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eBay's Find and Replace feature in their Bulk Edit And Relist (BEAR) tool works only when there is an exact match in the HTML source of your text. That means you must look at the HTML of your listings and find that exact HTML string to use in BEAR. Sometimes what looks like exactly matching text can be seen in HTML view to have various HTML codes or spaces that don't match from one listing to the next. eBay's BEAR is case-insensitive, so it will be able to match different capitalizations, but the mismatch of inserted characters and codes is what will make that tool fail. BEAR can be found through Seller Hub and Selling Manager.
The <<-ALL>> trick belongs to a third-party bulk editing tool called the Active Content Editor.
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentEditor.htm
The Active Content Editor can use (regex) wildcards and Start and End limits to replace segments of text and code that may differ within those limits. It also has the ability to remove an entire block of code from the beginning <<FROM-START>> to some marker, or from some marker to the end <<TO-END>>. And of course, the <<-ALL>> feature will remove the entire description and allow replacement with new HTML code.
The Active Content Editor will collect and modify all listing descriptions in bulk, but will not change the actual listings. Instead, it will create a CSV file that can be uploaded to eBay's File Exchange, which will then apply those edited descriptions to the actual listings.
For a bulk replacement of your entire description, you don't need to use a find/replace tool. Instead, you can use eBay's File Exchange to upload a new description and it will overwrite the old description. While there is a learning curve to creating new listings through File Exchange, the revision of an existing listing is quite a bit simpler. I invite you to visit the Tools and Apps forum to begin a discussion on a File Exchange revision file. I think that may be your simplest option.
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Tools-Apps/bd-p/tools-apps-db
eBay's Find and Replace feature in their Bulk Edit And Relist (BEAR) tool works only when there is an exact match in the HTML source of your text. That means you must look at the HTML of your listings and find that exact HTML string to use in BEAR. Sometimes what looks like exactly matching text can be seen in HTML view to have various HTML codes or spaces that don't match from one listing to the next. eBay's BEAR is case-insensitive, so it will be able to match different capitalizations, but the mismatch of inserted characters and codes is what will make that tool fail. BEAR can be found through Seller Hub and Selling Manager.
The <<-ALL>> trick belongs to a third-party bulk editing tool called the Active Content Editor.
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentEditor.htm
The Active Content Editor can use (regex) wildcards and Start and End limits to replace segments of text and code that may differ within those limits. It also has the ability to remove an entire block of code from the beginning <<FROM-START>> to some marker, or from some marker to the end <<TO-END>>. And of course, the <<-ALL>> feature will remove the entire description and allow replacement with new HTML code.
The Active Content Editor will collect and modify all listing descriptions in bulk, but will not change the actual listings. Instead, it will create a CSV file that can be uploaded to eBay's File Exchange, which will then apply those edited descriptions to the actual listings.
For a bulk replacement of your entire description, you don't need to use a find/replace tool. Instead, you can use eBay's File Exchange to upload a new description and it will overwrite the old description. While there is a learning curve to creating new listings through File Exchange, the revision of an existing listing is quite a bit simpler. I invite you to visit the Tools and Apps forum to begin a discussion on a File Exchange revision file. I think that may be your simplest option.
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Tools-Apps/bd-p/tools-apps-db
