posted on April 9, 2003 04:19:03 AM new
Another weird billing from ebay - I stored unsold items in my pending items on auctionwatch waiting for a free listing day. These auctions are at least 3 mos. old. Listed some of them last night. When I checked my account status ebay showed them as a relisted item???
In the pending column they were relisted, ended and then uploaded. I thought these would start as "new" listings, especially since they are older than 30 days and will receive no credit if they sell this time around.
I'm concerned about a true free listing day in the future - I think items being tagged as "Relist" from ebay will not receive a free second chance.
Is there a glitch in the auctionwatch uploading to ebay to make this happen???
posted on April 9, 2003 05:13:06 AM new
I have seen data from others here in earlier threads that Ebay does not consider relists as a "new listing" and they will not qualify for free listing day. I haven't experienced the particular situation personally.
posted on April 9, 2003 05:41:46 AM new
My point is; why is it showing as a relist in the first place??? What do I have to do to the auction listing so Ebay does not know that 3 mos. ago it was once listed on ebay????
I can only assume that when you created the auction (if it you did it from your Vendio online Sales Manager control panel) that you clicked on "relist" to put them in your pending auctions while you waited for the free listing day. If you did so, data goes with it to Ebay when it is uploaded that it is a "relist".
It may not matter whether the item has or has not been previously relisted, or whether ir not it is eligible for a refund on fees if sold. What simply matters is if you used the "relist" button to create the auction. Ebay sees it as a "relist" when it arrives and will not consider it a "brand new" auction, and so is not eligible (in their view) for free listing on the free days.
Next time, if you have the auctions stored offline in batches in Sales Manager Pro, launch them from there newly, and do not click on the "relist" button in the online Sales Manager screen. That should solve it up.
Edited to add that even if they were clicked on as "relists" from an Ebay screen using old auctions, Ebay still wouldn't list them for free on the free day. I'm sure they have software set to look at each one as it loads. If it carries a hidden "relist" marker of some kind it just doesn't qualify.
I don't agree with them, but that's the way it is.
Patty
[ edited by meadowlark on Apr 9, 2003 08:50 AM ]
posted on April 9, 2003 09:41:31 AM new
Patty, my steps were as follows: 1. go to closed auctions & check auctions to relist, which sent them to pending. 2. In pending cancel the relisted auctions so each one could be manually edited for changes. 3. Hit launch now.
The auctions last closed before 1/20/03 because they have fallen off my closed auction screen.
Sonya from AW replied with the following suggestion for the problem. ****when they are in pending, open them up and click the Copy button to get a copy of that listing. That copy is basically a brand new listing.
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Have you tried this? Will it work or am I just copying the same information and sending in another relist??
posted on April 9, 2003 09:53:50 AM new
In the pending auctions, when you cancelled them, you only cancelled the scheduled upload, not the auction itself if I'm not mistaken. So a schedule change does not make it a non-relist, it's just delayed in uploading.
I haven't tried Sonya's method. It likely works fine. I relist from the Online Sales Manager once and if it doesn't sell, I either relist from Auction Manager Pro offline later or toss the item that no one seems to want.
