Pushauction vs. Inkfrog?

[JJGold]

Originally Posted by BubbleTea

How does InkFrog do this?
Does the listing tool affect visibility rankings?
I am currently in need to improve my visibility due to poor dsrs. :(

They have what they call "Smartlister". It uses Terrapeak to find keywords, auction timing, pricing, etc

Give them a try, it's only $14.99/month, unlimited accounts, no contract.

[BubbleTea]

I tried out Pushauction free trial today and wow, it is practically unusable!
I'm surprised so many here are using it.
When I tried Auctiva, I didn't even have to read any help files - everything was intuitive and easy.
With Pushauction, even after reading the tutorial, I had no idea what was going on!

Can someone tell me, how can I import existing listings and relist them BUT with setting the listing time.
I have managed to import the current listings to PA and was able to relist them, but I could not set the listing time.
Being able to set the listing time is the main reason I am using these tools.
Also, what time zone is the listing time on PA in?
Thanks!

[Mr. Invisible]

To schedule a listing...

1. create profile
2. create time based schedule
3. assign profile to schedule


As for the timezone, . I have it set to EST....

19:00 (7pm pst) ebay listing time = 10pm est

[conan0427]

My question is have you guys tried Schedule listing on PA? As my story is I got 3 of my accounts restrict after using Schedule listing by PushAuction, I'm not sure if this is the reason, but indeed after 10mins of Schedule from PA, all 3 of my US account shut down !

[BubbleTea]

Originally Posted by conan0427

My question is have you guys tried Schedule listing on PA? As my story is I got 3 of my accounts restrict after using Schedule listing by PushAuction, I'm not sure if this is the reason, but indeed after 10mins of Schedule from PA, all 3 of my US account shut down !

Hmm... strange...
Last time I used Auctiva scheduled listing with 1 minute interval for 12 items and soon after, my account got restricted too.
However, there were a few other issues like my account was below standards and I got the MC099 vero takedown a day before the restriction.
But the time frame was very close to my scheduled listings so I did suspect if that was related too.
Very hard to say in my case since many factors were involved.
That was my first time using any tool and scheduled listing.

[slapped]

Originally Posted by BubbleTea

Hmm... strange...
Last time I used Auctiva scheduled listing with 1 minute interval for 12 items and soon after, my account got restricted too.
However, there were a few other issues like my account was below standards and I got the MC099 vero takedown a day before the restriction.
But the time frame was very close to my scheduled listings so I did suspect if that was related too.
Very hard to say in my case since many factors were involved.
That was my first time using any tool and scheduled listing.

Do NOT even "Cloud" your thinking,,,,as soon as you got the MC099,,on TOP of the low DSR's,,,your account was TOAST,,,it just took a While for INEVITABLE to happen,,your accounts shutdown just happened to coincide with your auctiva listings,,,MANY here have been using Auctiva on Multipe accounts for YEARS without incident,,,the SAME holds true for Push auction

[BubbleTea]

Originally Posted by slapped

Do NOT even "Cloud" your thinking,,,,as soon as you got the MC099,,on TOP of the low DSR's,,,your account was TOAST,,,it just took a While for INEVITABLE to happen,,your accounts shutdown just happened to coincide with your auctiva listings,,,MANY here have been using Auctiva on Multipe accounts for YEARS without incident,,,the SAME holds true for Push auction

Yeah, I thought it was most likely a coincidence too.

That didn't put me off scheduled listings...
Just that... it really takes work to figure how to get this done on pushauction!
And... does anyone find it really slow?
It seems to crawl whenever I click anything on that site.
And I am a short 4-hr flight from their servers in HK!

[blue05]

If you are using multiple accounts on PA, what do you do when you originally get the token from ebay? Do you sign in with the IP for that account, or if you are signed into PA will ebay see PA IP anyway

Just want to add accounts correctly dont want to lose any by stupid actions

Thanks

[slapped]

Ebay can see that you are logging in from Push auction, and they are Ok with it because they know what Pushauction does,,But the cannot see what accounts you are managing

[JJGold]

Originally Posted by blue05

If you are using multiple accounts on PA, what do you do when you originally get the token from ebay? Do you sign in with the IP for that account, or if you are signed into PA will ebay see PA IP anyway

Just want to add accounts correctly dont want to lose any by stupid actions

Thanks

You need to be on the correct IP, user account, etc., when you intially drop the token for each account.

[stealthuser]

hey thanks for all the information in this thread! i've been testing out pushauction and it seems to be okay. it's useable if you're savvy but there's still a few things i'm left wondering about. has anyone been able to list an item up without a return policy required? i havn't been able to do that in v3 or v4... also with that same note in mind, i can't update items that have a no returns policy for the same reason that i can't post an item that doesn't accept returns

[BubbleTea]

Can someone help me out?
I still can't get it to schedule listings.
OK, I've created the profiles, I've created schedules, I've assigned profiles to the schedules.
Waited for the scheduled time to come and nothing happened - it did not list!

I don't fully understand some things.
OK, so I tried to create a time-based schedule.
Basically, I have 4 different items and I want them to list an auction for each item let's say at 7pm, with 9 minutes interval between them.
Meaning 1x item A lists at 7pm, 1x item B lists at 7.09pm... and so on.
How should I set it up?

What I did was I set the time to be from 7pm To 7.30pm.
Under e.g. Sat, Listing QTY:1, Interval (min): 9
I checked the yellow box and the 2nd box out of the 3 boxes below.
And selected profile is 4.
Then Save.

What did I do wrong?
Please tell me how I should input the data.
Thanks!

[BubbleTea]

Is there no one who does scheduled listings with pushauction?
I'm gonna have to go back to using Auctiva if I don't get any help.
I've tried and it's just not working...

[Mr. Invisible]

Try to get one listed before you do multiples. It sounds like the time of schedule might be the problem. If the time was correct something should have happened. Did you check the log?

[stealthuser]

Originally Posted by BubbleTea

Is there no one who does scheduled listings with pushauction?
I'm gonna have to go back to using Auctiva if I don't get any help.
I've tried and it's just not working...

i've been having the same issues as bubbles, if someone could help us out that would be awesome

i noticed in the listing log it says "invalid launch time" ... not sure what i can do to fix this as i've tried scheduling MANY listings to launch and nothing will work

[BubbleTea]

Alright, I give up on Pushauction.
The most important feature and use that I need is scheduled listings.
I've found a free software that can do it called Auctonic.
Haven't really got around to using it yet but it sure looks 10x more useable than PA from the looks of the interface.
Pushauction lists many features that are very interesting and that I would like to use, but they are not user-friendly at all...
So, its like a pistol with a jammed trigger!

[TheGenius]

Has anybody found away to automatically relist once sold out of BIN on pushauctions?

[wanloho]

Originally Posted by JJGold

When you sign up with a service like pushauction or inkfrog your dropping a token at eBay giving the auction listing service permission to create listings. eBay knows the IP's of these services and knows not everybody that uses the service is from the same country. That's like saying if you housed your servers in Vatican City that you could only takes accounts from there with a total population on 600?

The only thing you need to remember is to be logged into the correct IP for that particular account when you first drop the token, after that you rarely have to even get on eBay.

I've been using more and more components of inkfrog and it's been an unbelievable time saver. If your selling off multiple accounts like I do, having to change users/IP the print a label, change users/IP then print another label for 20 accounts is a waste of time and energy. I print and ship everything from inkfrog, autofeedback when the label prints, auto email (not eBay message) goes out thanking them with tracking number and feedback reminder. I bet using this saves me 1 1/2 hours a day.

Sounds pretty confusing... so can someone clarify this for me. Lets say I have a few accounts in China, a few accounts in USA and a few accounts in Germany. Are you guys saying I should sign up for 3 different inkfrog accounts? And signing up with different IPs for each?

Create 1 inkfrog account with China IP to manage all my China accounts,
Create 1 inkfrog account with Germany IP to manage all my Germany accounts
and create 1 inkfrog account with USA IP to manage all my USA accounts?

Are the above procedure necessary when using inkfrog?

Helps guys

[slapped]

Originally Posted by wanloho

Sounds pretty confusing... so can someone clarify this for me. Lets say I have a few accounts in China, a few accounts in USA and a few accounts in Germany. Are you guys saying I should sign up for 3 different inkfrog accounts? And signing up with different IPs for each?

Create 1 inkfrog account with China IP to manage all my China accounts,
Create 1 inkfrog account with Germany IP to manage all my Germany accounts
and create 1 inkfrog account with USA IP to manage all my USA accounts?

Are the above procedure necessary when using inkfrog?

Helps guys

all you need is 1 Inkfrog, or Pushauction, or acutiva account to manage all of your Ebay accounts.

[wanloho]

Thanks, I will give it a try!!!!

[smithg57]

Originally Posted by frozenprince

Yes I really like pushauction, for V3 pushauction you can have multiple eBay IDs and you can reply message respond dispute handle almost everything from there without having to log in you eBay account.

I also tested the V4, the unique feature I like about pushauction is that you can have Admin user and sub user who can handle limited function and see limit things on your pushauction account etc.

The really worse thing about pushauction is that they never reply your email, I've been sending them email for months not even a single reply, I also called them but they only speak Chinese this really suc, this is why I use Inkfrog for listing and pushauction to respond email.

Very interesting they only let you sign up for PA4 now and the Tutorial is only in Chinese or Japanese lol (they look the same to me). What kind of business plan is this? Moreover, it is really unaffordable. They want mucho $$$ per month to manage multiple ebay accounts. I can't even pass the email setup for gmail --it fails to send test email. I guess it may be fun to play and try to learn it on your own if you have nothing to do. I rather spend the time making stealth ebay accounts.

[Mr. Invisible]

^^^ to get gmail to work for messenging...

Server: smtp.googlemail.com
[X] use SLL
Port: 587

When you send the test email Gmail will lock down due to the Hong Kong IP, login to your gmail account as normal and it will be fine after that.


I guess only existing V3 users can continue using that version. Seems like they are trying to force new users into using v4, where the pricing model is madness.