For resellers: comics, books, records, games, Funko, movies and CDs
Take the photos.
We do the listing.
Snap a photo, create a listing. We sort and crop.
Shoot a box of comics on your phone. We sort the photos, read the covers and build the eBay and Whatnot files. You check them, then list on eBay with one press or upload the files. Records, games, Funko Pops, movies and CDs are shot the same way and listed on eBay; books go by their ISBN.
See a sample batch first, no sign-up needed.
List as fast as you can photograph.
How it works
- Shoot Photograph each comic: front, back, and as many more as you like. On a phone, Shoot a box counts the shots and uploads as you go.
- We sort Shoot a box groups your shots into comics
as you go.
From a computer, and other kinds
From a computer, set Several photos per comic and the photos are grouped by your count, or by the pause between comics. A record, game, Funko Pop, movie or CD batch is a fixed number of shots each and is never grouped by timing.
- We crop A photo that is plainly one comic on the table is cropped in close. Anything doubtful ships as shot, and undo on a row puts the cover back.
- We read the cover Title, issue, publisher, year,
writer, artists and more. Comics are checked against the Grand Comics
Database.
Records, games, figures, movies and CDs
A record's barcode or catalogue number is looked up in Discogs' public catalogue. Games, figures, movies and CDs have no catalogue check of their own yet, so those rows are yours to confirm.
- You check one screen Every row shows its cover. Check the details, price, grade and title, tick lot for a run, and approve.
- You list Connect eBay once and the approved batch is listed on eBay with one press, or download a validated file for eBay, Whatnot or Shopify and upload it yourself. Nothing is listed without your approval.
See a sample eBay file (a spreadsheet download, best opened on a computer: 10 comic rows in the columns of eBay's File Exchange, its bulk upload sheet), made by the same builder and checked by the same validator as a seller's own file. Or open the sample batch on the review screen, read only.
You take the photos. The listings write themselves.
Other listing tools start from a form: you write the title, the description and the item specifics, one listing at a time. A couple sell a photo-to-listing add-on. None reads a comic cover or checks it against a database, and none will take four hundred photos of a box and sort them into comics. Here that is the whole job: the photos are sorted into comics, the shots are cropped, the cover is read, the fields eBay searches on are filled in and checked, and the file is validated before you upload it. All you have to worry about is the photos.
Good photos sell. Stock photos do not.
The biggest comic seller on eBay has millions of items sold, and most of their listings use a stock image, with Stock Image right in the title. They can: buyers take their grade on faith. Nobody else has banked that much trust, and without it the sale goes to whoever showed the buyer the actual comic. That is the one advantage a smaller seller has, and almost nobody uses it, because the photos land on top of the typing. Here the photos are the data entry, so twenty cost no more than two.
Nine things you can point a camera at
Each kind lists in its own eBay category with its own item specifics; a magazine or a graphic novel goes in the comics or the books category. The rules for each are built in.
Every category goes to eBay and Whatnot. Shopify takes everything except vinyl records, video games, Funko Pops, DVDs and Blu-rays, and CDs and cassettes. Vinyl records also go to Discogs, as an inventory file.
What each kind gets, card by card
Comics
Single issues and runs. The cover is read and checked against the Grand Comics Database, key issues are flagged before you price them too low, and a lot's title names the issues it holds.
The detail
Shoot the front cover first, then whatever else you normally show. The series, issue, year, publisher, writer, artists and cover artist are filled in for you. Key issues are flagged before you price them too low, and a lot's title names every issue it holds, not just the first.
Graphic novels and trades
Shot and read the same way as a single issue. A complete run gets a title that says so and your complete-series store category.
The detail
Shoot them like a single issue; they list in eBay's comics category. Tick the format, trade or hardcover, on the review screen. A trade with an ISBN can go in a book batch instead, which lists it in eBay's Books category: your call which shelf you want.
Books
Identified from the ISBN, not the cover: type or paste a list, or photograph the back covers and let the barcodes be read.
The detail
Type or paste the ISBNs, or photograph the back covers. Any barcode that cannot be read, you type. Author, series, format, narrative type and audience are filled in as separate fields buyers search on, with your own book boilerplate.
Magazines
Shot and read like a comic, listed as a magazine, and sent to your Parcel shipping policy.
The detail
Shoot them in a comic batch, front cover first, like a single issue. The Parcel policy is whichever eBay policy you put in that slot in Settings.
Vinyl records
Shot front and back like a comic. Artist, album, label, catalogue number, format, speed and country are read for you, and a first pressing is never inferred.
The detail
Shoot the sleeve front and back. Artist, album, label, catalogue number, format (LP, EP, 7 inch single, box set), speed, country and the year printed on the sleeve are read for you. On a reissue that year is usually the original's, so check it. A printed Reissue, Promo or Half-Speed Mastered is carried through, and a first pressing is never inferred. A barcode that does not read right is flagged on the row for you to retype or clear.
Video games
Cartridges, discs and boxed copies. A loose cart with no box still identifies, and sealed, complete in box or cartridge only decides the title and the postage.
The detail
Shoot the case front and back, and the cart or disc. The title and console are read off the case, the label and the shape of the cartridge, so a loose cart still identifies. Sealed, complete in box or cartridge only sets the title and the weight. Shoot the barcode when there is one: where it matches, a collector price guide's figure for that copy is shown beside your price. Games ship on your Parcel policy.
Funko Pops
The character and the number on the box are read off your photograph. An exclusive is only ever copied off a sticker, and a figure with no box keeps Out of Box in its title.
The detail
Shoot the box front and back. The character, box number, series, franchise, size, item number and UPC are read off your photos. A figure with no box keeps Out of Box in its title. An exclusive is only copied off a sticker; pick Chase, Glow or Flocked yourself on the review screen. Nothing grades a figure or its box. Where the character and box number match a collector price guide, its figure is shown beside your price; it never writes the price. Funko Pops ship on your Parcel policy.
DVDs and Blu-rays
DVDs, Blu-rays and 4K discs, movies and TV sets. The title and the format are read off the case and the UPC off the back, and a disc with no case says Disc Only in its title.
The detail
Shoot the case front and back, with the disc. Title, format (DVD, Blu-ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray), season, studio, rating, year, disc count, director and top-billed actors are read off the case. An edition is filled in only when the case prints one, so check a Steelbook, Director's Cut or Box Set against the case. A case with no disc in the photos is refused. Nothing here prices one. Selling DVDs, Blu-rays and CDs.
CDs and cassettes
Albums, singles and box sets. The artist, the album, the label and the catalogue number are read off the case, and a cassette lists in eBay's Cassettes category instead of CDs.
The detail
Shoot the case front and back. Artist, album, CD or cassette, label, catalogue number, year, disc count and any printed edition (Remastered, Deluxe Edition, Promo) are read off the case. Nothing here prices one.
Built for resellers, not only comic shops
Storage unit, estate sale or thrift run: if it is in one of these categories, it goes in as photos and comes out as listings.
Comic and book resellers
Long boxes, runs and lots. Covers are read and checked against the Grand Comics Database; books come from the ISBN.
Record, CD and movie sellers
Crates of vinyl, stacks of CDs, shelves of DVDs and Blu-rays, each in its own eBay category.
Retro game and Funko flippers
Carts, discs and boxed Pops, with the platform or the box number read off the photo.
Estate and thrift buyers
A mixed haul is one batch per kind: the comics in one, the records in another, the DVDs in a third. Every listing gets a custom label (which eBay calls the SKU) that says which box it is in.
Whatnot sellers
A show file with your opening bids and a run-of-show sheet, a Buy It Now file for what is left, and the eBay End file for what sold.
Shopify shop owners
The same batch as a Shopify products file: drafts by default, your own Shopify boilerplate, nothing of eBay's in the description.
Crosslist once: eBay, Whatnot, Shopify and Discogs.
When you create a batch, tick where it goes: eBay, a Whatnot live auction, a Whatnot Buy It Now store, your Shopify store, Discogs for records, or several. One set of photos and one review screen make every file you tick: the eBay file, the Whatnot show file with your opening bids and a run-of-show sheet, the Buy It Now file, the Shopify products file and the Discogs inventory file. Crossposting without typing the listing four times.
When it sells in one place
The hard part of crosslisting is the sale: the item has to come down everywhere else before a second buyer pays. With eBay connected, you get an email when an eBay sale is also in a Whatnot, Shopify or Discogs file. Without it, drop eBay's orders report on the Pick list and it names the ones that also went into a Whatnot file. After a Whatnot show, paste the sold custom labels (the box and number each listing carries, like 76TR-012, which eBay calls the SKU) and get the eBay End file that ends them on eBay.
How crosslisting works, start to finish.
Free tools and guides
eBay fee calculator · eBay store checkup · Comic lot title builder · How to sell comic books on eBay · Which item specifics eBay uses for comics
What it will not do
- It will not list anything you have not approved: every row is yours to check, and nothing goes to eBay until you press the button (or upload the file yourself). Whatnot takes the file you upload.
- It will not set your prices: you type a starting price for the box.
What it shows beside your price
Beside each comic the review screen shows the PriceCharting guide price where it finds a match, flags key issues worth more, and shows how your own past listings of that series did once it has read your eBay listings. A suggested price is a setting you can turn on.
- It crosslists to four marketplaces, not ten: eBay first, then Whatnot, Shopify and, for records, Discogs. It does not post to Poshmark, Mercari, Depop, Etsy or Facebook Marketplace. How it compares with the crosslisting apps, side by side.
Your first 20 listings free, no card.
Your first 20 listings are free with no card. A card is asked for at the 21st listing, to start the free trial's other 30: nothing is charged until you approve your 50th listing or 30 days after the card goes on, whichever comes first, and if you cancel before then you pay nothing. Plans from $49 a month.
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