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Timely as was going to come on here to comment on promotions. There doesnt seem to be any logic to who gets selling promotion offers. I experienced the same as aggi, not getting any offers on one account whilst receiving offers on another account. One of reasons set up another selling account was to see how affected promotions.
When I switched to managed payments (bypassing paypal) I started getting seller promotion offers again on both my selling accounts. The offers I have received are:
No insertion fee. Final value 80% of 12.8% variable plus 30p (on both accounts 2 weeks ago). This worked out better than the £1 final value fee + paypal fees especially for cheaper items < £10.
No insertion fee. Final value 50% of 12.8% variable plus 30p (on one account this weekend). This is worse than the £1 final value fee. I wont accept this offer for reasons below
Max £3 final value fee (on another account this weekend). This sounds worse than the £1 final value fee of old but with no paypal fees it works out lower fees than the old £1 max on any sale over £60 and lower fees than the 80% of variable (1. above) on any sale above £100.
My take is that ebay are experimenting and tuning their small seller promotion offers at the moment since the change to managed payments to see what sellers will accept. For that reason I definitely wont accept option 2 above because less people accept, more likely ebay will improve the promotion. I will have a think before I accept option 3.
Thought it worth posting my experience up in case anyone else has any insight?