New Store..Images imported from eBay display wrong..

[CarolinaClothingCo]

Hi,

When I imported my items from eBay to my new store here, some promo images from my template displayed as the main photo for many of my items.
Can I fix this easily?

[SammysSupplies]

All listing will need to be looked at when importing them. Have you look at any yet? Many words are run together, at eCrater the listing should ONLY be about the item itself. All mention of mailing or returns should be elsewhere FAQ's or terms. I know it can seem like a lot of work but those are rules here.

I hope you have many sales!!!!!!!

[cosmicray]

@CarolinaClothingCo

You need to review each listing that was imported, and adjust images and text as needed.

eCrater does things differently than eBay. Here the listing description should only describe the item. Any boilerplate text should be removed, and shifted to the Terms page.

Picking one of your listings at random ...
http://carolinaclothingco.ecrater.com/p/23775364/womens-distressed-wallflower-vintage-jeans

The image is fine, but the description needs clean-up.

[MoonwishesStore]

[CarolinaClothingCo]

It's my first day here. So, I have no idea how to work things yet and thanks to all those who pointed out things that needed to be fixed, and I am not being sarcastic. I will have to play around with this site and figure out how to correct that mess and what's what for policy.

[tigercreekgifts]

And sometimes ecrater picks the wrong categories for those items so you have to make sure the global category the items are in is correct. Also in your store, your imports get placed in a central 'my ebay' category and you have to create your own categories in your store and manually move every product to the correct one. Also, remove any text about auctions and bidding and payment time limits. All items are buy it now on ecrater and require immediate payment, so having any ebay terms in your listings confuses some people and makes them wonder if they are actually buying it now, or placing a bid.

Ebay bulk upload is worthless, you have to basically edit everything manually anyway so you still up doing the work manually and actually, it takes longer to correct the mess left behind from ebay imports than it does to manually copy/paste each ebay listing one by one, even if you have thousands of products. That tool is supposed to help save time, but it never has worked right and no one will fix it. Most people end up deleting their my ebay category when they see the mess, and uploading products manually anyway.

[CarolinaClothingCo]

Thank you Tigercreek. That is really good info to know!

So, I am guessing other sellers that have their items listed correctly see sales on here with maintained listings.

[tigercreekgifts]

Yes, sellers with maintained listings do see sales here. Many times we get sellers that never correct their ebay imports, or only write a 2 word description and have blurry dark photos and when someone tries to help they get offended and end up wondering why they have no sales in just a few weeks.

There are many successful sellers on ecrater despite what you may have heard elsewhere and our products are shown in google shopping and organic search but you just have to do little a extra work here than you do at ebay. However, best thing about ecrater is once an item is listed it stays listed. So no need to relist every 3 to 30 days.

You only have 57 products so far. Once you get used to using ecrater it becomes quick and easy, so honestly 57 products won't take that long to correct. If you can devote a couple hours a day to fixing them, your listings should all be fixed in 3 days or less.

[SheilaDeesPostcards]

@CarolinaClothingCo, Welcome to the eCRATER community. I'm sorry you had a bad experience with the bulk uploader. It works well for sellers who don't use any html in their descriptions since eCRATER is straight text. The sellers who use nice templates on eBay seem to have the most problem.

[MoonwishesStore]