Are you fully abreast of the news about the store subscriptions though? We're talking about permanent increases in free listings for store subscribers here, not time-limited listing promotions like the ones we're used to. The reason I'm allowing myself to get my hopes up is because the announcement literally used the word permanent:
"Starting August 1, 2020, you will get a permanent increase in monthly zero insertion fee listings so you can continue to introduce, test, and sell new inventory."
I've been a store subscriber on and off for about 10 years, so I've been here for the ebb and flow of fee changes and promotions, and I remember the "bribes" to get us through the Canadian currency change too. Once the promotions dried up so did my selling activity, and I'd lost hope of them ever coming back at this level, so my mind is blown that they seem to have finally seen the light and done the math that it's a win/win for sellers with larger inventories and lower sell-through rates and for them... one silver lining of all the craziness of 2020 maybe.
I'm more than willing to maintain or upgrade my store subscription to accommodate all my inventory, as well as SixBit. The insertion fees were always the barrier. What I was saying to @skylarstuff is just that if we're able to sign up for MP before August 1, it would save us the chore of having to manually end thousands of listings from the promo that ends July 31, because they could just roll over into our store listings. Registering for MP is the criteria for those new "free" listings, and we can't opt in until they invite us to, which might take a while.
You make a good point that if they keep this change, we might be able to manage larger inventories directly in eBay from now on without a third-party program, because the 90-day period won't be an issue if the insertion fee issue is resolved. In the meantime I've got the six month free trial of Sixbit so I figure I have nothing to lose by getting set up with them.
