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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I had the same problem …
But since I am selling stamps you can imagine that the upgrading to the version 9 is a problem (I want to sell more than 50 stamps per month …and the pro version is to expensive with respect to my sells about 100 euros / month).
Is it possible to upgrade to version 9 ?
Yes, you can upgrade, but only 50 listings. My work-around is this: once they are on eBay, they will remain on seller hub, even unsold items, for 60 days. I can renew them, or “sell similar” from there, using eBay. GS only allows 50 postings to be uploaded without paying a monthly fee which only makes sense for high volume sellers. 100 would be a far more reasonable limit from a user point of view (mine,anyway) but developer needs to keep GS viable financially … so it’s a pity
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In the U.S. eBay gives users 250 listings per month without insertion fees.
With the new pricing model for 9 that means paying $14.99 a month to get those 250 listings. Actually starting more than 250 listings makes little sense as paying insertion fees to eBay has been a waste of money for years due to the low sell through rate of items. Paying $14.99 for 250 listings is not worth the money. Inserting only 50 per month is not worth my time due to low sell through rate.
The low sell through rate is due to eBay losing customers. In two recent quarters they lost 13% of all buyers followed by another 9%. Many of the accounts that eBay claims to have are actually duplicate accounts not used for buying. Many people have one or more selling accounts, one or more buying accounts and one or more accounts for posting in eBay’s forums. There are also millions of accounts that have been abandoned but still are included as active as they might come back one day.
When eBay introduced FVF on shipping they started giving people a monthly allotment of listings each month without insertion fees. They claimed that would more than compensate for FVF on shipping (a lie). At the same time eBay did away with free promotional events of one or more days in which users could list items without insertion fees. I would routinely get such offers to list 50,000 items without insertion fees. GS is much less valuable without those promotions.
Listing 250 items does not mean you are a big seller. It means you might sell 5% of those listings, maybe 10% if its a good month. Even then you are selling your items are much lower prices than in the past as eBay has become the lowball marketplace these days. This is not the late 1990s and early 2000s, eBay’s long past heyday.
The Pro edition includes many unwanted features such as image hosting and computer syncing. In many respects GS has become bloatware as I have no use for many of the so called tools in GS such as the inventory, orders and reports tab; editing images, eBay messages.
For $14.99 a month I can host my own off eBay website.