IS this for currently running fixed price listings? I cerainly hope not, I have a few fixed price listings running and I listed them with the understanding that the time would be shown. I am so tired of ebay randomly springing things on their buyers and sellers.

I, for one, think this is a great idea. It seems even my store items don't sell until the last day. I pick up watchers along the way but they don't buy until the end.

Now, maybe they will just buy it when they see it.

Or maybe they'll never buy it because it will never end with the new 30 day or longer. And maybe no one will watch them anymore because it won't even show an ending time in the search. Who Knows?

I knew if I looked long enough, I'd find out why something I just listed is not showing an end time in the search.

AND I HATE IT!! I came here to find out what was "wrong." Why do I hate it? Because my item is now at the end of the search when put on "ending soonest." If it has no end time, it will NEVER move up in the list. HELLO! And it does have an ending time -- it shows on the listing page as having an ending time. Regardless of whether it re-news or not, it STILL is at the very end in the "endest soonest" search.

Some people will never make it past the first page of the search if they find something they like. And mine will never get there. It should move up the list like everything else.

Oh, but there's Best Match, you say? Well, goody-goody. Best Match is some arbitrary garbage made up by idiots, which is completely irrelevant to whether a seller is actually any good or not. I'm a good seller, but I don't "officially" have the criteria, and other listings get ahead of mine.

I did not list this thing under an agreement that it wouldn't be in the proper order under "ending soonest."

Blair, are you listening? I'm p*ssed and I'm p*ssed good. I'm just trying to get a few things out the door before things get any worse. And you snuck a new rule in behind my back. I want my d*mn fees back, because my listing is not listing properly in the "ending soonest" option.

NOW HEAR THIS: I PAY THE SAME LISTING FEES EVERYONE ELSE DOES AND I WANT MY LISTING LISTED PROPERLY IN THE SEARCH.

I don't deserve to be on the last d*mn page just because I did a fixed price. I even did the free shipping, just for the heck of it. Not to please anyone here, but just cause I felt like it. And I get screwed anyway.

I get screwed no matter what I do.

Blair, are you here? Are you coming back to this announcement or are you afraid to find out anyone's opinion??

I'd like to have this issue addressed and I want it addressed now! I'm already good and ticked at this place, and this announcement isn't the worse thing eBay's done, but it's the one that just sent me over the deep end.

I will repeat: I PAID THE SAME LISTING FEES AS EVERYONE ELSE DID AND I WANT THE SAME TREATMENT AS EVERYONE ELSE. That includes in ALL search orders -- including that blasted Best Match.

And since I pay the same listing fees as everyone else and Best Match is not FACT, but arbitrary non-fair garbage that eBay makes up, I think it would be a perfectly fine thing to SUE eBay over.

Somebody find me a lawyer. And yes, I'm dead freakin' serious!!!

Hi erimess,

>>> starting next week,

You're quoting from a message posted Friday, September 12. Today is Saturday, September 13. It isn't next week yet.

The changes you quoted will be rolled out on September 16, per the message on the Announcement Board: Link



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Hi bumblebee-garden

Yes, I realize that change - where fixed price listings don't show the date and time - have already been implemented. And all the fixed price listings are now showing up after auction listings, which is just wrong in a sort by ending soonest, and I don't think that was announced at all.

The changes that erimess, however, was asking about - a 30-day duration and a Good Til Cancelled (GTC) option - have not been implemented yet (I just checked the Sell Your Item form and it's still showing 3-10 days for fixed price).



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SURPRISE!

I'm sure there are thousands of sellers who've scheduled things to launch who'll never stumble upon this message who'll be in for a rude awakening when they realize their items will be in permanent limbo, and given second/third class exposure.

Ebay, I don't like you very much these days.

I don't usually list fixed price listings unless an item is on sale, but non-store owners now have even less incentive to list with fixed price.

Is this the goal? Is this the agenda?