Anyword On Bulk Updater For ECrater

[universalcomputers]

Has anyone known any plans for a bulk update feature for sellers that need to update their pricing on products? we're getting into the 800 plus products and need a bulk update feature.

The way things are, its good for sellers that only have a few things to sell, but for people who have 100s, this is a real problem, time consumption.

Bulk update is nothing new, its been around for 10+ years. Any sellers write into ECrater wanting this feature?

[MoonwishesStore]

Nope. Never found the need for it. I tweak a number of listings daily and if the price needs adjusted then I will, but I have no reason to constantly be changing prices.

[SammysSupplies]

eCrater is very good about posting new changes. But big changes don't happen often.

[cosmicray]

Constant changing of prices could come back to haunt you. As I discovered, when I updated about 25 listings, with higher prices to reflect the fees being charged with the new sponsored ads. Google Shopping then promptly marked those as not agreeing with what the feed said. The actual damage might have been removed quickly, but the error messages persisted for about a month.

[universalcomputers]

Well cosmic the reason why your items could of been removed, was the fact that Google states, you have 24 hours to submit a new product feed for your items.

We got an answer from Ecrater and asked them point blank. We feel they skirted around the question and brought up the Global Editor. Which was not what we had asked them.

We asked them if they had any plans on any bulk editor function to update individual product prices and shipping rates. The entire email was spelled out to that specific point. The response was, they never bought up any plans of bulk edit function, and just kept on pointing to the global edit. Which does nothing whatsoever.

It actually hurt us, now we have to go into each product and edit the shipment and product rates. ANother problem is that you have to do a each for each product, you cant keep a category open because the second you make an update to one product, the second you hit enter, your bought back to the main title page. Then you have pulldown the category to where you were just editing and then try to find out where you left off.

Another thing we dont like is the fact that your feedback score is being submitted along side your products. That was something that was automatically done with Google Checkout. Dont know it just seems like more and more, that Ecrater isnt something thats going to work out for us.

This platform is for putting up your product and keeping the product price and shipping rates the same. Our stuff has a supply and demand factor price. So its going to be too time cosuming doing what we have to do. With all the "inconviences" its just too time consuming and there's a lot of factors that are to buyer sided. Putting up with stupid buyers that cant read and dont know how to contact sellers if there is a problem. Its not worth the aggrivation with putting up with such stupidity.

Came into the office and found yet another buyer file a dispute claiming defective merchandise 15 minutes after the product arrived. Thing we work with this product on a daily basis and it takes a miminal amount of 1 hour to install, so this buyer is deliberately trying to commit fraud by taking his broken item and trying to exchange it for ours.

[MoonwishesStore]

I think ecrater gave you your answer whether you liked it or not. If they were working on a bulk editor they most likely would have said so, since they didn't and pointed to the global editor, they must consider it sufficient.

In my 7 years of selling here, I've never heard of any other seller feeling the need for this so much. Maybe others just never voiced it, but we all seem to get along without constant price changes. I'm not convinced that people shop by the lowest price anyhow which seems to be your theory. My many sales reflect that since my prices are generally higher than other sellers but I take the time to fill out a description in full so they know what they are getting, unlike some sellers that don't even bother mentioning what size something is!

[universalcomputers]

Like we said time consuming. There's no plans in the future to implement these changes to make things easier for sellers. That means CPC rates will get billed to Ecrater and they will have to eat the cost because sellers cant update their pricing to be more competitive.

Global editor screwed up our shipping rates (yeah it was something we did) but now we have to go into 600 products and check everything. Its just best for us to add products and see what sells the most and just update those. But the current way is something we're not going to spend alot of time on.

[SammysSupplies]

Wow, where do you find the exact time an item was delivered?

[A-Better-Way]

[SammysSupplies]

Ok, good to know. Thanks

[MoonwishesStore]

[A-Better-Way]

I assume people should not expect listings to come out clean while trying to import.

Like "bulk" anything for that matter. A price you pay for trying to not do each listing at a cost for speed, somethings got to break.

[MoonwishesStore]