Item Inventory Search (within my store)
I just did a search for France 564. It comes back with 22 copies in my store, but shows me Ziltch?
Can anyone explain this to me???
Michael & Andrea
LickinGoodStamps!
I just did a search for France 564. It comes back with 22 copies in my store, but shows me Ziltch?
Can anyone explain this to me???
Michael & Andrea
LickinGoodStamps!
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Get RID of it (Kindly).
I just listed 10 copies of Poland B129. Your guessed it right... NOT ON SALE!
Does anyone know how this happens? I am speechless.
Michael
And I was to have been contacted MANY years back to have some sort of Sales Assistant help me with my store. HA! Ya right, A young lady from Buffalo, Megan, if memory serves me right, phoned me once, where we chatted for about 10 minutes. She was to phone me back. Found out later that shortly there after, she LEFT! Ha!.... And the fees I pay for this crap... LOL... The joke goes on. And no, Joanne, no need for anyone to contact me right now.
Just a suggestion, when looking at your store if they type in used in the search key words bar, only about 9,700 of your items will show up. (Those all have used in the title.) They will only see the rest if they use the condition filter. As you add newer material just add used to the title and it will help with the key word searches.
As far as SG and the mess they left me with, I do understand about what happened there. I had to go through almost 100,000 listings between Hipstamp and Hippostcard. I still have over 10,000 on there that the back scans were all lost in the transfer. I also have quite a few on Hipstamp were I had the multiple scans for cover sets and some other larger items that had multiple scans. I have the choice to go back and add those back scans or I have the choice to remove and redo them or I can continue let them as is and deal with rest of the material that I have to list. I understand that those listings are NOT ideally listed, but at the very least they ARE listed and they can sell, just not as quickly as if they were ideally listed. And from dealing with Hippostcard at the time they were moved I had over 18,000 that ideally needed to have the back scans added BUT even though I have not gone back to do that over half have sold in the last 6 years. I just don't the time to go back and take about 40 hours just to rescan the backs and then edit them to make them ideal.
Anyways, I do understand that it's a bit of a headache but it shouldn't really take anymore than about an hour if you use the proper tools to fix it. But you would have to talk to some one who can walk you through it.
The bottom line is we have to focus on going forward than continuously looking in the rearview mirror for repairs needed to be taken, which were already done once before, when listed.
And for the Used in our titles, well to me it seems as though that was a waste of time from the get-go, and we have been focused on removing that from our titles.
I'd rather focus my time on the quality we bestow towards our Customers! Our feedback reflects that (once you are able to look over all of those automated 45 day responces (which I do LOVE!)). And we do this by adding one listing at a time.
We reside in a rural location (In The Middle of No Where, Saskatchewan!). Hence we do not have the fastest internet on the planet. Nor do we intend to see any inprovements in my lifetime.
Thanks Michael (and all others) for your wonderful assistance in trying to make this a better place for all to discover!
The problem is when you remove the word used from the title, people can NOT find your used stamps if they use the key word search in your store. When you use the word used in the key word search in your store only a bit over 9,700 listings show up because you don't have the word used in the title. (If they don't see it they won't buy it.) And secondly if you the word used in the title and if for some reason you forget to use the condition box on the listing form, Hipstamp will read it from the title and put it under the condition that you put in the title. (I know because I use the bulk lister and I never use the condition column in the file and Hipstamp puts it into the correct condition because it's reading it from the title.)
I know it is time consuming to make these changes, but I have found that it is worthwhile. Stamps that hadn't sold for years, suddenly sell when I have them corrected the listing. I know your feeling of wanting to list your 4,000,000 plus inventory. I have more than twice that amount waiting, but I feel it's a good investment of my time to make the corrections, especially on my more valuable stamps. I use the CSV option as suggested on my less valuable stamps, but not on my better stamps where I prefer a more "hands on" approach.
As far as speed, I wish I had 9. Mine is closer to 5 from AT&T. Fortunately another company is coming into my area this summer. I can't wait. Back to filling orders and then on to some more corrections and/or listings. Never enough time in the day.
I just might DNLD today's CSV and check it out again.
But, that wouldn't find if a listing is used or unused this way, other than I could DNLD only the listings with missing (or deleted) Conditions (Used / Unused). At least I would have an itemized list of stamps that still require ANOTHER recheck! And I'm not getting any younger either!
I'll run your suggestions by Andrea (I know she'll kick my ass, because of the amount of time I took to remove USED or Used from our titles!!!) D'Oh!...
Hi there, John! As you can see, I just did a Speed Test. Sure SUCKS around here! Looks like I forgot to include that DECIMAL POINT! D'Oh!...
And yes, like I shared with Michael, I think it is best for the Customer to have a better avenue to search, and let's face it, I guess this is why I did this in the first place! Oh well... And who was that knucklehead who said...
Change Is Good?... Ya, Right!... Oh well, eh!... D'Oh! Yet another Hommer in the day in the life of myself...
Have a wonderful day, Guys (& Gals) !
Michael
I DNLD'd 149 items from Europe with no condition. I edited the field AI to reflect "Used". I then uploaded the file to the system, and it ADDED the amended list as if they were NEW Listings! Oh No!
After my PANIC!!! I was able to delete each of those newly added listings. Now to figure how to properly EDIT my DNLD CSV file so it can be sent back to the system to be properly generated as EDITS and not New Listings!
What a dammed headache!
Any thoughts what I may have done wrong? BTW, the upload CSV page is really retarded to say the least. I don't recall that information when in the past I did Bulk Uploads. Might be just too confusing, and I overlooked something.
To add flames upon the raging inferno here, my Wife's computer just wipped her clean from it! No Documents, No Pictures! Of course they are still there, everything is just out of sight from her now! Goodness Sakes.
Thanks in advance! (HELP!)...
Hang in there Michael, it should get better. (It's just at times some of the stuff can be pain the rear end to deal with)
We will survive.
What I remember doing in the past was to upload a Bulk CSV, and go back to each image and upload their images (one at a time), and carry on to the next listing. etc...
Is there a faster (more intelligent method)?
Oh, and I have attempted to locate some of those Not Specified's (where we know we specify the item condition as we do our one by one's).
I agree... We will survive! (LOL...)
Michael
A lot of my stamps are in 102 cards and I made up my own way to label the 102 cards with the private ID. (The most inexpensive material is keep in stock books so I use a different numbering system for those I can find them.) I print the labels off cut them in half and then just stick those to the upper left corner of the 102 cards. (I don't cover the opening of the 102 card.) I just double check the number with the picture to make sure I didn't miss scanning one of the stock cards.
When I write the listings up because I am using the Private ID's in numerical order, all I have to do then is type the first number into the image column, highlight the first number hold the mouse button down and scroll down the page. Once I get to the end of the listings. Then I go up the the upper right and there is a box that has a little blue arrow in it. click that box and that is a fill function. Under that function you can fill that column by series, you don't have to type all the numbers in the image column that way. (Less changes of making a mistake that way.) After doing that just copy it and paste in the private ID column. (You will have to highlight that column)
To be able to get the pictures to come up correctly you will have to add this {{private_id}}.jpg
to the images line under field mapping, if you use the private IDs as your picture numbers. Before you upload the file, there is a box that says save settings. (Type in a name that you would know that it's your file name.) Hipstamp will save that template and the next time you go to upload a file, under Field Mapping Template click on it and your template will be there and just keep using that one instead of the default. (If you do that you don't deal with the picture names as much.)
That's why I won't go back to doing them one at time anymore. (It just takes too long at this time.)
Anyways I found the link for the tutorial on how to use the bulk lister which is listed below
https://help.hipecommerce.com/support/solutions/articles/14000108752-how-to-use-the-bulk-lister-
b) Once our stamps have been sorted, identified & SC #, they are then housed in 102B's as well. I made flats where they are housed, ready for an upload to the system. Once scanned, they are returned to their 102B cards. Once uploaded to HipStamp, they are then sent to their final home with their Private ID, in ascending order. I always screw up my numbers! LOL, Andrea gets really pissed with me, more than I get pissed with her mistakes! Dyslexia (SP).
c) I'll have to re-read PARA 3 over again, as it was mud to me. Maybe I'll get it, maybe not. There are always other ways to explain things, eh!... Oh welll... D'Oh!...
d) Ya, Para 4 is as good as Para 3! clear as MUD! Well, since I have never worked with this concept before, it will take some time to understand.
I'm just hoping that the URL you shared will clean up the murky waters.
I will share that when I woke up this morning, I was NOT expecting to even travel down this path! And well, it looks like I have to find my hiking boots for a real big trek ahead! Wish me luck, Guys! (And Gals!)...
Here we go....! P.S. Thanks for sticking with me this far everyone!
Michael
I still have no images uploaded (Image Not Available). The images should still be in the system, as they are deleted only after 24 hours, from my understanding.
Any ideas?... Thanks
Each day you scan you just continue the numbering where you left off. When a new month rolls around you change the YYMM to reflect that and start numbering again at 0001.
This system has the added advantage of allowing you to see at a glance, whether you are looking at your listings, or looking at your actual stamps, when that stamp was listed, and how long it has been languishing unsold.