Is your eBay selling schedule independent of holidays?

Back in the early days of eBay selling most sellers thought that all your auctions should end on a weekend night. It does seem logical since many people are not at work during the weekend, but the reality is it doesn't really matter what day of the week your auctions ends on.

This makes even more sense for volume sellers and eBay Trading Assistants. Ending all your auctions on a Sunday night would create quite the bottleneck in the work flow process. Effective sellers try and balance out their workload so they are not spending two whole days packing and shipping after each weekend.

But what should you do about the holidays?

That depends on several things. If you sell worldwide, then a holiday in the USA doesn't necessarily mean a holiday everywhere (i.e. 4th of July). If you do sell only in the states then maybe it would be a consideration to not end your auctions on that holiday. Then again, with more people at home and the stores closed...shopping on eBay is only a click away.

This topic has been discussed many times on many different forums. Some say it doesn't matter if they end on a holiday, others say it does make a difference. I think it is really a matter of preference, but if you really want to know then run some auctions and record the results.