topic Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk in Selling

Relisting Unsold items in bulk

egglesdtp — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 01:24:31 GMT

How do I relist the items in my Unsold list in bulk? Doing one at a time has got whiskers on it. I assume I can do it from the new Seller Hub? If so, how do I get there? I have searched for a link to the Seller Hub, but they must have hidden it well.

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

merfar2107 — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 01:32:03 GMT

You can do it though selling manager.

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

egglesdtp — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 01:46:49 GMT

I don't use Selling Manager.

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

brerrabbit585 — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:02:27 GMT

If you use the standard selling page like I do, click on All Selling and Unsold will be down the bottom. You can still bulk relist from there.

Their new unsold page is completely useless as far as I'm concerned and I never use it all now.

Edit: I don't use seller hub, just the old basic system.

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

gutterpunkz05 — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:17:33 GMT

Go to unsold items, check the boxes to left of items you want to relist. Go to top (above List) select relist. New page appears and you can then submit all, or edit listings in bulk or seperately prior to submitting.

At first I did not like the new seller hub, pros and cons in new and old.

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

egglesdtp — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 03:47:56 GMT

@brerrabbit585 wrote:
If you use the standard selling page like I do, click on All Selling and Unsold will be down the bottom. You can still bulk relist from there.

Their new unsold page is completely useless as far as I'm concerned and I never use it all now.

Edit: I don't use seller hub, just the old basic system.

Thank you - now why did they have to go and hide it like that?

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

brerrabbit585 — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 05:13:06 GMT

Simple answer to your question - because they like to make as much work as possible for sellers. I feel like I've reinvented the wheel a dozen times or so in the last three or four years on ebay. I just finish one lot of editing and they change something else and I have to do it all over again. I could better spend my time doing more listings!

I was doing them singly until I re-read a friend's email and the penny dropped about still being able to do them in bulk from the Unsold section on the All Selling page. It's still a pain but it's a whole lot better than doing them one at a time!!

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

dazzledayz — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:31:46 GMT

@brerrabbit585 wrote:
Simple answer to your question - because they like to make as much work as possible for sellers. I feel like I've reinvented the wheel a dozen times or so in the last three or four years on ebay. I just finish one lot of editing and they change something else and I have to do it all over again. I could better spend my time doing more listings!

I was doing them singly until I re-read a friend's email and the penny dropped about still being able to do them in bulk from the Unsold section on the All Selling page. It's still a pain but it's a whole lot better than doing them one at a time!!

That's only if you don't run into the bulk editors warnings, errors and need to do individual edits.

I just did 9 (automation rule failure) and there were a few with insecure links (from Selling Manager Pro - eBays own links) so after a quick bulk edit of that I moved on to the next thing.

Warning - item details - books with 1st Edition selected were bounced for using 2 words.

So I used their dropdown dialogue and selected "1st Edition" and the problem went away lol.

While I was in there I fixed up a few publication dates that were well into the distant future like 20080000 (I must be silly bugger to get that wrong mustn't I?

There was not much I could do about the reclessification of 4 or 5 of the books as textbooks.

I'm such a silly duffer for not knowing the subject matter of what I'm selliing but thank heavens eBay had my back:

Long Tan and Beyond a 6 RAR history (the publisher and I both thought it was non-fiction history but eBay knows better - Textbook!

Busy Woman's Slow Cooker - nope, not a cookbook - it's really a Textbook (doesn't everyone know that?)

But the one that really made me almost choke was:

Maximum Security - tales of life behind bars ... and here the publisher and I were thinking it was only True Crime but eBay thoughtfully put us straight - it's a (no prizes for guessing) a Textbook.

And a couple of others I won't bore you with but you get the general idea (and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it).

All these books will now permanently appear in the wrong category (but atleast they'll be structured)

When you open the bulk editor, eBay takes control (in the name of site integrity and Data Structuring of course).

Thus transforming what should have been a simple and quick exercise into a laborious chore.

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

davewil1964 — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 11:34:27 GMT

Blame an Aus~~sie~~ Reseller. They seem to have got in first with the catalogue and almost everything they list is under 'textbooks'. Just lazy I guess.

I untick the pre-fill catalogue button on those. I had one mmpb that came up as 'antiquarian and collectible' no matter what I did. I ended up pulling the ISBN out of that one.

Don't try selling 70s paperbacks - 10% of those will come up as audiobooks.

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

egglesdtp — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:43:45 GMT

@dazzledayz wrote:
While I was in there I fixed up a few publication dates that were well into the distant future like 20080000 (I must be silly bugger to get that wrong mustn't I?

I had this happen too when I went in to revise a book and thought I must have been having an off day. Now I know it wasn't me!

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

brerrabbit585 — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 22:06:03 GMT

I've got three books listed on another ID and I had the publication date problem too. One of the others wanted to auto fill in details and I can't remember how I fixed it, but I'm really glad I don't sell books!

As a rule, I have very few problems with bulk relisting. Occasionally something will relist but will show in unsold as well, and of course it won't relist "because I've chosen to auto relist it".

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

dazzledayz — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 09:44:45 GMT

@davewil1964 wrote:
Blame an Aus~~sie~~ Reseller. They seem to have got in first with the catalogue and almost everything they list is under 'textbooks'. Just lazy I guess.

I untick the pre-fill catalogue button on those. I had one mmpb that came up as 'antiquarian and collectible' no matter what I did. I ended up pulling the ISBN out of that one.

Don't try selling 70s paperbacks - 10% of those will come up as audiobooks.

That particular seller is one who gives the rest of us a bad name.

I think dropshipping is their modus operandi too (probably out of UK)

The laziness accusation though, I would have to lay at eBay's feet.

They want structured data and they already have a not too bad database (with a few glaring exceptions).

Why on earth can't they extract that data?

Why must we re-enter item specifics which are already present in the catalogue?

Why do they (eBay) not refer to the pubishers categorization (again, within the same catalogue data)?

Why do eBay not provide links to report incorrect data?

eBay want structured data to satisfy Google in the main, but what sort of penalty do you think they will incur when it is finally realized that the catalogue data is incorrect?

Surely it would not cost the earth to have a team responsible for vetting catalogue data baed on seller feedback?

I suppose that fits with the programme of knee-jerk reactions and releas of buggy updates.

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

egglesdtp — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:19:51 GMT

So here we are 3 months later, and I am back to where I started. It seems that there is no longer any way of relisting in bulk. Either from the Unsold list, or from the Unsold section of All Selling. Is there somewhere else Ebay have hidden this, or do I really have to relist every one individually?

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

egglesdtp — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:43:40 GMT

So no-one else is having the same problem of trying to relist in bulk? Or at least has not found a way of doing so? Looks like I am stuck doing each one individually.

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

davewil1964 — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 09:00:00 GMT

Tick the items you want to relist in your unsold list.

That should give you a list of items.

You can make bulk edits from there or just relist them.

At least that's the way it used to work.

I do mine individually these days to make sure that eBay hasn't changed things. But I only have about 20 a day going through, so it is manageable.

My sympathies. I know how frustrating it is to get no answers in a whole 1 and a half hours, especially at going-to-work time on a weekday.

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

egglesdtp — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 23:35:10 GMT

@davewil1964wrote:
Tick the items you want to relist in your unsold list.
That should give you a list of items.
You can make bulk edits from there* or just relist them.

At least that's the way it used to work.

I do mine individually these days to make sure that eBay hasn't changed things. But I only have about 20 a day going through, so it is manageable.

My sympathies. I know how frustrating it is to get no answers in a whole 1 and a half hours**, especially at going-to-work time on a weekday.
*No I can't, hence my question here. Three months ago, it was possible from the list of Unsolds in the All Selling tab, which at the time was a change from the usual way of being able to do it from the Unsold tab. But ebay have changed it yet again, and now there is no longer a Relist button, just a Delete button.

** It was a day, not one and a half hours.

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

davewil1964 — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 01:57:23 GMT

So it was. Sorry.

In my 'My Selling - Unsold' I still have a relist button, which takes me to the bulk relist page, so I have no idea or suggestion as to why you don't have it.

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

curraone — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 02:59:48 GMT

In my unsold items list - there is an option at the top to go to sellers hub.

I haven't got any at the moment to show you, but if not solved I will paste it when I do.

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

egglesdtp — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:16:55 GMT

Success!!! Seems I had somehow switched away from the Classic Site layout - no idea how that happened but since switching back, it means that the relist button has reappeared in the All Selling>Unsold list.

Re: Relisting Unsold items in bulk

imastawka — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 11:07:11 GMT

OMG! are you using a phone?

Any wonder no-one could help you