Any one else trying to edit listings in bulk using find & replace a sentance? It does'nt work.
Tonight I was attempting to edit my listings in bulk to just change a sentance or two using the feature to find and replace in the description.
Theres a box to put what to find in the description and another to put in what you want to replace it with.
It doesn't work. What I wanted to replace never gets replaced. GRRRR
This feature would be great if it actually worked. 🤬😡
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beachislandtreasures
·3 years agoHaving same issue. It's not working and I have nearly 1000 listings. It will add something, but won't delete anything and adding anything gets clumped together making an enormous paragraph
velvet@ebay
·4 years agoHi @ebooksdiva! The tech team came back saying the Find and Replace option was working like normal. I also just tried to use it with my own account and didn't run into issues. Are you still experiencing problems with it?
If so, they say they'll need an item number, screen shot of the error, and the URL for the error window. If you're okay sharing that here, be sure to tag me when you follow-up. If not, then let me know and I can send you an email to reply to with it. Thanks!
beachislandtreasures
·3 years agoThat's not going to work with nearly 1000 listings and It works fine for adding to them all at once, just not deleting. I'm having the same issue
shipscript
·3 years ago@beachislandtreasures
One workaround is the use the third party Bulk Active Content Editor, which has the ability to use wildcards, or to bracket text you want to remove and replace. The tool will create a spreadsheet of listing descriptions that can be uploaded to Seller Hub for a bulk revision.
Test how the tool works on a single listing description by using the Active Content Sandbox tool:
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentSandbox.htm
Paste your item number into the tool. Then click the "Custom" button to open a page with input-slots where you can paste your find/replace strings.
Either paste the exact clause you want to remove, or, if your clause contains variable text, styling, or HTML, you can bracket the text with a unique starting phrase and an ending phase. The bracketing text and anything in between will be removed. The tool looks at the HTML (whereas eBay's bulk tool now looks only at text and will miss anything with underlying HTML).
You can enter replacement text for your Find/Replace. Or, if you want to add text or code to the beginning or end, start a new row and open the "?" in the "starts with" slot for instructions, and place your text in the "replacement" slot.
After setting your parameters, click the SCAN button.
The MARKUP tab farther down will show you what the tool found and how it was replaced.
The FILTERED tab will show the description with the changes applied, which can be previewed (Be sure to checkmark the "Custom" checkbox on the FILTERED tab to include your custom changes). This revised text can be copied and pasted back into the description; but for 1000 listings, it is just a tool to help you figure out which find/replace phrases to use.
Those same find/replace phrases from the Sandbox tool can be used in the Bulk Active Content Editor to scan all of your listing descriptions in bulk, and a spreadsheet of descriptions can be created. That bulk spreadsheet can then be uploaded to eBay in Seller Hub > Reports > Uploads.
If you have questions, or need help, feel free to ask.
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OP4 years agoI find it a daunting task to edit over 2500 listings one at a time. UGH!!
It would be nice if someone can get this fixed it would have taken a few minutes but instead it took HOURS to edit my listings.
@velvet@ebay
Can you help with this please?
Can you help with me with this?
velvet@ebay
·4 years agoThanks for the tag @ebooksdiva. I'm in the process of filing a tech ticket and it's requesting the URL for the page you're on that is erroring out. They also need to know the browser you're using. Once I have those from you I'll be able to complete and submit the ticket. Thanks!
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OP4 years ago@velvet@ebay
Revise listings (ebay.com)
Microsoft Edge browser
Sorry I was away from my computer when I responded earlier.
velvet@ebay
·4 years agoNo worries! Thanks for providing those to me. I've submitted the ticket and I'll let you know what I can find out.
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OP4 years agoThank you so much!
shipscript
·4 years ago@ebooksdiva
Can you point to a listing and call out the sentence you want to change?
I'll look at it to see what the underlying code looks like. Maybe there will be a way to work around it.
You can test whether the bulk find/replace has worked by reviewing the description directly within the bulk editor grid, as changes made in the description popup will be immediately reflected in the grid. That means you can make successive changes if you need to nibble away at find/replace, and then apply the entire editing session as a revision.
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OP4 years ago@shipscript
I had a statement in my listings that said
$3.95 Flat Rate Shipping
I wanted it to change it to
$4.50 Flat Rate Shipping.
I ended up deleting the entire statement yesterday, dong it 1 listing at a time (2554 times, UGH) since the bulk editor failed to work as it should to find text and replace it.
So it's pretty much moot now.
But thank you for trying to lend a hand.
beachislandtreasures
·3 years agovelvet@ebay Can you do a ticket for mine as well?
beachislandtreasures
·3 years agoI'm using Chrome on windows 10