eBay

onlythe30s · ‎01-01-2022

I need to raise my prices & reboot my listings. Has anyone done this & can give me suggestions to make easier/cheaper? Ebay lost about 75% of my pictures that were in listings a couple years ago. I don't have the time or patience to retake all & add to listings (I spent about 4 months taking pictures/listing ...had 12 pictures per listing. Since ebay lost pictures, most listings have only 1). I plan on sorting by start date - raising prices 5% - ending listings - then relisting. Think this will work? Thank you for any & all advice!

dhbookds · ‎01-01-2022

Not sure exactly what you mean...........you can't get the pictures back......... you can do a bulk revise and change the listing prices by a %...........

onlythe30s · ‎01-01-2022

I understand that. I need old listings to get re-indexed... just wondering if I should raise prices before ending listings or try to raise prices before relisting...

jayjaspersgarage · ‎01-01-2022

Are you sure that ebay lost the photos? I lost 600 listings in my unsold file two years ago because I forgot to relist them for a day before they were more than 89 days unsold. It was my mistake and I reshot the photos and listed about 400 of the items and tossed the rest in the trash.

I don't think there is a fast way to reboot lots of listings and raise the prices and edit descriptions at the same time. I take the time to decide if something is worth relisting and purge the rest.

There is a lot of purging going on this month since my store downsizes to a Starter from Basic on February 1st.

onlythe30s · ‎01-01-2022

Hi - Yes, photos from listings were lost by ebay. It was a couple years ago... Thanks for advice - I'll consider it...

winterpalace25 · ‎01-01-2022

That was terrible. I remember reading about it and felt so sorry for you guys who lost your pictures. One of ebay's biggest failures. Best of luck to you.

calntom · ‎01-01-2022

I remember the photo debacle. I was able to retrieve most of my photos after it happened because the listings were cached in Google. It was tedious, but I was able to get about 80 out of 85 listings restored. It was happening when items relisted automatically.

It would have been a lot worse had I not ran across a thread or two here concerning the gaffe by eBay. I had about 40 or so per day that I had to end manually and then relist manually to keep from losing the photos until eBay got things back on track.

As far as refreshing, I take the time once a year to go through all listings and update pricing and maybe add an item specific or something. There is also something I used to do from within Seller Hub by selecting 200 listings at a time and doing some sort of an update. Someone will be along to provide some detail on that. My desktop computer is tied up at the moment so I can't go figure it out.