You should really reconsider the whole process for creating listings.
As the old saying goes - "Work Smarter, Not Harder!"
The best tool I have found for that is GarageSale, a inventory and auction listing tool for eBay. They are a small company from Germany with their own help forum that produces a tool that is far ahead of anything eBay offers. They have excellent response time and are eager to hear new ideas for improvements. GarageSale is for Macintosh computers only. If you don't currently have a Mac it would be worth buying one just to use GarageSale as it would pay for the computer and itself in no time. You can manage multiple eBay accounts from one application.
You create customized templates in GarageSale based upon various shipping scenarios, categories, product types and various other customized settings. To reuse any of these templates you simply press the Command and "D" keys to duplicate it. There would be no filling out of paper forms as you simply create reusable templates in GS into which you directly enter your data instead of first entering that data on paper and then having to type it over again.
You organize your templates and listings into custom folders as you wish. This open folder has a series of templates that offer Priority Mail & Parcel Select as shipping options at the most commonly used weights without any package size entered as its assumed any items using these templates will not exceed any postal regulations incurring additional fees.
Here is a simply template that uses customized CSS & HTML to display a simple table with the header titles already entered. No retyping commonly reused information again and again. You make one template with that information one time and simply duplicate that template to use it for a new listing.
See the bit of text below the table in brackets. That is where I've instructed the program to insert my Terms of Sale after the item description when the item is uploaded to eBay.
Here is one with a table for LPs without a border.
Here is an old experiment that inserts a repeated flowered background and images in the description with a light purple around the images from back in the day when eBay allowed external image galleries. The user would click the images or the link below them to view images in an external gallery. This allowed you to show images at a larger size than eBay Pictures. You simply customize the template's CSS and HTML as you want.
How you arrange your inventory is up to you.
I like this arrangement:
- Numbered Folder - Corresponds to a numbered folder on computer backup drive containing the original images used for listings. GaragseSale stores images internally; however, this allows you to easily find the original images again.
- eBay Account 1
- Listing Type - 7, 10 Day Auction or Different Groups of Fixed Listings
- eBay Account 2
- Listing Type - 7, 10 Day Auction or Different Groups of Fixed Listings
- Sold Items
- ---- Items Removed From eBay and Sold at a Retail Locations or Removed for Internal Business Use
- eBay Account 1
You can drag listings from one folder to another folder as you wish.
You can export your templates and completed listing from GarageSale and import them into another copy of GarageSale.
Here is one with a larger box size and weight with Parcel Select as an option.
Perhaps consider hiring someone as a independent contractor rather than a employee!
Consider paying them a commission on sold items on top of base pay?
