@modify8 wrote:
To cut to the chase... will the paid subscription provide an additional 200 FREE auction-style no-insertion fee listings?
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For the sake of simplicity, no.
For clarity - hopefully - read further. 😄
The store subscription replaces the free listing entitlement, so it doesn't add extra to it. Also, listing limits and free listings are two different things. Some new sellers are only allowed to list 10 items a month, even though they technically have 40 free listings available to them, they can still only use 10 - the same applies if they opened a store, that is the subscription provides 200 free listings, but their account only allows 10 - account limits trump free listings.
A non-store account can list any kind of listing in any category and it will use one of the free ones. A store account can't.
When you create a listing, you have to choose a category, some of those categories are considered "collectibles" by eBay, so a store can list in one of those categories as an auction and it will use one of their free listings. For example, with a store, you can list a doll for auction in the doll category and it will use a free listing. If you list a TV for auction eBay will charge an insertion fee. (The link above should show all of the categories that count as collectible in eBay terms).
