How to Relist on eBay: An eBay Relist Guide to Boost Sales
How to Relist on eBay: An eBay Relist Guide to Boost Sales
How to Relist on eBay: An eBay Relist Guide to Boost Sales
How to Relist on eBay: An eBay Relist Guide to Boost Sales
It’s common for your eBay sales to lose steam over time. It could be a seasonal lowering of demand, a post-festive slump, or just a natural part of online selling. But, this doesn’t mean you can’t do anything about it.
And no, we aren’t talking about paid ads. The easiest way to get more visibility for your eBay listings and boost sales (without spending any money) is this: an eBay relist. In this guide, we go over how to relist on eBay, why it’s necessary, and how eBay relisting tools like Crosslist can speed up the process.
What is eBay relisting?
eBay relisting is the process of deleting your current eBay listing(s) and replacing them with an identical, or updated, listing (for the same products). It’s essentially giving your old listings a makeover to help them attract more attention.
Picture it this way. When you sell at a brick-and-mortar store, you typically stock the newest products at the front of the shelves, making them more visible. But, the downside is that your old, unsold products are now at the back of the shelves, invisible to customers.
To clear them out, you may periodically take them, dust them off, and place them at the front. This is essentially what an eBay relist is to your online store.
You can either relist on eBay manually, or have an eBay relisting tool do it for you, but more on that below.
Benefits of relisting on eBay
eBay relisting essentially gives your listings a second lease on life, which translates to more sales. This is primarily because of how eBay’s algorithm works. It prioritizes newer listings, showing them first to users. An eBay relist is considered the same as posting a new listing, so you'll get more eyeballs on your listings.
Here are the benefits of an eBay relist in detail:
SEO boost: eBay’s algorithm boosts new listings, so when a user searches for products in your category, they’ll see your relisted items towards the top. The online marketplace will also feature your listings prominently in the news feed.
More visibility: eBay users who have set saved alerts for products in your category will get a notification every time a new item is listed (or relisted). So, by relisting, your potential customers get notified.
Inventory refresh: Relisting old items that have gone stale refreshes your inventory, letting potential buyers know that you’re still actively selling.
More sales: When you relist, you essentially put your products in front of new users (again), which increases your chances of making sales.
When should you relist on eBay?
As a general rule of thumb, you should relist eBay items only when they’ve gone stale. We recommend waiting at least 40-60 days from the original post date before you go about relisting.
Apart from this, you can (and should) relist if:
You want to make significant changes to the product listing — either because you updated your product, or just want to refresh your listing with new product photos and better tags
You notice your listing accumulating poor statistics (for example, your views trickle down to zero)
You haven’t made a single sale from the listing in over a month
You have multiple variants of a particular product listed, but haven’t had any luck in selling a few of the variants
Your eBay listing has expired, or you ended the listing early, but you still have the product in stock
You’re selling seasonal items and the peak season is coming up
Does eBay automatically relist your listings?
eBay has a feature called “automatic relisting” that will automatically relist your products once the listing ends. This applies to both static and auction-style listings. The caveat is that this option is available only to new sellers and those who sell occasionally, so if you’re a frequent seller, you might not have it.
eBay typically relists your unsold auction-style listings for a maximum of up to 8 times. The platform also automatically relists your items when a buyer cancels the order, or when you refund someone.
It’s worth keeping in mind that an automatic eBay relist virtually changes nothing. Here’s a quick comparison table:
Automatic eBay relist | Puts your listing back up with its original history, listing ID, and post date | Only good for listings that have great stats and sales history |
Sell similar (i.e. manually relist) | Treats it as a fresh listing; new post date with stats and sales history wiped clean | Great for listings with poor performance |
How often should you relist eBay items?
While eBay relisting your stale listings is a good strategy, you should also take care not to do it too often. Let your listings gather data and watchers first. If it performs well, you may not even have to relist it for a while.
Frequent eBay relists may get your account flagged for suspicious activity, which could result in a warning, suspension, restriction, or even account termination.
Moreover, frequently relisting your eBay items may also send the signal that you don’t have any new stock to sell. This may deter potential customers from checking out your account.
How to relist eBay items manually
Here’s a brief step-by-step process that you can follow to relist eBay items right from the platform.
Step 1: Go to eBay and navigate to the specific listing you want to refresh.
Step 2: Copy all the listing details into a separate document and delete the listing from eBay.
Step 3: Create a new listing on eBay and populate it with the details you copied of your deleted listing. If it has been a while since you posted the old listing, you can update the title, description, prices, or photos if needed.
Step 4: Post the listing.
The manual eBay relisting process is fine for a single listing or two. But, if you’re serious about improving your sales, you need to have a relisting strategy in place. This involves periodically refreshing your listings so that they aren’t forgotten.
For example, if you have 200 active listings, your relisting strategy might be to refresh 20 listings each week. Obviously, doing this manually is going to be very difficult and time-consuming. Even if copying, deleting, and relisting a single listing takes 15 minutes, you’ll be spending 5 hours each week on this process alone.
This is where an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist comes into play. It automates the whole process for you, helping you relist eBay items in bulk within minutes instead of hours (yes, really).
Here’s a quick comparison of how the two process compare:
Relisting on eBay manually | Using an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist |
Very time-consuming; will likely eat up hours of your time | Quick and easy; only takes minutes |
Wastes a lot of energy that would be better spent on growth strategy | Only takes the click of a few buttons |
Highly prone to error | Error-free |
Bottom line: Using an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist to automate your relisting strategy is the smarter choice.
We’ll show you how it works.
Use an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist
This simple 4-step process illustrates how Crosslist makes it easy to relist on eBay in bulk. It will only take you a few minutes, we promise! 🙂
Before we begin, though, you need a Crosslist subscription (if you don’t have one already), so go on and sign up. All of our pricing plans are affordable. There’s also a 3-day money-back guarantee (as long as you relist 20 or fewer eBay listings).
Step 1: Import your existing inventory to Crosslist
The first step is to bring all of your existing eBay inventory to Crosslist. If you’ve been using Crosslist for a while, and have your eBay inventory here already, you can skip this step and go right ahead to the next one.
For all the others… Log in to your Crosslist account and head over to the dashboard. You’ll see an Import button at the top left corner of the screen. Click on it.
A pop-up with all the marketplaces supported by Crosslist will appear on the screen.
Since we’re going to be bringing in your eBay listings, choose eBay from the list.
A yellow sync button will appear on the screen to indicate that your eBay inventory is being prepped and synced to our eBay relisting tool. Give it a few minutes to do its job — especially if you have a large inventory.
Once the sync process is complete, you’ll see a list of all of your eBay listings. They are now ready to be imported to Crosslist.
You can import your listings in one of two ways:
1. Import your full eBay inventory in one go (no matter how many listings you have)
2. Import specific listings in batches (you can import a maximum of 100 listings in a single batch)
If you have a large number of eBay listings, and are planning to relist them all at some point, the first option will be ideal for you. This way, even if you relist only a few listings on eBay and save the rest for later, you won’t have to keep repeating this step every time.
Before you ask: yes, whether you have 30 listings or 300, Crosslist will import them all together in bulk.
The first option also makes it easy to cross list your eBay listings to other platforms from Crosslist.
However, if you no longer sell certain items (and don’t think you ever will), or if you’re waiting on some inventory before selling a few products, you can pick the second option. This will let you search for and select the specific listings you want to relist.
You can use Crosslist’s advanced search bar to search for the listings you want to import. To make sure you’re not accidentally importing the same listings twice, toggle the Only show listings not yet imported button.
Once you’ve selected all the listings you want to import, click on the Import button and wait for our eBay relisting tool to bring all of them in.
Step 2: Navigate to the listing overview on Crosslist
The listing overview is just your dashboard where you’ll see all of your imported listings at a glance. Here’s all the information that this page contains:
Listing title
Preview image
SKU (if available)
Date on which the listing was created
Where the listing originated from (i.e. whether it was created inside Crosslist, or imported from a marketplace. Since we imported from eBay, the origin will show as “eBay”)
All the marketplaces it has been listed on
Any labels you’ve added to the listings
Since we’re only going to relist on eBay, we only need the listings that have been listed on eBay.
If you just imported your eBay listings through step 1, you can use the Origin tab to only show the listings that were created on eBay. If you were already a Crosslist user and had your eBay inventory here, use the Listed on tab to only show the listings that are live on eBay.
💡 Instead of just relisting eBay items, you can make changes to your listings to give them a fresher look. In addition to making sure that your listings reflect the latest information, this also gives you a boost in SEO. You can update your title, product description, prices, or product photos to better reflect the current trends.
While you can edit each listing manually, Crosslist makes it easier to edit them in bulk!
To edit the prices of your listings in bulk, use Crosslist’s bulk price mark-up feature. Go to Account settings → Price markup and enter a number or percentage in the box beside eBay. For example, if you enter 5%, then all of your eBay listing prices will increase by 5%. If you enter $5, all the listing prices will increase by $5. To mark down the prices, use negative numbers or percentages.
To make the same kind of edits to a large number of listings, you can use a template and apply it to all the required listings. Check out this guide on editing listings in bulk using templates.
Step 3: Select the listings you want to relist on eBay
From the listing overview, select all the listings you want to relist on eBay. If you want to relist everything, simply select all by checking the box at the top of the listings.
It’s worth noting that eBay relisting is actually a two-step process: delisting (i.e. deleting the listing) and then relisting it. But, when you use an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist, you don’t have to worry about deleting the listings first — Crosslist does it automatically.
Crosslist can also delist and relist your entire eBay inventory in bulk — all within minutes.
Once you’ve made your selection, click on the Bulk post (x) listings button at the top right corner of the screen.
You’ll see the same pop-up with the supported marketplaces again. Select eBay (since this is an eBay relist).
Step 4: Click the “Relist” button
Now, for the final step. On the same pop-up, you’ll see a Relist button at the bottom. Click on it, aaaaand your eBay relist is done!
Crosslist will automatically delete your existing eBay listings and replace them with fresh versions.
Since our eBay relisting tool has auto posting, all the listings will automatically go live on eBay. No more manual intervention needed from you at all.
With Crosslist, you also don’t have to worry about falling victim to rate limits or having your computer turn sluggish, as our tool uses a queuing system to distribute listings at periodic intervals.
Relisting a single listing on eBay using an eBay relisting tool
The above method works great for eBay relisting in bulk and separately. But, if you’re just going to relist a single listing, there’s an easier way.
1. Go to the listing overview and select the eBay listing you want to relist.
2. Click on the listing, which will open up all of its details. Make any changes you want to the listing fields.
3. Select eBay from the list of marketplaces on the left corner of the screen.
4. Click the Relist button at the bottom. That’s it!
Put your eBay relist strategy on autopilot with Crosslist, the #1 eBay relisting tool
Relisting on eBay manually eats up hours of your time every week. Crosslist gives you back that time by automating your eBay relist process. It’s quick, error-free, and affordable. And by saving time every week, you have more energy to focus on actually growing your business.
Stop relisting on eBay the hard way. Use Crosslist and put your eBay relisting strategy on autopilot. Sign up now.
It’s common for your eBay sales to lose steam over time. It could be a seasonal lowering of demand, a post-festive slump, or just a natural part of online selling. But, this doesn’t mean you can’t do anything about it.
And no, we aren’t talking about paid ads. The easiest way to get more visibility for your eBay listings and boost sales (without spending any money) is this: an eBay relist. In this guide, we go over how to relist on eBay, why it’s necessary, and how eBay relisting tools like Crosslist can speed up the process.
What is eBay relisting?
eBay relisting is the process of deleting your current eBay listing(s) and replacing them with an identical, or updated, listing (for the same products). It’s essentially giving your old listings a makeover to help them attract more attention.
Picture it this way. When you sell at a brick-and-mortar store, you typically stock the newest products at the front of the shelves, making them more visible. But, the downside is that your old, unsold products are now at the back of the shelves, invisible to customers.
To clear them out, you may periodically take them, dust them off, and place them at the front. This is essentially what an eBay relist is to your online store.
You can either relist on eBay manually, or have an eBay relisting tool do it for you, but more on that below.
Benefits of relisting on eBay
eBay relisting essentially gives your listings a second lease on life, which translates to more sales. This is primarily because of how eBay’s algorithm works. It prioritizes newer listings, showing them first to users. An eBay relist is considered the same as posting a new listing, so you'll get more eyeballs on your listings.
Here are the benefits of an eBay relist in detail:
SEO boost: eBay’s algorithm boosts new listings, so when a user searches for products in your category, they’ll see your relisted items towards the top. The online marketplace will also feature your listings prominently in the news feed.
More visibility: eBay users who have set saved alerts for products in your category will get a notification every time a new item is listed (or relisted). So, by relisting, your potential customers get notified.
Inventory refresh: Relisting old items that have gone stale refreshes your inventory, letting potential buyers know that you’re still actively selling.
More sales: When you relist, you essentially put your products in front of new users (again), which increases your chances of making sales.
When should you relist on eBay?
As a general rule of thumb, you should relist eBay items only when they’ve gone stale. We recommend waiting at least 40-60 days from the original post date before you go about relisting.
Apart from this, you can (and should) relist if:
You want to make significant changes to the product listing — either because you updated your product, or just want to refresh your listing with new product photos and better tags
You notice your listing accumulating poor statistics (for example, your views trickle down to zero)
You haven’t made a single sale from the listing in over a month
You have multiple variants of a particular product listed, but haven’t had any luck in selling a few of the variants
Your eBay listing has expired, or you ended the listing early, but you still have the product in stock
You’re selling seasonal items and the peak season is coming up
Does eBay automatically relist your listings?
eBay has a feature called “automatic relisting” that will automatically relist your products once the listing ends. This applies to both static and auction-style listings. The caveat is that this option is available only to new sellers and those who sell occasionally, so if you’re a frequent seller, you might not have it.
eBay typically relists your unsold auction-style listings for a maximum of up to 8 times. The platform also automatically relists your items when a buyer cancels the order, or when you refund someone.
It’s worth keeping in mind that an automatic eBay relist virtually changes nothing. Here’s a quick comparison table:
Automatic eBay relist | Puts your listing back up with its original history, listing ID, and post date | Only good for listings that have great stats and sales history |
Sell similar (i.e. manually relist) | Treats it as a fresh listing; new post date with stats and sales history wiped clean | Great for listings with poor performance |
How often should you relist eBay items?
While eBay relisting your stale listings is a good strategy, you should also take care not to do it too often. Let your listings gather data and watchers first. If it performs well, you may not even have to relist it for a while.
Frequent eBay relists may get your account flagged for suspicious activity, which could result in a warning, suspension, restriction, or even account termination.
Moreover, frequently relisting your eBay items may also send the signal that you don’t have any new stock to sell. This may deter potential customers from checking out your account.
How to relist eBay items manually
Here’s a brief step-by-step process that you can follow to relist eBay items right from the platform.
Step 1: Go to eBay and navigate to the specific listing you want to refresh.
Step 2: Copy all the listing details into a separate document and delete the listing from eBay.
Step 3: Create a new listing on eBay and populate it with the details you copied of your deleted listing. If it has been a while since you posted the old listing, you can update the title, description, prices, or photos if needed.
Step 4: Post the listing.
The manual eBay relisting process is fine for a single listing or two. But, if you’re serious about improving your sales, you need to have a relisting strategy in place. This involves periodically refreshing your listings so that they aren’t forgotten.
For example, if you have 200 active listings, your relisting strategy might be to refresh 20 listings each week. Obviously, doing this manually is going to be very difficult and time-consuming. Even if copying, deleting, and relisting a single listing takes 15 minutes, you’ll be spending 5 hours each week on this process alone.
This is where an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist comes into play. It automates the whole process for you, helping you relist eBay items in bulk within minutes instead of hours (yes, really).
Here’s a quick comparison of how the two process compare:
Relisting on eBay manually | Using an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist |
Very time-consuming; will likely eat up hours of your time | Quick and easy; only takes minutes |
Wastes a lot of energy that would be better spent on growth strategy | Only takes the click of a few buttons |
Highly prone to error | Error-free |
Bottom line: Using an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist to automate your relisting strategy is the smarter choice.
We’ll show you how it works.
Use an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist
This simple 4-step process illustrates how Crosslist makes it easy to relist on eBay in bulk. It will only take you a few minutes, we promise! 🙂
Before we begin, though, you need a Crosslist subscription (if you don’t have one already), so go on and sign up. All of our pricing plans are affordable. There’s also a 3-day money-back guarantee (as long as you relist 20 or fewer eBay listings).
Step 1: Import your existing inventory to Crosslist
The first step is to bring all of your existing eBay inventory to Crosslist. If you’ve been using Crosslist for a while, and have your eBay inventory here already, you can skip this step and go right ahead to the next one.
For all the others… Log in to your Crosslist account and head over to the dashboard. You’ll see an Import button at the top left corner of the screen. Click on it.
A pop-up with all the marketplaces supported by Crosslist will appear on the screen.
Since we’re going to be bringing in your eBay listings, choose eBay from the list.
A yellow sync button will appear on the screen to indicate that your eBay inventory is being prepped and synced to our eBay relisting tool. Give it a few minutes to do its job — especially if you have a large inventory.
Once the sync process is complete, you’ll see a list of all of your eBay listings. They are now ready to be imported to Crosslist.
You can import your listings in one of two ways:
1. Import your full eBay inventory in one go (no matter how many listings you have)
2. Import specific listings in batches (you can import a maximum of 100 listings in a single batch)
If you have a large number of eBay listings, and are planning to relist them all at some point, the first option will be ideal for you. This way, even if you relist only a few listings on eBay and save the rest for later, you won’t have to keep repeating this step every time.
Before you ask: yes, whether you have 30 listings or 300, Crosslist will import them all together in bulk.
The first option also makes it easy to cross list your eBay listings to other platforms from Crosslist.
However, if you no longer sell certain items (and don’t think you ever will), or if you’re waiting on some inventory before selling a few products, you can pick the second option. This will let you search for and select the specific listings you want to relist.
You can use Crosslist’s advanced search bar to search for the listings you want to import. To make sure you’re not accidentally importing the same listings twice, toggle the Only show listings not yet imported button.
Once you’ve selected all the listings you want to import, click on the Import button and wait for our eBay relisting tool to bring all of them in.
Step 2: Navigate to the listing overview on Crosslist
The listing overview is just your dashboard where you’ll see all of your imported listings at a glance. Here’s all the information that this page contains:
Listing title
Preview image
SKU (if available)
Date on which the listing was created
Where the listing originated from (i.e. whether it was created inside Crosslist, or imported from a marketplace. Since we imported from eBay, the origin will show as “eBay”)
All the marketplaces it has been listed on
Any labels you’ve added to the listings
Since we’re only going to relist on eBay, we only need the listings that have been listed on eBay.
If you just imported your eBay listings through step 1, you can use the Origin tab to only show the listings that were created on eBay. If you were already a Crosslist user and had your eBay inventory here, use the Listed on tab to only show the listings that are live on eBay.
💡 Instead of just relisting eBay items, you can make changes to your listings to give them a fresher look. In addition to making sure that your listings reflect the latest information, this also gives you a boost in SEO. You can update your title, product description, prices, or product photos to better reflect the current trends.
While you can edit each listing manually, Crosslist makes it easier to edit them in bulk!
To edit the prices of your listings in bulk, use Crosslist’s bulk price mark-up feature. Go to Account settings → Price markup and enter a number or percentage in the box beside eBay. For example, if you enter 5%, then all of your eBay listing prices will increase by 5%. If you enter $5, all the listing prices will increase by $5. To mark down the prices, use negative numbers or percentages.
To make the same kind of edits to a large number of listings, you can use a template and apply it to all the required listings. Check out this guide on editing listings in bulk using templates.
Step 3: Select the listings you want to relist on eBay
From the listing overview, select all the listings you want to relist on eBay. If you want to relist everything, simply select all by checking the box at the top of the listings.
It’s worth noting that eBay relisting is actually a two-step process: delisting (i.e. deleting the listing) and then relisting it. But, when you use an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist, you don’t have to worry about deleting the listings first — Crosslist does it automatically.
Crosslist can also delist and relist your entire eBay inventory in bulk — all within minutes.
Once you’ve made your selection, click on the Bulk post (x) listings button at the top right corner of the screen.
You’ll see the same pop-up with the supported marketplaces again. Select eBay (since this is an eBay relist).
Step 4: Click the “Relist” button
Now, for the final step. On the same pop-up, you’ll see a Relist button at the bottom. Click on it, aaaaand your eBay relist is done!
Crosslist will automatically delete your existing eBay listings and replace them with fresh versions.
Since our eBay relisting tool has auto posting, all the listings will automatically go live on eBay. No more manual intervention needed from you at all.
With Crosslist, you also don’t have to worry about falling victim to rate limits or having your computer turn sluggish, as our tool uses a queuing system to distribute listings at periodic intervals.
Relisting a single listing on eBay using an eBay relisting tool
The above method works great for eBay relisting in bulk and separately. But, if you’re just going to relist a single listing, there’s an easier way.
1. Go to the listing overview and select the eBay listing you want to relist.
2. Click on the listing, which will open up all of its details. Make any changes you want to the listing fields.
3. Select eBay from the list of marketplaces on the left corner of the screen.
4. Click the Relist button at the bottom. That’s it!
Put your eBay relist strategy on autopilot with Crosslist, the #1 eBay relisting tool
Relisting on eBay manually eats up hours of your time every week. Crosslist gives you back that time by automating your eBay relist process. It’s quick, error-free, and affordable. And by saving time every week, you have more energy to focus on actually growing your business.
Stop relisting on eBay the hard way. Use Crosslist and put your eBay relisting strategy on autopilot. Sign up now.
It’s common for your eBay sales to lose steam over time. It could be a seasonal lowering of demand, a post-festive slump, or just a natural part of online selling. But, this doesn’t mean you can’t do anything about it.
And no, we aren’t talking about paid ads. The easiest way to get more visibility for your eBay listings and boost sales (without spending any money) is this: an eBay relist. In this guide, we go over how to relist on eBay, why it’s necessary, and how eBay relisting tools like Crosslist can speed up the process.
What is eBay relisting?
eBay relisting is the process of deleting your current eBay listing(s) and replacing them with an identical, or updated, listing (for the same products). It’s essentially giving your old listings a makeover to help them attract more attention.
Picture it this way. When you sell at a brick-and-mortar store, you typically stock the newest products at the front of the shelves, making them more visible. But, the downside is that your old, unsold products are now at the back of the shelves, invisible to customers.
To clear them out, you may periodically take them, dust them off, and place them at the front. This is essentially what an eBay relist is to your online store.
You can either relist on eBay manually, or have an eBay relisting tool do it for you, but more on that below.
Benefits of relisting on eBay
eBay relisting essentially gives your listings a second lease on life, which translates to more sales. This is primarily because of how eBay’s algorithm works. It prioritizes newer listings, showing them first to users. An eBay relist is considered the same as posting a new listing, so you'll get more eyeballs on your listings.
Here are the benefits of an eBay relist in detail:
SEO boost: eBay’s algorithm boosts new listings, so when a user searches for products in your category, they’ll see your relisted items towards the top. The online marketplace will also feature your listings prominently in the news feed.
More visibility: eBay users who have set saved alerts for products in your category will get a notification every time a new item is listed (or relisted). So, by relisting, your potential customers get notified.
Inventory refresh: Relisting old items that have gone stale refreshes your inventory, letting potential buyers know that you’re still actively selling.
More sales: When you relist, you essentially put your products in front of new users (again), which increases your chances of making sales.
When should you relist on eBay?
As a general rule of thumb, you should relist eBay items only when they’ve gone stale. We recommend waiting at least 40-60 days from the original post date before you go about relisting.
Apart from this, you can (and should) relist if:
You want to make significant changes to the product listing — either because you updated your product, or just want to refresh your listing with new product photos and better tags
You notice your listing accumulating poor statistics (for example, your views trickle down to zero)
You haven’t made a single sale from the listing in over a month
You have multiple variants of a particular product listed, but haven’t had any luck in selling a few of the variants
Your eBay listing has expired, or you ended the listing early, but you still have the product in stock
You’re selling seasonal items and the peak season is coming up
Does eBay automatically relist your listings?
eBay has a feature called “automatic relisting” that will automatically relist your products once the listing ends. This applies to both static and auction-style listings. The caveat is that this option is available only to new sellers and those who sell occasionally, so if you’re a frequent seller, you might not have it.
eBay typically relists your unsold auction-style listings for a maximum of up to 8 times. The platform also automatically relists your items when a buyer cancels the order, or when you refund someone.
It’s worth keeping in mind that an automatic eBay relist virtually changes nothing. Here’s a quick comparison table:
Automatic eBay relist | Puts your listing back up with its original history, listing ID, and post date | Only good for listings that have great stats and sales history |
Sell similar (i.e. manually relist) | Treats it as a fresh listing; new post date with stats and sales history wiped clean | Great for listings with poor performance |
How often should you relist eBay items?
While eBay relisting your stale listings is a good strategy, you should also take care not to do it too often. Let your listings gather data and watchers first. If it performs well, you may not even have to relist it for a while.
Frequent eBay relists may get your account flagged for suspicious activity, which could result in a warning, suspension, restriction, or even account termination.
Moreover, frequently relisting your eBay items may also send the signal that you don’t have any new stock to sell. This may deter potential customers from checking out your account.
How to relist eBay items manually
Here’s a brief step-by-step process that you can follow to relist eBay items right from the platform.
Step 1: Go to eBay and navigate to the specific listing you want to refresh.
Step 2: Copy all the listing details into a separate document and delete the listing from eBay.
Step 3: Create a new listing on eBay and populate it with the details you copied of your deleted listing. If it has been a while since you posted the old listing, you can update the title, description, prices, or photos if needed.
Step 4: Post the listing.
The manual eBay relisting process is fine for a single listing or two. But, if you’re serious about improving your sales, you need to have a relisting strategy in place. This involves periodically refreshing your listings so that they aren’t forgotten.
For example, if you have 200 active listings, your relisting strategy might be to refresh 20 listings each week. Obviously, doing this manually is going to be very difficult and time-consuming. Even if copying, deleting, and relisting a single listing takes 15 minutes, you’ll be spending 5 hours each week on this process alone.
This is where an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist comes into play. It automates the whole process for you, helping you relist eBay items in bulk within minutes instead of hours (yes, really).
Here’s a quick comparison of how the two process compare:
Relisting on eBay manually | Using an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist |
Very time-consuming; will likely eat up hours of your time | Quick and easy; only takes minutes |
Wastes a lot of energy that would be better spent on growth strategy | Only takes the click of a few buttons |
Highly prone to error | Error-free |
Bottom line: Using an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist to automate your relisting strategy is the smarter choice.
We’ll show you how it works.
Use an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist
This simple 4-step process illustrates how Crosslist makes it easy to relist on eBay in bulk. It will only take you a few minutes, we promise! 🙂
Before we begin, though, you need a Crosslist subscription (if you don’t have one already), so go on and sign up. All of our pricing plans are affordable. There’s also a 3-day money-back guarantee (as long as you relist 20 or fewer eBay listings).
Step 1: Import your existing inventory to Crosslist
The first step is to bring all of your existing eBay inventory to Crosslist. If you’ve been using Crosslist for a while, and have your eBay inventory here already, you can skip this step and go right ahead to the next one.
For all the others… Log in to your Crosslist account and head over to the dashboard. You’ll see an Import button at the top left corner of the screen. Click on it.
A pop-up with all the marketplaces supported by Crosslist will appear on the screen.
Since we’re going to be bringing in your eBay listings, choose eBay from the list.
A yellow sync button will appear on the screen to indicate that your eBay inventory is being prepped and synced to our eBay relisting tool. Give it a few minutes to do its job — especially if you have a large inventory.
Once the sync process is complete, you’ll see a list of all of your eBay listings. They are now ready to be imported to Crosslist.
You can import your listings in one of two ways:
1. Import your full eBay inventory in one go (no matter how many listings you have)
2. Import specific listings in batches (you can import a maximum of 100 listings in a single batch)
If you have a large number of eBay listings, and are planning to relist them all at some point, the first option will be ideal for you. This way, even if you relist only a few listings on eBay and save the rest for later, you won’t have to keep repeating this step every time.
Before you ask: yes, whether you have 30 listings or 300, Crosslist will import them all together in bulk.
The first option also makes it easy to cross list your eBay listings to other platforms from Crosslist.
However, if you no longer sell certain items (and don’t think you ever will), or if you’re waiting on some inventory before selling a few products, you can pick the second option. This will let you search for and select the specific listings you want to relist.
You can use Crosslist’s advanced search bar to search for the listings you want to import. To make sure you’re not accidentally importing the same listings twice, toggle the Only show listings not yet imported button.
Once you’ve selected all the listings you want to import, click on the Import button and wait for our eBay relisting tool to bring all of them in.
Step 2: Navigate to the listing overview on Crosslist
The listing overview is just your dashboard where you’ll see all of your imported listings at a glance. Here’s all the information that this page contains:
Listing title
Preview image
SKU (if available)
Date on which the listing was created
Where the listing originated from (i.e. whether it was created inside Crosslist, or imported from a marketplace. Since we imported from eBay, the origin will show as “eBay”)
All the marketplaces it has been listed on
Any labels you’ve added to the listings
Since we’re only going to relist on eBay, we only need the listings that have been listed on eBay.
If you just imported your eBay listings through step 1, you can use the Origin tab to only show the listings that were created on eBay. If you were already a Crosslist user and had your eBay inventory here, use the Listed on tab to only show the listings that are live on eBay.
💡 Instead of just relisting eBay items, you can make changes to your listings to give them a fresher look. In addition to making sure that your listings reflect the latest information, this also gives you a boost in SEO. You can update your title, product description, prices, or product photos to better reflect the current trends.
While you can edit each listing manually, Crosslist makes it easier to edit them in bulk!
To edit the prices of your listings in bulk, use Crosslist’s bulk price mark-up feature. Go to Account settings → Price markup and enter a number or percentage in the box beside eBay. For example, if you enter 5%, then all of your eBay listing prices will increase by 5%. If you enter $5, all the listing prices will increase by $5. To mark down the prices, use negative numbers or percentages.
To make the same kind of edits to a large number of listings, you can use a template and apply it to all the required listings. Check out this guide on editing listings in bulk using templates.
Step 3: Select the listings you want to relist on eBay
From the listing overview, select all the listings you want to relist on eBay. If you want to relist everything, simply select all by checking the box at the top of the listings.
It’s worth noting that eBay relisting is actually a two-step process: delisting (i.e. deleting the listing) and then relisting it. But, when you use an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist, you don’t have to worry about deleting the listings first — Crosslist does it automatically.
Crosslist can also delist and relist your entire eBay inventory in bulk — all within minutes.
Once you’ve made your selection, click on the Bulk post (x) listings button at the top right corner of the screen.
You’ll see the same pop-up with the supported marketplaces again. Select eBay (since this is an eBay relist).
Step 4: Click the “Relist” button
Now, for the final step. On the same pop-up, you’ll see a Relist button at the bottom. Click on it, aaaaand your eBay relist is done!
Crosslist will automatically delete your existing eBay listings and replace them with fresh versions.
Since our eBay relisting tool has auto posting, all the listings will automatically go live on eBay. No more manual intervention needed from you at all.
With Crosslist, you also don’t have to worry about falling victim to rate limits or having your computer turn sluggish, as our tool uses a queuing system to distribute listings at periodic intervals.
Relisting a single listing on eBay using an eBay relisting tool
The above method works great for eBay relisting in bulk and separately. But, if you’re just going to relist a single listing, there’s an easier way.
1. Go to the listing overview and select the eBay listing you want to relist.
2. Click on the listing, which will open up all of its details. Make any changes you want to the listing fields.
3. Select eBay from the list of marketplaces on the left corner of the screen.
4. Click the Relist button at the bottom. That’s it!
Put your eBay relist strategy on autopilot with Crosslist, the #1 eBay relisting tool
Relisting on eBay manually eats up hours of your time every week. Crosslist gives you back that time by automating your eBay relist process. It’s quick, error-free, and affordable. And by saving time every week, you have more energy to focus on actually growing your business.
Stop relisting on eBay the hard way. Use Crosslist and put your eBay relisting strategy on autopilot. Sign up now.
It’s common for your eBay sales to lose steam over time. It could be a seasonal lowering of demand, a post-festive slump, or just a natural part of online selling. But, this doesn’t mean you can’t do anything about it.
And no, we aren’t talking about paid ads. The easiest way to get more visibility for your eBay listings and boost sales (without spending any money) is this: an eBay relist. In this guide, we go over how to relist on eBay, why it’s necessary, and how eBay relisting tools like Crosslist can speed up the process.
What is eBay relisting?
eBay relisting is the process of deleting your current eBay listing(s) and replacing them with an identical, or updated, listing (for the same products). It’s essentially giving your old listings a makeover to help them attract more attention.
Picture it this way. When you sell at a brick-and-mortar store, you typically stock the newest products at the front of the shelves, making them more visible. But, the downside is that your old, unsold products are now at the back of the shelves, invisible to customers.
To clear them out, you may periodically take them, dust them off, and place them at the front. This is essentially what an eBay relist is to your online store.
You can either relist on eBay manually, or have an eBay relisting tool do it for you, but more on that below.
Benefits of relisting on eBay
eBay relisting essentially gives your listings a second lease on life, which translates to more sales. This is primarily because of how eBay’s algorithm works. It prioritizes newer listings, showing them first to users. An eBay relist is considered the same as posting a new listing, so you'll get more eyeballs on your listings.
Here are the benefits of an eBay relist in detail:
SEO boost: eBay’s algorithm boosts new listings, so when a user searches for products in your category, they’ll see your relisted items towards the top. The online marketplace will also feature your listings prominently in the news feed.
More visibility: eBay users who have set saved alerts for products in your category will get a notification every time a new item is listed (or relisted). So, by relisting, your potential customers get notified.
Inventory refresh: Relisting old items that have gone stale refreshes your inventory, letting potential buyers know that you’re still actively selling.
More sales: When you relist, you essentially put your products in front of new users (again), which increases your chances of making sales.
When should you relist on eBay?
As a general rule of thumb, you should relist eBay items only when they’ve gone stale. We recommend waiting at least 40-60 days from the original post date before you go about relisting.
Apart from this, you can (and should) relist if:
You want to make significant changes to the product listing — either because you updated your product, or just want to refresh your listing with new product photos and better tags
You notice your listing accumulating poor statistics (for example, your views trickle down to zero)
You haven’t made a single sale from the listing in over a month
You have multiple variants of a particular product listed, but haven’t had any luck in selling a few of the variants
Your eBay listing has expired, or you ended the listing early, but you still have the product in stock
You’re selling seasonal items and the peak season is coming up
Does eBay automatically relist your listings?
eBay has a feature called “automatic relisting” that will automatically relist your products once the listing ends. This applies to both static and auction-style listings. The caveat is that this option is available only to new sellers and those who sell occasionally, so if you’re a frequent seller, you might not have it.
eBay typically relists your unsold auction-style listings for a maximum of up to 8 times. The platform also automatically relists your items when a buyer cancels the order, or when you refund someone.
It’s worth keeping in mind that an automatic eBay relist virtually changes nothing. Here’s a quick comparison table:
Automatic eBay relist | Puts your listing back up with its original history, listing ID, and post date | Only good for listings that have great stats and sales history |
Sell similar (i.e. manually relist) | Treats it as a fresh listing; new post date with stats and sales history wiped clean | Great for listings with poor performance |
How often should you relist eBay items?
While eBay relisting your stale listings is a good strategy, you should also take care not to do it too often. Let your listings gather data and watchers first. If it performs well, you may not even have to relist it for a while.
Frequent eBay relists may get your account flagged for suspicious activity, which could result in a warning, suspension, restriction, or even account termination.
Moreover, frequently relisting your eBay items may also send the signal that you don’t have any new stock to sell. This may deter potential customers from checking out your account.
How to relist eBay items manually
Here’s a brief step-by-step process that you can follow to relist eBay items right from the platform.
Step 1: Go to eBay and navigate to the specific listing you want to refresh.
Step 2: Copy all the listing details into a separate document and delete the listing from eBay.
Step 3: Create a new listing on eBay and populate it with the details you copied of your deleted listing. If it has been a while since you posted the old listing, you can update the title, description, prices, or photos if needed.
Step 4: Post the listing.
The manual eBay relisting process is fine for a single listing or two. But, if you’re serious about improving your sales, you need to have a relisting strategy in place. This involves periodically refreshing your listings so that they aren’t forgotten.
For example, if you have 200 active listings, your relisting strategy might be to refresh 20 listings each week. Obviously, doing this manually is going to be very difficult and time-consuming. Even if copying, deleting, and relisting a single listing takes 15 minutes, you’ll be spending 5 hours each week on this process alone.
This is where an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist comes into play. It automates the whole process for you, helping you relist eBay items in bulk within minutes instead of hours (yes, really).
Here’s a quick comparison of how the two process compare:
Relisting on eBay manually | Using an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist |
Very time-consuming; will likely eat up hours of your time | Quick and easy; only takes minutes |
Wastes a lot of energy that would be better spent on growth strategy | Only takes the click of a few buttons |
Highly prone to error | Error-free |
Bottom line: Using an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist to automate your relisting strategy is the smarter choice.
We’ll show you how it works.
Use an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist
This simple 4-step process illustrates how Crosslist makes it easy to relist on eBay in bulk. It will only take you a few minutes, we promise! 🙂
Before we begin, though, you need a Crosslist subscription (if you don’t have one already), so go on and sign up. All of our pricing plans are affordable. There’s also a 3-day money-back guarantee (as long as you relist 20 or fewer eBay listings).
Step 1: Import your existing inventory to Crosslist
The first step is to bring all of your existing eBay inventory to Crosslist. If you’ve been using Crosslist for a while, and have your eBay inventory here already, you can skip this step and go right ahead to the next one.
For all the others… Log in to your Crosslist account and head over to the dashboard. You’ll see an Import button at the top left corner of the screen. Click on it.
A pop-up with all the marketplaces supported by Crosslist will appear on the screen.
Since we’re going to be bringing in your eBay listings, choose eBay from the list.
A yellow sync button will appear on the screen to indicate that your eBay inventory is being prepped and synced to our eBay relisting tool. Give it a few minutes to do its job — especially if you have a large inventory.
Once the sync process is complete, you’ll see a list of all of your eBay listings. They are now ready to be imported to Crosslist.
You can import your listings in one of two ways:
1. Import your full eBay inventory in one go (no matter how many listings you have)
2. Import specific listings in batches (you can import a maximum of 100 listings in a single batch)
If you have a large number of eBay listings, and are planning to relist them all at some point, the first option will be ideal for you. This way, even if you relist only a few listings on eBay and save the rest for later, you won’t have to keep repeating this step every time.
Before you ask: yes, whether you have 30 listings or 300, Crosslist will import them all together in bulk.
The first option also makes it easy to cross list your eBay listings to other platforms from Crosslist.
However, if you no longer sell certain items (and don’t think you ever will), or if you’re waiting on some inventory before selling a few products, you can pick the second option. This will let you search for and select the specific listings you want to relist.
You can use Crosslist’s advanced search bar to search for the listings you want to import. To make sure you’re not accidentally importing the same listings twice, toggle the Only show listings not yet imported button.
Once you’ve selected all the listings you want to import, click on the Import button and wait for our eBay relisting tool to bring all of them in.
Step 2: Navigate to the listing overview on Crosslist
The listing overview is just your dashboard where you’ll see all of your imported listings at a glance. Here’s all the information that this page contains:
Listing title
Preview image
SKU (if available)
Date on which the listing was created
Where the listing originated from (i.e. whether it was created inside Crosslist, or imported from a marketplace. Since we imported from eBay, the origin will show as “eBay”)
All the marketplaces it has been listed on
Any labels you’ve added to the listings
Since we’re only going to relist on eBay, we only need the listings that have been listed on eBay.
If you just imported your eBay listings through step 1, you can use the Origin tab to only show the listings that were created on eBay. If you were already a Crosslist user and had your eBay inventory here, use the Listed on tab to only show the listings that are live on eBay.
💡 Instead of just relisting eBay items, you can make changes to your listings to give them a fresher look. In addition to making sure that your listings reflect the latest information, this also gives you a boost in SEO. You can update your title, product description, prices, or product photos to better reflect the current trends.
While you can edit each listing manually, Crosslist makes it easier to edit them in bulk!
To edit the prices of your listings in bulk, use Crosslist’s bulk price mark-up feature. Go to Account settings → Price markup and enter a number or percentage in the box beside eBay. For example, if you enter 5%, then all of your eBay listing prices will increase by 5%. If you enter $5, all the listing prices will increase by $5. To mark down the prices, use negative numbers or percentages.
To make the same kind of edits to a large number of listings, you can use a template and apply it to all the required listings. Check out this guide on editing listings in bulk using templates.
Step 3: Select the listings you want to relist on eBay
From the listing overview, select all the listings you want to relist on eBay. If you want to relist everything, simply select all by checking the box at the top of the listings.
It’s worth noting that eBay relisting is actually a two-step process: delisting (i.e. deleting the listing) and then relisting it. But, when you use an eBay relisting tool like Crosslist, you don’t have to worry about deleting the listings first — Crosslist does it automatically.
Crosslist can also delist and relist your entire eBay inventory in bulk — all within minutes.
Once you’ve made your selection, click on the Bulk post (x) listings button at the top right corner of the screen.
You’ll see the same pop-up with the supported marketplaces again. Select eBay (since this is an eBay relist).
Step 4: Click the “Relist” button
Now, for the final step. On the same pop-up, you’ll see a Relist button at the bottom. Click on it, aaaaand your eBay relist is done!
Crosslist will automatically delete your existing eBay listings and replace them with fresh versions.
Since our eBay relisting tool has auto posting, all the listings will automatically go live on eBay. No more manual intervention needed from you at all.
With Crosslist, you also don’t have to worry about falling victim to rate limits or having your computer turn sluggish, as our tool uses a queuing system to distribute listings at periodic intervals.
Relisting a single listing on eBay using an eBay relisting tool
The above method works great for eBay relisting in bulk and separately. But, if you’re just going to relist a single listing, there’s an easier way.
1. Go to the listing overview and select the eBay listing you want to relist.
2. Click on the listing, which will open up all of its details. Make any changes you want to the listing fields.
3. Select eBay from the list of marketplaces on the left corner of the screen.
4. Click the Relist button at the bottom. That’s it!
Put your eBay relist strategy on autopilot with Crosslist, the #1 eBay relisting tool
Relisting on eBay manually eats up hours of your time every week. Crosslist gives you back that time by automating your eBay relist process. It’s quick, error-free, and affordable. And by saving time every week, you have more energy to focus on actually growing your business.
Stop relisting on eBay the hard way. Use Crosslist and put your eBay relisting strategy on autopilot. Sign up now.