Auto-post To Social Media Now Available

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I am not sure how long this has been available, however, this morning is the first time I have seen it on my account. This could be a real time saver if you post regularly on social media. I enable it and I will be putting up some new listings later today to see how it works.

https://www.ebay.com/sh/social/auto-post

mcdougle4248

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Posted 2 years ago·Last reply 1 year ago

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magicguynet

·1 year ago

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I know this is an old post now but you should look at your links from the posts back to your items and determine if it's worth the automated 10 posts or setting up an eBay Partner Network account and creating your own links and sharing across more than just 2 social media sites that you could cross list to and sell for less fees already. There are a lot of apps and services which will auto post all your daily listings to your social media but similar to an affiliate seller on Amazon put in their account code in the link so they get a percentage of a penny for every click back to eBay. eBay does nothing for free so carefully look at your FB posts, see if it's more of an ad for eBay than for your store.

kh-adrian

·1 year ago

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Hi everyone,

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mcdougle4248

OP2 years ago

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FYI for anyone interested...the tool did post to social media the first 10 auto-relisted auction items today ðŸ˜Š

mcdougle4248

OP2 years ago

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Well, I submitted 10 auction listings, and nothing was posted on my social pages. I used sell similar instead of creating brand new listings, so maybe that is why they did not post.

I will need to try again tomorrow or over the weekend I guess.

chapeau-noir

·2 years ago

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@mcdougle4248 wrote:
Well, I submitted 10 auction listings, and nothing was posted on my social pages. I used sell similar instead of creating brand new listings, so maybe that is why they did not post.

I will need to try again tomorrow or over the weekend I guess.

Give it a little time - depending on the SM site it may take a little while to show up (I used to use several SM sites but just Pinterest now since I got kicked off of Fakebook and refuse to post on the dead bird site, but do remember a periodic lag).

ETA: Your distinction of fresh listings v sell similar is a good observation - some chat about eBay detecting sell similar as not being a fresh listing but simply another way of relisting, and so they may not post to SM - eBay has been sensitive about external content since the Google debacle with thin content and dead re-directs some years back. Something to think about.

mcdougle4248

OP2 years ago

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@chapeau-noir

It looks like you are correct about lag time. The listings are starting to show up. 3 out of the 10 listings are now on my social pages and displayed as Published/Auto-posting completed on my Social history and status page.

I think I will like this feature...

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valueaddedresource

·2 years ago

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Glad it looks like everything worked and it was just a little case of lag @mcdougle4248 - can't wait to hear your results after using it for a bit!

For anyone wondering what it looks like when you're setting it up, once you have your social accounts connected, it looks like you can just select which categories (eBay or Store) you want them to draw from and they'll take it from there.

Here's what they show for example posts for Facebook and Pinterest.

mcdougle4248

OP2 years ago

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@valueaddedresource

I have 16 auction listings set to auto-relist tomorrow morning (if not sold). It will be interesting to see if this new tool picks 10 of them up as new listings and posts them to my social pages. I think that they will post because they will have new item numbers and show as "newly listed"...will see what happens tomorrow.

valueaddedresource

·2 years ago

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@mcdougle4248 wrote:
@valueaddedresource

I have 16 auction listings set to auto-relist tomorrow morning (if not sold). It will be interesting to see if this new tool picks 10 of them up as new listings and posts them to my social pages. I think that they will post because they will have new item numbers and show as "newly listed"...will see what happens tomorrow.

@mcdougle4248 curious what you think of the quality of the content it automatically creates? The example posts look pretty simple but I would imagine a lot is going to depend on the information it has to draw on from the listing and that it might also improve over time.

I can definitely see the time saving factor would be valuable, but it will be interesting to see if the automation is able to optimize keywords and/or hashtags that will perform significantly better than what you might write yourself.

mcdougle4248

OP2 years ago

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@valueaddedresource

The auto-posting tool seems to only be utilizing the title, very simple hashtags, a link to the listing, and of course, the main listing photo. I did not capture the photos in the screenshots. First screenshot.

Previously, I have been taking advantage of the AI description when creating my posts. The AI descriptions pull from the title and item specifics and do a pretty good job IMO. Second screenshot.

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mcdougle4248

OP2 years ago

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@valueaddedresource

@valueaddedresource wrote:
Glad it looks like everything worked and it was just a little case of lag @mcdougle4248 - can't wait to hear your results after using it for a bit!

For anyone wondering what it looks like when you're setting it up, once you have your social accounts connected, it looks like you can just select which categories (eBay or Store) you want them to draw from and they'll take it from there.

Here's what they show for example posts for Facebook and Pinterest.

Looks like eBay has changed the wording a bit. I would guess this is to address the lag time issues with auto-posting.

To me, it reads like, Hey, we will auto-post some of your new listings, at some point in time ðŸ¤£

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valueaddedresource

·2 years ago

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@mcdougle4248 well I guess they get points for slightly more transparency if nothing else. ðŸ˜‚

ckimodog

·2 years ago

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@mcdougle4248

It's been on the "Share" link at the top right hand side of the page of your listings. I use it all the time and I do get sales from using it.

Glad you found it and good luck to you!

mcdougle4248

OP2 years ago

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@ckimodog wrote:
@mcdougle4248
It's been on the "Share" link at the top right hand side of the page of your listings. I use it all the time and I do get sales from using it.

Glad you found it and good luck to you!

Hmm...I am not sure that is the same thing. I am referencing the Auto-Posting feature in Seller Hub>Marketing>Social here https://www.ebay.com/sh/social/auto-post

If I understand correctly when the feature is enabled the first 10 new listings each day will automatically post to the social pages selected during set-up.

az93

·2 years ago

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How do you know if it was an ebay sale or a fb sale? Any added fees?

mcdougle4248

OP2 years ago

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@az93

As far as I know, there is no way to tell if an eBay sale was generated from a visit to a social media post unless the buyer mentions it.

There are no additional eBay fees associated with using social media to drive traffic to your eBay listings. The FVFs are the same and the social tools on eBay are free to use.