Listing fees

[hoosierflippers]

Why are ending listings that renew  considered new listings and count toward your listing limit or charged another insertion fee?

[ten_o_nine]

hmm, why not?

[dqdistribution]

Because the listing is only 30 days ?

[hoosierflippers]

I understand that but when your store allows 1000 listings a month and you have 1000 renewal listings you have to have an insertion fee on new listings. 

[whitewaterford]

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@hoosierflippers wrote:

I understand that but when your store allows 1000 listings a month and you have 1000 renewal listings you have to have an insertion fee on new listings. 

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Yes, that is how it works.   However, at this time you only have 600 or so items listed.  Perhaps you are not finished listing for the month.  

With a basic store you get 1000 free generic fixed price listings.  However, the good news is that your store  also get an additional 10,000 free fixed price listings in "select categories" and a number of your listings already fall into these categories (e.g. collectibles, toys, music).   So you probably won't go over your 1000 generic free listings monthly as the "select" free ones are applied first.  You can always keep an eye on the numbers it by looking at the overview of your promotional lisitngs in the seller hub.

[slippinjimmy]

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@hoosierflippers wrote:

Why are ending listings that renew  considered new listings and count toward your listing limit or charged another insertion fee?

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Why? Simple, eBay doesn't want you to put up 10,000 listings and leave them up for 10 years without selling and most important generating ZERO revenue for eBay while making search impossible to find anything.

If it worked that way I know of many sellers that would post a MILLION listings of unsaleable junk and just let them sit forever. eBay would go from the current close to 2 BILLION listings to a TRILLION listings.

[hoosierflippers]

Thank you. That makes sense