Also, those free listings come with a higher "Final Value Fee".
If you paid for a store to avoid the higher Final Value Fees in the last round of rate hikes, you are not qualified for the free listings.
We also covered this pretty extensively in this thread:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=134438
Like with all of Ebay's weird decisions. Some seem to think it makes sense and others don't.