Thanks suesjools, I have done some of the things on the list. I can't understand the reason to use five stores if you sell one type of product, in this case security related products. If you sold five different types of products such as coins, musical instruments, alarm systems, TV's and oil paintings it would make sense to have a shop for each. So unless I am missing something important I am guessing one store should be enough for me.
As far as free shipping goes I have tried that, but as you have to include the cost of shipping in the total price it makes your products look more expensive.
When you say combined shipping,are you referring to when someone buys more than one item from a listing. If so that is sorted, but if someone buys items from different listings of mine, I'm not sure if the postage will be automatically combined. I can not see how to set this up, there does not seem to be a shopping basket in ebid. Unless that is something you get with a store.
Also when you say add a signature link do you mean
http://uk.ebid.net/items/Electrotec a link to the items I currently have for sale, or do you mean to a store. Is there a way to add a signature so I don't have to keep copying and pasting it to my posts.