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Start your auction-style listing at 99p or less and you'll only pay 5p to make your item available to millions of buyers on eBay.co.uk. As long as your listing kicks off between 1p and 99p you'll be able to list for just 5p.
Buyers love the excitement of a low start auction-style listing, so don't miss out on the action. And don't forget we'll be telling buyers about great value auction-style listing over the next few weeks, so the bidders will be looking for you!
(terms and conditions apply)

What is it?
For the entire day of Thursday 31st May 2007 (local UK time), sellers who list item(s) with a starting price of between £0.01 and £0.99 inclusive using the Auction-style format in an eligible category, will pay a reduced 5 pence (£0.05) Insertion Fee for each item they list. Please see below for more details.

When is it?
Thursday 31st May 2007 from 00:00:01 BST until 23:59:59 BST (promotional period).

What's included?
  • Only items listed in British Pounds Sterling on eBay.co.uk using the Auction-style format are included.
  • Any item previously scheduled to go live on Thursday 31st May 2007 will qualify for the promotion.
  • If you re-list an item on Thursday 31st May 2007 that had previously closed without a successful sale, the re-list will qualify for the promotion. If the re-listed item sells and is eligible under the eBay re-list policy, eBay will refund the Insertion Fee at the promotional price of 5 pence.
Items listed in the "Parts & Accessories" sub category of the Cars, Parts & Vehicles category.

What's excluded?
  • Items listed using the eBay Express Only format.
  • Items listed using the Buy It Now Only (Fixed Price) format.
  • Apart from the "Parts & Accessories" sub category as detailed in the "What's Included?" section above, all other items listed in any "Motors" categories are excluded.
  • Items listed in the "Residential Property" sub category of the "Homes and Garden" category.
  • Items listed in the "Mobile Phones with Contract" sub category of the "Mobile & Home Phones category".
  • Multiple-Item listings in all formats. This includes both Auction-style (also known as Dutch Auctions) and Fixed Price formats. See the full details about Multiple-Item listings.
  • Identical listings that do not comply with our Duplicate Listings policy. See the full details about our Duplicate Listings policy.
  • Shops Inventory Format listings. See the full details about listing items using the Shops Inventory Format.
  • Any item listed on Thursday 31st May 2007 but scheduled to start after the promotional period will NOT qualify for the promotion.
  • Any items listed which do not comply with eBay's Policies including the Prohibited and restricted Items Policies.
  • Only the basic eBay Insertion Fee will be reduced to 5 pence. All other eBay selling fees will still apply, including but not limited to Final Value Fees, optional Reserve Price Fees and all Listing Upgrade Fees such as "Gallery", "Subtitle", "Bold" or "Highlight". See the full details about eBay fees.
Sellers listing using the Auction-with-Buy It Now format will still be charged the Listing Upgrade Fee for Buy It Now.

Further Information
  • If the item is listed in 2 categories, the Insertion Fee will be 5 pence times 2 i.e. 10 pence.
If the item qualifies for the promotion, the "Sell Your Item" form will indicate to the seller that they have been charged the Insertion Fee of 5 pence.


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