Bonanzle Blues
My own fault - sometimes I'm good on plan & bad on execution. A month or so ago I uploaded my fixed price inventory from ebay over to Bonanzle when I started a Bonanzle Booth. Unfortunately the template that I use on ebay transferred over a bunch of HTML in the text so all the descriptions needed editing in Bonanzle. Another problem is that only one photo transferred for each item & it was cropped all squirrelly. I went ahead & opened the booth & began the tedious process of editing a little at a time, as well as adding additional pictures so buyers can see all the different angles of my jewelry.
Then yesterday, lo & behold I found a batch edit function & thought....AH HA! I can insert text into all of the listings at once. So real quick I did just that. Disaster. Effectively I just added verbage to the listings instead of changing it, including the ones I had already edited. No way to sort them out, they were all mixed up. And I had 550 listings. Rats rats rats!
After a not so "real quick this time" evaluation, my solution was to delete it all & start over from scratch. The editing had evolved as I was working through the changes before and I didn't actually like the earlier versions anyway. I re-imported, batch edited in the new text at the end of all the listings, and am deleting the unwanted stuff one at a time. Much easier. This time I'm working it all out before I activate the items in my booth.
Learned the hard way once again - story of my life. It's all good though, now I know how it all works & reminded myself not to do the "real quick" solution as it usually backfires. Love this Bonanzle - I have a good feeling about it.
Filed Under: Selling on Ebay & The Charm Cellar
About the Author: Wanda Fitzgerald is a Florida native and an vintage charm collector who loves to share her adventures in an e-commerce jewelry business with anyone who is interested.
Awww..I felt so bad reading your tough times there with the transfers..Bonanzle is so worth the effort. Best to you for many sales…Cindy
Welcome Fitzcharming to the gang at Bonanzle. If you get stuck on anything just hit the forums to ask – you’ll get a ton of folks eager to help you. There is a good feeling to it and it will only get better.
Mary
Hi Fitzcharming, I think you will find the effort was worth it! I too seem to learn most things the hard way! I love Bonanzle and glad you have yourself all settled in now! Wishing you good luck and many sales! Please feel free to come by my booth and chat!
I went through the exact same thing! I finally decided I didn’t have time for the edits, and that keeping track of duplicate listings on each site would be a nightmare, so I’ve scrapped the idea for now. I think I might upload some Bonanazle only listings into my Vintage Goodness shop though…
What I am doing is starting a brand new venture on Bonanzle, selling women’s plus size jeans. I think it will be easy since I am starting from scratch, and the listings won’t be anywhere else. I’m excited for the future of Bonanzle too!
I learned (fortunately for me) from other people’s mistakes.
Batch edit is a wonderful tool and becoming more refined as the programming evolves. I imported my items from eBay as well, before all of the refinements as well, and am still finding some sentences that don’t completely make sense….because of removing references to eBay.
I feel the same vibes as I did when I started selling on eBay 10 years ago. I did well there, until everything went to pot. We will do well here, and with the roots we are growing as a foundation, Bonanzle will be bigger and stronger than the other sites.
Hi Blarney_Stone, I have since removed all my ebay listings and am listing completely different inventory on Bonanzle. I still sell on ebay and am doing well, but I have a good feeling about Bonanzle. So much so that I’ve had my blog developed with Bonanzle sales in mind – note the RSS feed to my store included on one of the pages. This is going to be great fun. I have a million things in my head to write about that relate to jewelry sales and hopefully someone will read them. Thanks for the comment.