Yes, on first launch of GarageSale 9 you’ll see the “Welcome Screen” where you can select to import your previous database.
Regards, Kristian
Well we knew this day was coming but just didn’t know what it would look like. Years of good service, so thanks to the GS team for that! If you are running a business and have tons of listings, the subscription makes sense. Under 50 and you want the GS a familiarity and convenience, also may be worth it. But sadly, the new model squeezes a small group of users into a corner. That is, assuming there are people like me who use the 250 eBay limit (my dream was GS would at least give us 100) to toss whatever at the wall and hope it sells. Since it usually does not, I constantly tweak some small details and try again — so well over the 50 limit. Short version: users like me will need to decide whether to upgrade at all and then juggle between GS and eBay apps to circumvent the limit of 50, or just quit cold turkey. It sucks, but subscription works for a business, not for a hobbyist. Dev knew that and did what apparently made sense to keep going. Best of luck to everyone!
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Iija, thanks for this update. I guess we all have to finally move to GS 9. It was great while it lasted and I thank you guys for not shutting down access to GS 7 and 8 while you could have and for not messing with the code to force people to upgrade or else. Some software developers are notorious for that and I appreciate that you guys didn’t manipulate the code to force people to upgrade or else.
Everything seems to be going fine although the “fetching access token” process seems to be taking a long time. About ten minutes in at this point
How do I get the 2 months free? Kinda confused. Thanks.
If you purchase a full license for GarageSale for the first time, you receive an additional mail with your personal coupon code for GarageSale Pro. This coupon code allows you to test the GarageSale Pro service for two months for free.
Still going a half hour later!
Up and running - thanks for the help!
Upgrading from GS8. Fetching Access Token is hanging as well. Over 15minutes at this point . . .
Did this resolve itself with time?
Yes, it was an eBay error, finally timed out with an “it’s not you, it’s us” page. After that I set up ,y subscription to unlimited ad have been listing successfuly with no hassles (knock on wood)
You probably purchased an upgrade license which does not include a coupon code for GSPro (only the full license does).
Regards, Kristian
This started on Thursday.
I used Little Snitch to narrow it down to eBay’s API.
If you have Little Snitch installed then open click “Show Network Monitor” in the Finder’s top menu bar.
Start GS and a popup will say its crashed.
Leave that popup window open and go to Little Snitch and disable eBay’s API under the rules.
Now go back to that popup and tell GS to Reopen.
GS will now restart and you view your items.
This is better option than simply disconnecting your internet service to prevent the accessing of eBay’s API from crashing GS.
If you are planning to use another version of GS later then enable the eBay API in Little Snitch.
I never list more than 250 items a month since paying eBay insertion fees stopped making sense many years ago.
In two recent quarters eBay lost 13% and 9 % of buyers. Total sales volume were down 10%, 10% and 20% in three recent quarters.
It a long dying platform run by management who are only concerned with getting their bonuses before they leave the company.
Makes no sense to pay $14.99 to list an additional 200 items a month. Most things sold on eBay are fixed priced as auctions have been a joke for some time. Its no longer the heyday of the late 1990s and early 2000s. eBay has become the lowball marketplace rather than setting the value of items.
GS has become less valuable over the years as in the past eBay routinely gave users free insertion periods of one or more days. I regularly received invitations to list 50,000 items without any insertion fees. They did away with those when they added FVF on shipping and instead just gave you a few listings per month. They tried telling us that FVF on shipping was offset by the free monthly listings, but what they did not tell you is that they took away these multiple year free listing events, any one of which exceeded the entire year’s worth of monthly free insertions.
If I am going to spend $14.99 a month I’ll use that for my own store hosting plan off eBay and not have to deal with the hassle, price increases or fees.
I experimented with my first simple store on the ancient GeoCities site, with payments via mail. As I was part of a webring my site was quickly at the top of searches and I sold out my collection. Its a lot easier these days.
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@Wood Thanks, I will give that a try. I also think that your analysis of eBay (though I don’t know anything about their management) seems spot-on. Further, I have a sneaky suspicion that they have rigged things to push sellers to pay for “featured listing status” if you want your item to ever be found.
Hello,
Same issue, I get that v7 is not supported anymore, but I downloaded v8 and cant get the server to respond to upgrading and now cannot even download 9
I’m having the same issue and (gladly) upgrading to 9. Upon downloading, I’m choosing to have it import my database. It is getting stuck at 29312000 File Read and not continuing. Please help.
Kristian, got v9 installed and upgraded to the yearly plan and all of my old and current listings came through but the old completed listings do not have any of the images nested within. Is there anyway to import those? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Could you please confirm that for upgrade limited to 50 postings, the only way to monitor that is to go to GS preferences and then click PRO to check postings used?
Also, when an item does not sell, and we simply wish to relist it, are we forced to do that via the eBay app, or can the identical item be relisted without it counting against us on the 50 limit. Thanks
Same, where are all the pictures? Ugh. What a mess.
Yes, its another one of their scams. The site has been dying for years; however, eBay management has never been known for innovation, but instead they are only concerned with meeting short term sales goals at any cost so they get their large bonuses before they leave the company. To meet those sales goals they’ve had to increasingly turn to scams. Much of their income these days is from scams.
All the early innovations on eBay such as photos in listings, scheduled listing, eBay’s own API, listing software were all invented by other people. eBay simply copied these ideas or bought the company that created them. eBay was even found guilty of stealing early online patent auctions. Long time eBay users knew when Meg Whitman took over HP it would be a disaster as she would not be able to take other people’s ideas there.
eBay did not originally develop their own API - it was licensed from a 3rd party. To pass on the cost of licensing that API they had the bright idea of charging developers for using it. One of the first, if not the first, Macintosh eBay applications was called A.I.D. It ran under Mac Classic around 2000. The publisher of that app was put out of business by eBay’s decision.
Even when eBay owned PayPal all of their international transactions were actually handled by ING, the large Dutch banking firm.
FVF on shipping; FVF on sales tax; hidden listing; hidden shipping options; promoted listings; abuse of the UPU program intended to help poor and host of other scams accounted for a large percentage of eBay income.
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