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Starting Listings

Once you are ready to start your listing on eBay, choose the ‘Start Listing’ command from the toolbar or from the ‘Listing’ menu. If you have authorized more than a single eBay account in GarageSale, an additional menu will appear, asking you to select the desired account.

You can select multiple listings and start them simultaneously by holding down the shift key while clicking on additional listings.

Once GarageSale’s Launch Control window has appeared, your listings will be verified using the selected eBay account. If GarageSale or eBay cannot find any errors, the estimated listing fees (as calculated by eBay) will show at the top of the ‘Launch Control’ window.

Click the ‘Start Listings’ button to upload your listings to eBay.

Watch video tutorial #2: Starting multiple listings

Please keep in mind that a listing can be only started once. If you wish to start the same listing several times in rapid succession, please use the “Duplicate Listings after Launch” option from the Launch Control Options.

Launch Control Options

In the Launch Options popover window you can fine-tune how GarageSale handles your listings during the launch and once they have been started:

This window offers several options:

• Duplicate Listings after Launch: If enabled, this feature will create a duplicate listing of the one that you just started, place it right below the original listing and highlight it. This way you can easily start identical listings, without accidentally modifying a listing that has already been started.

• Move Originals to: Here you can tell GarageSale to automatically move your started listings to a specific folder. This can be helpful, if you wish to keep your started listings out of the draft folder.

• Minimum interval between launches: If you launch multiple listings at once you can set an interval between each listing start, e.g. 60 seconds.

• Use multiple connections: If you launch multiple listings at once you can speed up the launch process by using multiple connections. However, by doing this the listing might be processed in random order.

• Validate Listings with Script: When launching listings you can run a custom JavaScript to process the listings. You can create and run scripts from the Show Script Editor Window command in the Windows menu. Learn more in the chapter Custom JavaScript Actions.

If any of these options are enabled, their corresponding status icons will appear highlighted (colored) at the bottom of the Launch Control window.

Dealing with Errors and Warnings

When starting or verifying a listing, errors or warnings may be returned from different sources. Here is how to deal with them:

• GarageSale can recognize many problems instantly without needing to communicate with eBay. You need to fix this problem in order to start your listing.
• Errors can occur when GarageSale tries to upload your listing images to the image server specified in the preferences.
  • If you are uploading your images to eBay’s or iwascoding’s servers, errors most likely indicate a network issue or a temporary issue on the image servers. Please try uploading again after a few minutes. If the errors persist, please check your internet connection and make sure GarageSale isn’t blocked from uploading by a firewall software running on your Mac or your local network.
  • If you receive errors while using your own server, please make sure your configuration parameters are correct. If you are not sure, please contact your server’s admin or ISP’s support.
• You may receive warnings from eBay, carrying a yellow warning sign. Warnings are non-critical and will not prevent your from starting your listing. Nevertheless, they are indicating a potential issue with your listing. Please make sure you understand what the warning is about before continuing to list. You can permanently hide warnings by right clicking them and choosing ‘Ignore future warnings like this’.
• If you are receiving errors from eBay, you will need to fix these errors before you can proceed to list the item.

By right-clicking on an error message you’ll find options to copy the error description, ignore warnings (yellow error sign) and also show the specific listing in GarageSale’s main window. If you list several items at once you might find the two display options helpful: Let’s say you’re trying to start 100 listings at once and there’s only one listing with errors, these options allow you to quickly find the one that has errors.