Basic Store Subscription: Question re: Free Fixed & Auction Listings

[luxury858]

Greetings,

Currently eBay grants 40 FREE listings for fixed & auction items (Australia). for the US platform is 50 FREE.

With the Basic Store subscription for $20 p/month, how many additional listings are granted?

I'm slightly confused with the table breakdown.

Cheers!

[digital*ghost · Accepted solution]

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@modify8 wrote:

To cut to the chase... will the paid subscription provide an additional 200 FREE auction-style no-insertion fee listings?

cheers

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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).

[*tippy*toes*]

If you go to your My eBay selling page, scroll down until you see a box with the heading "monthly selling limits". It will tell you how many items you can list per month. It will tell you how many you have listed, how many more you can list and your total limit for the month. It has nothing to do with the 40 free listings. If it's less than 100, there is probably no point in opening a store quite yet.

Edit: fixed price listings mean Buy It Now.

[lyndal1838]

With only 28 feedback as a seller I would guess that the OP cannot use her 40 free listings just yet.....or ebay is changing the goalposts and upping the limits a lot more quickly than they used to.

[*tippy*toes*]

My 176 feedback account still has a limit of 100. It hasn't increased since it was 75 I think.

[phorum_junkie*]

I believe from the 1st of next month, and until October?, the quantity of free listings for stores is being doubled

Rub it in, you can all thank me for this little treat. Ebay know I close my store from May to October so did this on purpose just to p** me off! (sticks tin foil hat firmly on head and does a grand exit)

[imastawka]

For both Dave and PJ      

[pennyforum14]

I can do you a bargain on a tin foil hat PJ, I've been thinking of opening a new store just for those. Between here and the Etsy forums, I figure there's a pretty big market out there just waiting for me to come along. 

[*tippy*toes*]

What quality foil will you be using? Don't want none if that el cheapo no name stuff.

[gec2002]

As a buyer always on the look out for a bargain, can you please provide more information on the tin foil used in your hats, as many sellers pass of Aluminium Foil as Tin which would result in an INAD as its not effective at all.  As Tin Foil is quite expensive I will be interested in your price.

[digital*ghost]

I would also be interested in such a hat, expecially if you have them with antennas, or one where I can easily add my own. 😄