End of Turbo Lister - No Longer Supported

[gec2002]

Checked Turbo Lister and went to list a couple of items and recived an error message and unable to upload the files

Error:- Turbo Lister is no longer supported. Learn more about alternative tools you can use to manage your business on eBay

https://sellercentre.ebay.com.au/Turbo-Lister

When you go to the Seller centre it shows headings for

Retiring Turbo Lister - But no actual information just the heading

Alternatives to Turbo Lister - But no actual information just the heading

How to Export Ended Listings - An image of the Export page and a short explanation.

eBay emailed that Turbo Lister was ending in February, but perhaps a few days notice before the unknown shut off date would have been appreciated by eBay Sellers.  Then to state info on alternatives would be provided and show nothing is just plain pathetic.

I am using File Exchange for most listings, however, dispite all its issues Turbo Lister has served me well over a very long period of time.  eBay said before shutting down TL that Seller Hub would have the same functionality - it doesn't - mainly the ability to work off- line and store info offline.  Being forced to pay a monthly fee to other organisations just to load items will not sit well for many sellers. 

[brerrabbit585]

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@dazzledayz wrote:

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@davewil1964 wrote:

We were told before June 2017.

Be nice if people read their notices from eBay.

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Dave, I think you rather miss the point here.

Yes, ebay did indeed give everyone quite a bit of advanced notice that TL was nearing its end of life.

Unfortunately (and I think this is what really irks people), at the same time they said they would be providing a similarly featured alternative via their much hyped seller hub.

That was not forthcoming and TL has now been bagged with no warning while sellers awaited its replacement.

So people were still waiting for the great new promised thing and entitled to think that eBay would honour its commitment BEFORE they retired TL permanently.

The alternatives eBay offer are nowhere near being a viable replacement for TL.

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If people didn't explore alternatives in the 20 months they were given, what makes you think they'd do it if they were given another warning in the last fortnight?  

Ebay retired it exactly when they said they would so nobody can complain about the dates.  If they'd done it at some other time they'd be accused of being unreliable in their announcements so it seems they can't win.

In the original announcement that's in the link someone provided, ebay said absolutely nothing about providing a better alternative/replacement to TL.  What they actually said was to explore alternatives before it's expired, and they also said that Seller Hub includes SOME of the features that TL had - nothing that I can see about providing anything else apart from what's in seller hub.

The following quote from that announcement actually indicates that Seller Hub doesn't include all the features that TL had, only some of them, so why anyone would sit and wait for them to bring out a new, super-duper, whiz-bang replacement is beyond me.  Perhaps I just don't have the ability to read things that aren't there into their statements, as so many others seem to be able to do.

Seller Hub already includes a number of features previously supported by Turbo Lister.

[brerrabbit585]

How can anyone else possibly know what you're capable of? The only way to get an answer is to do a trial run yourself. Nobody else knows your internet speed, how fast you can type, how efficient you are, how readily available your information is, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

[davewil1964]

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@daisychainclothingkids wrote:

The piece of string I'm hoping for is certainly over 500 items a week.

I add 6 photos, postage & payment policies, store category, material (for clothing) colour, size, condition description, occassion, season, MPN (where applicable), combined shipping discount and all the usual business policies so I don't need enter anything in manually, plus a short description with a hyperlink in it.

Is that doable from your experience?

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I could certainly set up a listing from scratch in 5 minutes. But I wouldn't do it flat out 40 hours a week.

Beware hyperlinks - I'm fairly sure even innocuous ones are banned these days.

And none of this has ANYTHING to do with Turbolister.

[gec2002]

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@brerrabbit585 wrote:

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In the original announcement that's in the link someone provided, ebay said absolutely nothing about providing a better alternative/replacement to TL.  What they actually said was to explore alternatives before it's expired, and they also said that Seller Hub includes SOME of the features that TL had - nothing that I can see about providing anything else apart from what's in seller hub.

The following quote from that announcement actually indicates that Seller Hub doesn't include all the features that TL had, only some of them, so why anyone would sit and wait for them to bring out a new, super-duper, whiz-bang replacement is beyond me.  Perhaps I just don't have the ability to read things that aren't there into their statements, as so many others seem to be able to do.

Seller Hub already includes a number of features previously supported by Turbo Lister.

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May be beyond you, but my reason is because at various times over the last 18 months eBay have stated that Seller Hub would have similiar functionality to Turbo Lister before TL was ended.  

"Community Team tyler@ebay
Re: Community Chat, Aug 2nd @ 1pm PT - General Topics

Howdy @papermoneyforme - Seller Hub is not primarily a listing tool - it is a tool designed to give you deep dive information associated with your listing categories, a tool to manage and fulfill your orders and do market research and get other suggestions on how to grow your business. Because of its tailored nature, it is account and site specific.

While we've been told that all the features of Turbo Lister will be eventually integrated into Seller Hub, we don't have a time line on when.

If you are looking for a listing tool that can be a one-stop shop for multiple accounts across multiple sites you could consider a tool like File Exchange."

Then at a later session it was stated that Turbo Lister would remain until Seller Hub had the same functionality.

[howishe]

At one stage I have over 4500 items listed through turbo lister 2, however it had crashed a few times over the 10 years that I used it. There was no limit on how many items to list, however the data storage size got quite big and slow. It had a few 'bugs' but the good points far outwayed the bad

[gec2002]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

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@daisychainclothingkids wrote:

The piece of string I'm hoping for is certainly over 500 items a week.

I add 6 photos, postage & payment policies, store category, material (for clothing) colour, size, condition description, occassion, season, MPN (where applicable), combined shipping discount and all the usual business policies so I don't need enter anything in manually, plus a short description with a hyperlink in it.

Is that doable from your experience?

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I could certainly set up a listing from scratch in 5 minutes. But I wouldn't do it flat out 40 hours a week.

Beware hyperlinks - I'm fairly sure even innocuous ones are banned these days.

And none of this has ANYTHING to do with Turbolister.

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Hyerlinks are can be used in listings provided they meet the eBay links policy

https://www.ebay.com.au/help/policies/listing-policies/links-policy?id=4248

Basically only links within eBay and they are secure ie HTTPS://

There are a few exceptions but read the policy.