It can be very time-consuming to keep your auctions ticking along, especially if you have hundreds listed at a instant. Dont despair, though: there are a few things you might do to take the weight off you.

Use My eBay.

If you want a broad overview of where you are with your auctions, build sure you pay a visit to My eBay occasionally instead of just relying on emails. With my eBay, you might see all your auctions in a big table, and sort by things like the number of bids and the current price. If you want to see which of your auctions currently has no bids, then you may do that.

One of the most useful things about My eBay, though, is the Summary view. If youre not sure what you should be doing next, then this acts effectively as an eBay to-do list: anything you positive need to be doing will end up here.

Use Selling Manager.

If youre willing to pay the fee of $4.99 per month, you might sign up for Selling Manager, which is a more good version of the My eBay Selling view. It lets you customise your view more effectively to see the information thats important to you, see useful snapshots of how things are going, make automated responses to your buyers using email templates, and more.

Selling Manager Pro gives you more features: it keeps track of inventory for you, and lets you relist items in bulk. It will even produce a monthly profit and loss report to help you keep track of the big picture. Unfortunately, it costs $15.99 per month.

Use a Listing Tool.

Even though theyre called listing tools, much of the software out there lets you manage what youre doing long after its been listed, with all the features of Selling Manager and sometimes a few more besides. This programs also almost always have the advantage of being programs instead of web sites , meaning theyre faster to respond and might do more sophisticated analysis.

Remember the Relist Button.

After your auctions finish each measure , theres an brain friendly way to put the exact identical thing back again: the Relist button. You might Relist items quickly and easily this way, as long as you dont want to change in the listing.

Pay Someone!

Heres something you might not have considered: if youre listing so many expensive items that even automated selling tools take too long to make use of , then have you considered paying someone to help out, as an employee? After all, you wouldnt try to staff a shop full-time on your own, would you? If you already run a business, you could even give the responsibility to someone who works for you there. Freeing up your own time to do something else might pay off for you in the long run.

When youre managing so many auctions, faster or later you might need to cancel one of them early. The next email will let you know when and how you may do it.