I have given this subject much thought over the wine and christmas turkey.  In my opinion GTC is a way of eBay making more money. 

Well consider this before you shake your head! I understand the principle; I use eBay, but if you have over 100 listings and you are too busy to manage the load eBay will relist your items for you in 30 days (thank you eBay that is kind) but then they charge you for this service. Doesn't this reak of being a stealth tax? You might as well open up your front door and throw out 40p each month unless you are keeping an eye on your products and they are selling each time.  OK so it keeps the sold history see example but surely good feedback and polished images will mean you will get success if not more?  Positioning in search results again I haven't seen any evidence to prove this I suggest always doing 30 days as that gives a prompt to you to review why they're not selling.  Perhaps in ad-lister we can build some logic to say only if it sells then automatically re-list?

That brings me nicely along to the profit and loss utility due out in January 2012.  Version 1.0 is due out at the end of this week.  You can update your cost price and cost postage price via a spreadsheet and update all your inventory. The tool will then from that day forward retain all the fees incurred and identify the profit and loss.  So it would be good for you to implement this from February 1st.

On future releases we want to create some rules so that if people are using GTC we can advise them that if an item does not sell that in x days you will incur another 40p charge.

Remember the early bird fee is just £199+VAT a year this will allow you to assist us with any improvements to help you get more from this tool.  Ad-Lister will be focussed on saving you money as well as making you more money.

Sleep well

Signing off

Sean Sale (00:54am)

We would welcome all existing Ad-Lister customers to view the new video available on YouTube showing off the improved variation utility in the pre-release version of Ad-Lister. 

We have been busy over the Christmas period understanding the issues and frustrations
with the current tool reading all email comments. 

Please let us know your thoughts and we can give you a login for the pre-release account which will work on your live data to allow you to test.  

Previously Ad-Lister would log out after 15 minutes. 

This has now been removed after many of you including 'me' got very frustrated with this.  Rest assured the current version will keep you logged in.

A step by step guide on how to link your products with eBay's catalogue using the ad-lister listing tool.

In Settings > Common you can specify if you prefer to search using 'exact match' instead of 'like searching'.  Useful if you wish to search on exact SKU numbers.

To add additional payment information automatically to your listings please find the 'PaymentInstructions' box in Listing Template > Manage existing in ad-lister.

On listing the item onto eBay this additional information is available on the postage tab see below.

It's that time of year when we all need to take a break to recharge those batteries and some of us sadly don't have the manpower to keep the eBay business going when we do so! 

So rather than receive negative feedback do remember to turn on the eBay holiday mode.

Select Manage My Shop Related Links bottom left hand corner Choose Shop Holiday Settings Select the options that suit your business.

Many customers who have out grown the Auctiva scrolling gallery ask how it can be removed from the listing?

Auctiva make this very difficult to find as I am sure you will understand as it's a rather good marketing tool advertising their company.

So to prevent the Auctiva Scrolling Gallery from annoyingly appending itself to all your new listings, you will need to login into your Auctiva Account Settings and disable the option(s).  As you may wish to turn off the sellaton counter too.

So please follow the following instructions:

1) Login into auctiva.com
2) Click the My Account tab in the top menu
3) On the left hand side Click Preferences
4) Click Account Settings
5) Under the "Listing Enhancements" section, find the option that says
       "Append Auctiva Scrolling Gallery to my listings".
6) In the drop-down menu, select NO.
7) Click the Update Account Preferences button



Remember, disabling the Auctiva Scrolling Gallery in your Account Settings only prevents the gallery from being appended to future listings.

To remove the gallery in active listings, you're going to have to remove the HTML from each and every listing, one by one.

To do this look in the HTML for the ASW tags and remove anything between the starting tag <ASW> and the end tag </ASW>

If you are using Ad-Lister simply revise your listings as the application does it for you.

The Category control displays other items in your eBay store on each listing and links directly to these items to help increase awareness of other products to the visitor.

This control helps busy sellers find other items quickly and allows them to purchase in one single click.

With the new 'Add to basket' feature coming soon from eBay this control will help increase multiple purchases for Ad-Lister customers and revenue.

Once the control has been purchased it can be automatically added to all listings.

For a one off payment of £150+VAT this can be added to a new listing template in Ad-Lister.

Please contact us today for more information or watch a video of it in use.

Amazon have rolled out there own branded ecommerce solution.
 
The Amazon Webstore offers the seller full control to build and manage all aspects of the design and creation.  

The webstore can allow the interaction with mobile commerce as well as the website and of course Amazon itself.

We are currently developing two designs for both a car company and a party store. Please keep an update on this news thread for more details of there release.



For more information on this product please contact us at 0121 285 1047 or email us.

Have you ever wanted to group your top selling products into a 'Hot List'? in Ad-lister you can create tags. You will find this new feature under the inventory menu. Once created simply navigate to inventory > all items and tick away your favourite products and simply assign tag 'Hot List'



In Item Listings > All Listings simply drop down the 'Hot List' and post to eBay.

NEW Sales features available

The sales tool in ad-lister has been purposely built to help you sell more and understand what your competitors are doing!

Yes we now have the tools to help you see what others are doing!  How often have you found out later that you have been selling your items in the wrong category? Or that your titles could have been better written in a searchable way?

Many listings fail because of not researching the best price, or understanding the current value for an item.  Even not selling at the right time!

The sales features help you to sell more on eBay. Become top!



Be more competitive

Use the price recommendations feature to find the top sellers for a particular item.  Understand how they construct their titles, how they are being listed - for example Auction or BIN. Become No.1 yourself.

Sales Data

Each listing has its own sell-through rate enabling you to ascertain if
the product is selling as you expect.



There are currently two reports Total sales and Quantity Sold.



Price

The early bird price for this tool is £150+VAT per year. We will of course be adding more data throughout the year at no extra cost. Please contact us for more details.

One Stop Pet Store has gone live with our facebook integration and has already got familar with the advantages of posting those products that customers with pets would want.

Facebook opens up other channels of customers who may not know your eBay or online website.

The products that are listed on eBay can now be posted onto facebook via Ad-Lister with a simple redirect.

See a live example click here

We have now published our Facebook integration into ad-lister.  If you are interested in maximising sales contact us today. 

Tell the world about your eBay store or website products.  Once clicked it can send them
to purchase the item from eBay or Web.



On clicking each facebook link it will take you directly to facebook

Posting your products on your twitter account not only advertises those products to the world.  But helps with online marketing and keeping those social network sites uptodate.  Ad-Lister  allows you to both select those items you want to tweet about.  You can remove them at any time from the application.

eBay with Twitter

JustShipIT is proud to announce the release of its Amazon download.  So no more clicking on each invoice in Amazon and printing seperately.  Do it all in one go and SAVE TIME!

Download it today

I have attached a link to an article from a good friend of ours Fran (PayPal) it discusses tips for increasing sales during this Christmas period - most of them you will be aware of I'm sure!

You may find it useful.

Click here
 

Kind regards

Sean

Sean Sale
Director of Just Applications Ltd

I have already bought my first Christmas present the vintage Millenium Falcon.  I only wish I kept mine now! My son Freddie is into Star Wars which I am totally glad about as we can stay in all over Christmas watching the movies.

Some things I noticed whilst I was buying on eBay

I wasn't interested in auctions.  Well it's for Christmas so Kelly and I were both on our laptops (sad I know) and hunted across eBay for the best items we could find.  We decided auctions would have been ok in September but now in November it was BIN 7 days or 14 days maximum.

We needed it now and in any case these vintage pieces often get snapped up quickly and come with bits missing, so I would have time to purchase the extras later.

So perhaps change any listings you have from GTC and 30 days to 7 or 14 days to see if this makes a difference to your sales!

I would have liked to have seen a Best Offer or two on a listing in this category remember this doesn't cost any extra!

My Shipper I believe charged well over the odds for postage £12 if I recall.  So my feedback will be poor on postage. Well he could have used my parcel business and he could have saved me £4.  Sorry but offer good postage.

It would also have been good with such a vintage product to see a video as the item was slightly discoloured. 



That said Freddie probably won't notice but this could have helped me choose between other offers.

But think about offering your postage for free.  Or encourage your buyers to purchase multiple items with discounted postage. I would have been happy to have bought more from this seller if he sold some star wars figures. 

What I wasn't too happy about was the millenium falcon arrived without the cockpit windscreen or ships radar.  Don't get me wrong he pointed this out correctly in his description
but continued to sell these as seperate auction items which I thought was slightly naughty with a £1.99 postage fee come on this wouldn't cost any more than second class stamp!

Anyway enough moaning from me.  Don't forget as the weeks go by and we get closer to the final week; be sure to set your expected delivery dates.

i.e. pay by 19th December and receive by 22nd December this will help the buyer make that important choice. 

May I wish you all a good Christmas selling!

Best Regards,

Sean