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onefootflipper · ‎10-19-2022

So, like many people I was forced into the new listing tool a few months ago.

I eventually got used to it and it wasn't going all that much slower than the old tool.

Until today when I actually went to list my first giant stack of trading cards since I got switched over.

My usual rate at listing trading cards with the old tool is over 100 an hour.

It just took me an hour and 8 minutes to do 37. I am completely familiar with the tool. The slowdown was entirely in how much slower the new tool is with photos, and how often it just makes you wait while it decides to do something or load something in the background that I am not even going to touch or taking 5 seconds between my instant scroll to the bottom and hitting the button to submit and it even reacting (one of my mouse buttons is programmed to take me to the bottom of the page so I can hit submit).

I am glad I was already getting out of cards. I can't make money on cheap cards when they take that long to list.

wastingtime101 · ‎10-19-2022

It takes me approx 3x as long to list as the old advanced/business form. Big time-waster that costs me lots of moolah in the end.

GLORIOUS!

12345jamesstamps · ‎10-19-2022

With your 16,000+ listings I wish I had the time to do that many. I never timed anything and really don't have the time to time something. I mean, I don't time how long it takes to get my drink from Starbucks.

femmefan1946 · ‎10-19-2022

I strongly dislike the new form too, but the pictures have not been a problem for me.

I use the drag and drop feature, and often have to turn the pictures around which is slightly confusing since the form makes you turn them counter-clockwise while every other form I use turns clockwise.

It's the International Shipping section that drives me crazy. It feels like it was designed to discourage international shipping, even for non-US seller like me who sell about 15% of my listings outside the USA.

onefootflipper · ‎10-19-2022

@12345jamesstamps wrote:
With your 16,000+ listings I wish I had the time to do that many. I never timed anything and really don't have the time to time something. I mean, I don't time how long it takes to get my drink from Starbucks.

Figuring out how many I can list per hour and how many I can ship per hour was critical in my decisions for what sort of items to focus on. I decided to start getting out of 1.99 trading cards just because I just can't make that much hourly doing them. It is somewhere between $15 and $20 an hour doing them with the exact rate depending on what sort of cards I have to list and how sorted or unsorted they are. I am certain I will still be selling them for the next 30 years just because of how many I already have, but I am not really looking for many more of them.

This was great when I was extremely ill and fresh from having my leg cut off and couldn't do much anything else.

Every time my wife finds vintage tea cups and saucers she is thrilled that they usually sell for $10-13 however I don't want them because the time per item is extremely high because of the amount of research and careful packing each item takes.

12345jamesstamps · ‎10-19-2022

Yes, International shipping...my buyers cannot send an invoice to me for combined shipping for more than one item. I am always sending refunds for combine shipping. I wonder how many International Buyers gave up on this.

wastingtime101 · ‎10-19-2022

@femmefan1946 wrote:
I use the drag and drop feature

With the new listing form, drag and drop does not work for variation listings, only single item listings. Pain in the ass.

GLORIOUS!

farmalljr · ‎10-19-2022

Hold on. many other sellers have stated, it's only because it's new, that people are complaining. Everyone hates change, you know. Nothing wrong with this tool. Everyone will learn to love it......

I too, have already stated that the new listing tool is extremely SLOW compared to the old tool. Clunky, in a word. I list daily, and this new tool is not as fast, period. I understand the OP's issue, but every other seller, no matter the ASP, is going to have a problem with this. Doesn't matter if you list 10 items a day, or 150, this tool is not made for production.

eBay has a problem. The number of buyers and sellers is shrinking. Trust in eBay's "improvements" and "upgrades" is waning. My day of leaving, as well as others, is creeping in. Sales have tanked for many sellers. The site becomes continually difficult to work with. Buyers are frustrated.

We sellers are here to SELL. I don't need the **bleep**. I just want to sell. Make it easier to sell eBay, or someone else will and they will make you insignificant. While these other platforms are small in comparison, they are growing. New competition sprouts up all the time. It's pretty obvious buyers want choices, and that eBay is shrinking, not growing. For years, they have ignored the majority of sellers, only listening to the cheerleaders who think eBay does no wrong. Well, good luck with that.