@davewil1964 wrote:
@everard6920 wrote:
@clubesquire wrote:
When we returned we were disappointed to learn that Turbolister was no more. We started with a third party app called Wonderlister - very good, but not without its own idiosyncrasies. Tried the Hub and haven’t looked back. Generally speaking it’s a good bit of kit, but can be better. I hope eBay spend the time now to finish the job and fine tune it to perfection.
I think it’s a very good piece of work.
Melina.
Agreed about TurboLister - and at the time, eBay promised a replacement which we are yet to see. From what I recall, drafts disappear after so many days, or something? I've been reluctant to store listings as drafts for that reason and have just been keeping my descriptions as html files, instead. I prepare updates with hundreds of new listings at a time and needless to say, I'd be VERY unhappy to lose them.
Drafts, for me at least, disappear on the 15th of the month following the month after the month they were created. ie All my unused June drafts will disappear on 15 August.
I mainly use templates. I think brer said you can have 50 products. But each product can have 20 templates.
For my books, my products are the broad categories, the templates are the individual listings. That gives me potentially 1000 set up listings ready to go; more than I need.
They don't seem to expire (I still have a couple I imported from TL in June last year), but they do tend to drop the pictures.
I keep all my description in Notepad files, only move them rather than delete them, and only delete pics when the items are sold, so that works okay for me.
Are you sure your information about templates doesn't relate to Selling Manager rather than seller hub? I'm not sure what you mean by 20 different products, but I'm wondering whether you were able to have 20 different templates under Selling Manager and they're just using different terminology in different places.
When I click on Listing Templates it says this:
Save up to 50 templates. Editing a template won't change any listings already made with that template.
I've only just started using them in Seller Hub but if anyone wants to find them, when you're on any of the pages under the Listings tab, eg. Unsold, Ended, Active, Drafts, Scheduled, under the menu for these pages on the left side it has Settings, and under that it has Listing Templates and Business Policies.
I use templates as a basic mock-up listing with no photos at all and only the basic information that goes in every listing. When I create a listing using that template I just fill in the blanks, ie. the information pertinent to that specific listing, including the photo. My aim is to eventually create a template for each of the store categories I have (I only list in one ebay category) and then the item specifics I most commonly use so that when I create a new listing I can use the relevant template and not have to change any of the item specifics. I find the item specifics laborious to check as there's so much rubbish in there my eyes tend to glaze over and my brain shuts down. To make it worse, they're constantly adding more variations without telling us!
