Hello, I normally list under 20 items and sell the same item multiple times because I have collected the inventory I list in large quantities from back when I knew these parts would disappear. I just about always list using "good till cancelled" and I was fairly certain that I got the initial listing free but every 30 days if I renew that listing I am charged an insertion fee each 30 day cycle, just confirming that? And if I cancel those items prior to that 30 day process and "sell similar", am I saving myself that insertion fee as long as I do not exceed 250 items a month?? It's more work, but I'm confirming that that is the case? I normally let them renew but because it's such a small amount I may be throwing a small amount of money away. 20 items at .30 cents is only 6$ so maybe I'd be crazy to end items at 29 days just to make more work for myself.
In addition to what I normally list, I recent bought a large "lot" of very small items and maybe 25% of them will sell in a month if I price them right, but the others will need that one person who needs that part to search for, find and purchase that item, it's possible some items could take 3/6/9 months or more before that happens.
In my case, Is there any benefit to opening the basic store if I were to list another 100 items or so a month for awhile? I'd still stay under 250 items a month, that won't change. But, I see a charge of 4.95$ per month for the basic store, but I'm not sure if that allows the "Good till cancelled" items to renew constantly at 30 day intervals until sold for free, or is that not the case? That would save me from relisting 100 items every 29 days which would otherwise cost me the .30 insertion fee or another 30$ per month. It seems that would save me 25$ a month plus my time of relisting 150 items rather than my usual 15 - 20 items, and I probably could do this for a year (unless I find it beneficial) before I give up and sell all the excess stragglers as a "lot" and be done with it and just go back to my typical selling process.
I've read lots of topics and many people will reply that "all the information is there, it's all laid out", but it seems that many of us miss these little things that we aren't aware of. Such as international shipping through the GSP adding another fee/charge to the seller, fortunately I don't do much of that and it only added a small fee to my intl. sales. Whereas I've seen some people say they pay final value fees based on the total buyers fees with additional duty/tariff etc. but that does not seem the case in the couple dozen international items I shipped last year. I don't know why it seems that some sellers get stuck paying more fees because the buyers fee went from 20$ to 50$, and others don't have that issue. As long as I don't incur that excessive shipping fee I don't worry about it as intl. shipping isn't my typical arrangement, and yes I have reviewed the page detailing my payout and it's not been happening to me. Many of us do miss some additional fees that we simply couldn't find and or didn't read about or understand completely until we read these topics.
Thanks for any your time and any suggestions.
