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I’m a long time ebay seller (since ’98), but it’s still mostly a hobby so far. In the past I used Turbo Lister, but I really grew to hate that program. So slow and buggy.
Recently I got a new iPhone with a great camera and tried listing with the ebay app there. Taking and editing pictures is so much easier! Creating drafts is effortless. I’ve been able to do listings much faster this way I think. I do a final check on my computer. I really love it.
Today I found a great video on YouTube which shows how to use just voice recognition, and “sell similar” to do most of the listing even faster:
I think this feature is great, and is the source of some of the plagiarism I’ve read about here. Hard to call it plagiarism when it’s an eBay button! I think eBay is moving away from fancy descriptions and more just filling out forms anyway, but I understand it may bother those who put a lot of work into their descriptions.
How do you use the phone in your eBay listing process?
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Since we have someone helping us take photos, eBay only allows a certain amount of unlisted Drafts. So we create Scheduled Listings (which you can have as many as you want). She then goes into each scheduled listing and takes photos.
Since it sounds like you sell uncommon items, does Sell Similar really work for you?
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First, even though I listened to the podcast about how to list as a scheduled listing, I somehow have a problem doing it without getting charged. But no matter, I’m about done with using my phone as a listing mechanism. I like it well enough as a camera, but I’ve run into too many problems with it to continue on using it to list. Here are some things I have encountered: when i relist an item with the app in the phone, sometimes, very rarely, the photos from one listing morph onto another listing that I am also relisting at the same time; when I use the “sell one like this” feature, I often forget to double check certain elements of the listing, like the size in the title, or the postage selection (ugh); if you start a listing with just a photo in the listing and then wait too long (like overnight) to actually complete the listing, sometimes the photos disappear when you go to submit the listing; & you can only see just so many of the listing when you load them up into drafts. I’ve lost money on shipping and had to take a return as a result of using my phone to list. Its back to the computer for me.
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My listing process. I use and iPad and an iPhone I have iCloud photos setup and I pay for extra iCloud space because of these photos and to accommodate my devices being backed up.
I take all of my photos on my iPad I feel it is more stable I use a light tent. I then usually sit the items on my iPad.
When I get new product I take a photo of it on my iPad. If I get a lot of items I first take all of the photos then open up my laptop with my iPad next to it. I create the listing on the laptop save as draft then finish the listing on the iPad after adding photos. Since I have a full time job and family I can not always do this.
The second way I list is on my iPhone when I get time since the photos automatically upload to my iPad and iPhone I can list on my iPhone.
Raynne if you set up photos on your mac the photos you take on your phone or iPad will go into your photos app you can then back them up.
Hope this helps
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I list exclusively on my iPad. I like that I can do listing anywhere. I take my iPad with me when I know I’ll be waiting at the doctor, car place, salon, etc. I take photos in the camera app, then do listings later. The two things I cannot do in the eBay app are 1)add sales tax 2) add my restocking fee under returns. So I do several listings, them switch over to Safari to bulk edit the new listing to add in the tax and the restocking fee. Works great for me.
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