Let’s just start working on our first listing by clicking on New > Create New Item. I won’t spend much time covering Turbo Lister’s interface as it’s pretty straightforward and you can find plenty such overview videos on YouTube. The next step is to actually launch Turbo Lister and create our first listing. So ALWAYS use notepad for managing content and copying and pasting it into Turbo Lister.
Never ever use Word, Excel, or any online website for copying content directly into Turbo Lister! It will mess up the HTML code and you will end up with a buggy listing you can’t even edit or format. Remember, that you only want to use NOTEPAD for such tasks. To speed up this process, what I like to do is gather all my listing information beforehand so I have it handy in a notepad file for easy copying and pasting! As you can see, I have:Īll written down and prepared in a notepad file. Once you have downloaded and installed Turbo Lister, we’re ready to create the first listing. From several tests this has proven to create fewer problems later on when using the program.
So for example, if your main platform is .uk, download Turbo Lister from the UK site. While you can add additional eBay sites in Turbo Lister after the install, I recommend you start with the version you’ll be working with most. Please note that there are two versions for the program – the US version which can be downloaded from and the UK version which can be downloaded from .uk If you haven’t done it already, download Turbo Lister from eBay. You can even follow this video and apply everything when creating a listing directly on eBay! Without further delay, let’s get started! First Things First
That doesn’t mean you can’t use any other listing software and apply the same principles though. Ok, so I’m using Turbo Lister in this video. If you know of one, please share it with me in the comments block below this video. Not ideal, I know, but taking into account that it’s FREE and super easy to use, I haven’t found a better alternative yet. Maybe I get a freeze once every few days and an error once every month where I need to re-install it. So when Turbo Lister freezes, don’t do anything! Don’t click all over the place – just wait 5-10 seconds and in most cases the software will then work fine.Īnd don’t worry – it’s not like it freezes constantly, eat least not for me. While updating or re-installing Turbo Lister will fix most errors, with freezing – just waiting works best. From what I have seen, these problems are highly related to what computer/software set-up you have as some people experience a lot of problems while for me, the only problem is occasional screen “freezing”. The only real downside to using Turbo Lister is that it can be buggy at times – it can freeze for no reason or show an error or two. For most people Turbo Lister will work just fine and that’s why I’ll be using it in this video.
Turbo Lister is the official listing tool created by eBay and in my opinion it’s the easiest way to create, manage and list on eBay, unless you use more sophisticated systems like Linnworks. While I won’t go into details on why one is better than the other in this video, just so you know – there’s no one perfect listing tool… each solution has its advantages and disadvantages. Luckily there are automated listing tools available today, such as Auctiva – which is a web based listing service and Turbo Lister – which is a desktop software. If you’re doing more than a few listings a week on eBay, you’ll know how time consuming listing creation, management and scheduling can be, especially if you do it manually and one by one, on eBay directly.
Today I’m going to show you, step by step, how to create and format great looking eBay listings using a pre-made template and Turbo Lister.