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#8,401
whateve said:
Has anyone ever earned ebay bucks on something they sold? I never have, although I sign up for it every time it is offered.
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I just signed up for it too. I'd love to say I've sold something, but the one listing I didn't change (because had someone messaging me about it) is the one that's sold so far.

I activated the offer and ended my listings - did sell similar changing to buy it now from best offer and lower prices. I immediately got a super low ball offer?!?! I go into my listings and all that I edited via the app to buy it now were back to best offer and eBay took the liberty to fill in my auto decline field for 50% of list price. So tired of that BS. It's bad enough they keep trying to rope me into this easy pricing thing (where they automatically lower price every so many days) but when I decline they decide I should still accept offers? What a pain! And I had to double check I had "no returns" because I found a couple of listings with returns accepted. Grrr.
 
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holiday123 said:
I just signed up for it too. I'd love to say I've sold something, but the one listing I didn't change (because had someone messaging me about it) is the one that's sold so far.

I activated the offer and ended my listings - did sell similar changing to buy it now from best offer and lower prices. I immediately got a super low ball offer?!?! I go into my listings and all that I edited via the app to buy it now were back to best offer and eBay took the liberty to fill in my auto decline field for 50% of list price. So tired of that BS. It's bad enough they keep trying to rope me into this easy pricing thing (where they automatically lower price every so many days) but when I decline they decide I should still accept offers? What a pain! And I had to double check I had "no returns" because I found a couple of listings with returns accepted. Grrr.
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Thanks for the heads-up. I don't use the app, but I did notice when I relisted an item from my phone, on the mobile web site, it tried to default me into lowering the price and accepting offers on my BIN listing. Now I need to go make sure my No Returns policy is still in place. Grr is right!
 
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Catbird9 said:
Thanks for the heads-up. I don't use the app, but I did notice when I relisted an item from my phone, on the mobile web site, it tried to default me into lowering the price and accepting offers on my BIN listing. Now I need to go make sure my No Returns policy is still in place. Grr is right!
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Yes! You have to check everything everytime now it seems. If I simply relist chances are they changed something.
 
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Another new thing they are doing in the app. No clue what the fvf is? Based off a % of trending price of similar items. So how similar? Coach vs Coach or rogue vs rogue or dinky vs dinky 24? Condition? Too many variables unless I'm not understanding.
 

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#8,405
holiday123 said:
Another new thing they are doing in the app. No clue what the fvf is? Based off a % of trending price of similar items. So how similar? Coach vs Coach or rogue vs rogue or dinky vs dinky 24? Condition? Too many variables unless I'm not understanding.
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Way too many variables! You would need a CPA to figure out if the promotion was helping you or eating up all your profits. No thanks!

I never click on promoted listings as a buyer. I assume the price is inflated to cover the cost of the promotion.
 
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holiday123 said:
Another new thing they are doing in the app. No clue what the fvf is? Based off a % of trending price of similar items. So how similar? Coach vs Coach or rogue vs rogue or dinky vs dinky 24? Condition? Too many variables unless I'm not understanding.
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Catbird9 said:
Way too many variables! You would need a CPA to figure out if the promotion was helping you or eating up all your profits. No thanks!

I never click on promoted listings as a buyer. I assume the price is inflated to cover the cost of the promotion.
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I've been ignoring it. If ebay is pushing so hard, it can't be as good for me as it is for them!
 
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There's no way I'll be giving this company money directly. I know I do indirectly every time I buy something, but I like to think the seller is getting more.

I'm not sure that's true sometimes though.
 
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holiday123 said:
That's possibly an old article. Currently it is $750

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/selling-policies/selling-practices-policy?id=4346
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when I was printing shipping label for $500 item, there was a tick in signature confirmation area and it said: Signature Confirmation will require a signature at delivery. For orders over $250, checking this will qualify you for Seller Protection. before today there was a tick there only for 750+. so I think they changed the rules again.
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fashion_victim9 said:
when I was printing shipping label for $500 item, there was a tick in signature confirmation area and it said: Signature Confirmation will require a signature at delivery. For orders over $250, checking this will qualify you for Seller Protection. before today there was a tick there only for 750+. so I think they changed the rules again.
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I just got this from the PP site:
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