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Hi everyone! I have a question that has been driving me crazy for most of the day. I have a Premium store subscription that entitles me to 1000 free fixed price listings (and 500 free auctions) per month. I read on ebay that listings that are still active at the end of 30 days will be rolled over into the next month’s tally. I have more than 500 fixed price listings right now. But according to ebay, I have only used 110 this month, and I still have 890 to go. How can this be? I thought I was only allowed to have 1000 fixed price listings in my store at all times before I had to pay additional fees? Does anyone know? Thanks! Shelly
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You are given a monthly allotment of “insertions”, not of “listings.” It’s still early in the month, so most of your listings that were inserted last month are not yet 30-days old. When they reach 30 days, they have to be re-inserted, and it’s at this point that you use up your allotment of insertions.
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Good Morning Shelly:
Your question is a good one and along with the first reply, got us wondering. Is it all semantics or is it just numbers “math” as you call it.
I have not validated the following so it is just my opinion on it, but it is the way I think about it at this point. We are also only at approx. 800 items in our store so up to this point not even “self-tested” the following but we believe this is how it works.
So, maybe a better way to track it for “math” or should I say cost reasons is by billing cycle. Take a look at your Ebay invoice. Everyone has an invoice billing date. So regardless you use the term insertions, you will be allowed to have at the end of 30-31 days of your billing cycle 1,000 items contained in your store for sale. Any amount over the 1,000 count would then be billed to you at the per piece price. $.10 each I think.
So every 30-31 days when Ebay sends you the invoice you will be charged the “extra fee” per item over the 1,000 item limit. With direct response to your question and the rely, it is correct that during the 30-31 day billing cycle all of your items should have rolled over at that point and be FULLY COUNTED within your billing cycle. So at this point the 110 you reference is all that have “RENEWED” based on their anniversary date of insertion at the time you read that number. But by the end of your billing cycle all 500+ of your items should have been Renewed” and probably the day before your Ebay bill is sent all of your items will have been accounted for.
But, as stated above if the word “Insertions” is correct, then if you add [INSERT] 3,000 items onto what you already have that will “rollover” you will have a fairly large charge for the extra 3,000 insertions over what is rolled over plus what was already existing.
But and a BIG BUT, our contention here is that you could “INSERT” 3,000 items in your store during that billing period and sell all 3,000 and if at billing time you are under 1,000 you should be billed for only that number that exists at billing time, not a tally count of the middle of the months activity which would include 3,000 new entered and then 3,000 sold within 24 hours, thus now gone at billing time. You still have to pay your FVF on all those that sold but not listing fees if they are not present and accounted for at billing time. So unsure if the word and process of “INSERTIONS” is correct? We are unsure.
Once you know your billing date, just look at the number of items in your store the week before or a few days before and you should have a good idea of the extra items you will be paying the $.10 each on. If you pay by the “INSERTIONS”, then you would have the normal store fee for 800 items and then a huge fee for “INSERTING” 3,000 listings and then selling all 3,000 the next day. Hhmmm?? Makes us wonder?
Hope this is correct, unless we are totally wrong. Maybe someone will validate if we are correct or not and if not set us straight.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta.
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