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Bibleman
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Software for listing books to Ebay????
on: Mar 10th, 2010, 10:31pm
 



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Greetings again. I thought I could use AOB to list to my Fixed Price auctions(not store, I closed it). I went live yesterday and only 16 items listed and the rest were all errors. I have tinkered with it and Rebecka and Samantha (Support)have helped but I am getting frustrated and see a lot of work(my brain is tired) to get it done right.  
 
So having said that I need to know of a program to upload my inventory to Ebay fixed price auctions that has the capacity to enter Isbn and prefill if possible. I have looked and looked but with little success thus far.(The listing by ISBN is the key if I cannot do it thru AOB)
 
Any help would be greatly apprciated and if you would contact me privately would be nice.
 
Thank you in advance,
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Re: Software for listing books to Ebay????
Reply #1 on: Mar 11th, 2010, 12:23am
 

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Bibleman  I am desperate to learn the same information myself.  
 
I may be all wet, but this is all I know, from hours and hours of studying both AOB and eBay Help Pages.   This is gleaned from the eBay activity page.
 
 
 I am trying to get my "list til cancelled" listings changed to 30-days-only, but so far I have only found one way to do it, and that is to end the listing.      (That is One of the options when I go to the "other options" box at the right side of the listing info.)      On the ebay activity page is a listing of all  books, with a count-down to ending.   The 30-day listings end, but the "list til cancelled" just roll over.   At 15 cents apiece!    
          The listings can be done again right away, but the fees still apply I gather.    
 
**One of the options at the top of the list is "Change to Fixed Price".    
 
*On the item in the list is a box followed by a little symbol, either a "calendar" looking thing, OR a red store symbol.
 
If I check the calendar listings I get the message: "you can only send Store Inventory Format Listings to Fixed Price."  
 
If the red store symbol box is checked, I get the message:   "These listings cannot be edited because: it is not a Store Inventory Format item."  
 
If you want I'll send an example of what I mean from my listings.
 
Padre   Sad
 
Of course the new listings through AOB single listing page I designate as 30-days-only as I list them, so that problem is solving itself.      
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: Software for listing books to Ebay????
Reply #2 on: Mar 11th, 2010, 10:48pm
 



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Greetings Padre, Thank you for taking your time to response, but as of right now I think we have come to a place with AOB where we have it figured out to list to Ebay Fixed Price(Not store). We have had some frustrating moments, but I believe it is going to work.
I wish I could help with your situation, but I am not too savvy with that kind of thing.
 
God Bless,
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Reply #3 on: Mar 12th, 2010, 1:42am
 



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Am I being so foolish to believe you just need to use the drop down box on the SLP that says:
 
 eBay Attributes
(Note: These won't edit after an item is listed to eBay)
Listing Type: Store or Fixed Price
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Re: Software for listing books to Ebay????
Reply #4 on: Mar 12th, 2010, 3:49am
 

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Robin said it all in a nutshell...... the key sentence is "These won't edit after an item is listed to eBay."
  Listing Type: Store or Fixed Price.    
 
 
 Does everyone get the daily eBay summary?      It will be interesting to see how the changes work after March 30.
 
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Reply #5 on: Mar 12th, 2010, 1:53pm
 



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Quote from padre on Mar 12th, 2010, 3:49am:

Does everyone get the daily eBay summary? Padre

 
I'm not sure what that is ... Do you get a daily email giving you listing info, stats etc?
 
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Re: Software for listing books to Ebay????
Reply #6 on: Mar 12th, 2010, 2:56pm
 

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Hi Robin--Yes, it shows up daily in my email.   Message states: "ebay sends these emails based on the preferences you set for your account" that is   notification preferences.   I checked YES to get them.   It gives the titles, cost, Buy-it-now or Fixed Price status,  number of watchers, and end date and time.    
 
Then a button in the email "Go To eBay" brings up  all of the additional information.  
 
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Re: Software for listing books to Ebay????
Reply #7 on: Mar 14th, 2010, 3:25pm
 



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Quote from robin_culver on Mar 12th, 2010, 1:42am:
Am I being so foolish to believe you just need to use the drop down box on the SLP that says:

eBay Attributes
(Note: These won't edit after an item is listed to eBay)
Listing Type: Store or Fixed Price

 
Greetings Robin, No, I wish it was that easy.  Smiley  You can list your items individually that way, but AOB defaults to "Store" not "Fixed price" when they upload all your items, so basically it is a problem(at least for me) when they upload(If they even upload at all). Support was extremely helpful and they did fix the things that needed fixing and it seems to be going quite smoothly right now.
 
Thank you, to everyone who responded,
Bibleman
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Re: Software for listing books to Ebay????
Reply #8 on: Jun 21st, 2010, 9:59pm
 

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I have recently been using eBays File Exchange to list batches of 100 comic books for .99 cents (eBay has a promotion to list up to 100 items per month under .99 cents without an initial listing fee)  
 
It all gets sent in a CSV file template from eBay, just remap your data to the appropriate field. And make sure to use a " if there is a " in the description so it looks like this ""  
 
If you work in OpenOffice there are some problems with exporting, excel works fine though.
 
I saw that they have a Catalog listing template to pre-fill items with ISBN's & UPC's
Haven't tried the ISBN template yet but plan to next month.  
 
Here is the site http://pages.ebay.com/file_exchange/
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Re: Software for listing books to Ebay????
Reply #9 on: Jun 23rd, 2010, 6:11pm
 

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Also found this today,
 
http://pages.ebay.com/Excel_Plugin/
 
It's a plug-in for excel to help with categories and ISBN input.
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