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Professional looking ebay listings - software?

MissShal
MissShal Posts: 149 Forumite
Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
in Ebay, auctions, car boot sales, post & parcels
I work for a company selling their stock on ebay, I'd really like to get the listings looking a little bit more professional. The plan is to create a website which forwards customers onto our ebay shop to purchase items (for the time being at least) and I'd like to follow the theme of the website through to the listings if possible. I'd also like to create some kind of company logo. Could anyone recommend some software?

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  • cyberbob
    cyberbob Posts: 9,480 Forumite
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    MissShal wrote: »
    The plan is to create a website which forwards customers onto our ebay shop to purchase items

    Why not just sell on your website and avoid the ebay fees. If your setting up a website anyway putting sales and processes on your website isn't any more complicated. If your paying someone to do the website anyway you might as well get them to do that as well.

    It's not really logical to send them elsewhere where you will get less profit and make less money.
  • MissShal
    MissShal Posts: 149 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Eventually that is what we'll be doing, but we don't have consistent stock levels, and we've just about managed to get the ebay account right. It would all get a bit complicated having ebay, the website and the walk-in premises selling the same things if that makes sense?

    Boss loves ebay, so no chance he'll just do the website on its own. I wish he would, as we wouldn't have the worries of negative feedback and seller ratings then!

    I'm going to sort the website our for him so he won't have the worry of paying someone else.
  • George666
    George666 Posts: 527 Forumite
    Why not just forward the whole website straight to your ebay shop.
    On your websites index.html page just use this HTML code below:
    <html>
    <head>
    <title></title>
    <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=Insert your ebay shop URL here"></HEAD>
    <BODY>
    </BODY>
    </HTML>
    Copy and paste your ebay shop URL where directed and your website visitors are auto redirected to your ebay shop.
  • theonlywayisup
    theonlywayisup Posts: 16,032 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    I use sellersourcebook. They have loads of templates for listings and it can be uploaded direct to Ebay or your website to keep listings looking uniformed and professional. It costs about £14 a quarter, hosts all your photos too.
  • martindow
    martindow Posts: 10,628 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    It takes time and work for web sites to get listed well and selling on Ebay in the meantime is a good idea. George's forwarding would send potential customers to Ebay but is going to stop your site getting established.

    Flashy Ebay listings are as likely to put people off as attract them. Peope often post Ebay listings on here so we can admire the dazzling colours, SECTIONS IN CAPITALS and a multitude of fonts and text sizes.

    I would not worry about listings being rather plain but concentrate on full descriptions, good titles and all of the other things that give confidence. With all sales send them with leaflets and invoices clearly pointing them towards your web site. Over time your business can move away from Ebay towards your site.
  • MissShal
    MissShal Posts: 149 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Thanks for all of the advice, the trial website I made had all of the usual pages (about us, where we are, delivery info, contact us) but with another page forwarding customers to the ebay shop. One thing I thought we could do was advertise a XX% off code on the sites homepage for customers to quote on the ebay sales, so we could see how many people were actually finding us that way.

    I don't want it to look too flashy, as I know when I buy things myself that if there's too much going on at once it puts me off. A decent layout would be good - logo, address etc at the top, a menu/some links down one side and what not. I promise it won't involve any of the capital letters/bizarre font combinations :eek:

    I made the trial site using Moonfruit. Had it looking great, tried to copy the theme across then realised it was all in flash so I don't think it's possible, is it?
  • martindow
    martindow Posts: 10,628 Forumite
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    MissShal wrote: »
    I made the trial site using Moonfruit. Had it looking great, tried to copy the theme across then realised it was all in flash so I don't think it's possible, is it?

    No I don't think so - just html.
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