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Yes, I think it's just driving a bit more business to the site and getting a bit of cash from the added extras for the auctions whilst making the big chunk from BIN and commercial sellers. There have been increasingly fewer auctions on there over the years I've found so probably not a huge amount of the business.
aggi
£10 start bid was free as well. I think.
They must be adding a fee somewhere though, they ain't just doing it for the fun of it.
Or do you think that auction listings are now such a small fraction of what goes on on ebay that they are going to do them for free and just make their money from BIN?
Edit: Can't remember what it was like prior to the change to free selling as I haven't listed anything for a while but it seemed like the listing process was very much trying to make BIN the default.