ebaymag vs webinterpret

[retrograde_arcade]

I've been using webinterpret for approximately 18 months now to list my items on various international ebay sites.  The service costs me around £110 per month on average and whilst I want to continue to sell internationally and build my business worldwide, I am unsure whether I can continue to justify the cost of using webinterpret to do this. I am considering switching to the ebaymag service but I just wondered if anyone else has done the same and whether they would recommend the switch, or whether sellers ended up going back to webintepret? Any pros and cons would be incredibly helpful.

[ojewellery]

I'm sorry I can't answer your question but I'm interestd in other responses so joining for further discussion.  I didn't get on with WebInterpret and have never got my head around international free listing allocations.

I've just gone back onto eBay mag (signed up but never pursued), resynced my listings, selected one listing and asked it to list to USA, Canada and Australia within the free listing quota.

When I go to eBay Canada and log in.  I can see my shop and all the listings within it but my impressions are zero, so the Canadians obviously can't.  Interestingly it has asked me to manually select a category for each site as it couldn't automatically match the category.

I'm seeing lots of clocks so will report back if listings go live and if/how I'm billed  my one item

[ludlow-trader]

I too use WebInterpret but I find it incredible that ebay don't provide an easy to use free to sellers solution to have all of their listings shown on all of the different sites if they want to

after all each sale benefits ebay so why are sellers having to pay even more in fees to a third party to get this extra exposure?

[ojewellery]

I've just been digging around and found this link:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/sellercentre/global-sales/international-shop-allowances

I currently have a feature store and the equivalent stores on international sites appear to have much higher listing allowances.  I need to reread with fresh eyes in the morning but I'm interpreting that as I can list via eBay mag to have active listings on those sites for free?

I can't quite work out the eBaymag sync, whether if an item sells eBay updates all other site listings or if I need to manually do so.  I also don't know yet what happens when an item is ended on UK, does it then need to be ended internationally on each site.

[ojewellery]

Just sticking this here so I can find it again later:

https://help.ebaymag.com/en/articles/3778469-getting-started-with-ebaymag

[therenewalworkshopltd]

Maybe it's me, but I'm not quite seeing the point of using the likes of Ebaymag, other than the translation side of things?

I don't use either of these packages and have my listings active on other international sites anyway.  So what am I missing here please?

[ojewellery]

I might be overcomplicating things. 

I thought if you list individually, nothing is linked?  If you tick the list to US/Canada box it says it'll charge per listing.  

How do you go about having active international listings?

Don't the tools work to keep the sync does listing direct do that too?

[therenewalworkshopltd]

I literally do nothing at all.

I have a featured shop and it all just happens automatically.

Which is why I just don't understand what the point of this software is at all, other than translation.  

[ojewellery]

So you are listed in UK and your listings can be seen as shipping internationally if people from other geographic areas search for them.

I sell some items internationally this way.  I used to think it was the same but I no longer do.

When I dabbled with actually listing on the international sites, through web interpret, I sold a lot more (not riches more, but enough to justify the effort until webinterpret and I fell out over payments).  

My understanding is listing on the sites means you can promote directly on those sites, build greater visibility and traction.

When I sign into eBay Canada/ Australia/ USA and look at my dash, whilst I can see all my products my visibility of listings is zero.  This changes when you list direct and you can see how your products are doing.

I guess there is a bit of swings and roundabouts as you loose the halo effect on a listing, thats listed in each location, with multiples available when a sale is made.

[therenewalworkshopltd]

If I log onto the .COM site, then all my listings are available there as well.

Ok, so impressions etc are not particularly great, but they are there and I do sell quite a few items internationally.  In fact one just today.

I'm really not that bothered, as I'm only using GSP and not a specific international service.  Which of course makes postage more expensive.  

Just not sure that it's worth the extra money etc.  Though I must admit, I thought that part of the shop is to be able to use Webinterpret for free?  I did try to sign up to it, but their process is so convoluted, I gave up.  And their support was awful.

[ojewellery]

eBaymag is free and I've listed on item to us, ca and aus.  I think I'll make it 25 listings and compare to doing nothing.  It might be a bit of a busy task - I have a nack of finding them (especially when I should be finishing my VAT return and year end accounts like today)

[ludlow-trader]

I wonder if this ebaymag could be used alongside web interpret to test it  , ie have web interpret listing on say the ,com and . .au sites and try ebaymag with a couple of the European sites?
I am keen to migrate away from web interpret altogether if possible as the service costs me a lot each year so if I can get the same sales overseas for no cost it's a no brainer

anyone tried this?

[ojewellery]

I guess you could take a batch sample of say 10% of listings and unlist through webinterpret and relist though eBaymag.  Then you'd see comparative results for your product mix.  It'd also be a smooth phase over between systems if it stacks up.

[ludlow-trader]

you can switch countries off in web interpret so it would be simpler to switch off say .Fr on web interpret and try just France on Ebaymag - I am just wondering if its an either or situation with these programmes wether they could both be running at once?  

[red-line-auto]

I just moved from webinterpret to ebaymag but annoyingly all ebaymag internationalised listings lost their original shipping setup. I use GSP for majority of my items and some I send myself, now all the international delivery become “free”.

Doesn’t ebaymag import shipping profiles? we have to manually set up again at ebaymag; also does ebaymag support GSP please?

[astraveda]

anyone confirm whether i can have different stock levels on each international site using ebaymag?  I will be shipping locally so need to ensure a sell in UK does not impact numbers in the USA.

[eyewear247]

I use Webinterpret and the inventory is sharded between the different eBay sites.

For example if you start off with 5 units, those 5 units will show on each eBay site, if one sells to prevent overselling each site will then be automatically adjusted to 4 units availiable and so on (usually within a few minutes). 

I don't use eBaymag personally but I would guess it works the same way ?

[astraveda]

Hi,

My requirement is complete opposite, hoping to use same account in different ebay site but i want the inventory to be different as all the items will be local to those countries so selling an item in one country should not impact another.

[therenewalworkshopltd]

I have a sneaking suspicion, that the only way you can actually do that, is to have separate accounts.

Though it may be that one of the paid inventory management software packages will be able to do it for you.

Seems daft that you can't though, is it makes sense to have a single account across the various countries.

[ojewellery]

Stock location is at a listing level - I've only used it for domestic sales though.  Stock at office UK and stock at fulfilment solution UK.  

You could use business policies for different geographic areas and limit supply.

I don't think you could sell the same item with different stock locations at the same time on the same account - that would be identified as a duplicate listing.  It'd need a geographic discriminator/ seperate EAN to avoid this.

I'm also not sure about how promotions etc would work, I think if you're thinking about a proper physical presence of stock you'd be better off with multiple accounts.

If you want to keep track of all those accounts, stock and stock locations in one place plenty of multichannel listing software has that functionality.