Just got an email from eBay telling me that there wil be zero insertion fees on fixed price listings from 10th to 14th December. Thats 5 days of free listings!!!
I have tested this on two different accounts, one that received the email and one that didnt. Both of these accounts were able to list for free.
Here are the terms and conditions (if you dont like the formatting let me know and i will change it)
When?
- Starting 00:00:01 10th December 2009 (AEDST) and ending 23:59:59 14th December 2009 (AEDST) ('Promotional Period')
Who is eligible for this Promotion?
- 'Qualifying Sellers' for the purpose of this Promotion are sellers who are validly registered members of any eBay site with an Australian registered address.
- Persons whose eBay accounts have been temporarily or indefinitely suspended or made inactive by the Promoter during the Promotion, are not eligible for this Promotion.
What listings are eligible for this Promotion?
- Subject to these Terms and Conditions this promotion applies to all Buy It Now listings (subject to exclusions below), by Qualifying Sellers, during the Promotional Period ('Qualifying Listings')
- Qualifying Listings must be made on eBay.com.au.
- Qualifying Sellers pay no insertion fee on each Qualifying Listing.
- Qualifying Listings created before the Promotional Period and scheduled to begin during the Promotional Period are included.
- Listings in two or more categories are included, so long as both categories are eligible.
- Car parts and accessories are included.
What is excluded?
- 30 Day Good Till Cancelled, Auction and Classified Ad listings are excluded.
- Cars, Motorcycles, Boats, Other Vehicles, Aircraft, Caravans & Motorhomes, Trucks & Commercial Vehicles, Trailers, Services & Real Estate category listings are excluded.
- Listings created during the Promotional Period but scheduled to start after the Promotional Period are excluded.
- Listings that contravene eBay's or PayPal's policies are excluded.
- All other eBay fees including listing upgrades, final value fees, format fees, subscription fees, as well as all PayPal fees apply as normal.
- Insertion fees and Gallery fees will revert to normal price once the Promotional Period has ended.
- Read more information on eBay's fees.
Miscellaneous
- Sellers may not concurrently have more than 20 listings for identical items, whether during a promotion or at any other time. More information is available in eBay’s Multiple Item listing policy. Persons who violate the terms of this promotion on eBay.com.au may not be eligible for future promotions on eBay.com.au.
- eBay reserves the right to verify eligibility of sellers and listings to receive the discount ('the Incentive'). eBay's decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into, including in the event of a dispute.
- No responsibility is accepted for failure to provide the Incentive.
- eBay is not liable for any injury, loss or damage of any nature whatsoever (including but not limited to indirect or consequential loss) which is suffered or sustained as a result of or in connection with receiving, taking or using the Incentive, except for any liability which cannot be excluded by law. Any tax liability arising as a result of accepting the Incentive is the responsibility of the seller.
- eBay is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone, telephone or computer network, or lines, servers, or telephone or internet providers, traffic congestion on any phone or computer network, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participants or any other person's handset or computer related to or resulting from participation or sending or receiving of any communication or of any materials in this Promotion.
- If for any reason this promotion is not capable of running as planned, eBay reserves the right in its discretion to modify the terms of the Promotion including the Incentive and these Terms and Conditions.
- This Promotion is offered by eBay International A.G.
Interesting….