How to opt out of the new '2019 Early Seller Update New fixed price listings will be Good ‘Til Cance

[daddydarththeone]

How to opt out of the new '2019 Early Seller Update New fixed price listings will be Good ‘Til Cancelled duration'?

I have 12 different 'categories' of items(Toys, Books, Entertainment items, etc...), which I list one category per month.

With this new setup, I have to sell out of one category before I can list a different category?

Will I have to cancel all my listings a few hours before they end, so that they won't automatically renew?

Is there a way to opt out of this automatic renewal of listings?

Thanks!

[shipscript]

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@tkmops wrote:

Thanks for all the fast responses. Looks like I'll have to 'checkmark all listing and use the Automation Rules button to remove the automation.' I'll try that in a week or so, just before my listings are due to expire.

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A "week or so" from now is "mid March" when the GTC conversion is scheduled to apply to ended listing that have auto-renewal applied, so don't lose site of your end dates if you have listings that already auto-renew.  If none of your listings have "auto-renewal" then they'll just end.

@dollybeauty   addressed some of the Turbo Lister questions in this thread, so you might start there and then formulate additional questions:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Tools-Apps/copying-TL-files-to-CSV-files-and-how-to-include-my-photos/...

eBay's File Exchange is a tool for uploading a spreadsheet of data to eBay. It provides no storage as does Turbo Lister. It's just for uploading new live or scheduled listings or for revising listings. 

File Exchange doesn't have any way to upload photos from your desktop. The photos would need to be hosted on a website or photo storage site that supports the https protocol and then those photo links can be included in the File Exchange spreadsheet.

Additionally, the CSV file that Turbo Lister exports is not an exact match for File Exchange so a few adjustments would need to be made. @dollybeauty  addressed those somewhere, but can perhaps repeat those here.

Your spreadsheet would probably also need to be broken into chunks due to file size limitations.

Selling Manager Pro also has a CSV export option, and if you have a store, you might have Selling Manager Pro to export your active and ended listings, but it won't export a description.

[dollybeauty]

See this link for differences in the Turbo export file and a FileExchange upload file - https://community.ebay.com/t5/Tools-Apps/Turbo-lister-2-stopped-unloading-tryed-file-exchange-no-abl...

[dollybeauty]

@tkmops 

For number 5)....For 'fast and easy', you would have to use another subscription listing tool. For that number of listings the subscription tools are pricey.

[tkmops]

Thanks for the fast responses...I'll go check out those links

[tkmops]

Well, I only do 100 a month for two stores, and whatever 'free' listings eBay gives me(about 100-400 per month, per store)

[daddydarththeone]

I found a page about 'Selling Manager'...it says 'Selling Manager allows you to:Create listings in bulk or individually. This may be what I need to start using, instead of Turbo Lister.

How do I find it? That page above says 'If you use Seller Hub to manage your eBay business, the features of Selling Manager are already included.'

When I googled 'How to find Selling Manager', it said 'Go to My eBay and review the links in the Selling Manager or Selling Manager Pro section on the left side of the page.' On my Seller Hub page, I'm not seeing any Seller Manager.

When I try to subscribe to 'Selling Manager' through manage subscriptions, there's no option to subscribe to Selling Manager, only Selling Manager Pro.

Where is the link to use Selling Manager?

[shipscript]

Seller Hub and Selling Manager are essentially the same thing. They just allow bulk creation and management of your listings. If you go to your Active Items page and see checkboxes down the left side, that is your bulk management. You can multiselect items, click the Edit option at the top of the table and then you will be taken to eBay's Bulk Edit and Relist (BEAR) tool. That tool is the core of Selling Manager and Seller Hub.

The "Create listing" option at the top left of this Seller Hub screenshot will allow single or bulk listing creation:

Seller Hub - active listing info

Selling Manager Pro is a paid subscription that probably looks much the same, but that includes more sales management features.  There used to be a nice comparison table, but I'm not finding it.

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/selling-tools/selling-manager-selling-manager-pro?id=4098

https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/listing-and-marketing/ebay-bulk-listing-tools.html#m22_tb_a1__3...

[shipscript]

I found a Selling Manager Pro User Guide on eBay dated 2011

http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/pdf/selling_manager_pro_user_guide.pdf

[daddydarththeone]

Thanks for the fast response. It looks like 'If you go to your Active Items page and see checkboxes down the left side, that is your bulk management. You can multiselect items, click the Edit option at the top of the table and then you will be taken to eBay's Bulk Edit and Relist (BEAR) tool' is only for current, active listings.

When I go to 'create listing', and select 'multiple listing'...I read the FAQ, but I couldn't fine how long the listings one creates lasts. Meaning...once the multiple listings are created, and uploaded to eBay, is all the work I just did saved somewhere to be re-used in the future? Or, do I need to re-do all that work again next month?

What I'm asking:is there a way, like in Turbo Lister, to create listings(with pictures), and save them to be reused again in the future? Or, is working with Selling Manager-multiple listing a one-time deal, that needs to be done every time you want to sell the same items? eBay used to keep 'unsold' items 'alive'(able to be relisted) for a few months, now, I'm not sure how long eBay keeps unsold items alive before they 'roll off'.

I need a way to enter all 55,314 items into a database/something?, that I can pick and choose which items to list every month. I don't need to setup all 55,314 at the same time, it will be a on-going process. Something where I can enter about 2,000-5,000 items(for now), with all the fields that eBay requires, and pix, so I can just pick the items, and hit 'upload'.

[shipscript]

In Seller Hub, drafts are retained for 45 days, so they are not the long term storage you are requesting.

Selling Manager Pro has an "inventory" feature, but I'm not sure how that is used because I've not used SMP. I think that correlates to "store inventory" as well.  Sorry, we need someone with experience with this product to reply.

[daddydarththeone]

Well, it looks like, until I find another Turbo Lister like program, I'm going to have to either individually, or in bulk, list 100 items per store(2), per month, and just let them auto-new, and add new items as some of those 200 items sell. Ah well, looks like the 5 years I spent loading up my Turbo Lister with 55,314 items is wasted. I still have all my pictures and descriptions. If loading up new listings every few months is what I gotta do, well, then, it's what I gotta do. I don't sell a whole lot, so I guess it not that big a deal...maybe eBay will introduce another Turbo Lister like bulk upload tool in the future?

BTW, how can I contact eBay, to request/plead for them to keep Turbo Lister? Is there a 'contact eBay-suggestions' link somewhere?  

[shipscript]

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@daddydarththeone wrote:

Well, it looks like, until I find another Turbo Lister like program, I'm going to have to either individually, or in bulk, list 100 items per store(2), per month, and just let them auto-new, and add new items as some of those 200 items sell. Ah well, looks like the 5 years I spent loading up my Turbo Lister with 55,314 items is wasted. I still have all my pictures and descriptions. If loading up new listings every few months is what I gotta do, well, then, it's what I gotta do. I don't sell a whole lot, so I guess it not that big a deal...maybe eBay will introduce another Turbo Lister like bulk upload tool in the future?

BTW, how can I contact eBay, to request/plead for them to keep Turbo Lister? Is there a 'contact eBay-suggestions' link somewhere?  

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I think if we just mention  @mypaymentstest  here in this messeage, we can add your plight to the list of sellers who need a solution to replace Turbo Lister in order to manage the storage and rotation of inventory.  Mykal, is there anything in Selling Manager Pro that can assist? How long does "inventory" last in that tool and what exactly is inventory in SMP?

Exporting a CSV from Turbo Lister that you could convert to File Exchange format is a partial solution for rotating your inventory into live listings, but it still would require uploading your photos somehow.

This is the dilemma I've already reported to staff:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Tools-Apps/Turbo-Lister-vs-Seller-Hub-and-File-Exchange/m-p/29560426

[tkmops]

Thanks for the link...I just added a comment to your link...using my main store ID 'tkmops'. Here's hoping eBay reads that link, and re-considers retiring Turbo Lister.

[push.buy.now]

I saw the note about turning off turbo lister in the future and the token ending.

I just wanted to say this makes me want to cry, I've loved that program since day one.
It's like a planet exploding in some sci fi novel.
There is no hope, all is lost.

That was a great program.  Just raw data up and down. So clean.
Gonna miss it.

[daddydarththeone]

This may have been addressed either in the 'Seller Update', or here in this thread...but can someone confirm the following:

When eBay makes all fixed listings GTC, will that be just for new listings that are made, or will that affect current listings that happen to be running at the time of switch over?

For example, I have listings that are due to end in 21 days...if I don't want them to get re-newed, do I need to end them a few hours before their scheduled end time?