How it works
From a pile of stock to a live listing
Six steps. The first takes a couple of minutes with your phone and the rest take seconds.
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Photograph the item properly
The front, the sides, the label. If it is a computer, open the system information screen and photograph that too. If it has a barcode, get one clear shot of it.
This is the only part that takes any real time, and it is the part that decides how good the listing is.
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Upload, and add a sentence if you want
Anything you know that the photographs do not show. "Battery holds about four hours." Or nothing at all — most items need nothing.
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It reads everything you gave it
Barcodes are decoded locally and looked up. Labels, plates and screens are read. Every fact has to name the photograph it came from and say what in it shows the value, or it is thrown away.
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It asks about what it genuinely could not tell
Usually two or three short questions, each answerable with a tap. Never a question about something your photographs already show — that is the whole point of taking them.
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You review the draft
Every field labelled with where it came from. Read from a photograph, from a barcode, from you, or worked out. Change anything; what you type is never overwritten.
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Send it to eBay, check it, publish it
It goes to eBay switched off so eBay can check it too. You read what eBay says, then press the button that makes it visible. Nothing becomes visible any other way.
What happens after it sells
Honestly: today, eBay tells you and you pack it. Order import is the next piece of work, and it brings the rest with it — the order showing you exactly which physical unit to ship, a printed label on each item, and your phone camera confirming that the item in your hand is the one this buyer paid for.
That last one is the point of it. If you have three of the same laptop with different scratches, the thing that goes wrong is shipping the scratched one to the buyer who paid for the clean one. It is being built to make that impossible rather than unlikely.
See it on your own stock
Early access is opening in small groups so we can sit with the first sellers properly. Leave your email and we will be in touch before we open it up.