wooden_flower Volunteer Community Mentor.
Regards,
Good til cancelled items use an insertion each month when they renew.
A basic store has 1,000 insertions, you have 1,400 active items, so you are paying for 400 insertions.
@richarmccor8 wrote:Are you still there???
You have at least 1400 items for sale, that is 400 over the 1000 monthly allotment. Unless you sell or End 400 before they automatically Relist above your monthly 1000 then you will be charged the insertion fees for them.
Buy it now GTC (Good til cancelled) listings automatically Relist each month on the same day they were created and listed.
The 1000 is per month limit, anything over 1000 in a month is over the allotment. It is not 1000 one month then another 1000 the next month totaling 2000.
@richarmccor8 wrote:I have 250 per mo. If I create 50 listings and 220 listings happen to renew that mo. than I will be hit with 20 in insertion fees??..since it went over limit of 250
Correct, if you get 250 Free monthly Insertions but have 270 total listings in that month you are charged for the 20 when they list. If you have 1400 listings but only have 250 Free Insertions per month you will get nailed for the other 1,150 items.
It might cost less to open a larger eBay store and this page has a chart showing the store prices and the number of monthly insertions you get at each store level. Store selling fees | eBay
This page in your account will let you change your Subscription and open a store: Manage Subscriptions
Back in late 2018 early 2019 eBay changes how listings renew. It used to be manual and they automated it. There was one Seller from Europe who got nailed for insertion fees on around 9,700 listings ... I am sure eBay worked with them on that because it happened to a lot of Sellers who were used to manually Relisting items so as not to exceed their monthly limits.
The 250 is auctions. For $21.95 per month you get 1,000 fixed price items. The rep was correct when they told you that. I think what you did not consider is that items listed in prior months count towards the 1,000.
A premium store with 10,000 insertions would save you money.
You are paying 400 x .30 =120 $120 on insertion fees. Even month to month a premium store at $74.95 would save you $67 per month. If you do the annual commitment like your basic store, it would be $59.95, saving you $82 per month (59.95-21.95 =38 vs $120).
@richarmccor8 wrote:Is there a way to know ahead at beginning of each month how many listings will renew throughout the whole month?
I started in Jan. listing items and then paid Yearly Basic for 21.95 beginning May 15th I feel I should now just upgrade to the 59.95/mo yearly subscription, so I never really have to worry about being over since I'm just 1 person but still have a ton of stuff I will be continually listing. That seems to be the most logical thing to do.
What do yopu think?
On the surface the Premium store you refer to might work BUT, the Basic store does allow up to 10,000 insertions in "select categories". Here is the Promotional tile on the Seller Hub Overview page. The blue boxes are for the different Insertions I get each month and how many I have used thus far. Since this is only Jan 2 the Used insertions are low.
The "select categories" they show you via a link on the page I gave you upthread.
You can use your 'select categories' fixed price listings allocation in the following categories:
- Sports Mem, Cards & Fan Shop > Sports Trading Cards
- Toys & Hobbies > Collectible Card Games
- Collectibles
- Music
- Books & Magazines
- Movies & TV
- Video Games & Consoles > Video Games
- Stamps
- Crafts
- Home & Garden > Greeting Cards & Party Supply > Party Supplies
However, that is a little confusing because the vast majority of what I sell are in those categories yet I only have 1 of those 10,000 listing insertions showing that it was used.
