posted on June 6, 2002 11:46:40 AM
Has anyone been successful listing during the free listing day??? When I tried to & checked to accept EBAY PAYMENTS, I would receive an error page that stated, ebay payments was only available to U.S. sellers accepting U.S. dollars. One of Ebay's rules for the free listing was it must be listed in British Pounds - Go FIGURE!!
posted on June 6, 2002 11:56:44 AM
I cannot even list on free listing day. I checked all of the boxes and it is still giving me an error message. It is saying it is only avialable in US dollars. What's going on now? I am listing in UK pounds!!
posted on June 6, 2002 12:14:33 PM
Sorry to hear your having troubles too -- seems like we're having the same problem! I emailed ebayu.k. about the error and even copied the payment box with the error message. I'm sure I won't hear a response from them until after the the free listing day is over. Same old ebay!
posted on June 6, 2002 12:30:02 PM
Yes I think we are having the same problem. What is even more upsetting is that I had something planned for after lunch today and cancelled it to list ebay auctions. Now it doesn't want to work and I wasted all of this time for nothing.
With as slow sales are anymore and with all of the high fees, it is not hardly worth it anymore.
I don't need all of this agrevation.
posted on June 6, 2002 06:26:22 PM
It wasn't that great a deal anyway. Listers pay the fee, refunds will be made June 22. Listing fees only, still must pay the sales charge.
dendude
[ edited by vvalhalla on Jun 6, 2002 06:28 PM ]
posted on June 6, 2002 07:09:09 PM
Not to stur the pot too much, but don't you think that there was some safegaurd in place so only people over in the UK were the only ones allowed to post free auctions. It was called UK free listing day.
How about some common sense on this one.
posted on June 6, 2002 07:17:55 PM
It's a typical eBay screwup. Set the conditions that Billpoint must be optioned and items listed in British pounds and then the auctions won't list because Billpoint must be in US dollars. A cage full of monkeys could have made better decisions and planning than eBay did on that one. Meg must be very upset.
posted on June 6, 2002 07:36:22 PM
caffeitalia but YOU need to use some common sense - Ebay FREE LISTING days are not for the common good or to celebrate "viva la ebay UK!" Or else they would not have made so many hoops to jump through, aka, listing in British Sterling & Using ebay payments (billpoint) - all purely promitional for ebay in my opinion! Purely a ploy for ebay's bottom line and to promote ebay's profit sheets & I Know that ebay does not care from where you hail as long as you pay in good ole green backs.
I have used ebay's international sites in the past on free listing days and never have had a problem listing items.
posted on June 6, 2002 08:49:42 PM
Yahoo is pulling out of Europe soon but they were a distant fourth in the listings number there anyway. I think that eBay should make it that only sellers with a verified address for that country can list in that eBay auction country, for example to list in eBay Canada the seller must be a verified Canadian. I know that 90% of the Canadian sellers sell on the US-eBay site and they might as well shut down the Canada-eBay site. If the worldwide auction system is ever going to work the countries should either be restricted to their home country or just have one eBay where all global listing are together and search filters can find which country(s) you want to search in or block. Why divide the world up into pieces in the Electronic Age? Isn't that the main problem in the world today ( other than religion ).
This post should raise a few comments.
