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Join the Community team at 1 PM on June 3rd for our Weekly Chat with eBay Staff. With the upcoming retirement of Turbo Lister, a member of the team that supported this tool will join us to answer questions about the transition. Additionally, representatives from the third-party listing tool SixBit will also be joining us to provide more information on how you may be able to leverage their product to grow your business.
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In addition to the cost, there's an another issue with SIxbit - it's 3rd party software! As any software developer knows (like myself) you always want to stay away from 3rd party software b/c sooner or later the communications level between the co's that allow for Sixbit to fully support all of Ebay's constant changes, now, will eventually disintegrate or the co will be bought out or whatever. There are ALWAYS issues with 3rd party software.
I'd like to know from Sixbit, how you'll be able to continue to support any new changes to Ebay listing, 10 years down the road when you are no longer their favorite mistress, so to speak?
@weaverlili wrote:
Lili,
So We confirmed that Turbo Lister's export isn't working with SixBit so SixBit can't import your pictures from Turbo Lister. In that respect, you're rather dead in the water. You will have to add the pictures to your items manually unfortunately, and while I was watching SixBit was behaving on the picture adding, until the images disappeared, that is. I can safely say that images disappearing wouldn't be SixBit's fault, for what that's worth.
Force as New Listing (Don't Relist if Available) is a tool for separating listings from all the old information, like Watchers, sales performance, and other things like that. SixBit also keeps tabs on information like that for SixBit meta-data collection. Forcing as a new listing is useful for sales performance over select times, since the listing is separated from all the other listing history. You do not have to do it, but it also is not harmful to enable. I would recommend against it, just because there's no use for it unless you want specific listing data. Entirely up to you, however, as it won't hurt.
Similarly, resending pictures is for when you want to update pictures on a website. It's largely a tool for managing and reordering the images you have uploaded. Resending pictures will delete the images from the online site and replace them with the ones you have on the item. This is largely harmless as well, but it will make submitting items take longer as it has to reupload each image each time you list.
So for both Force as New and Resending Pictures, you do not have to have either enabled.
At this time, we do not know when eBay will charge you for listings. We do not have access to the API for that information, as eBay keeps that a guarded secret. On that note, however, I have informed the developers of a "Submitted since" option so you can track your insertion-free listings and see how close to the limit you are.
And the last thing we talked about was the select all function. Windows has this as a feature, so we piggyback off of it. When in a grid or any field, you can hold down the Control button and press A at the same time. This will select all the items or values or information in the grid or field you are in.
I believe that is a summation of everything we talked about, but I can answer any more questions you have.
Thank you for your patience,
Clay McCarty
SixBit Customer Support
@weaverliliThis is an issue with the Turbo Lister export of Picture links. We've seen this with seller with multiple accounts and aren't able to pull the Pictures from the Local Storage based on the locations given.
@thedustyloft20 wrote:
at one point there was a discussion o 'feelers' put out there about ebay offering an offline tool similar to turbo lister that could be used for a monthly fee....any more information or input on that possibility?
Hi @thedustyloft20, there aren't any plans that I'm aware of for eBay to offer an offline tool.
