Ebay Free listing question

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I notice it is another ebay free listing weekend and I have a pile of items to get rid of.
The last time on free listing day I tried to list some hair straightners, childrens toys etc and these were going to charge me but the clothing items were free.
Can anyone please advise what items are excluded?
I've had a look on ebay and can't find the answer.

Best answers:

• actually I think I will move this across to the ebay board for you.
• Do you know how long it takes to not be classed as "new" to ebay?
  eBay tend to play things by ear - it depends on a lot of factors but particularly on performance. It's a kind of training-wheel system: they don't want you to bite off more than you can chew with your first lot of sales or upload a lot of items apparently fallen-off-the-back-of-a-lorry that aren't going to get to the buyer.
  Generally I think you can apply to them to get limits lifted but may be restricted until you can demonstrate a good initial track record.
• also check when you prepare lisiting you are listing item as "auction only" - i once couldn't work out why i was being charged on a f-l-day until i realized a slip of the keyboard had made me list item as fixed price/buy it now..
• Same problem again. When I am listing anything other than clothing it is coming up at 0.90p for a picture pack even though I'm just adding pictures the same as I am with clothes.
  Any ideas?
• Try this when listing
  Go to your listing.........Scroll down to > Bring your item to life with pictures
  Click > add pictures............ Scroll down..... Make sure 'Picture Pack' is not ticked.
• How many photos are you adding for the other items (not the clothes). You're allowed up to 12 free photos for clothes, but only one free photo for things like toys and hair straighteners and anything that isn't clothes really. You can add more photos but you will charged for them, unless you add them into the listing by HTML code.
• Well that didn't help. Bit of a language barrier!
  Going to give up soon
• The above answer is probably the reason.
  When you list under clothing - they allow you 12 pictures for free -
  even if you don't use them.
  When you switch to another catagory - it adds picture pack and gallery - but now charges you.
  Remove your picture and add it again - this time UNTICKING the boxes that Ebay have sneekily ticked for you hoping you would not notice. These come up when you are loading your picture.