Before drafts were available for saving listings in progress, sellers would use the eBay Scheduler to hold listings in progress. You could have as many listing as you wanted in scheduled listings.
Scheduling a listing could be done up to 3 weeks into the future. The schedule date could be changed in bulk easily so a seller would push them forward every two weeks if needed. Most of the time a listing would only be held for a few days not weeks.
Please note that a schedule listing is free for non-store sellers but cost store sellers 10 cents each. To avoid a schedule fee, a seller would edit the listings (one by one or in bulk) and change the start time to start immediately. Non-store sellers can just choose the date and time they want and let eBay start the listing since the feature has no cost to them.
One issue. Scheduled listings count against the account selling limits. Not a problem for sellers with higher limits but new sellers with low limits of of 10 or 20 items may not be able to use this trick effectively. Once limits are high enough, then a seller can use this trick to circumvent the drafts limits if needed.
I am so used to using the Scheduled trick that I never really used drafts. But a seller using scheduled listings has to remember to reschedule listing saved there before their start date and time or they will start at their scheduled time and cause issues with incomplete listings and sales.
I would not reccomend using this trick since you are a new inexperienced seller. Keep the trick for later.
