eBay Turbo Lister
eBay offers its own bulk listing software, called eBay Turbo
Lister. To download the Turbo Lister software, go to pages.ebay.com/turbo_lister/. The program is free, and there
are no monthly subscription feeswhich makes it the program of choice for
cost-conscious sellers.
Turbo Lister lets you create your item listings offline, at
your leisure. (It also offers HTML-based templates you can use to spruce up your
item listingsalthough they are pretty much the same templates found in the
Listing Designer section of the Sell Your Item page.) Then, when you're ready,
it uploads all your listings at once, with the click of a button. Creating
multiple auctions couldn't be easier.
Creating a Listing
The Turbo Lister software is quite easy to use. It uses a
series of forms to request information about your listings, as well as a WYSIWYG
editor for creating great-looking listings.
You start out not by creating a listing, but rather by creating
a new inventory item, complete with item listing, as shown in Figure 15.1. Turbo Lister lets you utilize the templates
in eBay's Listing Designerfor a 10-cent fee, of course.
Once you've completed this process, the item is added to your
item inventory. To view the items you've added to your inventory, click the Item
Inventory tab. This screen lists all the items you've created; from here you can
edit, delete, and create duplicate itemsas well as choose which individual
listings you want to upload to the eBay site.
Uploading Your Listings
When you have an item that you want to
list on eBay, select the item on the Item Inventory tab and click the Add to
Upload button. You can see all the items in your upload queue by clicking the
Listings Waiting to Upload tab. As you can see in Figure 15.2, this page shows all items waiting to be
uploaded. While they're waiting, you can calculate listing fees and change the
start time for any specific auction.
Uploading your pending auctions is as easy as clicking the
Upload All to eBay button. Listings set to start immediately do so, and items
with a future start time are sent to eBay's Pending Listings section. These
auctions will go live at the time(s) you previously scheduled.
Note
The Blackthorne Basic and Pro programs used to be called eBay
Seller's Assistant Basic and Pro. Although, before that, they were originally
known as Blackthorne (after the name of the company that created the programs,
which eBay subsequently acquired)so the return to the Blackthorne name is a
familiar one to long-time users.
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