Judy:

When I've run a free shipping auction I've seen the same thing. It's funny I have a reference book that I put up almost every week. In a regular auction the opening bid is 6.95 + shipping. It is usually first class mail. With Free Shipping it is a flat buy it now for 11.95. Guess what? I've not sold a single 6.95 book in weeks. Go figure.

But I agree that for some reason they like it. A lot of my stuff the free shipping won't work but where ever it does I've used it and had success with it. Let's hope eBay doesn't decide to try to fix the free shipping API.

Garry