Ebay's tool "eBay Turbo Lister" is simple and great. You "create item", enter your ship info (cost / areas you will ship to / your location etc.), the amount of days the auction is for, the amount of items, the category or categories you wish to list in, and of course, the "listing enhancements" you wish to dole out for (gallery, border, highlite, etc.) and you copy and paste your Dreamweaver/Frontpage/HTML/XHTML/... page into the description window and add the ebay item photograph.
It's a basic "sell item" procedure that can be saved, editted and uploaded (to Ebay listings) on the fly.
As I list various items, in various configurations (singles, sets, lots of x, bigger lot of x*100), under various varieties (color, size etc.) I have an entire library set up in Turbo Lister. Simple folders are used to create a collapseable tree, a simple solution that's appreciated when you have a library of hundreds or thousands of item types. Full "item templates" can be duplicated and minor attributes changed; for example: for a set of rings I list several times a week, I have one item template for 3 day listings, 5 day listings, 7 day listings. Other than length of auction the item templates, including description et. al are identical. When I go to create an uploadable list of item templates, I just double click all 3 auction templates (all 3 "free" auction lengths) and click upload...
Being as it is an Ebay product it's got the bonus of always being updated, always including new fuctions available in the "sell item" interface on the Ebay sites, always conforming to new category hierarchy...
It's not perfect, but Turbo Lister has made management of my auctions, especially my repeating auctions, MUCH easier...
Ben
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