How to backup my lists & photos when I left eBay?

[okann-com]

Hi everyone

I will leave eBay for months or even a year. Now I have about 1000 lists on eBay.  Will reduce them to 100. (So I could change my plan from $59 to $5 per month)

File Exchange could backup my lists to csv file. But all the photos will lost. When I relisted them, would have to upload images one by one. And some of the photos might have lost local. 

It will be great if I could backup them all, each one list together with its photos, downloaded from my eBay. So I could relist them easily when I come back to eBay.  Is there any way I could do that? 

Thank you!

[okann-com]

In old times I use Turbo Lister, but it do not work for long. EBay say all the function in TL has a replacement in today's eBay. So would like to know how could I backup it. Thank you.

[dollybeauty]

@okann-com 

eBay does not offer the option to download images. When you upload images, eBay creates multiple images in different sizes to work with the eBay processes. They then discard the original. These images are the intellectual property of eBay (see the UserAgreement). For this reason, you should always save the original images yourself.

Using the eBay feature CustomLabel can help you save/name your images...CustomLabel_1, CustomLabel_2, etc.

With the lower cost plans you may not have access to the SellerHub feature 'Inventory'. This might allow you to save your images, but I have no experience with this feature to say for sure. Nor do I know the time that eBay stores these images.

The FileExchange options do not give you many of the fields you might wish. Besides images, the biggest would be the description.

Relist them easily...i would not hope for that. eBay is a constantly evolving marketplace. A year from now these listings may/will have undergone changes. They may need work to be relisted.

[okann-com]

@dollybeauty 

Thank you my friend. Your idea is great and exactly I need. 

It seems the feature 'Inventory' do save listing and photo for long time. I can find my listings 2 years ago and it still works. 'Inventory' is a feature below to Selling Manager Pro. As you mentioned, lower costs plan do not cover that. Will have to spend extra $16/mo for it.

So I guess I will choose the other way, re-organize my photos by custom label, and upload one by one when listing again.

It surprised me that the File Exchange could not download the description field. Thank you for letting me know. It is lucky for me only about 10% of my listing have specified description. Might have to save the HTML file to a folder. Then copy the description into new listing when I was back.

Thank you again for everything. Very helpful.

[shipscript]

@okann-com 

You can back up your photos and descriptions in ACTIVE listings and download as zip files to your computer by using these tools.

http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/BulkPhotoScanner.htm

1. Enter your seller name and listing country and click the"Get items" button.
2. Perform a full "Auto Scan" to locate all of your eBay master photos.
3. When the scan completes, scroll down to the "report" box.
4. Select "Zip All" from the drop list.
5. Click the "Build Report" button.
6. Another button will soon appear right next to the report button.
7. Click that "send to zip tool" button.

The photo zipper tool will open with your list of photo URLs

http://isdntek.com/ebaytools/BulkPhotoZip.htm

1. The list of photo URLs will load, or paste your own list.
2. Click the "Load Data" button.
3. Your list will be sorted and will be broken into batches, appearing in the lower left window.
4. Your eBay Item numbers will used as the new image names.
5. If no problems, click the "Zip Files" button.
6. It may take half an hour or even longer to zip up all of your eBay images.
7. Download all of the zip files after all the download links appear in the lower right window.

You can archive descriptions with this tool.

http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentEditor.htm

1. Enter your seller name and listing country and click the "Get Items" button.
2. A new screen will open where you can checkmark the "Save Originals" button near the top.
3. The other checkboxes can be unchecked.
4. Click the "Start New Scan" button.
5. When the scan ends, scroll down to the zip area.
6. Open the "Description Spreadsheets for File Exchange" panel.
7. Click the button to zip "Original File Exchange CSV"
8. When the links appear, download to your computer.

You will use the itemID as the common link for matching photos to descriptions.  The photos will be saved by itemID, with an index number at the end if a listing has multiple photos, like 332456783366 [1].jpg and the descriptions will be saved in the spreadsheet with itemID. You can collect a few other details by downloading a File Exchange report, and that will also have the itemID. 

Later, you can match up all of the item IDs to reconstruct your listings.

[dollybeauty]

@shipscript

Thanks! I had decided to wait until you posted on this (I did not know the status of your photo zipper and knew you ran searches of topics on this community). I did not wish to offer a tool that I had no experience with.