Questions people ask

An eBay seller account with business policies switched on (shipping, returns and payment policies). Before the first box, the Settings screen asks for your item location, your postal code, the exact names of your two eBay shipping policies (Media Mail and parcel), and, if you have an eBay Store, the numeric ID of each store category. There is a guide on the settings screen for finding each one. A store category needs the number, not the name; the product refuses a name, because eBay refuses every row of a file that carries one.

On a plain, light table or mat, front cover first, then whatever you normally shoot: back cover, corners, inside cover. Shoot one comic at a time and move to the next. By default each photo is one comic; with Several photos per comic set in Settings, the product groups by your count, or by the time they were taken when the count is off, and a pause between comics is what makes that reliable. On a phone, the camera page counts the shots for you.

For the ordinary form, yes: photos go from the phone to the computer and then into the browser. The camera page (linked from the New batch form) shoots and uploads from the phone directly.

On 8 September 2026 a real 25-comic box with 247 photos went from Create batch to the review screen in about five minutes. That is one box on one connection; a long box of 250 will take longer, and you can close the tab while covers are being read.

On 323 covers measured against the seller's own eBay listings, the right comic came out 98.8% of the time. On the first real box through the live site, 25 of 25. The screen exists because the other 1.2% are the ones that cost money: every row is shown with its cover, and the rows it is unsure about are marked, so you look at those first.

Advice, never a block. WORTH MORE and CHECK THIS ONE mean a key-issue database thinks the comic is worth more than the box price. DUPLICATE means you already have that comic live, with its item number. SAME COMIC AS ROW N means two rows may be one comic split by the grouping. YOUR HISTORY is your own sell-through for that series. OPINION, if you switch it on, is what the model thinks the comic typically sells for; treat it as a second opinion on cheap books and ignore it on keys.

Tick lot on the first row of the run, type the issues (1-8, or 1,2,5), type the lot's price, and tick merge up on any other rows that hold more photos of the same lot. Tick complete if it is every issue of the series: the title says Complete Series and the listing goes to your complete-series store category. A lot cannot be approved at the box's single-comic starting price; you type its own.

Yes. Every row shows the title eBay will get and its length; type your own in the Title box above it and that wins, inside eBay's 80 characters. A Variant box puts a cover variant in the title so two variants of one issue are not twin listings.

Usually none. The blank boxes on the second line (weight, package, features, style, country, language, audience) are overrides: leave them blank and your account's defaults go in the file. Type a value and it wins for that row.

A photo that is plainly one whole comic on the table, with nothing but table around it, is cropped in close at upload. Anything doubtful ships as shot rather than risk cutting into a cover. A lot's photos are cropped when you approve, and the done page says how many. The rule was measured on 247 real photos before it shipped: 61 crops, none cut into. The undo button on a row puts its cover, and its room-cropped and gallery-cropped shots, back as shot (auto crops on the other shots stay), and Settings switches the whole thing off.

The cover has its own flip, tighten and undo. Under each photo after it: a flip button turns that one photo, cover makes it the first photo buyers see, the cut button starts a new comic at that photo, and the cross removes it. Merge up folds a row's photos into the row above.

By the product, and eBay copies them when the listing is created. eBay's editor has reported that it will not mix its own pictures with hosted ones on one listing; to change the photos on a live listing, use the Photos Revise file on the batch's done page.

The file passed every rule that has ever cost this seller a listing: eBay's 80-character title, the 65-character cap on every item specific, numeric store categories, the shipping policy pair, magazines and manga off Media Mail, and a check that every photo the file names is actually in storage (a typed-in row with no photo carries a placeholder picture, and the done page says so). eBay can still refuse a row for a reason the product has not met; that is what the next answer is for.

Download eBay's report from the upload page and drop it on the batch's done page. The page then says which rows went live and which were refused and why, each refusal shows on its row after edit again, and there is an Add file of only the refused rows to upload once you have fixed them. Never upload the full file twice; it would list the successful rows again.

Once the batch has read eBay's report, yes: press edit again, fix the row, approve, and download the Revise file instead of the Add file. eBay changes the live listings in place. The Revise file leaves photos alone; the Photos Revise file replaces them.

Seller Hub's active-listings download is how the product knows what you have live: the duplicate check, the next custom label for a box, the stale stock page, the show page and the boxes page all read it. Upload one after every listing session.

Yes. When you create a batch you tick where it goes: eBay, a Whatnot live auction, a Whatnot Buy It Now store, or any combination. A live-auction batch gets Whatnot's show file (you choose the opening bid) and a run-of-show sheet; a Buy It Now batch gets the store file. For comics that are already live on eBay, the show page builds the Whatnot file from what is still in stock and makes the eBay End file for whatever the show sells.

Starter is $49 a month for 500 listings, Pro $99 for 1,500, Volume $199 for 5,000, and shops or the biggest sellers talk to us. A comic, a lot, a book or a magazine is one listing each. Your first 50 listings are free. A card goes on file before your first batch is read; nothing is charged until the 50 are used or 30 days pass, and cancelling before that costs nothing. The pricing page has the table and the comparison with the crosslisting apps.

To eBay and Whatnot, which is where comics sell: one batch makes the eBay file and the Whatnot show and Buy It Now files, and a comic sold on one is taken off the other with the End file and the pick list. It does not post to Poshmark, Mercari, Depop or the rest; if you sell clothes on ten marketplaces, Vendoo or List Perfectly is the tool for that.

Your photos, your approved rows, and the reports you upload. From an orders report the product keeps the custom label, the price and the date, never the buyer. Your sign-in is a link by email; there is no password to store.

A comic seller in Arizona who lists his own long boxes with it, and the tool grew one rule at a time out of what real uploads taught him.