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Listings in GarageSale vs Templates and Auctions in older versions

In GarageSale 7 and later, a listing can only be used once to start a listing on eBay. If you wish to start an identical eBay listing, you need to duplicate the listing first.

The reason behind this being that GarageSale no longer creates separate “auction” files that record a listing’s unique itemID, fees and URL. If we were to allow starting listings from the same listing object more than once, the entire listing information would be overwritten when starting a second listing and your reports would be completely off mark.

If you used to start a listing from an auction template in GarageSale 6, and then modified the very same listing to start another listing, you will need to change your workflow. There are at least three solid reasons for this:

• If you spotted a typo or another error in your original listing, you cannot use GarageSale’s revise command to fix it, since you might have already replaced the description to list the second item.
• If you are using GarageSale’s report feature, and you change the title after starting the original listing, the title will no longer match the fees associated with the original listing.
• If you were to start a listing and then replaced the main image of that listing with a different image, this new image would then be displayed in the ‘Orders” section to represent the original listing, rather than the new one.

We understand that some users are used to manually restarting their listings from the same auction template in GarageSale 6, until their item finally sells. For such cases, we added the ‘Duplicate Original Listing’ and ‘Move Original Listing’ options in the ‘Launch Control’ window.

There are several good reasons for transitition from a two-tiered approach (auction templates and auction files) to a single-tier one (listing files):

• It’s no longer possible to start several identical listings because of eBay’s duplicate listings policy. You would would need to create separate, differing listings anyway to work around it.
• We plan to expand GarageSale to other market platforms, where listings remain online indefinitely, or can be paused.
• Some users were confused by having to deal with two separate kinds of records, when they only wanted to list a single item.