John, the answer is...
fleaBay listings drop every year in Oct-Dec in total number. so
fleaBay, trying to capture lost revenue, has these Free or 1penny
listing days or nickel or whatever so that people load the site up to
make up for fewer listings otherwise. Obviously, they are seeing some
positive expectation each week, so they keep running the promotion.
Because there are no parameters, you get people who might not
otherwise list lots of stuff to go completely overboard, and others
who want to list cheap stuff that they might not be able to justify
listing fees on hundreds or thousands of items.
unfortunately, most of the material listed is either just super-over
priced merch, or complete garbage and it doesn't do much to get
actual fair bid auctions listed. so the extra listings not only have
no use to someone like myself as a buyer and actually make it
completely cumbersome to sift through 500 extra pages of listings. so
anything I might have been interested that was listed yesterday, in
all likelihood I will miss because I'm never going to be able to get
through all those pages.
the people who list those useless placeholders, like svejlandusa, who
apparently is here in Vegas (I do not even know who it is, nor does
Cinema Collectors know) are the most aggravating because it take 15
minutes just to scroll through page after page of his non-listings
I can definitely see why dealers with store might get pissed off..
you're really getting screwed monetarily AND your listings disappear
in all the garbage
fleaBay sucks!!
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