Welcome to the Listing Items With the New Sell Your Item (SYI) Form workshop. My name is Mike and I'm part of the team at eBay that works on our listing forms. We have most of the members of the SYI team here today and we will spend the next hour sharing some ideas and answering your questions on creating listings with SYI.

I'll start with a short overview of some of the important features of SYI and then we can spend the remainder of the time answering specific questions that you might have.

From the category selection page you can choose the category, or categories, that you want to list the item in. On this page you can always switch to "Recently Used Categories", "Browse for Categories" or "Search for Categories" if you want to change the method you use to select your category if the recommendations do not suggest a category that you think is appropriate.

If you are trying to use self-hosted picture services and you do not see that option available, you can customize the form and add this to your listing. To customize the form, click on the help question mark on the page to activate help and select hide/show options. Or, at the top of the SYI form click on the "Show/Hide" options link at the top of the page.

Add in your description by using our standard editor or use the HTML tab if you prefer to write your own HTML.

The standard editor offers multiple fonts and colors, formatting options including bold, underline and italicize and other, more advanced, formatting options.

Specifying your shipping options is an important part of your listing. In SYI we give you maximum control to specify different shipping options for domestic and international shipments. For example, you can specify flat rate to domestic buyers and use the international shipping calculator for international shipments.

After clicking "Save and continue" you will get to the review page where you can select the listing upgrades to your listings. If you need to go back to the previous page and make edits to your listing, click on the "edit listing" link and this will take you back.

On this final page in Sell Your Item we show you what listing upgrades you have selected and what you will be charged for your listing. We also offer recommendations to your listing that will increase the likelihood of success of your listing.

Welcome and thanks for joining us today!

We love workshops to be interactive, so please feel free to ask your questions that directly relate to this topic.

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Cheers,

Deirdre
eBay Community Development

I have been having issues with the new SYI form changing my HTML when I use Firefox as a browser for quite some time. Is this something that is going to be addressed before they retire the old SYI form ?
Thanks
Candance

"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive." C. S. Lewis

Hi candances,

Sorry about the HTML trouble you are having. We are aware of the problem, and in the process of addressing it. In the meantime, if you try not to switch between the HTML and Standard tabs in Firefox, then you will have fewer problems.

Thanks,
-Miyuki

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"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive." C. S. Lewis

Hi Mike... Hi Deirdre... Thanks for the workshop. In using SYI3 one of the most powerful features is the Template. Your handouts say that SYI3 is 20% faster... by my own experience I could up that to 50% by creating and using my Templates. Here's my question... When you first click the Sell Button, the templates are not available. Page 1 asks what are you going to sell? (No Templates) Page 2 asks you to select a catagory. Page 3 tells you to sign in to Selling. Page 4 Enter Description. To get to my templates I have to go to the very top of the 4th page where it shows home > sell > describe your item (or similar) I have to go there and click sell, and I am returned to page 1 where my templates now show. Obviously, the Templates won't show until I sign in to Sell. Why have you moved the Sign In to the 3rd Page... wouldn't it be simpler to Sign In on page #1 so all my options (including unfinished descriptions) are available?

Cheers!
Terry
"anyone who steals my identity gets what they deserve!"

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Cheers!
Terry

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