A warning to sellers who migrated inventory from BidStart
All,
I recently had the unfortunate opportunity to tell a Buyer that I couldn't send him a stamp he purchased because it already sold. It appears I had a duplicate listing on HipStamp, both of which migrated over from BidStart, which had duplicate listings from the not-so-good old Stanley Gibbons out of control days. Needless to say, having to do this really pi$$ed me off.
Thanks to help from Mark on another thread, I was able to export my entire HipStamp store and review it in Excel for duplicate listings. I did so, and found and removed several. Then I had this sale I couldn't fulfill. I didn't show as a duplicate listing because the original already sold! I hadn't thought of that!
Fortunately thanks to my personal database, I could compare the private IDs in my current store with those that sold in the past relatively easy. I FOUND 16 MORE OF THEM and removed them from my HipStamp store!
It may not be so easy for others, but let this experience serve as a warning to y'all that, if you haven't already done so, I highly recommend you review your inventory for all items transferred from BidStart to verify you don't have items for sale that are either duplicates, or have already been sold.
Thanks Stanley-Gibbons.
-Doug
I recently had the unfortunate opportunity to tell a Buyer that I couldn't send him a stamp he purchased because it already sold. It appears I had a duplicate listing on HipStamp, both of which migrated over from BidStart, which had duplicate listings from the not-so-good old Stanley Gibbons out of control days. Needless to say, having to do this really pi$$ed me off.
Thanks to help from Mark on another thread, I was able to export my entire HipStamp store and review it in Excel for duplicate listings. I did so, and found and removed several. Then I had this sale I couldn't fulfill. I didn't show as a duplicate listing because the original already sold! I hadn't thought of that!
Fortunately thanks to my personal database, I could compare the private IDs in my current store with those that sold in the past relatively easy. I FOUND 16 MORE OF THEM and removed them from my HipStamp store!
It may not be so easy for others, but let this experience serve as a warning to y'all that, if you haven't already done so, I highly recommend you review your inventory for all items transferred from BidStart to verify you don't have items for sale that are either duplicates, or have already been sold.
Thanks Stanley-Gibbons.
-Doug
Comments
I think I'm safe, bailed out from SG about 2 years ago. Nice to be back among friends. Mark has done a great job here.
Bob Bechtel
Packets Plus