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Members may notice that in their control panel is a link for our Bulklister. We’ve had a number of questions regarding the bulklister for listing Jeep parts, so we’re hoping to answer some of the most common ones here and explain what a bulklister is.

A bulklister is most often used by those who are in the business of selling Jeeps and Jeep parts, or have a vast majority of items that they continuously sell. Bulklisters are used in conjunction with a .csv file in which items are listed and delineated with a separator character such as a hash bar, comma, or other character.

This delineated file can show a variety of information the seller wants to display, such as the title of the item, stock number, a url address of picture to be displayed, a description, price of the item, and other information.

If you’re lost at this point, the bulklister probably isn’t something you’ll need, but to continue, a delineated .csv file might appear as below, shown as a small part of a text file:

With our bulklister, we offer the ability for members to create their own .csv files for use on Bid4Jeeps. It can also import .csv files that you prepare on your desktop.

It should be pointed out that the preparation of a .csv file can be a tenuous task, which is why most sellers don’t create one. It is much simpler to just list a few items at a time after setting the prefilled fields/global settings on your account. Only advanced computer users familiar with a bulklister should try to tackle using the bulklister. You should also be aware that the bulklister we provide was developed by a third party we outsourced to create it for our use. It functions, but we hoped for something better.

However, for our members who use eBay and turbolister, we have plans to install a new feature before summer arrives, depending upon the amount of members we have. It will be costly and we have to weigh the expense against the amount of use it will actually have.

This new program we hope to have installed will allow anyone using eBay and their turbolister to import all their eBay listings to Bid4Jeeps with as few as 3 simple clicks. Your ebay listing will be copied to Bid4Jeeps, transferring all information and having your Bid4Jeeps listings appear exactly as they do on eBay.