Back in January, our Trust & Safety policy team made an important change that prohibits the practice of extending the duration of an auction. These auction extensions disrupt normal bidding patterns, creating a poor buyer experience. Some sellers were also using this ability to gain an advantage for their listings in terms of exposure on the site. The option to extend your listing duration in our listing tools has now been modified to be in compliance with this policy change.

Sellers will notice that the ability to change their listing’s duration has been removed from the Sell Your Item form, Turbo Lister, and any third-party tools which utilise our API once 2 hours have passed after the start time of the listing. We wanted to be sure to make a 2-hour window available so that sellers will still have the opportunity to correct their listing if they discover they have listed it with the wrong duration.

For more details, see our Fee Circumvention policy.