@kiralicious wrote:
Thanks everyone! Honestly I'm so behind the times and didn't even realize that it just uploading them from my computer was an option. I try to keep on top of everything....but there are always so many changes .....I miss stuff here and there. I'm going to do some testing today and make some changes (thanks for the input on my listings .....time to get rid of the template etc). It's very much appreciated .
I see when looking at some of your listings that you are using free eBay Turbo Lister. In June 2017, eBay is discontinuing Turbo Lister. Supposedly, the new eBay Seller Hub (on eBay.com only and coming soon to eBay.ca) will have some of the features of Turbo Lister. No real details on this yet. I assume that the 2017 Spring Seller Update will have more details. I suspect that the Seller Hub will not be that great at saving listings for later use.
There have been a couple of discussions on third party replacements for Turbo Lister in the eBay.ca Canada forums. Windows computer based programs like Turbo Lister are SixBit Solutions and Wonder Lister. Both are actively looking for new business from the users of Turbo Lister. Both can import Turbo Lister CSV export files. Wonder Lister has better pricing for a small seller like you. The $5 USD monthly (2 eBay IDs, 1 eBay site, 1000 active listings) and $10 USD monthly (2 eBay IDs, 2 eBay sites, 2500 active listings) plans look attractive. Both tools supposedly work much better than TL regarding performance and reliability
I mention this so that you do not get caught unaware of the TL end date.
Before redoing your listings, you may want to consider evaluating one of the two computer based listing tools I mentioned. There are also online listings tools like Auctiva and inkFrog. Auctiva is the beter of the two in my opinion but costs $14.95 USD a month.
All of these listings tools have the ability to break a listing down into modules (Description, Photos (eBay and description), Payments, Shipping, About Me, Contact US). The description changes with each item but the rest usually stays constant. Using this modular approach, it is easy to make global changes to your listings for Payments and such.
That being said, the modular approach is from a time when eBay did not have a good structure. In the past 5 years, eBay has enhanced the photos, shipping, returns, payments structure. eBay has made the Photos in the description no longer needed since all photos have been free for a few years. eBay also added Business Policies (Payments, Returns, Shipping) to allow easy change of them since they are constant across most listings. (Be careful with eBay Business Policies, when turned on they make a lot of policies that you have to manually reduce to a few. Do not use Business Policies until doing a little more research. Do not get me wrong, Business Policies is a good idea and works well when setup but eBay made a disaster of converting to them and implementing them.)
eBay wants the description to be about the item and very little else. Short and sweet. Sterile look. This is best for the mobile apps eBay is using for tablets and smartphones. On the mobile app, the description is not even shown to the buyer viewing the listing! The buyer has to click on the description link to see it! Supposedly, buyers do look at the description when browsing listings quickly but hopefully they make that final step when getting ready to purchase an item. So do not expect a buyer to read a description today.
As for templates, the listing tools mentioned above all have them. You should not use them in today's eBay. I always enjoyed some of the more colorful ones myself especially if it matched the item being sold. The presentation was very nice sometimes.One of the things templates did was add an organized structure to a listings using the modules I mentioned above. You should have structure in your description using a top down approach with important things first, the items details, then any payment/shipping/returns info. (You should not need to do much of this, maybe mention combined shipping and refund of over payment as you do now). Sell the item first in the first few lines of a listings then clarify any questions on buying the item.
As for links in the listings, I would not have any. There is some confusion as to the direction eBay is going with links in the description. They may be banned completely from what I read in the eBay.com USA forums but this is unlikely. So you should not put in a store link as you currently do. (Off comment, wow, you have 6 or7 store links in your listing description. A short paragraph on the item details and them K-Tel TV infomercial hard sell repetition on visiting your store. LOL. Not trying to be mean with this comment. Please do not take offense.)
eBay came out with a ban coming soon on active content. This was announced in the 2016 Fall Seller Update. From what I see of your listings, you do not have active content. Active content is usual scrolling galleries fro items or photo galleries in the listing. I did not see these and I did test a couple of your listing with an active content listing tool and they passed.
Gotta go now. Hope this helps. Hopefully not too many typos and incomplete thoughts posted above.
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