Originally Posted by
littledelving
Firstly I can confirm that meanbay have changed all BIN to GTC 30 day autorenew, but only for private sellers. Another policy that discriminates unfavourably against private, small sellers. It is certainly possible that meanbay could start charging for GTC BIN listings. However one would hope they would send out a notification first to give folks the chance to close their BIN listings before they auto-renew. Were such a change made, it would be the end of the line for most private sellers I should think.
Another more immediate issue is that meanbay have changed the algorithm on searches which as a buyer is rather annoying. As far as I can tell it works as follows. If you search lowest price incl P&P which most people do, private seller auctions dont appear at the top (business seller auction dont seem to be affected). Instead, private seller auctions appear after all the other listings where you might have found 'items which only part match your description'. So, taken together with the changes to BIN listings, its a double whammy against small sellers