Sams Teach Yourself eBay® in 10 Minutes

Lesson 20. Managing Your Item Listings

In this lesson, you learn how to manage your in-progress eBay item listings.

Editing an Item Listing

When your listing is complete, the auction itself begins. But what if, for whatever reason, you need to make a change to your listing? Fortunately, if there’s something incorrect in your listing, or if you just want to add or change details, eBay lets you revise it.

If you haven’t received any bids yet and there are more than 12 hours left before your listing expires (or the end of the auction), you can edit anything you want about your listing—the title, description, pictures, starting price, you name it. If the item has received a bid, you can only add information to your description—you can’t change the ...