Quote Originally Posted by jghilino View Post
You can only block people that have negative feedback, 0 or higher you have to let them bid. US only is another good one. Also you can require immediate payment if the item is fixed price or for a buy it now. I have a premier level ebay store and am a silver level powerseller. Its $50 a month for my store and 5 cents per listing. I have about 600 listings up right now. Total overhead $80 a month for 600 items. But since your starting out id go with the auctions, you get 50 free auctions per month. You only pay fees if it sells.

Now that the fee structure has changed do free shipping on 90% of the items i sell. The way i look at it is your gonna pay the fees reguardless now so just bury all of the fees in the price of the item. All of my items are fixed price with the make offer option.
I started to do the same thing untill I called ebay and asked what happens if they open a case and want to return the item. You have to refund the full ammount they paid. IF you dont do free shipping you only have to refund the bid ammount not the shipping ammount. So be carefull on doing free shipping stuff.