Cheap Bastards: No Free Listing Day on US site. $0.10 listing day on 12/27

[snugglypuppy]

FREE is a word that is no longer found in the ebay vocabulary     

[bargainbloodhound]

[quote author=snugglypuppy link=topic=1909.msg6700#msg6700 date=1135662846]
FREE is a word that is no longer found in the ebay vocabulary     
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FREE is still very much in eBay's vocabulary:

eBay sites with NO LISTING FEES: Singapore, Malaysia,  and Philippines (and I'm fairly sure Taiwan and Hong Kong are  also free)
eBay site with FREE Stores: China

[Nat]

And it's "free" to register.    Sorry, couldn't resist because so many new auction sites pop up and that's one of their big marketing pushes - that they are free to register (as if that's special).

[amy]

Listings are up to 9.8 million from 9.1 million so far

[bargainbloodhound]

Listings jumped from 9.1 million to 16.9 million yesterday...and I'm sure sell through rates for the next week will be down as a result. 

[bargainbloodhound]

That's a typical jump.  The big spikes up in Feb/May/Nov were all reduced fee promotions

http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?ESHYy2005

Listings jumped from 8 million to over 14 during last year's 12/27 10 cent promotion:

http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?ESHYy2004

[xppman]

ebay IS a major meltdown. :blinkie:

And I'm sure we wont be seeing any FREE listing days from them EVER again.

Hope all had a wondeful Holiday.

[amy]

[quote author=vitalfinds link=topic=1909.msg6768#msg6768 date=1135798430]
Actually in this case (as opposed to the Feb and May spikes), this sale just brought the auction numbers up to where they were before the Christmas drop.

I don't think that ebay can run free days anymore without causing major meltdowns of ebay and the third party software companies like MW.
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I think the Marketworks launch delays during the 2003 FLD were over 12 hours at one point late in the day.  I remember we gave up trying to list around 2 pm because of the delays.