eBid Ninja Lister & Importing Auctions Help

[gazza]

You can copy a field to all items in the same set. Right click a field in grid view and choose Copy To All

Gazza

[40BelowTradingPost]

Need any help uploading your items with the eBid Ninja Lister? Found a bug with the Ninja Lister? Add your query here.

Don't forget we have some great How To Videos (HTVs) created by our users located in the Help > HTV > Starting Auctions, Selling & eBid Stores section. Many cover the Ninja Lister and show you step by step how everything works. Just hit the Help link at the top of the page .

Downloading

Visit the "My Bulk Upload" section within your "My eBid" area. Here you will see the link to download the application. The app runs on Adobe Air that most people will already have installed on the Mac or PC. If you download the application and it seems your computer doesn't know what to do when you open the .air file then follow the link on the "My Bulk Upload" page to download the Adobe Air software. After Adobe Air is installed then try to open the .air file again.

Ninja Lister Basics

Username & Password
Add your username, password and country when the application runs for the first time. These can be edited in File > Edit Settings at any time. Make sure you enter the correct username, we've had many users emailing us asking us why their items are not uploading and this is because they have misspelled their username. Also add your account type SELLER or SELLER+. SELLER accounts must also choose whether to upgrade any imported auctions to Platinum if a BuyNow price is present, if not the BuyNow price will be used as a starting bid price on a Standard auction if one is not already present.


Auction Sets & Folders
In the left column of the application you will see a folder structure. Within folders you can create auction sets, these are data files to store auctions in. You can create/duplicate/rename them with a right click on your mouse. There are also buttons to create new folders or to create new auction sets.


Creating Auctions within Ninja Lister
Right click the auction set you wish to add the new auction to and choose Create New Auction in this Set. You'll be show the create auction form. Add your auction details to this as you would if creating an auction on the main site. There are two choices for your description editor.

i) PLAIN HTML BOX, use this if you are importing auctions or have HTML code that you do not want tidied up, also if you are using Javascript code.
ii) WYSIWYG editor, this is good for creating descriptions from scratch and if you don't have much experience with HTML.

Click Save to save the auction and click Close to return back to the grid view. There are also Previous and Next buttons to allow you to browse through the current auction set without having to close the create form window.


Importing Auctions into Ninja Lister
eBay auctions must be exported first using eBay's Turbo Lister program. Select the items you wish to export and choose "Export Selected Items" from the File menu. "Active Items" will need to be copied to the "Inventory" section before they can be exported. Choose the "Turbo Lister Format" option when you export. Check here for another thread about this. Once you have the exported file saved to disk simply right click (MAC Ctrl+Click) an auction set in Ninja Lister and choose Import Auctions in this Set and browse your computer to find the exported file. Ninja Lister will then process your file and a progress bar will be shown on the screen. If you file does not import correctly we would appreciate you attaching the file on an email to our support desk (support at ebid dot net). If the data file is very large then it can be zipped before sending.

Amazon items.....
From your Pro Merchant Seller Account page on Amazon, go to "Manage Your Inventory" > "Inventory Reports". Select "Open Listings Report" report type from the pull down menu. Click "Request Report" button. That same page will show the status of your report, and you'll be able to download it from there. The file should be tab delimited format and saved as a .txt file. This will be importable into Ninja Lister.



Auctions can be exported from eBid also and imported into NL. Choose the Export option on the Auctions I'm Running or Auctions I Ran page of My eBid to obtain an importable file.


Uploading Auctions from Ninja Lister to eBid
Select the auctions you wish to upload left clicking (use CTRL + LEFT CLICK to select individual auctions or SHIFT + LEFT CLICK to select a range). Right click the selected auctions (highlighted in blue) and choose Add to Good to Go. These will be added to your GTG bucket which can be viewed by clicking the big purple button on the left. Choose View to see them or Upload Good to Go Auctions to send them to eBid for processing.

Your uploaded auctions are normally processed within 5 minutes of you uploading them. Browse to the My Bulk Upload section of My eBid to view the status of the upload.

great instructions, thank you very much!

[whbonney]

I just started using Ninja Lister and it seems to work fine for me. I just have one question that I haven't seemed to be able to find a "current" answer for. I have 2 stores. I want to add auctions through Ninja Lister to the "second" store. When I try, it seems to go to the first store and not the second. Do I program it somehow to send the listings to the second store?? I saw back in 2010 in this thread that it says that Ninja has a column where u can designate the store by the store code. I haven't found the store codes anywhere. Where or how can I get the store info and direct my imported info from another site throught Ninja into the proper store?? Thanks for the help!!

Along with this, when I look at my auctions, will they ALL show, as in everything from both stores, or can you look at each store individually when viewing your auctions thru the "auctions I am running" link.

[astral276]

I just have one question that I haven't seemed to be able to find a "current" answer for.

Go to My eBid > My eBid Stores. You can find the store ID numbers either...

On the drop-down list:




Or in the Store Summary:



Then see post [http://www.ebid.net/forums/showthrea...=1#post1337208 for how to use.

As for the second part, the title 'Auctions I'm Running' sort of gives the game away. It show you, by default, all the items you have listed that are active. You can restrict the results to a particular store by using the search filter at the top of the page.

[HillsTreasureFinds]

I successfully downloaded Ninja Lister and was able to export with the Good to Go Bucket. I even got an acknowledgement reference with the zipfile #. You said most are processed within 5 minutes. Nothing has shown up in My Bulk Upload area in 3 hours.

So what is one supposed to do when this happens?
In looking through this thread, there appears to be a lot of problems with Ninja Lister. How can it be made better?

[Nutty_Netti]

I haven't had any problems for ages, but yesterday (Sun 23rd), added 10 auctions to Good To Go, went through all the motions, all the boxes came up as they normally do, but nothing has gone onto my bulk uploads or to ebid. There are no error codes, just doesn't want to upload.
Any answers would be appreciated.
Thanks

[Hunters_Moon]

I also had same problem after adding 14 items to Good To Go and which went through normally and no errors. Error message came up "Please try later" which I did several times but still same result. Also partner cannot access our joint Ninja Lister on her computer. Answers would be much appreciated.

[Nutty_Netti]

Still having same problem, auctions are not being uploaded from Ninja Lister, just keep telling me to 'try again later'. No error messages to report. Can we please have some answers on this??? Need to upload new auctions. I have also uploaded the newest version.
Thanks...Netti

[WadenHillTrading]

I am having the same problem today. I upgraded Ninja to 0.99.66 earlier and have produced some new listings. When I try to upload, it goes through the whole process until 'saving a file to the server'; this hangs for a while, then I get the message 'Your auction file was not uploaded. Try again please'.
Any suggestions would be gratefully received!

[WadenHillTrading]

An update; I have found that upload works if I only try to upload 10-15 listings at a time. If I try to upload more than about 20, it fails. So it takes a while to upload a lot of listings, but at least it works. (NB These figures are not scientific!)