Why ebay does not make the 100 free listings more user friendly to sellers is beyond me.

Rather than wait for an invitation that may or may not arrive ebay should set aside one weekend a month so everybody is on the same page. Nothing wrong with the first Friday of the month or whatever, it's open for everybody, it lets people plan ahead, instead of just springing it on them at the last minute, if it happens at all, sellers need to plan and not to jump through the hoops which are placed before them at the last minute.