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11/08/2023 at 6:54 pm in reply to: Looking for Artist Signature Help from the Scavenging Hive Mind #101577
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Interesting, I had not thought about being forced to update item specifics, ill that really does have an impact. I have decided to end and resist my old stuff in 30 day chunks. Yesterday, I ended and relished everything from April-2019. I also changed everything in that lot to calculated shipping, with best offer. So let’s see what happens.
Can you post a link to Craigs explanation of what he thinks is happening?
@jay I have never given much merit to “the end and relist theory”. But Jay I know you are a data driven fellow. Can you tell me did you have more sales overall, or did old things that are now “new” get sell? More importantly was there a higher percentage of older inventory sold this week than in previous weeks?
After working with ChatGPT for the afternoon on poster listings, I asked to tell me what listing preferences where and it said:
You prefer concise and compact eBay listings without flowery or unnecessary language. You value accuracy in descriptions, especially when it comes to capturing all visible text and details from items. For titles, you adhere to a strict character limit and avoid any dividing punctuation. You prioritize the inclusion of important details like size, date, and notable features in both titles and descriptions.
Then I asked “Could you make a set of guidelines for my employees if I want them to make a listing:”
and it came back with this…amazing:
Of course. Based on your preferences, here are the guidelines for your employees:
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**eBay Listing Guidelines for Employees:**
1. **Conciseness**: Keep descriptions and titles concise and to the point. Avoid using flowery or superfluous language.
2. **No Unnecessary Language**: Avoid expressions like “you can rest assured”, “you will cherish”, and “exquisite”.
3. **Accurate Descriptions**:
– Capture all visible text and details from items.
– Highlight notable features of the item, but without exaggeration.
– Ensure that any signatures, dates, or unique markings are accurately represented.4. **Titles**:
– Adhere to a strict 80-character limit, including spaces.
– Avoid any dividing punctuation.
– Incorporate essential details: size, date, and main features.5. **Size Information**:
– Always mention the size of the item, using the format: Width x Height (e.g., 37×25”).6. **Image Review**:
– Examine any provided images thoroughly to ensure all details are captured in the listing.
– If unsure about a detail, it’s better to ask than to guess.7. **Proofreading**: Before finalizing, review the listing for any spelling or grammatical errors, and ensure all information is accurate and clear.
I use AI as a tool; if you don’t work with it, you get word salad. I don’t like the auto AI feature, but I do use ChatGPT.
Here is a listing I made using that (paid) service:
It pulled all the text from the poster and arranged it nicely. It also generated a brief history of the artist, which I had it condense into a short paragraph. It CONSTANTLY wants to add things like “you will love,” “great for an art collector,” and other such nonsense. I repeatedly tell it to remove the “bullshit” (yes, I actually say that) and stick to facts.
It should be interesting to see what happens. Will the AI tools learn to not tell people a swizzle stick will become a cherished family heirloom, or will the word salad posts become a snake eating its own tail? Will AI look at the listings it has generated and decide that’s what an eBay listing is, then make up more nonsense posts?
@Jay curious if you promote any of your listings, I am finding that my sales do in fact go up when I promote (sadly not the minimum but a substantial percentage). I think the boost comes from having your items show up on other people’s search pages, like you I sell funky unique junk.
As an experiment instead of offering 20%, why not try 15% advertising for a few weeks and see what happens?
10/10/2023 at 12:02 am in reply to: Shipping Policy Question: Ensuring Consistent Combined Shipping Discounts? #101318Are you talking about volume prices across multiple listings? It works great when you are selling multiple items with in one listing, I am talking about category wide combined shipping and discounts.
10/09/2023 at 8:10 am in reply to: Shipping Policy Question: Ensuring Consistent Combined Shipping Discounts? #101307Follow up thought since the goal is to make the first item purchased cover the additional expense of $4.00 in shipping. Is there a Buy One at full price get everything else at 25% off? The only BOGO options I can find specify an exact number of additional items people must add to the cart. I.E. Buy One get 3 at 25% off means the customer MUST ass to items to the cart to get the discount.
Wow. Thanks for all the research. Scavenging is never boring.
Amatino, I am curious does what do you think it means that he wrote Egypt at the end. Is he Egyptian writing in Portuguese, or is he a Brazilian stationed in Egypt.
Curious if your friend had any comments about the signature in English.
09/12/2023 at 12:15 am in reply to: Anyone using new AI tool in app for listing descriptions? #101017You have to rein in ChatGPT to avoid using dumb phrases. I have it set so that it’s not permitted to say “you can rest assured.” I usually instruct it not to make any declarative statements about how the customer will feel.
It works best when you use it for checking grammar and clarity or, as in the example above, when you want to synthesize information from multiple sources.
Lets to it’s own devises, it’s just a bullshit machine.
09/10/2023 at 8:34 am in reply to: Anyone using new AI tool in app for listing descriptions? #101008I agree the automatic Chat GPT tool is worthless (beyond worthless why would eBay even want to Beta test a word-salad generator).
However the Chat GPT website can be a super-powerful tool when it’s used as an assistant.
I posted this conversation I had with Chat GPT in another forum post – but here it is again.
One important reminder:
Chat GPT will make stuff up, so if it is a topic you know nothing about, be sure to double check the facts. You can also just say to Chat GPT “Can you fact check that last statement?”
09/07/2023 at 8:03 am in reply to: Iroquois Doorkeeper Mask Having Trouble Deciphering Handwriting (again) #100987Well your name is Clarity.
09/06/2023 at 3:10 pm in reply to: Iroquois Doorkeeper Mask Having Trouble Deciphering Handwriting (again) #100984Thats what I needed to refine my search! Gana Gweya Ho is the name of the artist it translated to Covered with Down.
Thanks!
Jay
I thought you would appreciate this. This is the power of ChatGPT. This is the conversation chain I had with it, that got me to the description in my listing:
The Chat:
Thank you both. Yet another thing I never would have learned were it not for scavenging.
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