What does "Ready" mean in scheduled listings?

At least your say "ready" I just posted a bunch but they are sitting in "scheduled" even though I hit post now. I think Auctiva's having a problem.

Yeah, got an answer from Auctiva support right after I posted. Short answer to my second question--yes.

Having the same problem here. Two listings just sitting in scheduled saying "ready". Everything was fine eaerlier in the afternoon but I am noticinhg a general site slowdown now plus this problem. Hopefully they will fix it soon.

Ditto, my listings are stuck in "ready" mode but not posting to eBay.

Same here. I can't beleive I pay for a service that drives me this crazy. Just once I would like to get on here and everything work correctly. Come on Auctiva, get it together.

AMEN. . lately I am having sooo many glitches! It seems never ending and I use to rarely have these problems.

Agreed, and I'm at the point of shopping for a new template provider. I just can't take all this time trying to get listings to post correctly. Auctiva's answer? Nothing useful to me, really.

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Originally posted by daffodildeb:
Agreed, and I'm at the point of shopping for a new template provider. I just can't take all this time trying to get listings to post correctly. Auctiva's answer? Nothing useful to me, really.

My problem is I have hundreds of listings stored here. What a pain it would be to start over!

Do you have to start over, MissKriss? I have nearly 4000 listings myself--but they're in the Ebay system. If they've been posted/sold within 90 days, you can retrieve them that way and relist as needed. I have a notebook and print out everything that has ever been listed, even if it didn't sell. It's easy--I just use the regular items-for-sale listing (no photos), and it's one line per listing (pick the smallest print size). As long as you have the item listing number and a title, you can go back to it until it drops off due to age (expired or sold listings), in other words, 90 days. Anything else is current and in the store.

Other than the usual learning curve problems--and Auctiva wasn't particularly easy to transition to originally--I don't see a big deal. I'm more interested in something that WORKS, looks good, and is reasonablly easy to learn. Price isn't even as much of a concern as function, to me. Oh, for the days of Seller Assistant Basic...

True, they are stored there too. But if I relist through eBay, would the template and scrolling gallery go away I'm no longer using Auctiva?

btw... it appears all our templates and scrolling galleries are gone now.

Shall we start researching new template providers now?

Please share what you find!

You'd have to make a new template with whatever company you chose, but that's a one-time thing. Yes, your scrolling gallery would go away, although I've never seen much that impresses me about this "service."

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Originally posted by daffodildeb:
You'd have to make a new template with whatever company you chose, but that's a one-time thing.

Yes, but that's what I wanted to avoid. One time thing but would take a few minutes per item times hundreds of items.

All right... I'm going to back away from the computer now... it's just making me angry.

Originally I signed up for auctiva specifically for the scrolling gallery. Since ebay has put things all over the place now when shopping I find it a distraction at top of page and have moved most to bottom and may eventually zip it all together. Frankly, I no longer think that it is a real selling feature (for me at least).

Frustration to the max. . would be soooo nice if auctiva at least acknowledged "YES, we are AWARE there is a problem. They also need a way to send out mass emailings same as they do for other things they want us to read so that everyone is not just twiddling their thumbs thinking it is just their problem. OR at minimum POST on the FORUMS that YES, we KNOW IT and are working on it (if they are)

I frankly do not mind paying my fee for the services I get, HOWEVER, for me the service was more reliable when it was free and changes seemed to be kept up with then. I feel like I spend a lot of time spinning my wheels, and working on "go arounds" that then have to gone back "around" later.

I do not know if this is new ownership or what.

Soooo irritating!

I filed a support case earlier today and did get a reply that essentially said "yeah, we know there's a problem." Unfortunately, that was before they apparently went off the air entirely. At least I haven't been able to reach the site. Can anyone else?

Maybe we're not talking about the same thing. With my listings, I have a template for books, for example, and another one for butterflies, still another one for jewelry items. I think I have about 10 in all, and that covers 4000 listings.