If you plan to list anything you should be using a external listings application. Everything is stored on your computer and not eBay. You can customize the app to manage your information as you see fit and thus are not stuck in eBay's hamster wheel.
The best tool ever created is the Macintosh app GarageSale.
The app should allow your to easy export your item descriptions and titles should you decide list items elsewhere. GarageSale does not list to other sites; however, when it came time to list items on Facebook Market Place I simply wrote a couple of Applescripts which are kept on the edge of one of my 24" monitors. Double clicking these automatically copies the selected listing title or description to the clipboard for pasting into Facebook MarketPlace's listing form - this saves manually selecting and copying the text.
GarageSale is light-years ahead of Seller Hub, which was already outdated before it was created. The first Macintosh listing tool I used was A.I.D. circa 2001. eBay got the bright idea of charging developers for using its API, which was created by a 3rd party, resulting in the publisher of A.I.D. going out of business. I was thus forced to use Turbolister on one of my Apple G4 computers by running Windows XP within virtualization app. Before these apps, it was faster to create listings on third party websites which uploaded scheduled listings to eBay than using eBay's own listing form. eBay does not innovate - they copy other's work.
You can manage inventory for multiple eBay accounts. The template folder contains a series of listing templates based upon various shipping services. Just press the Command and D keys to duplicate one of those and drag into one of the numbered subfolders. This saves having to constantly input shipping information and gets rid of most errors.
The subfolder names correspond to inventory image storage folders on a external drive, which allows you to easy find your original images. The numbered subfolders are divided into eBay accounts and then by the type of listing. If something didn't sell in one account drag the item into a folder for that account and list it there. Of course these are just my personal choices when it comes to organizing inventory - someone else can use their own system within GS.
Want to insert commonly used text, such as your TOS, into each listing? Then create a Text Snippet and reference it in your listing template. All the text, css and html in the snippet will be inserted into each listing uploaded to eBay.
A company with billions of dollars and thousands of employees can't create anything even remotely close to an application manged by three part time German programmers. Something smells fishy here.
