help insertion fees killing me

[mountainelegance23]

Hello guys, i have 1350 items on right now and sales have been great but the auto insertion fees are killing me, someone suggested I sign up for a premium store, if I do does all my listings move to the store, or do I have to manually do that and how would I go about it. Also will my items be seen as much as I do use the promotion percentage on each listing which has really helped 

Any ideas would be appreciated

Mark

[nobody*s_perfect]

When you sign up for a Store subscription, all of your existing listings will automatically be in the Store; there's no place else for them to be.

You'd probably do fine with a Basic store, rather than Premium.  Stores get extra free fixed price insertions in selected categories.  The Basic store gets 1,000 fixed price listings in (almost) all categories, plus an additional 10,000 free fixed price insertions in selected categories, including Books, which is where over 800 of your  1400 listings are located. You can see the full list of   categories here:

 https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/store-fees?id=4809

[dhbookds]

Agree with Nobody on the store type: basic........but I would check to be sure the "select categories" apply to your type of items........  I'd also recommend you STUDY the type of stores  so you understand......

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/selling-fees/store-fees?id=4809#select

One other thing I noticed........you list alot of books.......and just looking at the search list, your shipping is very high.....but it's because you are using priority as your first shipping choice....media mail  2nd choice.  If you switch that.....media first/priority second, you might get more sales.......

just a suggestion

[dbfolks166mt]

     The store is going to cost you so it becomes a question of do the marginal costs of each additional listing above the 250 free listings cover the cost of the store? Looking at a few of your listings you have a LOT of duplicates that could be combined into a single listing with the ability for the buyer to purchase 1 or xx quantity and offer discounts as the quantity increases. Example the multiple listings you have on various plants and trees. 

     You may also want to look at some of your low value, or negative return items to see if they are making you enough to even make them worth listing. As an example you have a number of books listed with free shipping. Factoring in the sales tax, fees and shipping cost you are paying you are not making much. As an example on a $5 book with free shipping and this is your return even before any non-eBay related selling costs.  

     Sometimes it's not about the quantity of the listings but more about the return on your investment. As far as promoted listings there is no hard factual proof that PL improves your sales but it does increase your cost when the item sells. 

[dbfolks166mt]

When you sign up for a Store subscription, all of your existing listings will automatically be in the Store; there's no place else for them to be.

You'd probably do fine with a Basic store, rather than Premium.  Stores get extra free fixed price insertions in selected categories.  The Basic store gets 1,000 fixed price listings in (almost) all categories, plus an additional 10,000 free fixed price insertions in selected categories, including Books, which is where over 800 of your  1400 listings are located. You can see the full list of   categories here:

 https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/store-fees?id=4809

     It may benefit the OP to open another account and divide their product line across multiple accounts. If they setup good cost models and accounting methods for the accounts and categories it may give them insight into the various ROI's on the different product lines. 

[mountainelegance23]

Thanks so much for everyone's input, i really really apricate it