I started with 300+ recommended IS for of all things the GPK cards... Well 90% of them were the GPK cards... a few for the bracelets, and an odd book here and there... I had 2 that had required... I just flat out pulled them cause at .99 they weren't worth the effort.
Fine w/e... off to do the make work. I sorted them by ending first.
Then broke them down further by Auction / FP. Then started with the FP knowing if I did those first I'd never see them again. So I filled in the ones that made sense... Franchise, Set (Garbage Pail Kids, All new series 1) Character.... well hmmmm I have 25 different Characters so nope not filling in that one. Card Name, Card number same thing... (the ones that were single cards I did fill all those in) all through the list I go... then (thanks to Auctiva) I realized that eBay only allows 20 IS.... so I started either filling in random ones with DNA OR creating my own... card size = standard, Autographed = No, Graded = Ungraded, etc. Creating my own : Subset = name of the subset with in the main set) Subset 2 = w/e parallel color it is.
Then I would click the button that says don't show this again. I did figure out though if you click that button then click anything else on that screen it UNclicks that button... So those of you that are seeing them pop back up after you have clicked the "don't show me again" may need to check to see if it STAYS clicked.
Auctions are my bane.... I had to open the listing on both eBay AND Auctiva, and fill in the IS on both sites so when it relists I don't have to do this every 10 days or so. On those I filled up to 20 no matter what even using some that no one in their right mind is going to look for or drill down with when searching these cards... Age - Adult, Movie - DNA, TV show - DNA, MPN - DNA etc. I used Vintage = no in every single one I could just to fill in the spots. So far it's working... I've gone from every GPK listing having 8-9 recommendations to - 4 recommendations (that's when I figured out you needed 20) to they are no longer showing in the list.
I do 10- 15 a day and I'm pretty much done with them... I WILL say though by doing these a few at a time my cards are selling faster than they were... either because I'm touching them (if I touch something on eBay every single day sales tend to stay steady) OR because the IS being filled in are making my cards float to the top of search, OR because brother is on facebook telling peeps where all his cards are up for sale...
What I do know is once I quit having them show in the "IS Recommended" list I will go back through the rest of my listings and fill the other listings up till they all have 20ish as well. 10-15 a day. (books, movies, mom's stuff and all that). It gives me the "touch something every day" thing... and I've known for YEARS as long as I either list something, edit something, or remove something, put things on "sale", take things off 'sale' etc. I have a steady stream of sales.... If I go a week without touching something sales drop like a rock.
LOL besides the more I edit the GPK cards the faster they sell and the less my kids have to count in Jan. 😁🤣 I mean we have 12+ 3in Binders full of the suckers. I'm gonna make Hubby do the comics though I don't know enough about them to even begin to figure out more IS for those stupid things, and we still have 5 (out of 12 we started with 15 years ago) big long white boxes full.
I hate photobucket right now... PS Answers given years ago may or may not be current now, please check with current posters to the boards to see if the information is still relevant.
