eBay is running a promotion for eBay Stores owners. Store sellers can list in the Auction-style and Fixed Price format for half-off the insertion fees on the U.S. site.

The promotion occurs on Tuesday, August 5th, 2003, from 00:00:01 PDT (12:00 AM plus one second) to 23:59:59 PDT (11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).

Insertion fees for Auction-style and Fixed Price listings are 50% off on the U.S. site and on eBay Motors non-vehicle listings for all Store sellers. All insertion fees for other listing formats, Final Value Fees and Optional Feature Fees including Featured Plus!, Gallery, Scheduled Listings, Bold, etc. will still be charged at the regular price.

Excluded from the promotion are listings for Real Estate, Motors Vehicles, Ad Format, Live Auction, Sothebys.com, International, Professional Services and Store Inventory.

You must list the items during the promotion to qualify for the listing discount.

http://www.ebay.com/storesellerpromo/?ssPageName=SHPAB

eBay is also running a "Selling Manager Summer Cash Sweepstakes" through August 20.

http://www.ebay.com/selling_manager/sweepstakes.html