How to ... Use Auction Expeditor

In the Site Manager, enter the Product List

Once in the Product List, use the or links to the right of the product (under the delete button).  (For purposes of this example, we use .)

[Click to show/hide the location of the link on the Product List screen]

Clicking the link opens a new window, the .

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On the first row of fields, select the Auction Site (probably US), Currency (probably US$), and Duration of the auction (1, 3, 5, 7, or 10 days) in the appropriate box.

On the second row of fields, select Starting Price, Reserve Price, Buy-It-Now Price, and Shipping Cost.

Each price and cost is figured by multiplying the base price by the % box associated with that field.  For example, in Starting Price, if we want to charge 65% of the Retail price, we will select Retail in the Starting Price selection box, then enter a value of 65 in the % box.

On the third row of fields, select Title (the title of the product), Category ID (which category or department the product belongs in), Description (html description of the product, including an image of the product - this can be changed by altering the text in the Description text box), and verify Starting Price, Reserve Price, BIN (Buy It Now) Price, and Shipping.  (Prices on this row will change by altering rows 1 and 2, then clicking the calc-all or re-calc.)

On the right are del-all (clicking the del-all link will delete all of the items that have been added to the export wizard), delete (clicking the delete link will delete the product on that row), calc-all (clicking the calc-all link will re-calculate all of the items in the export wizard with the information changed in rows 1 and 2), and re-calc (clicking the re-calc link will re-calculate the items on the same row with the information changed in rows 1 and 2).

(Click on the green text above to learn more.)

Clicking the preview link for Description will show how the auction will appear on eBay.

[Click to show/hide example of preview]

The template used to design the auction template can be changed by clicking the link:

which will show the Auction Description Template screen.

[Click to show/hide the Auction Description Template screen]

The following codes work to present dynamic text for the auction.  (Click to learn more)

#TITLE# (will be replaced by product title), #DESC#, (will be replaced by production description)#START_PRC#, (will be replaced by product initial start price)#RESERVE_PRC#, (will be replaced by product reserve price)#BIN_PRC#, (will be replaced by Buy-it-now price)#SHIPPING# (will be replaced by product shipping cost), #IMG_URL# (will be replaced by product image)

To add additional product, click on one of the links above or below the item listing.  Then click the link on another item to send that item to the export wizard.

[Click to show/hide example of multiple items in wizard]

When everything is set satisfactorily, the next step is to export the items to a file.  Click the link.

This begins the File Download, which displays a box.  Click the button.

After clicking the button, the dialog box appears.

Save the file in a place that can be easily found in the future, such as to the Desktop or another easy-to-find location.

The default filename is eBayItems.csv, but any filename that ends with .csv should work.  Using the date works well.

The Save as type should be Microsoft Office Excel Comma Separated Value (CSV).

One all of the options have been set properly, click on the button.

If the filename selected already exists, a new dialog box appears to ask whether or not you wish to overwrite the existing file.  Choose to overwrite the existing file, and choose to go back and change the filename.

Once the download has finished, the box appears.  Click the button.

Congratulations, the auction information has now been exported to a file on the hard drive.

To see a video tutorial on this topic, including instructions to upload using Turbo Lister, see the Auction Expeditor tutorial.