In my case, none of my ID's get the free listings, other than Kittenkat. They are business accounts and also have a store each.

Only my Kittenkat ID gets the 40 free listings (no store, personal ID).

I guess in theory you could open more of ID's and get the free listings but the log in / log out would drive me nuts, not to mention 10 day listings on each one...not this black duck. GTC listings are more my line as l also run 2 businesses outside of eBay (and work part time at a bank).

eBay's stance was that you could have any accounts you wanted, as long as they never interact with each other. New seller accounts have certain restrictions with listing amounts, etc but if you ring eBay CS and link new accounts to your estabilshed one, you can get the limit raised.

Mind you, thats old info and may have changed. Since the idea of the 40 free listings is to encourage new suckers sellers, l guess they will change the rules if they think people are taking bread off their plate.