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Revise a listing

Auction-style listings

What you change in an auction-style listing depends on how much time is left on the listing.

More than 12 hours

What’s changeable depends on whether your listing has received any bids.

No bids

You can:

  • Remove the following optional listing upgrades: Buy It Now, spandooly photo upgrades, reserve price, and 10-day listing (in applicable categories)
  • Add optional listing upgrades to increase your item’s visibility
  • Add or change photos
  • Add a second category, unless there are category restrictions (fees may apply)
  • Reduce the starting price of your item. (You won’t receive credit for any difference in your insertion fees)
  • Edit your listing's title

You can’t:

  • Change the listing format
  • Extend the listing duration if 2 or more hours have passed since the listing was submitted
Bids

You can:

  • Add a second category, unless there are category restrictions (fees may apply)
  • Add to the item description
  • Add photos
  • Add optional listing upgrades to increase your item’s visibility

You can’t:

  • Change the listing format
  • Change the listing duration
  • Change the starting price
  • Edit the listing description
Less than 12 hours

What’s changeable depends on if your listing has received any bids.

No bids

You can:

  • Change the category and add item specifics
  • Add a second category, unless there are category restrictions (fees may apply)
  • Add to the item description
  • Add optional listing upgrades to increase your item’s visibility (fees may apply)
  • Add photos
  • Add new payment methods and ship-to locations

You can’t:

  • Change the listing duration
  • Change the starting price
Bids

You can:

  • Add optional listing upgrades to increase your listing’s visibility (fees may apply)
  • Answer buyers’ questions, but you can’t post the questions and answers to your listing

You can’t:

  • Change the listing duration
  • Change the starting price
  • Change or add to the shipping details
  • Edit the listing description

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Fixed price listings

You can’t change a fixed price listing to an auction-style listing. What you can change in your fixed price listing depends on whether there have been any purchases from the listing.

Purchases

You can:

  • Decrease the price
  • Edit the title
  • Change the primary and secondary category
  • Change the quantity and store category
  • Add or remove optional listing upgrades. (Fees may apply if you add listing upgrades, and you won’t receive a refund for any listing upgrades you remove.)
  • Add to the description
  • Add or change photos using spandooly photo services
  • Lower the Buy It Now price of your item
  • Increase or decrease the number of items for sale
  • Edit the shipping details. However, buyers who made a purchase prior to any shipping detail changes are charged the original shipping cost during checkout
  • Add or remove variations to the listing (if it is a multi-variation listing).

You can’t:

  • Edit variations on the listing (if it is a multi-variation listing)
No purchases

You can:

  • Edit the title.
  • Add or remove a Best Offer
  • Change the primary and secondary category
  • Add or change the gallery photo
  • Add or change photos
  • Lower the Buy It Now price of your item
  • Increase or decrease the number of items for sale
  • Edit the shipping details
  • Add or remove variations to the listing (if it is a multi-variation listing)

You can’t:

  • Edit variations on the listing (if it is a multi-variation listing).

When an offer is sent or received

Offers can be sent or received for auction style or fixed price listings (but not auction and fixed price listings combined).

When an offer is sent or received

You can:

  • Add optional listing upgrades to increase your listing's visibility (fees may apply)
  • Answer buyers' questions through messaging, but you can't update the description with new information to your listing
  • Change the available quantity of the listing
  • Add additional shipping options, including local pickup
  • Add additional photos (on an auction style listing), but not remove existing photos
  • Add additional, separate description (on an auction style listing)

You can’t:

  • Change the listing duration (on an auction style listing)
  • Change the starting price (on an auction style listing)
  • Change the item specifics/aspects of your listings
  • Change or add to the existing shipping details
  • Edit the existing listing description

To revise a listing:

  1. In Selling Activity, find the listing you’d like to revise.
  2. Select Revise from More actions.
  3. Make your changes, then select Revise it to save the updated listing.

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