This is my official protest, complaint and rebuttal against the removal and/or refusal to maintain the software named TURBO LISTER from being allowed to upload listings to e-bay – which is set to be deceased in June 2017.
First, TURBO LISTER is a database program that is stationed on the customers’ individual computers and is NOT a one-item-to-list-at-a-time, screw-up program like the ‘seller hub’ program that’s currently being implemented in its place.
Second, ‘seller hub’ is NOT a database with a proper filing system, and as such cannot hold ALL the customers’ listings until all items are sold. Instead, ‘seller hub’ can only hold a listing for as long as the listing is running at Auction or as a one-time, Buy-it-Now sale. Every seller knows that rarely do listings sell on the first time they are run –either at auction or on a buy-it-now. Therefore, this ‘seller hub’ scheme is unacceptable, mostly because customers will have to re-type EVERY listing for EVERY item, EVERY time they need to list it to sell. That’s totally absurd and a major waste of time. On TURBO LISTER a customer types up a listing one time only and holds it in whatever folder s/he wishes until the item has sold. I also use my TURBO LISTER to keep track of the items I’ve sold as well.
Third, ‘seller hub’ is not only far inferior to TURBO LISTER in many respects, but is harder to use – NOT EASIER -- plus it requires that some stupid code be typed in before you can even start placing a listing. What GARBAGE is that?! Most items do not have codes attached to them – DUH!
Fourth, the listing process for ‘seller hub’ appears to have the listing launch immediately whether the seller is ready for the listing to run or not. Oftentimes, I’ve created listings weeks in advance before I ever launch them to e-bay via TURBO LISTER. There is no contingency for this on ‘seller hub’. If there is such a contingency, it’s either transparent OR it’s not readily available as it is in TURBO LISTER.
Fifth, as ‘seller hub’ is a stinking “cloud” program, located on the e-bay servers, it means that should the e-bay servers be hacked or go down during some storm, absolutely NO ONE – ANYWHERE -- will be able to work on listings in the background, getting them ready for launch. Customers will not be able to put ANY info for ANY listing together with ANY pictures because the e-bay server is down. And that’s only ONE of the major flaws that cause “cloud” programs to suck! Another reason that “cloud” programs suck is because ANY and ALL information that’s placed in these listings may not be available for the customer to edit once an item is ‘listed’.
Sixth, another reason “cloud programs” like ‘seller hub’ suck is because the customers’ information is made more readily available to anyone, anywhere, that hacks into the e-bay server – including the IRS, the CIA, the FBI, the NSA or other rogue agencies. Since company servers are targeted more often than private computers, keeping individual programs on individual computers is far superior to any “cloud” program that’s implemented. “Cloud” programs were initially started as another form of corporate control over the consumer. Why independent programs were instigated in the first place, why they are still being created, and why people use these private programs instead of using “the cloud” – is to repudiate this type of ridiculous corporate nonsense. E-bay – DO NOT become another idiot Microsoft company that everybody hates.
Seventh, originally e-bay was started to help the little guys – independents (remember those guys?) – giving them a market to sell their items so they wouldn’t have to resort to yard sales. Ever since e-bay has allowed large organizations to run listings, however, e-bay is no longer interested in helping the little guys that got it started in the first place, and instead is weeding them out with little items here and there: by pushing onto the customers inferior programs that do not meet their needs, by forcing particular customer identity information into each listing that is not needed, by coding every single listing with some obscure number that is not needed, and by raising its unnecessary fees to snuff the little guys out of the marketplace, among others. E-bay – whatever happened to freaking customer loyalty?!
Eighth, those members like myself who have been using TURBO LISTER for a period of over 14 years that have finally learned how to use it correctly, ARE NOT INTERESTED in learning new software regardless its capabilities. We like what we have and DO NOT want to change. As stated earlier, as the program ‘seller hub’ now stands, it is NOT easier to use, in fact it’s NOT AS EASY TO USE as TURBO LISTER. the program, then, that should be eliminated is ‘seller hub’, NOT TURBO LISTER. Or as a compromise – KEEP BOTH – and let the consumers decide which they would like to use. E-bay – you can keep up with more than one program, can’t you?
Moreover, my spreadsheet keeps a more accurate accounting of seller activities than does your All-In-One page that’s associated with the new ‘seller hub’. Yours is inaccurate for my needs.
Personally, I already have over 1300 listings holding that I can easily file under various folders, and I’ve created over 30 templates on TURBO LISTER. There is no transition of information from TURBO LISTER to the 'seller hub' program. TURBO LISTER is easy for me to manipulate as I please, and I can launch my listings when I am ready to launch. TURBO LISTER also affords the customer (including me) the ability to change formats easily if need be. Not only do I have over a thousand listings waiting to be uploaded to e-bay for sale, I also have at least twice that many to list -- that will be going onto my TURBO LISTER database on my computer – because I do not have either the time, the patience, or the inclination to learn another program to replace one that works perfectly fine in the first place, nor do I have the time or patience to re-type every listing if it doesn’t sell the first time around. This ‘seller hub’ **bleep** is all about control. You can’t fool us. We don’t want it. We want TURBO LISTER.
All TURBO LISTER users should rally together and quickly file your complaints at the disrespectful manner in which e-bay is behaving in getting rid of the initial uploading program for listings, thereby totally disregarding its beginning supporters who have utilized this program over these many years. If you DO NOT, you will not have a database to keep your listings safe until your items have sold.
I kept thinking Short Term Loss, Long Term Gain. So I hope...... 
