.
Too bad about the short expiry
Insertion fees aren't your biggest concern when selling on Ebay, it's like 99c. Now selling fees on the other hand….
So with this offer you can potentially save $495 on insertion fees? Sounds like a good deal to me.
Thanks for the reach-around, eBay.
Final value fees are 10% so they get $60 + paypal fees from my $600 laptop - that's some good commission.
Lucky I saved on the insertion fee (proposed mentality).
Ebay has become a real ripoff.
"Please don't neg this deal because of eBays FVF fees and other gripes with eBay. Just letting people know who can take advantage of this offer that seems to currently be unadvertised"
derp
In the past they have been really shonky with hidden exclusions and disclaimers on these free listings.
Surprised the ACCC hasn't cracked down, they probably get away with it because the insertion fees are so low anyway. What do you save here like 30c?
It's still a deal for those that sell alot on eBay (not me though).
eBay is a rip!
Anyone who sells a lot (like me) already has 100+ free listings per month applied to their account anyway. And then anyone who sells 300+ probably has an eBay store, so the deal is irrelevant to them too.
This sounds to be another trap for a price increase. I am not sure how many people can sell 500 item in two days (5 and 6th April and promotion ends).
I am lucky to put up 3-4 item in a month (up to 10 or 20 free insertion fee anyway)
This is a deal for Ebay shops
You couldn't list the items quick enough to justify the allotment … Unless you broden'd something
Selling manager
I wish Amazon will enter Australian market to keep Ebay more competitive in terms of fees.
I said this to my friend the other day too. Would give them a wake up call.
agreed, we need competition.
There is quicksales.com.au (formerly oztion). They tried to crack into the online auction market a few times, but dismally failed in terms of market share.
Thanks OP
I have been trying to declutter, this should help :)
De-clutter 500 items? You get at least 30 free listings per month anyway.
So we have a day left to use these 500 free listings?
Yes, you have today and tomorrow, so you better get a wriggle on. Seriously, it would take me eons to list 500 items but having 500 free allows me to relist unsold items without eating into the normal free quota.
once off unsold items usually qualify for free relisting anyway
Ebay sent an email to me saying that they would be changing listing charges soon. Including taking a commission from the total purchase price plus postage cost, not just purchase price. Also giving a $30 voucher to sellers who sell items over $500 in value. (Single item) to offset the final value fee. And as I understand offering more free insertion listings.
I hate that they own Gumtree.
the issue is EBAY has no real competition - so can charge what they like.
Gumtree buyers are generally the lower IQ, lower socio-economic ones and make ridiculous offers like $5 for $500 items.
Because EBAY own gumtree they dont try to enhance it, they just let it sit as is.
Quicksales is a complete joke - you are lucky to get anybody even looking at your listings.
I am not aware of any other site that is australian that lets you do what ebay/gumtree/quicksales do
EBAY were allowed to buy Gumtree by the ACCC because they said Quicksales was a vibrant competitor. What a complete farce
well, Ebay pays Google multi-million dollars in advertisement. I doubt any other small players can manage to get that sort of marketing budget to compete. After all, you get what you pay for. Till Amazon steps in, Ebay is still the largest online market place in Australia.
Clever trick to hide the fact the Final Value Fee will soon include the freight amount.
I note the OP's comments about eBay and not to neg this deal on the basis that eBay (as a corporation) is becoming generally hated. But this is classic pump then dump pricing.
Make one aspect appear cheap - then bump up at the other end.
Imagine a servo offering $0.00 Per Litre Petrol, but $1.50 per litre "service charge" to use the petrol pump.
Would it be a bargain ?
I hate the way ebay runs these days with a passion, they're so greedy, but it's unfair to neg this as it is a deal ebay have not properly advertised.
Not to mention they try to hide their fees by making you the seller work out the break down of it to reduce the sting of how much money they're milking from the people…
Dodgey tsk tsk!
Boycott them, bad business practises shouldn't be endorsed nor given any air for that matter. May the eBay enterprise spend an eternity as dirt in their next lives.
i thought listings has been free for some time, they've jacked up the fees though …
10% FVF
5% paypal
…
—- EDIT
I think a limited number of listings per month (30?) has been free… so your free listing probably falls in this category, you probably won't get 500 free listings unless you've been offered it.