Exporting and importing ads including metadata and images?
Summary: elluweyer asked about an efficient way to transfer the items from an eBay account to a new account belonging to a family member without having to enter each item manually. bixtron suggested using a .csv solution. The original poster found a template via the provided link, into which key details can be entered, but noticed that some data, such as metadata and images, still have to be transferred manually. The discussion focused on highlighting these challenges and asking for further tips.
Hello dear community,
I’d be happy if someone could give me a few tips on the following question.
It’s about the following scenario: an eBay member wants to stop trading (as a private individual) on eBay due to age. A younger family member would like to sell the already advertised items (with their explicit permission) and integrate them into their account. Is there a more efficient way to do this than manually adding each item one by one into the new account (it’s more than a hundred items)? What I have in mind would be something like “export complete list of existing listings including metadata and images” and then import the whole thing into the new account.
I suspect that won’t work. But maybe someone has another idea?
Thanks in advance!
bixtron
·3 weeks agoHello,
should be doable via .csv
https://www.ebay.de/sh/reports/uploads
elluweyer
OP3 weeks agoHello bixtron,
Many thanks for the tip! Through the link you sent, you can download a template into which you can then enter the most important details and then upload it to the new account (especially category, title, price, quantity, condition, and – important – the description). That is already very helpful. But it’s not clear to me how the existing data from the existing offers gets into the template – it seems to me that the information then has to be copied into the template individually after all? And the missing metadata (which depends on the type of item) and the images have to be entered manually for each offer one by one?
Maybe I’ve overlooked something – I’d be grateful for further tips!!
elluweyer
OP3 weeks agoAh! I see, if you choose the template type "Relist unsold offers" , the existing data is partially included in the template, but unfortunately only partially – e.g. without the item description, and without the explicit category-dependent metadata (and the images probably have to be re-uploaded individually in any case).
bixtron
·3 weeks agoI think that's just how it is, unfortunately. On eBay, I don't think there has ever really been a way to fully create and upload listings without the online form.
I should have told you about images; of course they can't be saved in a text file.