Why does Ebay charge a buyer to relist multiple items when individually relisting items is free?

[dianek953]

Just wondering why Ebay charges to relist many items at once? Being able to relist everying all at once would make selling on Ebay very attractive, easy and convenient but comes at a cost. I had 80 items to relist. Doing them all at once would cost me just over $50.00 - just to post them. Doing them individually costs nothing except time - A lot of it with the more items there is to sell.  Why does Ebay charge its sellers for this convenience?

[dianek953]

This refers to promos by the way, where there are offers such as list 500 items or whatever, above the already 50 free auction format.  I had already used the 50 free auction listings available to me this month and they had all come to an end so I wanted to list everything I had at once.

[femmefan1946 · Accepted solution]

Did you know you can also get 50 Free Auctions by listing on eBaydotCOM as well as the 50 Free you get on eBaydotCA?

Watch out for the shipping part though. If you want to reduce your labour, only list items you can ship Letter/LightPacket at Flat Rate, since on dotCOM you can't use Calculated.

And try listing your ended auctions as Sell Similar instead of Relist. It won't hurt and I think they will be considered to be new listings and cheaper. (I use Fixed Price/Good Til Cancelled in a Store so on some of my IDs I pay 20 cents a month and on this ID I pay only a nickel a month. All of my listings relist automatically.)