Listing tools automate the process of adding listings to eBay, to stop you having to go through the Sell Your Item process every measure . There is a surprising amount of choice out there when it comes to eBay listing tools, to the point where you might not know what to choose. Heres an overview of whats useful and whats not.

Turbo Lister.

Turbo Lister is a costless download from eBay, and allows you to sell on eBay without ever having to actually visit the site. You can write descriptions, save them and list them over and over again if you want to, you might even do most of your eBay work offline, and just go online for a few seconds to upload it.

You can list in bulk and schedule your listings to start any measure . Since this is eBays officially supported script, youre guaranteed that upgrades to eBays page will never break it and leave you out in the cold. Personally, though, I find the develope quite bad its not really that much easier than just going through eBay directly.

Blackthorne.

Also from eBay, this is what used to be called the Sellers Assistant. Its a downloadable script, but its more powerful than Turbo Lister is. It lets you do everything in bulk: listing, re-listing, and even feedback. You might export your sales data to an accounting program, and track your auctions while theyre still going on. You only have to enter things like payment choices and shipping details once, and theyre saved forever.

So wheres the disadvantage? It costs $9.99 per month, or $24.99 for the pro version, which also lets you print shipping labels in bulk and manage an inventory.

Andale Lister.

If you want to try something thats not been made by eBay, Andales lister is still web-based, but aims to streamline the process.

You can create profiles with different selections for your auctions. For example, you could create a Normal profile that doesnt include any of the listing upgrades, a Promote profile that includes Bold and Highlight, and a Super Promote profile that buys Bold, Highlight and Featured Plus. This makes it easier to choose the set of options you want for each product.

Its all about saving things youve done. Each measure you upload a picture, it gets added to a Picture Library for you to make use of again, and you might store an inventory and choose from it to create a listing. You also get nicer-looking templates than eBay provide.

Of course, if eBay had their act together then this is what their own process would be like but theyre happy for third-parties to generate some cash doing the work instead of upgrading their own page . Andale Lister may cost anywhere between 20c and 4c per listing, as you get discounts for volume.

Now that youre listing in bulk, you may spend more measure trying to attract all the people to come and bid on your auctions. But how should you be doing your advertising? In the next email, well go through some of the options available to you.