eBay

hausker · ‎08-07-2023

I understand Ebay allows me to have 250 active listings at one time. I have 250 active listings now, but shows I can still list another for free? Does this mean 250 listing added per month so by next month I can have 500 free listings? What's going on here?

stainlessenginecovers · ‎08-07-2023

You get 250 per month. Not 250 plus 250 plus...

You have some items listed as Auctions, and others as Buy It Now. The Buy It Now will automatically renew after 30 days (there was 31 in July so the exact date will change by a day or so).

I would wait a couple days for the ones that are ending 'relist' and see if that number goes down. Then, you'll know.

dhbookds · ‎08-07-2023

What's going on is that some of your active listings have not yet renewed in August......so it's showing that you have some left.........

nobody*s_perfect · ‎08-07-2023

@hausker wrote:
I understand Ebay allows me to have 250 active listings at one time....

No. You get 250 free basic insertions per calendar month. These can be used for new listings, for relists, or when a fixed price listing rolls over each month. The number of listings active at any given moment is irrelevant.

If you have 250 active listings but still have some free insertions left for August, that just means that some of your listings started in July and haven't used up one of your August free insertions (yet).

nobody*s_perfect · ‎08-07-2023

@stainlessenginecovers wrote: .... The Buy It Now will automatically renew after 30 days (there was 31 in July so the exact date will change by a day or so). ...

Fixed price listings renew on the same date that they began. Listings that began on July 31 will roll over on August 31. In months will less than 31 days, they will roll over on the final day of the month. A listing that begins today, August 7, will roll over on September 7, October 7, November 7, etc.

janet9988 · ‎08-07-2023

Make sure you are not confusing FREE listings with selling limits.

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luckythewinner · ‎08-07-2023

I understand Ebay allows me to have 250 active listings at one time.

You understand wrong.

You get 250 free insertions (new listing or renewal) at the start of each month. Each time you list a new item, and each time an existing listing renews, it consumes one of those free insertions. But if a listing renews and you have used those free insertions for something else, eBay will charge you an insertion fee for the renewal.

Once a free insertion is used, it is gone forever. So if you sell an item, or end a listing, you do not get that free insertion "back" to use for something else.

You show that you have free insertions because not all of your listings have renewed yet this month.

skate_man1000 · ‎08-07-2023

I had a glitch like this years ago. It was saying free, but in reality(checking later on) I was in fact being charged. Was using the app, so one of the many app glitches.

slippinjimmy · ‎08-07-2023

@skate_man1000 wrote:
I had a glitch like this years ago. It was saying free, but in reality(checking later on) I was in fact being charged. Was using the app, so one of the many app glitches.

The OP is not dealing with a glitch! It's simply a case of them using up their free listing allotment.

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luckythewinner · ‎08-07-2023

@slippinjimmy wrote:
@skate_man1000 wrote:
I had a glitch like this years ago. It was saying free, but in reality(checking later on) I was in fact being charged. Was using the app, so one of the many app glitches.
The OP is not dealing with a glitch! It's simply a case of them using up their free listing allotment.

Restating slippinjimmy for emphasis. This is a lack of understanding by the OP, not a glitch.