eBay Bucks new terms

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by itjclarke

This bums me out. I consider myself a very good eBayer, yet NEVER seem to get these offers. I checked my messages after reading this thread and didn't get that email today. I guess they consider me a lower class customer.

This same thing is what ticks me off about their various "free listing" promotions these days. Rarely do they do a sweeping all-users, anyone can list for free promotion, but will often send out promotions to targeted individuals, with only those receiving the e-mails being eligible. Invariably, those who receive the e-mails are not the high-volume sellers, which is fine. I understand that the promotions are to stimulate activity, and if you're already active, you don't need to be stimulated. What ticks me off though are the tag lines of "list 60k items Free", "list 100k items Free", etc., knowing full well that none of the individuals they are sending the e-mails to have anywhere near the "Selling Limits" to be able to take full advantage of the promotion.

Bottom line is, they don't consider you a lower-class customer, but rather a good/safe customer that they don't have to entice into more buying.

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by thecatspajamas

Bottom line is, they don't consider you a lower-class customer, but rather a good/safe customer that they don't have to entice into more buying.

Good point.. I need to find a way to tease them a little more. Maybe I'll start sending a bunch of random messages through my eBay profile to other eBayers talking about all the great auction houses I've discovered.

[tschock]

Originally Posted by thecatspajamas

Invariably, those who receive the e-mails are not the high-volume sellers, which is fine. I understand that the promotions are to stimulate activity, and if you're already active, you don't need to be stimulated. What ticks me off though are the tag lines of "list 60k items Free", "list 100k items Free", etc., knowing full well that none of the individuals they are sending the e-mails to have anywhere near the "Selling Limits" to be able to take full advantage of the promotion.

And should someone of that "limited volume" seller level actually take advantage of that by listing a few thousand items, might ebay actually limit the number of listings anyway due to their policy of not wanting sellers to get in "over their heads" of what they can handle should those items get sold?

[thecatspajamas]

That's exactly what I'm saying. They will never offer 60k free listings to someone who has a Selling Limit cap that actually allows them to list 60k items. If you have a selling cap of 500 or 1000 items that you're allowed to list, they might as well say:

You can list a infinity times infinity plus infinity items FOR FREE.*

*Selling limits still apply.

As it is, on my main selling account, I have a limit of 20k items. Since eBay started doing the targeted listing promotions, I have received 0 Free Listing promotion e-mails, with the exception of once or twice a year that they still do a sweeping site-wide listing promotion (as they did in the run-up to Christmas this year). So I don't know what the cut-off for being blacklisted for Free Listings promotions is, but it appears to be something less than 20k. A while back I set up a second account intending to migrate all of my comic book listings over to it, and that account consistently receives every e-mail offer with bloated Free Listing counts, yet it has a Selling Limit cap of 100 listings. Just ridiculous.

[pawpawdiv9]

Ebay Bucks
--time to redeem my cool 16.13 over the past few months.
a new 3 pk underwear & un-opened packs of chewing gum, im good to go for 2014.

[Bunker]

I also understand why ebay is doing this, it is suppose to be a rewards program for people who purchase on ebay. Why should ebay reward someone for spending less than $250 a quarter? I bet ebay has to process 1000's of certificates every quarter that are less than $1.00.

My son only earned .63 cents last quarter it probably cost ebay more than that to notify him.