Home › Forums › Buying and Selling › Listing Challenges › Anyone use List Perfectly?
- This topic has 5 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 1 year, 7 months ago by Mark S.
-
AuthorPosts
-
-
03/09/2023 at 7:58 am #99531
I heard their pitch on this weeks eBay Podcast (side note its a good podcast but it’s substitute Scavenger Life).
Does anyone use the service? What are your thoughts?
-
03/09/2023 at 10:57 am #99532
Debutendcredits,
Yes, I use List Perfectly and it does work. However, everything is manual which is not very efficient. It doesn’t automatically end listings on all platforms when an item sells – that is a big deal – real time waster. That is why I am working on my own automatic version because I am trying to cross-list 5,000 items that will become 20,000+ listings across many marketplace platforms. Below is what I posted to Jay on Christmas Day 2022:
“List Perfectly does get the job done. The issue is that it is not done in the most efficient way for me. Everything is done manually. You can select multiple items to cross-list, but then you have to look at each and every listing and fill in fields that were not done automatically for you. Not much to do in Etsy, it is like 6 fields using the Pro version. But, if I want to do this for 17,000 listings or so, this is not very practical.
Also, there are things that you have to manually enter. Like cogs. You have to enter them 1 listing at a time. Not practical for nearly 5,000 listings that I have. I have my cogs in a database table and can get them into a spreadsheet, but there is no import option available.
Let me do an analogy. Can you get around in a horse and buggy? Yes, you can and it does work. If you just travel short distances, it works fine. But say you have to drive to Florida from Michigan, how will that work? Not very well. That is where I am at.
Remember when you copied your ebay items over to Bonanza? It was quick and easy, maybe several hours. That is because they were using the api (application program interface). Everything is done behind the scenes. That is what I want to do here. Copy all my data from ebay and then copy over to the other platforms that I want. It will take some coding time, but will probably be around 50 hours or so. If I had to do this manually, it would probably take 500 hours.
Then, the big thing for me is that if something is not working or not efficient, I can change it to work. But, when you use a 3rd party tool, you have to wait for them to take action – that can sometimes take years or maybe never get done. It just seems like pieces of data that you need are always missing.”
Mark
-
03/10/2023 at 10:15 am #99533
I didn’t even think about automatically ending sales when they sell on other platforms. I have been spoiled by Bonanza.
My biggest issue with all of these cross listing sites is I want eBay to be the main platform I list on. Inkfrog (which I use to back up my photos) is designed to be the central hub where listings are created.
List Perfect is still appealing to me because I would like to curate specific segments of my eBay store. For instance, I’d like an easy way for all of my Clown figurines to be posted in one store on Etsy.
The Bonanza cross is listing is so easy it’s a no brainer. I just signed up for a 30 day trail which supposedly will increase traffic. If I see a $40.00 boost in sales this month (the cost of monthly membership) I will keep it.
-
03/10/2023 at 12:30 pm #99534
Debitendcredits,
List Perfectly can do what you are saying. An issue I have with List Perfectly is that I don’t see a way to categorize your items. For example, I put all the items I wanted to go to Etsy in the ebay store category “Vintage”. Then I copied all the ebay category of vintage over to List Perfectly. Now, I am copying those 1800 records slowly into Etsy 5 a day. The problem I see is now if I also wanted to copy modern clothes to say Poshmark at the same time, these items would get mixed in with the Vintage items in List Perfectly. How do I keep them separate? If you do them all at once, no problem. But if you are doing them over time, there is the issue.
Yes, Bonanza is good at the importing and delisting. That is how my software will work. However, that doesn’t really help me because I have almost 5,000 items and I only sell less than 10 items per year on Bonanza, go figure. Their traffic must be very low. J&R say the same thing.
Mark
-
-
03/11/2023 at 9:26 am #99537
Yeah Bonanza is a mystery. I was selling a few items a month last year, and this year I only sold one. As you mentioned the work you put into it is minimal so, it’s not a big deal.
I’ll let everyone know if I see an boost in sales during my free 30 day trial at the $40.00 per month subscription level. 1 day in and I am not terrible impressed.
-
03/11/2023 at 4:30 pm #99539
Just for clarification on ending items across the platforms. When a vintage item sells on any platform, you go into List Perfectly and tell it that the items sold. Then, if you have listed the item from List Perfectly, it will end that item on all the platforms where it is listed.
I only have ebay and etsy right now. I always remember to end it if an item sells on etsy, but I seem to forget when a vintage item sells on ebay. I can’t imagine having items on 8-10 platforms and then you have to end the item each time an item sells on any of those platforms.
The key in List Perfectly is that you import the items into List Perfectly from your main platform. It records the item number. Then you cross list to all the platforms you want from List Perfectly. Then, it records the item number for each platform. If you do it this way, what I said above will work. But it you cross list an item directly, say from ebay to etsy, the ending of listings will not work in List Perfectly because it didn’t record the item number.
-
-
AuthorPosts
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.