New ebay Up & Running program. Free listing fees.

[james13v]

So, awesome. Instead of helping current sellers, they are giving 500 orders worth of free listing fees, to only new sellers? So not only was it hard enough to sell, and people having trouble with seller fees, they are going to make it even harder by diluting the market even more, with brand new sellers that get to list for free AND sell for free. Ebay is disgusting lol

Register as a new business seller and receive a Basic Store for free for three months! Plus, pay no selling fees on up to 500 orders when you sign up.


Get your business up and running
No selling fees for new businesses through June 30 and everything you need to make your eBay Store successful.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/2/21...sales-benefits

[agent006140]

thats the way Ebay operates,no one makes any decent money

[agent006140]

On one hand,they ban retail arbitrage,on the other hand,they give you 500 free listings,how many small sellers have 500 different items in stock?

[james13v]

Originally Posted by agent006140

On one hand,they ban retail arbitrage,on the other hand,they give you 500 free listings,how many small sellers have 500 different items in stock?

This isn't 500 free listings. This is 500 listings worth of free SELLING fees. As in, you can sell 500 items, ENTIRELY FOR FREE.

And that's on top of the 50,000 free listings they are giving people. This is all so absurd. Ebay doesn't want to help the sellers that have been around for years. They want to help people that never bothered to even go on ebay to sell....

I haven't been able to find any threads on the ebay discussion forum either. I wonder if they are deleting posts.

[e2free]

They lost alot of business due to Amazon they simply trying to get new sellers thats all

[james13v]

Originally Posted by e2free

They lost alot of business due to Amazon they simply trying to get new sellers thats all

how about, making sure that your current sellers don't go out of business....

[james13v]

Originally Posted by tinsoldier

It would be naive to think that ebay is any different to any other company in offering new business incentives. I get it that you think they should offer this to all sellers but again, it is naive to think this is anything to do with helping us, it isn't.

Lets not forget that the offer is up to 500 sales, we all know that it's going to be heavily limited to, say, 10 sales in the first month assuming you're not suspended for a velocity review/receipts and such likes.

When they say up to 500, that doesn't imply a limit under 500. It's 500 sales and no more. The " up to" part, just means you don't have to sell 500. I've read all the fine print. They are not going to limit you in any way.

And I'm not being naive about it. Ebay is releasing the bird in their hand, so they can try and catch more in the bush.

Can you imagine if a company right now, started giving out bonuses to new hires, and increasing their salaries, while they tell their current workers to pound sand? There would be an outcry. Yet this? No one seems to give a damn.

They are even allowing free anchor stores. So here I am, paying for an anchor store so I can get free listings, and dedicated customer support.

They are not only giving away listings to current store owners, with the lowest stores, which I pay for. I can't contact the CS I pay for. And now they are going to even give away free anchor stores, and new people get to sell for free?

This is a bunch in the balls as much as anyone can do.

[james13v]

Originally Posted by tinsoldier

Brand new accounts, as we know only too well, are usually restricted to an initial allowance of 10 items so clearly there is going to be some form of new account limitations.

If you decide to close your account then yes, they could be accused of releasing the bird in the hand....but you won't and they know it.

Ebay is spending $100,000,000 on this. So trust me, they will be allowing sellers to sell way more than the 10. You'll see. The whole point of this is to give small retail businesses a new avenue. You really think they are going to limit them to 10 items? How does that give them a new avenue during these times?

As far as releasing the bird. If sellers aren't able to sell as much, or have issues paying their fees, what the hell choice are they going to have?

Will I leave? No. But a lot of sellers were already going to leave, and many just can't afford to sell on here anymore. Now add this insult on top of that? They aren't helping long time sellers, and are making it even WORSE for current sellers by creating competition that can literally list and sell for free?