Importing Listings from AbeBooks

[tonyreddevil]

is it done

[Salomina27]

Im impressed! Go Gazza!
Unbeatable the support from the top here and how quick responses are, they must have so much to do and worry about continuously yet still always find time to communicate and participate here!
Isnt it refreshig after all the robotic, slow, automated,couldnt care less replies from support elsewhere out of this site, if you even GET a reply at all|

[humanist]

Unbeatable the support from the top here and how quick responses are, they must have so much to do and worry about continuously yet still always find time to communicate and participate here!
Isnt it refreshig after all the robotic, slow, automated,couldnt care less replies from support elsewhere out of this site, if you even GET a reply at all|

Agreed. And I'm delighted because my listings have now increased by over 1600 items with very little effort!

[Anniemcc2]

Yayyyy !

[humanist]

A couple of problems, which I have informed the management about, the main one being that it's not possible to import pictures across. So now I have 1600 items with no pictures. But it'll give me something do do on a rainy day (or month)!

[gazza]

We're ironing out what we can and are working on a solution to the photo problem...

[humanist]

We're ironing out what we can and are working on a solution to the photo problem...

Thanks Gazza. Most of the sellers on ABE don't upload scans to the items that they are selling and just leave the ABE system to display 'stock' pictures. But I think that the ones that have taken the time to scan all their books would be much more interested in also offering their stock on eBid if they could include the pics without having to add them one at a time.

ABE have no system in place to stop anyone from saving the pictures from the listings on there - just the usual right click & 'save as' does the trick. So I guess it may be possible to develop a way to harvest the pics with the listings. And I wouldn't think there would be any copyright issues, because the seller scanned the pics themselves when placing the listing.

[gazza]

We've ironed out a few of the importing errors that are occurring. See new version of NL 0.99.62.

Soon we will also automatically add a stock photo if
i) you include a barcode in your uploads
ii) choose Gallery
iii) have Books, Comics & Mags as your parent category.
and
iv) Leave the image field empty

We've already removed the error that would occur when uploading from NL for this combination and will soon have the stock photo function working on the My Bulk Upload side

[humanist]

Stock photos are better than none of course, but a large number of the books I sell were published before isbn numbers were introduced. Does it look like its not going to be possible to automatically add images that an ABE user has scanned and used on ABE listings?