Changing Your Listing (Format, Category, Title, Description, Price, Postage,)

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Changing Your Listing (Title, Description, Price, Postage)

Once you've listed your item, you may be able to change some details in your listing, depending on the time that’s left before the listing ends and whether you've received any bids or sales.

To revise your listing:

Click My eBay at the top of most eBay pages.
Under My eBay Views, click Selling. Your active listings are displayed.

Selling Manager and Selling Manager Pro users / subscribers: Use the Active view within My eBay.
In the row for the item you want to change, from the Action column pull-down menu, click Revise.
On the "Revise your listing" page, make your changes. (Any gray sections can't be revised.)
Click Save and Continue.

To revise multiple listings:

Click My eBay at the top of most eBay pages.
Under My eBay Views, click Selling. Your active listings are displayed.

Selling Manager and Selling Manager Pro users / subscribers: Use the Active view within My eBay.
Select the listings you want to revise, and click the Edit button.

Note: You can only revise 10 listings at once unless you’re a Selling Manager or Selling Manager Pro user / subscriber (users / subscribers can revise up to 200 listings at once.)
Specify the information you want to edit on the Edit Listing page.
Select Edit listings individually to change listings one at a time.

–or–

Select Edit listings in bulk to make the same changes to all of the listings (according to their selling format).
Click Continue.
- If you select Edit listings individually, the Edit Individual Listings page appears.
- If you select the Edit listings in bulk option, the Edit Listings in Bulk page appears.
Edit your listings and click Continue.
- For items associated with products that may be in our catalog, you’ll be offered the option to “Add product details to your listing.”
- If you’re editing listings in bulk, we’ll ask you to add product details to listings one at a time.
Check your changes on the "Review your listings" page.
Click the Submit button. If you need to make more changes first, click the Back button.

Notes:

If you make any of the following changes, recent sales from your listing will be reset to zero. As recent sales is one of several factors in how we rank listings in search, your revised listing's appearance in search may be affected. Recent sales is relevant to your listing's position in search results only if it is a Fixed Price listing.
- Increase in price
- Change of listing title
- Chang of item condition
- Change in description
When you relist or change a listing title, your listing might not be searchable in a keyword or category search until several hours after you've changed it. For more information, see How can I find my listing?
In most cases, you can't change the listing format. For example, you can't change from an auction-style listing to a Fixed Price listing. Also, you can't extend the duration of a listing if two or more hours have passed since you submitted the listing.
You may be able to end your listing early and then relist it with any changes you want to make. However, if there are 12 hours or less remaining, and the item has a bid, you can't end your listing. Removing a bid doesn't enable you to revise the listing.
Durations of more than seven days may incur a fee and change some upgrade and insertion fees. If your item doesn't sell and you relist it, you may be able to get an insertion fee credit (this doesn't apply to Fixed Price listings).

Revision limitation chart

The tables below show the changes you can make to your listing depending on the type of the listing, the time left before it ends, and whether you have received any bids or sales.

Click your listing type to see what you can change:

Auction-style listing

Time left before the listing ends	Did the listing receive bids?	What you can change
More than 12 hours	No	Change any information except the format. In addition, the duration can't be extended if two or more hours have passed since the listing was submitted. Remove the following optional features only: Buy It Now, eBay Picture Upgrades, Reserve Price, 10-day listing. Add optional features to increase your item's visibility (for example, bold) Add or change a Gallery picture. Add or change pictures using eBay Picture Hosting. Add a second category. Reduce the start price of your item. (You won't receive credit for the difference in your insertion fees if you do this.)
More than 12 hours	Yes	Add a second category. Add to the item description. Add pictures using eBay Picture Hosting. Add optional features to increase your item's visibility (for example, bold) Reduce the reserve price of your item. (You won't receive credit for the difference in your insertion fees if you do this.)
Less than 12 hours	No	Change the category and add Item Specifics. Add a second category. Add to the item description. Add optional features to increase your item's visibility (for example, bold). Add page view counters. Add or change a Gallery picture. Add pictures using eBay Picture Hosting. Add new payment methods and ship-to locations.
Less than 12 hours	Yes	Add optional features to increase your listing's visibility (for example, bold). Add or change a Gallery picture.

Fixed Price listing

Time left before the listing ends	Has an item from the listing been sold?	What you can revise
More than 12 hours	No	Change any information except the format. In addition, the duration can't be extended if two or more hours have passed since the listing was submitted. Remove optional features. Add or change Gallery picture. Add pictures using eBay Picture Hosting. Raise or lower the start price of your item. (You will not receive credit for the difference in your insertion fees.) Increase or reduce the number of items for sale
More than 12 hours	Yes	Add to item description. Add pictures using eBay Picture Hosting. Add optional features to increase your listing's visibility (for example, bold) Raise or lower the start price of your item. (You will not receive credit for the difference in your insertion fees.) Increase or reduce the number of items for sale
Less than 12 hours	No	Add to item description. Add pictures using eBay Picture Hosting. Add Item Specifics and gift services. Add a second category. Change the category. Raise or lower the start price of your item. (You will not receive credit for the difference in your insertion fees.) Increase or reduce the number of items for sale
Less than 12 hours	Yes	Add optional seller features to increase your listing's visibility (for example, bold). Raise or lower the start price of your item. (You will not receive credit for the difference in your insertion fees.) Increase or reduce the number of items for sale

Note: If you are revising a vehicle listed locally on eBay Motors, there are additional restrictions. For more information, see Selling a Vehicle Locally. Please note that eBay Singapore (www.ebay.com.sg) does not have the eBay Motors category.

Classified Ad listing

You can change only the categories for Classified Ad listings if the insertion fees are the same.

Time left before the listing ends	Did the listing receive bids?	What you can revise
More than 12 hours	No	Revise any information except the selling format.
More than 12 hours	Yes	Not applicable. Classified Ad listings don't have bids.
Less than 12 hours	No	Revise any information except the selling format. You can change some Item Specifics but not the category.
Less than 12 hours	Yes	Not applicable. Classified Ad listings don't have bids.

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