Everyone's stopped bitching?

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Originally posted by ChooChooGuy:
Just making sure others are aware of this so called 'free' period.

I'm not saying not to use it. I always did when it was free. I never felt it was worth the 35 cents EVEN IF it was proven to help complete a sale.

Call me cheap, but I wanted that extra 35 cents in MY pocket.

I would use it if it's free.

What is it you sell that is so desirable to US buyers? Even with the $$$ imbalance and high postage, would I want it?

Well isn't the gallery free for you now or at least shortly

Would you want them, no, doubt it, not from what I have have seen of your interest as they are not train items

And anyway if you were you would seek them out on the GreedBay UK site as most originate from this country as eager collectors do

Yes, I am an awkward old so and so

Seriously, what do you sell?

I am not sure why there has been so much bitching. Of course ebay want to milk us for as much as they can get just as we want to sell our stuff for as much as possible but they also know they need to produce buyers for us and the fact is they are good at that. There is simply nothing to compare with their service.
I thought most sellers would welcome the shift from listing fees to FVFs. The US has also been given free gallery which is a huge saving for me as it accounted for 50% of my listing fees there.
I am hoping it will be extended to the UK where I sell most of my stuff but even as is I am a happy bunny as my total payments to ebay are down about 20% and for some reason I am selling about 30% more than I used to without changing anything I do.
Maybe they have done something right for a change.

Come on, of course it's right for the shareholders and those soon to take golden handshakes.

Over here they are still teasing us over the gallery which we still have to pay 15p for per item, (approx 30c ?). The current free gallery promotion eliminates our listings from appearing by default on the US site because it would be unfair which is total bull now you have it for free.

GreedBay are THE e-Spin Doctors and smaller venues are benefitting because we (sellers like me) are attracting customers to them. The last three sale on SA were buyers who signed up the same day as buying from me, and are probably previous customers of mine from Greedbay.

So watchout GreedBay, complacency is a killer, chuckle

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Originally posted by ChooChooGuy:
Come on, of course it's right for the shareholders and those soon to take golden handshakes.

Over here they are still teasing us over the gallery which we still have to pay 15p for per item, (approx 30c ?). The current free gallery promotion eliminates our listings from appearing by default on the US site because it would be unfair which is total bull now you have it for free.

GreedBay are THE e-Spin Doctors and smaller venues are benefitting because we (sellers like me) are attracting customers to them. The last three sale on SA were buyers who signed up the same day as buying from me, and are probably previous customers of mine from Greedbay.

So watchout GreedBay, complacency is a killer, chuckle

The current promotion does nothing of the sort. UK listings have not been shown in the US by default for well over a year. That hit my sales for sure but I have worked hard to make up for that hit. All biz suffers from unexpected change at time but instead of moaning some just get on with it and adjust to the new situation.
You sound like you cannot make a decent profit selling on ebay so perhaps you should ask yourself why when many others can and it is by far the best market available despite the fact we would all like it to be cheaper.
Perhaps these changes are designed to weed out those that can't do it and reward those that can

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I thought most sellers would welcome the shift from listing fees to FVFs. The US has also been given free gallery which is a huge saving for me as it accounted for 50% of my listing fees there.

Unfortunately I never listed with Gallery, so I'm not "saving" 35 cents. I'm actually paying a lot more than I used to. The "saved 5 cents" is more than taken away by the 8.75% take on the first $25. Profit? Yes, I still profit, just LESS profit while eBay gets MORE profit.

All the new plans? Notice how they are all just for PowerSellers? Increased protection through Paypal, FVF discounts for high DSR's. WHY ISN'T EVERY USER ELIGIBLE FOR THIS? My DSR values are very high, 4.8, and I have 3000+ 100% positive feedback. I've been selling for 11 years. Why can't I get these discounts and protections? What, my customer service doesn't rate anything because I'm not a PowerSeller? That's bullshit.

THAT isn't fair.

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You sound like you cannot make a decent profit selling on ebay

True for one category, this is why I will continue to sell some categories on GreedBay and others on the SA site and others on my own site shortly, horses for courses as they say.

Just checked the announcement link again and it has been changed, under exclusions it originally linked to the unfair blah, that has now gone.

Obviously some erronous copy paste and subsequent correction has taken place.

Getting sloppy aren't they !

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Perhaps these changes are designed to weed out those that can't do it and reward those that can

Yes and they will keep raising the level until they can get away from the fleapit, sorry, flea market scenario which is now so degrading for an up and coming e-commerce giant

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What, my customer service doesn't rate anything because I'm not a PowerSeller? That's bullshit.

THAT isn't fair.

That's business and Greedbay can do as they please ..... for now ....