May 1st Boycott

We’ve getting very close to the May 1st boycott now.  We have less than a week left so it’s too late to post a seven day listing as of seven hours ago.

I’ve been busy working on a site for everyone to see.  Check out fubarometer.com.  It’s a simple site that shows you eBay listings count charts.  I hope you find it informative and useful.

April 22nd was the 10 cent listing fee promotion for Power Sellers and it appears it had the desired effect eBay was looking for.  It boosted the listings from 13.8 million to over 17.3 million.  That’s a change of 3.5 million in one day.  Here is the chart showing the steep rise.  Just so you know that chart’s y-axis is double that of a normal day’s scale so the change is a rather drastic one.  Obviously eBay is getting ready for May 1st just as we have been doing for two months now.  I imagine they will likely to do another promotion for non Power Sellers just before May 1st.  Next week or so is going to be very interesting since we’ll be seeing both the numbers drop from the 10 cent listing promo as well as rise from what I expect to be a big promotion in effort to further jack up the listings count.