topic Re: So how many free listings a month do I get? in Selling

So how many free listings a month do I get?

galla2016 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 05:21:39 GMT

I don't have a store and I have 30 listings at the moment (listed for free) and they are all "good till canceled". Do I get 30 NEW free listings a month, or 30 TOTAL free listings? In other words, on March 1, can I start listing again for free even though I already have 30 items for sale?

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

lyndal1838 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 05:28:13 GMT

If you have a listing limit of 30 items then that is all you can have listed at any one time whether they are free or paid for.

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

galla2016 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 05:41:14 GMT

Thanks for your fast response!

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

pennyforum14 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 06:42:57 GMT

There are two things you need to consider. Non-store sellers get 40 free listings per month. But as a new seller, you will have a limit on how many items you offer for sale month. You cannot exceed that limit in any month, so if your listing limit is 30 you will not be able to list more than 30 (including items sold in the same month). At the start of the month, any items you sold in the previous month can then be replaced with new items. Further more, because you are using GTC, the current listings will relist every 30 days (coming off your free listings if you have any left). That means with a limit of 30 you will not be able to list any more items in March regardless of how many free listings you have.

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

davewil1964 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 07:25:14 GMT

I would be listing for 30 days with 3 free auto-relists selected. That way they last for 120 days on the one listing. You would have to relist every 120 days, and your limits probably make it ineffective in the short term, but it is something to keep in mind for the future.

I'm not sure if it still works, but attaching a credit card (or Visa debit) to your account used to get your limits raised to 100 items/$US7,500 per month.

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

galla2016 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:06:01 GMT

I thought I had attached a cc - at least, I inputted one somewhere - but just discovered the payment method was still paypal so I attached my credit card. Maybe it takes a while to take effect because I still can't get another free listing.

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

cathyjoyjoy — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:15:40 GMT

There are two places you can include your credit card. One is eBay - to pay your eBay listing fees each month (I have it set up to automatically charge my cc monthly). The other is PayPal - where you can fund PayPal purchases with your credit card. But I'm not sure that this would have any impact on the amount of listings you can have active each month.

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

davewil1964 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:39:36 GMT

I think you still have to hit the request button.

I can't remember. It was a few years ago on this and my other restricted ID. I've never had listing limits on my main ID.

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

lowanacrafts — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:01:38 GMT

Revise your GTC listings to 30days with the 3 free relistings. As Daredevil says they will come off your montly allowance each month or you will end up paying listing fees. A few sellers will be caught with this .

Tomorrow is a new month , so you may get some more then.

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

imastawka — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:02:37 GMT

@lowanacrafts wrote:
Revise your GTC listings to 30days with the 3 free relistings. As Daredevil says they .

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

davewil1964 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:46:02 GMT

Call me bemused.

It's 30 years since I grew out of that.

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

galla2016 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:56:49 GMT

Unfortunately I can't revise GTC to anything else - the option isn't available.

I did notice when I was first creating listings that some listings allowed me to choose a time period with 3 free relistings, and others (even in the same category) just didn't have the "free relist" option available.

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

davewil1964 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:57:40 GMT

Maybe I should start another ID?

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

davewil1964 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:59:04 GMT

End them and relist. You will be no worse off as they will tick up a relist from your allocation every 30 days anyway.

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

*tippy*toes* — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:10:27 GMT

Attaching a credit card and/or linking to an established account only raises your limit to 30 (from 10). I fired up one of my unused accounts yesterday and when I requested a limit increase it said by linking it to an established account will raise the limit to the same as the established account, in my case, 510. I remember seeing that when I created my second account. Sad thing is, it doesn't.

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

charmony — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 22:27:57 GMT

I'm actually a bit confused about it because I've have a seller account for years, and called ebay to "link" this ID with the new one, in order to raise my listing allowance immediately. I was told I now have 100 listings a month and I guess I assumed that would be "free" listing. Anyway, thanks everyone for the advice.

(This being my other ID!)

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

collect247 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 22:28:20 GMT

How do we know that you already haven't started a new ID?

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

pennyforum14 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 22:42:31 GMT

No, your listing limit is an entirely different thing to your free listing allocation. As a non-store ID you get 40 freebies, if you have a limit of 100 and currently have 30 listings active, then you will be able to add 70 more this month, however, only 40 of those will be free, the rest will cost you 50c each ($1.50 for auctions).

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

mbselections00 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:21:45 GMT

Not meaning to complicate the issue and maybe a little off track, but thought it worth mentioning for others reading this thread - consider also that Listing Limits and Number of (Free or otherwise) Listings are quite different things on a new account.

Eg. Your listing limit may be 30. If you List 3 items, each with a quantity available of 10, then you have used your allocated 30 limit, regardless of how many Free listings you get.

Re: So how many free listings a month do I get?

galla2016 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:32:41 GMT

Actually, both auctions and Buy It Now are $1.50.

I'm wondering if the reason I can't see the "3 free relistings" is because I sometimes use "sell similar item" to create a new listing. If I didn't select that option on the original listing then maybe that's why it doesn't appear as an option on the new listing.

Another thing... this page says that the free relistings don't count towards the free listings for the month, so in effect you could have lots more than 30 active free listings at once:

http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/sell/fees.html#basic

"If you set up automatic relisting for your item, you'll pay an insertion fee for the initial listing. If your item doesn't sell, it will then be relisted up to three times with no additional insertion fee and without counting towards your free listing entitlement for the month."