What eBay seller tools do you use and what are your biggest pain points with them?

Hey peeps,

Can you help me with a little market research? The subject is eBay seller tools: I'm considering spending a month or so developing some seller tools specifically for the numismatic dealers and collectors out there.

From my experience selling coins on eBay there were many frustrations, such as:
* Scheduled listings are way overpriced
* Image upload on eBay is terrible
* Listing items takes ages & is needlessly repetitive

What are your biggest pain points and do you use any seller tools currently which help to alleviate these? Auctiva, inkFrog, Vedio, crazylister?

What do you think would be the most/least important feature of a seller tool specifically for the numismatic market?

thanks,
Jo

 

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* Scheduled listings are way overpriced
-- That's strictly up to the seller
-- Many sellers use the "until closed" option then forget about the listing so it remains overpriced == Getting rid of the "until closed" option would put the brakes on that and let the sellers consider repricing

* Image upload on eBay is terrible
-- I don't have any problems once I discovered the "drag and drop" capability

* Listing items takes ages & is needlessly repetitive
-- Yep, this is a REAL pain; TurboLister (if it still exists) is one semi-solution
-- But I like to preview my listings before making them official
-- No suggestions about how to fix this problem

 

I assumed that @pureth was talking about the additional listing fee for a scheduled listing, not item pricing...?

 

I like to buy my coins on eBay, and I would especially like to give fellow coin talk members some of my business. I do not, however want to spend a lot of time trying to determine what members here sell actively on eBay; maybe @kanga is, and if the same handle is used at eBay as here, I'll give him a search. I visit other forums that offer their members an opportunity to list links to their seller sites; that might be nice here too. If this already exists, I guess I missed it.

 

Could be, but I went with what the comment most likely appeared to be.

 

That's how I read it

 

Speaking of overpriced listings, I hope this one is magnetic :
1944 lincoln wheat penny rare collectors money United States valuable
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1944-lincoln-wheat-penny-rare-collectors-money-United-States-valuable/233089407966?_trkparms=aid=333200&algo=COMP.MBE&ao=1&asc=56586&meid=cddafea61fd847e092112907c4bf9ae6&pid=100008&rk=3&rkt=12&sd=303077115870&itm=233089407966&_trksid=p2047675.c100008.m2219

 

Must be a REAL nice cent right there.

 

So it sounds like for you the main issue has been the 3rd point - time taken to list items.

I agree the the interface is not too bad on eBay especially with drag and drop - but it could still be improved since thier user interface is far from what modern web technology allows us to do!

Regarding upload the main issues I have are: eBay's image quality & not being able to display your images in the description without using a 3rd party service.

Also, one idea is a feature for batch uploading an entire folder of images for all the items you are selling at once and leaving them to upload. Once uploaded you could fill in the listing detail for all those items quickly with a user interface optimised to reduce repetition and superfluous page loads/transitions.

 

yeah that's right. there is a 10pence/cent (or something like that) fee for schedueling a listing to begin at another time. Say for example, begin at 8pm on a sunday.

 

one feature i had in mind was to generate a sub-domain website, so for example: la-geezer.exampledomain.com and on that site it'd show a complete history of all your sold/active items. essentially like a personal shop but without any of the hassle of setting it up. It'd just be created at the same time as the eBay listings are created.

 

appologies if it wasn't all that clearly articulated!
i've clarified in a post above

 

I was pretty certain you were talking about the extra fee to schedule the listing which makes it pretty inconvenient listings auctions. I'm already paying for the listing and refuse to pay them for on top for that feature.

 

yeah exactly. it is a rip-off. sellers tools like auctiva offer this feature for free, i beleive - so it should be possible with the seller tool i'm planning on building

 

Thanks. My feeble old mind doesn't exactly see how this would work, but I would love to learn.

 

It would function something like this.
Hopefully it makes sense!