Old “Sell Your Item” form retires in May

The Sell Your Item form which many eBayers have grown to love over the years is to be discontinued in May this year. It’s replacement the New Sell Your Item form is already used for over 60% of new listings on the site. eBay say listings created with the new form are completed 20% faster than with the old. The downside is that it holds more information on one page, and so people with slow bandwidth connections can struggle, although it should still be quicker to work with.

Personally I’d recommend anyone listing in quantity to use TurboLister or similar bulk listing tools like Spoonfeeder. Although they have occasional problems in the main listing is quicker, repeat listing from saved templates takes a couple of seconds, and with back ups you can keep copies of old listings forever!

2 Responses on "Old “Sell Your Item” form retires in May"

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   TameBay : How to sell my first item… says:

   April 30, 2007 at 11:08 pm

   [...] Listing the car (a Peugeot 205) was a snip – it’s a long time since I’ve used the SYI (Sell Your Item) form instead of TurboLister. It’s so much easier than when I listed my first item on eBay with the old SYI layout. The part of the listing that took longest was taking the photos, followed by composing the description, clicking the boxes for item specifics, price, payment and postal options (It’s a car…. payment on collection only!) was the work of seconds. [...]
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   Easy peasy eBay selling : TameBay says:

   May 15, 2007 at 5:25 pm

   [...] The simplicity of the form won’t suit all sellers – for example, pictures have to be eBay-hosted ones, and the only upgrade available is Gallery (which, rather naughtily, is preselected), but those using self-hosted pictures and bigger listing upgrades are likely to be outside the target market for this new feature. Listing types are restricted to auction only, or auction with BIN – again, something that more experienced sellers won’t like. But for the new and/or occasional sellers at whom this is aimed, it’s a massive improvement on the current SYI form. [...]