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moondollar007 · ‎05-14-2020

My hope is the demise of Turbo Lister is NOT a reality. Have those in a decision making position reconsidered and will leave Turbo Lister intact? If eBay decides to no longer support Turbo Lister, does that mean I will no longer be able to upload items I have spend thousands of hours creating using Turbo Lister?

whotoldya · ‎05-14-2020

moondollar:
We use T/L all the time also. I posted things about this a few times here and in different groups.

Others in the same situation we are.

Responses usually boil down to "Get Six Bit" ...

Like you we have lots of listings rotating in T/L. All that labor, pictures and Lot Numbers Especially will be lost. Six bit is a pay monthly program.

With old age we are no longer selling enough to support paying for SixBit . Hope they don't take T/L away.. Its nice being able to help pay for medicines with our Ebay money.

DWB

Anonymous · ‎05-14-2020

@moondollar007 wrote:

My hope is the demise of Turbo Lister is NOT a reality. Have those in a decision making position reconsidered and will leave Turbo Lister intact? If eBay decides to no longer support Turbo Lister, does that mean I will no longer be able to upload items I have spend thousands of hours creating using Turbo Lister?

Hello @moondollar007 & @whotoldya ,

Thank you guys for your posts.

I want you guys to know that our decision to end Turbo Lister wasn't an easy one. We know how much it means so sellers that use it. There are many factors that play to it's deprecation and while we are sad to let it go as it had an incredible run, Turbo Lister just isn't going to be able to keep up with our next future advancements we want to make with tools, payments, etc. That and we only have less than 10,000 eBay sellers who use Turbo Lister and so with all of this in perspective, it makes to do this now.

That said, Turbo Lister will remain on your computer, and Turbo Lister won't be able to upload or download from eBay, you still have all that hard work on your computer files that can used on SixBit in the future.

Thank you both for your posts. I hope this helps.

Best Wishes,

Jacob@eBay

eBay Customer Support

whotoldya · ‎05-14-2020

Thank you for the response. Nice to read we will still have access to T/L that remains in our computer.

Hope it will still show all those hard or impossible to re-create listings.

We love selling on Ebay. Sure hope T/L will really work in our computer after you end it.

DWB

moondollar007 · ‎05-14-2020

What is the projected cut off date for Turbo lister. If I upload my Turbo Lister listings to eBay, can I then save them to MY INVENTORY on eBay? I tried SIX-BITS. Hated it. I have this plan. I was going to END all of my FIXED PRICE LISTINGS on the 25th, then put them into MY INVENTORY on eBay's website. I was then going to relist them. Will this work to keep all the listings I have created?

whotoldya · ‎05-15-2020

moondollar007

Experimenting for after we are cut off:

I tried backing up T/L into an outside hard drive to see what would happen. It all went in there ok. Tried to open it and it did not work out very well. Wanted me to use a file / program my computer does not have or show in the list

Not sure what to do?

DWB

mademelle · ‎05-18-2020

I love my Turbo Lister, and have been using it for years! I am NOT HAPPY! Why can't eBay at least just unlock the turbo lister and let us write our listings on the program, then upload via csv format into eBay, if that will still work? I do NOT want my TL closing up on me. I do tremendous amounts of work on and in my TL listings, both old and new!

VERY DISAPPOINTED.

tabbymix · ‎05-18-2020

I've sold on eBay much longer than I have on Amazon, and prefer eBay. Turbo Lister provided a free way of managing my approximately 2000+ mostly rare items. Many of these can't be listed on Amazon. Sadly, with sales slowing over the years, it will just not be worth my time to reconfigure all those listings on SixBit AND pay to use it after 6 months. I'd rather throw the money toward getting a premium seller account at Amazon, or just stick to Amazon in the future. Amazon takes a bigger cut of the sales price, but once an item is up there, it remains. No constant management of all the items. I am really sad that eBay has decided to remove Turbo Lister because "only" 10,000 sellers use it. I'd bet that those 10,000 have the most interesting and rare items. This decision will cut out those of us who don't sell the mass-market Walmart stuff. Oh well - it's been a good run. If eBay decides to keep Turbo Lister, it would keep the quality of the merchandise found on eBay higher. It's not all about dollars and payment options - it's about eBay being a place with fun and interesting and rare items. They could remain that if they decide to extend Turbo Lister. I don't see why they can't.

tabbymix · ‎05-18-2020

Jacob -

I've sold on eBay much longer than I have on Amazon, and prefer eBay. Turbo Lister provided a free way of managing my approximately 2000+ mostly rare items. Many of these can't be listed on Amazon. Sadly, with sales slowing over the years, it will just not be worth my time to reconfigure all those listings on SixBit AND pay to use it after 6 months. I'd rather throw the money toward getting a premium seller account at Amazon, or just stick to Amazon in the future. Amazon takes a bigger cut of the sales price, but once an item is up there, it remains. No constant management of all the items. I am really sad that eBay has decided to remove Turbo Lister because "only" 10,000 sellers use it. I'd bet that those 10,000 have the most interesting and rare items. This decision will cut out those of us who don't sell the mass-market Walmart stuff. Oh well - it's been a good run. If eBay decides to keep Turbo Lister, it would keep the quality of the merchandise found on eBay higher. It's not all about dollars and payment options - it's about eBay being a place with fun and interesting and rare items. They could remain that if they decide to extend Turbo Lister. I don't see why they can't.

weethings · ‎05-18-2020

I looked at the info on Six bits.

But on ebay I have more than one account. I can transfer items easily from one to the other.

But I didn't see that option on the video I watched about six bits.

CAn more than one ebay account be on the same six bit account just as on turbo lister???

tabbymix · ‎05-18-2020

I was wondering the same - and does each account have to pay the monthly fee? I wish the free six month offer stated what the fees would be after the 6 months, and answered questions like this. It would be nice to know that before making the effort of transferring everything out of Turbo Lister. If each account has to pay the fee, that becomes some real money on top of all the other fees.

jslocum2 · ‎05-18-2020

This is John from SixBit.

Yes, on the Turbo Lister Edition of SixBit you can manage two different accounts. In fact you can keep them in the same database if you'd like. You simply create a Business Profile for each business, then assign one of your profiles to each item. You can even list the same item on different accounts if you'd like.

jslocum2 · ‎05-18-2020

@tabbymix wrote:
I was wondering the same - and does each account have to pay the monthly fee? I wish the free six month offer stated what the fees would be after the 6 months, and answered questions like this. It would be nice to know that before making the effort of transferring everything out of Turbo Lister. If each account has to pay the fee, that becomes some real money on top of all the other fees.

John from SixBit again.

No, you don't have to pay a fee for each account.

There are multiple versions of SixBit at different price points. The special Turbo Lister version we created has all the features of TL and is $14.99 a month. Other versions are $19.99, $34.99, and $69.99 a month and offer extra features you can adopt as your business grows. See https://www.sixbitsoftware.com/tllanding/ for more info on the other versions. The prices are at the top of each version description and are crossed off to show that the versions are free during the trial. You can actually subscribe to any version and it will be free for the trial period. You can easily switch between versions so if you think you need a higher level version, now would be the time to try it. You can always switch back to a lower priced version before you have to pay anything.

papermoneyforme · ‎05-19-2020

@jslocum2 wrote:
@tabbymix wrote:
I was wondering the same - and does each account have to pay the monthly fee? I wish the free six month offer stated what the fees would be after the 6 months, and answered questions like this. It would be nice to know that before making the effort of transferring everything out of Turbo Lister. If each account has to pay the fee, that becomes some real money on top of all the other fees.

John from SixBit again.

No, you don't have to pay a fee for each account.

There are multiple versions of SixBit at different price points. The special Turbo Lister version we created has all the features of TL and is $14.99 a month. Other versions are $19.99, $34.99, and $69.99 a month and offer extra features you can adopt as your business grows. See https://www.sixbitsoftware.com/tllanding/ for more info on the other versions. The prices are at the top of each version description and are crossed off to show that the versions are free during the trial. You can actually subscribe to any version and it will be free for the trial period. You can easily switch between versions so if you think you need a higher level version, now would be the time to try it. You can always switch back to a lower priced version before you have to pay anything.

Hi John

Why does Sixbit charge $100.00 per month if you want to list on 2 sites, when Turbo Lister did it for free.

Many Canadians list on both US and Canada and after TL leaves, can't afford the price of Sixbit

Also, with our dollar so low, we have to pay a 40% premium as well.

galfam · ‎05-19-2020

Just a thought -- If it costs more on Amazon you need to do the math and see if moving to ?(sixbit for me because I wanted the program on my computer) will really cost more than the extra fees on Amazon . Also with Sixbit you can export to a csv file and upload to any site that supports it. Only you know what you profit is and if it is a viable move for you but I use the smallest monthly package and will export listings to a file and then upload to another selling site that will sync with ebay and if I sell something on either site it will close the other listing.