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Revise my books that I have listed by adding additional information in the description

I need to know how to edit/revise the books that I have listed for sale. I would like to add the Amazon links for each book and the ISBN numbers for each book.

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Revise my books that I have listed by adding additional information in the description

@wilwh_1450 

 

I don't believe that eBay will permit you to list any links to Amazon, as that is a competitor.

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Revise my books that I have listed by adding additional information in the description

You are not selling and then buying from Amazon are you? Or selling and then shipping from Amazon?

Either of those will get you into trouble. 

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Revise my books that I have listed by adding additional information in the description

@wilwh_1450,

 

As @1786davycrockett, you can't add an off-eBay link to the description, it's not allowed.

 

This ISBN numbers should be in the item specifics, and if you revise your listings, that's where you should put them.

 

You should proof read your listings more carefully. I noticed a lot of mis-spellings, words run together, irrelevant words, etc. in the listings I scanned. If you spell a word in the title wrong, then buyers may not be able to find your listings if they are looking for something you have available.

 

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Revise my books that I have listed by adding additional information in the description

If you go into edit an item, there should be a spot for an ISBN in there.

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Revise my books that I have listed by adding additional information in the description

@wilwh_1450 

 

In addition, many of your book listings do not include either the title or the author's name, which is how the vast majority of book buyer's do their searches.  Listings that read simply "Christian Inspirational Book" will probably not get many views.

 

And one of your auction items is listed simply as "I want to," with no other explanation.

 

You might re-think how you are listing several of these items, if you are seriously planning to attract buyers.

 

 

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Revise my books that I have listed by adding additional information in the description

If you get a bid on your book $4.40 with free shipping, that is the price it will sell at.  The buy it now price of $25 will go away.  You will lose money. 

 

Your titles are nonsense.  List the title and author, not a general description.  Remove your link to Amazon.  That is against the rules.  

evry1nositswindy  •  seller since 2013
Volunteer Community Mentor

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Revise my books that I have listed by adding additional information in the description

Might also want to review the VeRO rules on that Otterbox case. 

 

OtterBox.pdf (ebaystatic.com)

 

 

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Revise my books that I have listed by adding additional information in the description

You can’t post links that will take a buyer to another site Links Policy

Your book listings say you’ll be getting them from Amazon…Huge No No! 
You also have kindle goodshepard.com links  in your listings as well another no no! 

You also can’t drop ship from Amazon, Amazon is not a wholesaler Drop shipping and product sourcing  

If you want to sell items you purchased and have in your possession that’s fine, but you can’t drop ship from places like Amazon or Walmart.

 

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Revise my books that I have listed by adding additional information in the description

Ebay does not allow offsite links in your listings.

 

You will be unable to complete the listing or the change until you remove the link.

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Revise my books that I have listed by adding additional information in the description

@wilwh_1450  why would I buy from you?

 

Your listings state that you buy them direct from Amazon.

Dont you think I can do the same??

 

 

klhmdg  •  Volunteer Community Mentor
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Revise my books that I have listed by adding additional information in the description

Seriously, are you really trying to sell an item with the title "t-shirts"? Do you know there are over 13,000,000 t-shirts for sale on ebay? How would anyone find your item among the 13,000,000?

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Revise my books that I have listed by adding additional information in the description

Your tee shirt listings  and sweat shirt need work buyers don’t want to take the time to add a note to tell you what size or color they want.

You also have 2 listings with a picture of of the same Tee Shirt one listing says it’s a sweatshirt but it’s clearly not a sweatshirt, it’s a tee shirt.

You need to make one listing with Variations for the sweat shirts and tee shirts showing sizes and colors you have available in a drop-down menu. Saying  Colors: Ash, blue, all colors doesn’t tell a buyer anything.

Multi-quantity listings and listings with variations  

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Revise my books that I have listed by adding additional information in the description

Was perusing your listings. I noticed a few issues. For the tee shirt listings, you need to set those up as variation listings, see how-to in the link to the policy below.

 

For example, listing #204383383919 entitled “Heavy Blend Crewneck Sweatshirt”, in your description, it states they come in different sizes and colors (and styles but that is not mentioned). But there is no mechanism for the buyer to select his size or preferred color/design. A variation listing solves that problem.

 

By the way, that listing states the tee shirts are unbranded, but i can see the Fruit of the Loom tag on it clearly. Since you already have a listing for the Fruit of the Loom tee shirts up, you need to be careful not to run afoul of eBay’s Duplicate Listing policy. See link below for more on that rule.

 

Selling on eBay can be quite a challenge. I strongly recommend you consider taking your listings down until you bring yourself up to speed on the rules that govern the site. The reason for this recommendation is to prevent the loss of your selling privileges. 

Good luck and wish you well moving forward.

 

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/creating-managing-listings/creating-listings-variations?i...

 

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-policies/duplicate-listings-policy?id=4255

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Revise my books that I have listed by adding additional information in the description

You cannot link to Amazon in your listings, which is why eBay removed the links.  From your User-id and your listings, I have to wonder if you are the author of the books and the owner of the outfit advertised on the shirts.

 

Selling on eBay is very different, and the approach you are using will fail, and fail quickly.  Here goes, with some tough love:

 

To call your listings careless or lazy is to pay them a big compliment.  Whoever did them worked hastily and thoughtlessly.  They are so full of  misspellings, typos, and fundamental errors in grammar and syntax as to be nearly unintelligible. Your listing titles are useless and irrelevant.

 

Examples:  One book is said to be both a "Nonfiction" work and a "Novel" in its Item Specifics.  "Books" is given as the topic in Item Specifics for work that is mediation and commentary on Psalm 23.  A contemporary, autobiographical work on evolving religious belief  is listed as part of an "Historical Series" in Item Specifics.   Your listing titles make no sense, and do not even include the basics of Title and Author. 

 

The use of stock photos and your desire to link to Amazon makes it clear these are are print-on-demand. 

 

You need to pull those listings and rethink how you can sell these POD books on eBay because everything you are doing is wrong.  You can sell POD books on eBay, and you can integrate with Merchize, Podorder, Printful, Printity, and others -- but you can not have a deal with Amazon POD and then use eBay to get customers to go to Amazon to buy them.

 

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