Cheaper multiple-item listings

The two improvements you really need to know about are:

• Cheaper multiple-item listings
• Good 'Til Cancelled

• Enhance your chances of appearing higher in search results
• Save lots of money

If you have multiple identical items to sell, you need to take advantage of multiple-item Buy It Now listings. You’ll pay just a single insertion fee for 30-day duration, no matter how many items you’re offering on that listing. For example, if you’re an Anchor shop owner, that means you could sell a large amount of inventory from a single listing, and pay just a 1p insertion fee for every 30-days that listing stays up.

The more you sell from a single listing, the greater the chances are of it appearing higher in search results. Help on multiple-item listings.

Cut down the admin by choosing Good ‘Til Cancelled for your Buy It Now Shop listings. Your listing will automatically renew until everything’s sold.

All you’ll need to do is make sure you choose the Good ‘Til Cancelled feature when you set up your listing, and it’ll renew every 30 days*. You’ll be able to add quantity to your listing as you go along, so you can just keep the same listing going until you run out of stock.

*You’ll be charged a new insertion fee at every renewal

• Why are you encouraging multiple-item listings?
  • As a seller, it's easier and cheaper for you to sell and manage multiple quantities of an identical product by using a single Buy It Now listing. From now on, using multiple-item listings means you pay just one insertion fee for all items in that listing, and reduces listing administration, compared to managing several single-item listings.
    
    Also, from 25th September, recent sales from a single listings will be included as one of the factors in sorting search results for Buy It Now items, so you'll get more prominence in search results if you use multiple-item listings correctly.
    
    Finally, it's easier for buyers to find the item that they want without searching from several duplicate listings.
    
    

• Will my SIF items automatically switch to BIN on 25th September?
  • SIF listings will be phased out on 25th September. If a seller sets up SIF listings before that date, and they are due to end after 24th September, they will appear as BIN listings in main search results.
    
    

• Will 30-day duration/Good ‘Til Cancelled/reduced Insertion Fee be available to Motor Dealers?
  • 30-day duration fixed-price listings, Good ‘Til Cancelled (GTC) and the subscription-based reduced insertion fees won’t be available for listings in the Vehicles category, but will be available for Parts & Accessories.
    
    That means 30 day/GTC and subscription based pricing is not available for Vehicles. However Featured First is available in Vehicles.
    
    

• Can you still edit your 30-day listings?
  • Here's a list of what can and can't be edited on a 30-day listing once you've put it on eBay.co.uk or eBay.ie:
    
    
    • You can revise the price up or down, and add quantity.
    • You can add new features, such as Bold.
    • You won't be able to remove any features from Good 'Til Cancelled listings.
    • You won't be able to add Good 'Til Cancelled duration to an active listing. (Only Shop owners can use Good 'Til Cancelled.)

• What will happen to current fixed price listings (Buy It Now and Shop Inventory Format) from 25th September?

  • All fixed price listings will automatically convert to the new Buy It Now format with a new fees structure.

    Current BIN listings (3, 5, 7 or 10 day)

    • These will remain BIN listings with the same duration
    • To convert them to Good 'Til Cancelled (GTC), you should let the listings end naturally (or cancel them), revise the duration in the usual way (in the Sell Your Item form, or Selling Manager or Turbo Lister) and then relist them

    Current Shop Inventory Format ('SIF') (30 or 90 day)

    • 30 day SIF listings will convert to 30 day BIN listings
    • 90 day SIF listings will finish when the entire 90-day period has run out. There won't be any extra fees to pay beyond the normal Insertion Fees and Final Value Fees incurred

    SIF (Good 'Til Cancelled)

    • SIF GTC listings will convert to BIN GTC listings
    • They will automatically renew every 30 days at the new fees based on the Shop subscription level

• What will happen to existing Shop Inventory Format (SIF) listings below 99p?
  • For current 90 day SIF listings priced below 99p, these will convert to BIN listings and will run to the end of the listing duration naturally. Thereafter if a seller wants to relist these, they must set the Buy It Now (BIN) price at 99p or above.
    
    For Good 'Til Cancelled SIF listings priced below 99p, these will convert to BIN listings. In December any remaining BIN listings priced below 99p will be cancelled as the listing comes up for renewal. Thereafter if a seller wants to relist these, they must set the BIN price at 99p or above.
    
    We recommend that sellers adjust the price of their BIN listings to 99p or above as early as possible so that they can continue building the recent sales (popularity) score on their listings and avoid the need to cancel and relist.