This is my understanding, please correct me if I'm mistaken in any details:
You have 1058 items that are eligible for an insertion fee credit. That is because you paid to list them in the first place. If you relist these as auctions, you will receive an insertion fee credit for each qualifying listing - you do not have to wait for a free listing promo.
When you take advantage of a free listing promo to relist a previously listed item using "Sell Similar", it has exactly the same effect on your fees as if you had received an insertion fee credit - there is no listing fee. Net result - you have not paid for listing that item (again).
You now have an advantage, in that you have those 1058 listings that you can relist as auctions when there IS no promo, and receive an insertion fee credit. And if you already have those items listed at Fixed Price 30 Days, as long as you do not use "Buy It Now" they can also be listed as auctions. You have to make sure you do not surpass your selling limits. I have seen your posts in the past stating that auctions work well for you, so why not take advantage of this? Net result - you have not paid for listing that item (again).
Net result for eBay - they have not earned any extra billions of dollars, since you have not paid listing fees on the "promo" listings, and you will not pay any additional listing fees on the "insertion fee credit" items. What they hope to do is earn final value fees.
**One thing that's unclear to me: my account currently shows some items eligible for relist fee credits. These were originally listed using some regular free monthly listings, so I did not pay a listing fee. This seems to contradict point 4 below "Important Things to Keep in Mind", so why are they showing as eligible and what would be the net effect if I used "Relist"? Wouldn't they just be taken from my current regular free listings, thus negating any actual credits? So why are they showing up as relist fee credits? Does eBay not distinguish between auctions for which fees were paid and auctions used from the regular free monthly allotments when they show you the number of eligible listings? If not, this could be a financial minefield - 1058 items at .37¢ insertion fee = $391.46 Cdn
Here is the link and part of the explanation for insertion fee credits:
http://pages.ebay.ca/help/sell/insertion-fee-credit.html#requirements
Requirements for insertion fee credits
If your item qualifies for an insertion fee credit, we automatically apply the credit to your account in some cases when your listing meets these requirements:
Your listed item must be in auction-style format. Fixed price listings, Classified Ads, select Business and Industrial categories, Motors vehicles, and Real Estate listings aren't eligible for insertion fee credits.
Important things to keep in mind:
Only insertion fees are credited. Listing upgrade fees aren't credited.
If you originally listed the item during a promotion and your promotional insertion fee was lower than the insertion fee for your relisted item, you're credited for the lower of the two fees if your item sells the second time.
If you originally listed the item as a $0.00 insertion fee auction-style listing, there won't be a credit or refund for an insertion fee.
If your duplicate auction-style listing doesn't appear on eBay, you may be eligible for an insertion fee credit.
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