Mixed free/paid listings

[bideas]

I think i may buy this software but i have a question first...

Can the paid and free listings share the same category, being the paid items on the top with more preference? If i have to split the category into free listings and paid listings then the traffic for that category will split in half too.

Please somebody answer this one for me.

[SMFHacks]

You can not mix up listings in a category of free and paid.
Each category can be set as either a paid listing category or a free category.

The closest you could get to that is a feature listing option for free listings which just makes it stand out a little more but does not change the order.