Get Ready for eBay Fall Seller Release Today

by: ignatz

ASINs?  Surprising that Amazon doesn't have those patented, trademarked, and copyrighted.  Or did ebay make a "great deal" with Amazon to use them, for only 500,000,000 dollars a year?

by: Barbbie

Jet also lets you use ASIN's as well. As far as I am concerned, an ASIN is generally not that accurate and can be changed to an entirely different item at the will of the lister, so a terrible idea to me.
However, it allows those mega sellers who have massive catalogs on Amazon keep them straight in other places with their auto listers, sync and repricers... It will help ebay in the "race to the bottom" as they call it - where the repricer marks all the prices down a penny at a time until the only ones making money are the Chinese.  I will not be using an ASIN unless it is my ASIN only.

by: Vigilant Eye On eBay

After 17+ years, really really glad that I dumped eBay (for both buying and selling purposes) in May.  Retiring Turbo Lister along with Selling Manager and forcing sellers to use another (potentially) troublesome innovation (Seller's Hub) goes right along there with the laundry list of stupid moves that the company has made since Meg Whitman's departure.  Given the constant site issues (for buyers and sellers alike), I wish them the best of luck, because they are really going to need it.

by: Rexford

Ina writes: "eBay risks making its site difficult to differentiate from other sites and taking away what makes eBay unique and quirky."

eBay abandoned what made them successful to become another company with "Great Mall of China" offerings.

Something tells me that they would love to be acquired by Amazon.

by: FREDDY

Seems like ebay is trying harder to fail completely.
Must be some kind of new thinking in the business world.

by: blaumann2

Requiring product identifiers in Toys & Hobbies will be a disaster. Many older toys and toy publications have no identifiers.  

by: mcposty

Horrible idea, pids suck and noone even searches for those numbers and Pids and numbers are difficult for collectables.

How come their site breaking updates never include fixes to search.

by: toolguy

I'm sure ebay will be more then willing to sell it's sellers numbers if needed.

Whatever they want to do, BRING IT ON!

I can change and adapt to anything ebay can think of. . .

by: toolguy

@ mcposty

Why do you think ebay search is broken (today)?

What are you looking for?

I like to play "search ebay" I think I'm pretty good at finding things on my favorite website.

Do you need a 5x rivet gun?

Anyone who needs one shouldn't have a problem finding one on ebay.

Need a Dotco Rivet Shaver?

They're pretty easy to find on ebay.

Now if you're looking to buy a pair of red tennis shoes you might have to wade thru a few listings to find what you want. . .

by: iheartjacksparrow

Ina writes: "eBay is working to take its site out of the 1990s...."

I think there's a lot of people who would love eBay to go back to the eBay of the 1990s, or at least the early 2000s.

by: toolguy

@ iheartjacksparrow

I want to go back to the 70's when life was easy.

Happy Days
Monk & Mindy
& .99 gasoline

by: Rexford

iheartjacksparrow, they seem to run full speed away from what once made them unique, successful and loved.

by: dr shock

Has eBay explained how we're suppose to add product identifiers for vintage toys in the Toy & Hobbies section?
If I'm selling a 1930's tin wind- up there is no UPC or product identifier.
Is eBay going to assign eBay identifiers to the millions of toys made before the 1970's?
Or are they just going to abandon the vintage market?

by: val2525

Gee. All those changes and STILL NO DECENT REPORTS.  I need data I can use, eBay - like decent traffic reports.  The ones you give us now are totally useless.  

by: Scotty

How can you load a product identifier if it does not have one?  Many vintage products do not have this....i.e books, records, magazines, furniture, ceramics, etc and the list goes on.  Are they going to eliminate products without this identifier?  This will kill half the sellers on eBay.  This is a serious question that needs to be answered.

by: aim04744

Sounds like they are abandoning every market, except for what is mass produced in China and has PIN.  

by: Randy

I could care less! I'm going back to work after 12 years of being mostly self employed and plan to only list on Amazon and a few other smaller sites. I may run an auction  (or two) but for now eBay is dead and is just a major waste of time!

by: munson68

Having over 13,000 items in turbo lister inventory I'll be done if they remove it. Might be the nudge I need to move onto something else.  

by: WOODJUNGLE! ON EBAY

It's all pointless if there is no traffic...

by: dans parts

@munson

You might find 3rd party listing services/tools that can import your TurboLister listins.  Would be worth checking out before chucking everything.  (I've got 23,000 listings saved in a 3rd party lister).

I had a problem a few weeks ago with eBay not accepting (through their API from 3rd party) a whole bunch of listings that had run before. Since nothing had changed in those saved listings, I was able to narrow it down to the part number listed as MPN in the listing form.  Seems as if eBay would not accept my 1930's GM part (and original, correct part number for that part), when an aftermarket supplier used the same part number for their 2002-2007 emergency brake cable for a Chrysler.  Guess which one is in eBay's "catalog"?

I do have to say that I think that glitch has been corrected, as I listed those same saved auctions again the other day, and this time there was no problem with the numbers.  Of course, I don't know if my 3rd party used a work-around the API, or if (wonder of wonders), eBay actually fixed a bug!

I can see this problem cropping up in other categories, and would be an incredibly major headache for lots and lots of Sellers.