Thinking of opening a store...

[cornflower3]

but there are a couple of things that I can't figure out...

Basic stores and Featured stores are the same monthly price.  What's the difference?   Featured stores seem to have more features, so why would anybody bother with a Basic Store?  I can't work that one out.

I have listed my 30 items for free.  What happens to these listings when I move to a store?  Do I then have to pay an insertion fee for them, or do they stay free and I only pay on new listings?

If anyone could help me out, I'd really appreciate it.  Feeling a bit lost!

Cheers

Julia

[beanishells]

this is my new ID obviously but have feedback on my old ID with the store, much higher. Would be great if we could transfer our feedback.

[beanishells]

I mean this is my old one and have a new id...THIS MAKES NO SENSE..i need a cuppa....going to put kettle on in a min...

[flashback_deals]

I have a question, so if the OP decides not to open a store, could she set up other ebay id accounts and continue to access the 30 free listings on each account? Is this possible?? Sorry if this is a silly question, but I'm just curious??

I asked the same question on Live Chat a few days ago. eBay told me you can, but if your main account is on selling limits, if you have multiple accounts, it will be harder to raise the limits on your main account.

I was also told if you, as an example, have a 'rare photo of me'  you cannot list one on one ID and one on the other at the same time

[flashback_deals]

this is my new ID obviously but have feedback on my old ID with the store, much higher. Would be great if we could transfer our feedback.

You still can merge accounts, but you need to ask eBay to consider it

This link will help you more:

http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/account/merge-accounts.html

[mccrae2007]

"Yes, you can do that

Just need different email addresses for each ebay account."

Can paypal be linked to both?

[putney32]

"Yes, you can do that

Just need different email addresses for each ebay account."

Can paypal be linked to both?

yes, you can have several ebay ID's all with the ONE paypal account (one paypal email address), no problems

[kustomizer99]

What IS a featured store anyway? How can it be 'featured' when it's the default kind of store on offer?

[silversterio2]

flashback_deals

"You still can merge accounts, but you need to ask eBay to consider it

This link will help you more:"

http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/account/merge-accounts.html

It hasn't been possible to merge accounts for many years.

That's a link to a very old help page which should have been removed by eBay years ago.

[kustomizer99]

It's interesting, a lot of the things we used to be able to do on eBay are no longer possible/available. The goalposts keep moving so often it's hard to keep up with all their rule changes.

So why do they allow a member to have mulitple IDs linked to the same email and PP account? What's the point? Seems like a massive loophole.

[cq_tech]

How can eBay possibly keep up with its own rules, as many of them have since been changed or deleted or no longer even exist. It is well beyond time that eBay completely revised their existing Rules and Policies, omitted all the contradictions and brought them into the 21st century.

Paypal would be well advised to follow suit as there are already far too many contradictory clauses contained in their terms & conditions, and I'm not at all convinced that Paypal's funds are anywhere near as safe as the banks'.