posted on October 13, 2000 12:44:47 PM new
Does anyone know where on Ebay I could email someone to suggest something. Since a lot of sellers list items to launch or start on Thursday nights or Sunday nights the system seems to always crash due to the volume of people listing items. Don't you think the time has come for Ebay to take care of their sellers and allow us to choose the number of days are auctions are. I would settle to list for 9 days for example instead of 10 days to list on a less busy day so that my auctions still end on Sunday. The way the system is it is almost impossible 50% of the time to get your auctions to launch (especially if you use Auction Watches Lister) without getting errors on these nights. If you do them by hand through Ebay which takes a lot longer doing each one seperately you might be hitting the submit auction button forever on each one adding to the time. I think if they let us choose 1, 2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8 or 10 days they would spread out the listings and have a lot happy sellers! If I could get my suggestion to the right place maybe someone there might think about it.
posted on October 13, 2000 01:43:54 PM new
Thanks much I just did that and hopefully someone listens. Maybe if anyone else feels the same way, after trying to list all night last night they might listen if you write too.
posted on October 13, 2000 01:46:37 PM new
I suggested that last year to ebay. But, as I figured, they didn't listen. It would probably only take them a few hours to make the change, and there's no reason for them not to do it.
However, I suggested only 3-10 day auctions, not 1 & 2. Some 1 or 2 day auctions would end before they even show up in the search!
posted on October 13, 2000 01:56:31 PM new
Your right, 1 and 2 days would seem useless. Another suggestion I should have added was: It would be good if buyers could not leave negative feedback on a seller if a final credit has been applied for by the the seller.
posted on October 13, 2000 01:59:12 PM new...and there's no reason for them not to do it.
Maybe there is a reason.
eBay is already slow at certain times because of the load placed on their system by people listing, so to assure that their auctions end on a specific night (it seems that Sunday is the choice of most).
At one time, this was only limited by the ability of the lister to be online at that particular time (and their patience in waiting for the pages to load).
Now, added to that demand, there is the additional load of listings being submitted by off-site listing schedulers, such as the one at AW, and I'm sure many others.
If eBay changed their listing procedures so that everybody could list their auctions at whatever time they liked, and they all scheduled them to end on Sunday PM, can you imagine what it would be like trying to get in to bid?
posted on October 13, 2000 02:02:05 PM new
Your right about the bidding end. But I guess in the perfect world which it's not bidders should be placing their bids early lol....and therefore bidding during the week.
posted on October 13, 2000 11:30:26 PM newAnother suggestion I should have added was: It would be good if buyers could not leave negative feedback on a seller if a final credit has been applied for by the seller.
jlb444, I buy more than I sell on ebay. What if payment truely was lost in the mail, or if the seller receives it and misplaces it? Or if the seller is just plain looney? If one has the right to leave feedback, so should the other.
Edited to add this little story:
I bought an oil lamp on ebay and paid by M.O. Instead of getting the lamp, I get one of "those" letters from ebay. I email seller, he says he never got payment. I send him a check and start paperwork to get money back from money order company. After several weeks and an $8.00 fee from the money order company I find out he had received and cashed both! So you're saying I shouldn't be able to leave feedback on this *&$%&^ cause he filed first. I realize unjustified retalitory feedback is a problem, but there are two sides to every story and it is not always the buyer who is the problem.
[ edited by BlondeSense on Oct 13, 2000 11:48 PM ]
posted on October 14, 2000 12:11:41 AM new
Might be Off-Topic but here goes anyway:
Remember when you were a new seller and did not care when you launched or when your auction ended. You did great, didn't you? And you were hooked on ebay.
Then everybody started analyzing and trying to figure out; best nights and best times to end auctions, number of days to run auctions, items to sell. Now we have an overload on best nights and best days.
Suggestion to sellers: just click on the Submit button and let the chips fall where they may.
posted on October 14, 2000 12:19:58 AM new
I always end on Monday or Tuesday night. No problems....But it is best to end around 11:00 pm Eastern time. Gives the western people a chance.
posted on October 14, 2000 12:48:01 AM new
Thanks Jema!!!
I was having fun when I started doing this. Now, what I'm getting is ulcers for worrying if my auctions will launch on time to end at desired days and times. So I just went back to the way I used to do it and it doesn't seem to hurt my sales a bit.
