See Also

  1. Submitting Listings
  2. Managing Picture Uploads While Submitting
  3. Handling Failed Submissions
  4. Submitting Listings to Etsy
  5. Submitting Listings to eBay

Identifying and Preventing Duplicate Listings

Some sites, including eBay, now prohibit duplicate listings.  Getting caught with duplicate listings will cause the user to receive a warning and could affect the user's seller status, therefore, duplicate listings must be prevented.  SixBit can assist users in preventing duplicate listings by not allowing duplicate listings to be submitted.  In the event duplicate listings get through, SixBit can also help you identify them.

 

 

To prevent duplicate listings:

  1. Open the SixBit Options window.       How?How?Click the File Menu button in the upper left corner and then choose SixBit Options in the lower right corner of the popup.

  2. Select the Submitting Listings tab.
  3. To prevent duplicates, choose "Cancel and do not allow duplicate fixed price listings" under the Handle Duplicate Listings header.
  4. Allow the Duplicates or Ask me how to handle each case can be chosen for the user to be  prompted for a response when you attempt to list a duplicate item.

 

To view duplicate listings:

  1. Select the Views tab on the Check Listings mode.

  2. Choose Duplicate Item Running Fixed Price Listings (eBay) to see any items that have more than one listing and could be possible duplicates.  If duplicates are found, select the duplicates and click the Cancel button to end the listings.

  3. Choose Duplicate Title Running Fixed Price Listings (eBay) to see any running fixed price listings that have duplicate titles.  This can help identify listings that were made from different items that are really the same item.   If duplicates are found, select the duplicates and click the Cancel button to end the listings.

  4. Choose Duplicate Title Running Auction Listings (eBay) to see any running auction listings that have duplicate titles.  This can help identify listings that were made from different items that are really the same item.   If duplicates are found, select the duplicates and click the Cancel button to end the listings.

 

 SixBit can only identify duplicate listings if all listings are in the SixBit database.  If listings were submitted with another tool and have not been imported into SixBit, then SixBit will not know abou the other listings and cannot identify them as duplicates.  Likewise, if you list with multiple userids and not all userids are being managed by SixBit, then duplicate listings across those ids cannot be identified.