The number of free listings you receive depends on whether you are a private seller or a business seller, and whether you have an eBay Shop subscription. See our Fees for private sellers and Fees for business sellers articles to learn about free listing allocations.
How it works
You won't be charged an insertion fee (also known as a listing fee) if you still have an allocation of free listings available in a given month. However, you'll still need to pay transaction fees when your item sells.
The following will count against your monthly allocation of free listings:
- New listings
- Manually relisted items
- Automatically relisted items if you're a business seller
- Good 'Til Cancelled listings (at the time of first listing). If you're a private seller, renewed Good til Cancelled listings will not be deducted from your allocation of free listings in subsequent months
- Listings that you end early, or we end early
- Duplicate identical auction-style listings (even if one or more of those listings doesn't appear on eBay immediately)
Important notes on free listings
Here are some other things you should be aware of:
- If you're a private seller you'll only receive free listings in the country that you registered with. For example, if you have a registered address in the UK, you'll only receive free listings on the UK site, eBay.co.uk
- All existing selling limits on your account still apply, and may prevent you from using your entire allocation of free listings
- You can't use your free listings in the following formats and categories:
- Classified Ad listing format
- Property listings
- Cars, Motorcycles & Vehicles categories
- You'll be charged fees for any optional listing upgrades and supplemental services you choose, for example:
- Adding a reserve price to your auction listing
- Adding a second category to your listing
- Buying and printing postage labels through eBay
- Listing for a short duration (1 or 3 days)
- Promoting your listings using Promoted Listings
To find out more about eBay fees, please see our article on fees, credits and invoices.