About Jumble Saler fields
These are place holders that can be used in your eBay auction
descriptions and
eBay auction templates.
For example, when you got to eBay and create a description you will probably
describe the item you are selling but also add general information about how
you do business. This general information could include information on
when you post items or despatch time, your returns policy, how you give
feedback, combining postage, etc. So,Appr you could have an auction like:
| Title |
A collection of British comics |
| Description |
Item description
Approximately 250 comics. Most are in very nice condition, with
only a handful of poor ones.
Despatch
I go to the Post Office on Monday's, Wednesday's and Fridays.
Returns
Happy to accept returns, but buyer pays return postage.
|
You may put the despatch and returns stuff on all your listings and might
have dozens. However, the problem comes when you then want to change
this. For example, you might change your despatch days to:
I go to the Post Office on Monday's, Wednesday's and Saturday mornings.
If you try this online with eBay, then you can't do a batch update of all
your listings, so you would be stuck changing each one manaully. This
is where templates and fields come in. So what you do is to
create or use an existing template for the descriptions like:
| Description |
Item description
<DESCRIPTION>
Despatch
<SHIPPING_INFO>
Returns
<RETURNS_INFO>
|
and then select this on your eBay listings. What Jumble Saler
then does is to "mail merge" your item and eBay account default settings.
The <DESCRIPTION> will be the description on the individual item which should
just be able the item and nothing to do with shipping, returns, etc.
The <SHIPPING_INFO> and <RETURNS_INFO> are taken from your eBay account
settings, which can be changed by on the main menu, going to 'eBay accounts'
then 'eBay account maintenance' and editing your information on the
'Template fields' tab. You can also set a default template here for
your eBay listings on this eBay account.
eBay account level fields
<GENERAL_INFO>
<HOLIDAY_INFO>
<PAYMENT_INFO>
<SHIPPING_INFO>
<RETURNS_INFO>
<YOUR_WEBSITE>
<YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER>
In most cases you can just put all the general stuff in <GENERAL_INFO> and
leave it at that and put a <GENERAL_INFO> field in your templates.
<TITLE>
<DESCRIPTION>
<CONDITION>
<CONDITION_DESCRIPTION>
<LOT_NUMBER
<ISBN>
<ADDITIONAL_CHECKOUT>
<PACKAGE_TYPE>
<MPN>
<UPC>
<EAN>
If you use
extra boxes for
comics and magazines
<ISSUE_NUMBER_FROM>
<ISSUE_NUMBER_TO>
<VOLUME_NUMBER>
his screen allows you to create a description for your eBay
auction using word processing type text, i.e. you can use bold, underline,
change fonts and made some text bigger or smaller.
eBay allows either plain text or formatted text, which is saved as HTML,
which is the code that is used to build Internet website pages. So
when you save your text, then it is returned to the previous screen as HTML
code and you will see a preview of what it actually looks like.
Preview areas
As you type your description the preview area and HTML code preview
areas automatically update. If you have a slow computer, then turn
this off by un-ticking the 'Update previews automatically when typing
check box.
Inserting fields into your descriptions and templates