I avoid using
ebay pages except to watch the progress of auctions in My
ebay and to fix consistently wrong shipping amounts calculated by
ebay for multi-item international orders. For me, it is much faster to build out listings in the SixBit ecommerce Solution. I can import listings and images into SixBit. I use it to schedule submitting listings to
ebay (or bidStart), manage or revise running listings and to manage post-sales activities. I use SixBit to avoid the overly bureaucratic and unreliable
ebay sell or revise item pages. Because SixBit is a desktop application using Microsoft SQL Server as the database engine, I am able to list fixed price items for 30 days to maintain a high ranking in search. If I pull a listing off of
ebay for a few months, I can list it again from SixBit. Unlike
ebay where everything disappears after a month or so, I have access to about ten years of listings and sales.
I just found a stamp the other day that I had lost track of about a year ago. It was easy to list it again from SixBit. If I had to rely on
ebay, all of the information would have had to be entered again from scratch.
Without an external application like SixBit, I don't see the
ebay platform as viable for more than about ten listings a week. It simply doesn't scale and the loading of
ebay pages is very slow, primarily because of ads.
Clark