So what are all the listing tools for and what's the best?

Our 2 offline listers are Auctiva Poster and Mister Poster. You can find info and links to those here: http://classic.auctiva.com/products/default.aspx

The reason people use those over Turbo is primarily because you get free scheduling, templates, and image hosting with supersize images.

eBud is a program that helps you manage your listings. It's a very cool program, but doesn't do listing.

A token is what lets Auctiva do things for you on eBay, without knowing your eBay password. Instead of eBay giving us your password, they give us your token. That way we don't know your eBay password, but we can still post your listings and stuff like that.

You can use any of the templates from all 3 listers with any of our listers. However you would have to do some work to get it to work the first time. It would involve getting the HTML for the template you like and putting that into the other lister. That's because not all our new templates on the Auctiva.com lister page have been converted for the older desktop software.

As to which is faster or easier that's really up to each individual person. There are people that swear by all 3 listers. It really depends on your style of listing and if you are listing uniques or the same inventory, etc. The most popular of our listers is the one on auctiva.com that works in your web browser. If something is slowing it down for you maybe you can post about that and either a user or someone from Auctiva can give you some ideas on ways to speed that up.

Thanks for the response! But I do have a few more questions from your answer. Do the tokens give sensitive information to ebay? Such as IP and all that? So that if anyone was using your computer and caused a problem to get themselves kicked off or whatnot, that it could affect you on the same computer but with a different token? If IP information is exchanged, it might do that.

As for the templates with the offline posters, can you download the latest ones from Auctiva? Do they have an update feature that grabs the latest improvements like Turbo does? Or do you have to go get that code any time you need it? Most of my items are onesies, twosies, nothing in bulk of the same item that i know of. But I would like to get some sort of asembly line going as to templates and inserts. Rewriting takes too much time and does slow things down.

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Such as IP and all that?

If you can't do it on eBay because they block you by IP then you should not expect anything from different from our site. We pass to eBay what they require us to and in some instances that may be enough to identify you. It's the smart thing for them to do because otherwise anyone who was blocked would just use a 3rd party to try and get around.

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Or do you have to go get that code any time you need it?

Yes.

Thanks. I'm not sure it's safe then since a family member got into hot water with them a while back. He's since been banned from using our computer for listing, but I live in fear that the accounts will be linked and have to question anytime any information is sent to them whether it be IP, Tokens or what have you. Just wanted to know if any of the tools would be any safer in that regard to use without too much fear of anything bad happening to OUR account.