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Revise a listing

You can usually make changes to your eBay listings, but there are some restrictions depending on what you want to change and when. There's no fee to revise a listing unless you add a special feature.

To revise a listing, select the button below:

Revise listing - opens in new window or tab

You can revise your listings any time in My eBay. Here's how:

  1. In Selling activity - opens in new window or tab, find the listing you'd like to revise.
  2. Select Revise from More actions.
  3. Make your changes, then select Revise it to save the updated listing.

You can also revise multiple listings in Seller Hub. Here's how:

  1. Go to your Active listings - opens in new window or tab in Seller Hub.
  2. Tick the box beside each listing you want to make a change to.
  3. Select the Edit drop down to make your changes.

What can I change?

Here's an overview of what you can change and when you can do it:

  • For most listings on eBay, you can edit a listing title, add or change photos, and add optional listing upgrades at any time
  • For fixed price (Buy It Now) listings and auction-style listings with more than 12 hours left and no bids, you can lower the price
  • In most cases, you can't change the listing duration or format. However, you can send a fixed price listing to auction by going to Seller Hub Active Listings - opens in new window or tab and selecting Change to auction from the Actions menu
    • If you change from fixed price to auction, you won't have the option to add a Buy It Now option
    • The previous view and watcher information from the fixed price listing won't be carried over to the auction listing
    • If the fixed price listing has only one item, it will be ended when the auction listing is created
    • If the fixed price listing has more than one item, one item will be sent to the auction listing and the quantity in the fixed price listing will decrease by one
  • If you'd like to sell a different item, you'll need to create a new listing for the item, instead of editing an existing listing

For more details, see our eBay rules and policies page or our policy on revising listings.

Auction-style listings

What you can change in an auction-style listing depends on how much time is left on the listing.

More than 12 hours

What's changeable depends on whether your listing has received any bids.

No bids

You can:

  • Remove the following optional listing upgrades: Buy It Now, reserve price, 10-day listing (in applicable categories)
  • Edit postage options, including carrier and postage costs
  • Add optional listing upgrades to increase your item's visibility (fees may apply)
  • Add or change photos
  • Add a second category, unless there are category restrictions (fees may apply)
  • Adjust the starting price of your item. (You won't receive credit for any difference in your fees)
  • Edit your listing's title

You can't:

  • Change the listing format
  • Extend the listing duration if 2 or more hours have passed since the listing was submitted
 
Bids

You can:

  • Add a second category, unless there are category restrictions (fees may apply)
  • Add to the item description
  • Add photos
  • Add optional listing upgrades to increase your item's visibility
  • Decrease the cost for existing postage services
  • Add a new domestic postage option

You can't:

  • Change the listing format
  • Change the listing duration
  • Change the starting price
  • Edit the listing description
  • Increase the cost for an existing postage service
  • Remove an existing domestic postage option
 
 
Less than 12 hours

What's changeable depends on whether your listing has received any bids.

No bids

You can:

  • Change the category and add item specifics
  • Add a second category, unless there are category restrictions (fees may apply)
  • Add to the item description
  • Add optional listing upgrades to increase your item's visibility (fees may apply)
  • Add photos
  • Add new post-to locations
  • Decrease the cost for existing postage services

You can't:

  • Change the listing duration
  • Change the starting price
  • Add a new domestic postage option
 
Bids

You can:

  • Add optional listing upgrades to increase your listing's visibility (fees may apply)
  • Answer buyers' questions (but you can't post the questions and answers to your listing)
  • Add new post-to locations
  • Decrease the cost for existing postage services
  • Add a new domestic postage option

You can't:

  • Change the listing duration
  • Change the starting price
  • Increase the cost for an existing postage service
  • Remove an existing domestic postage option
  • Edit the listing description
 

Fixed price listings

What you can change in your fixed price listing depends on whether there have been any purchases from the listing.

Purchases

You can:

  • Decrease the price
  • Edit the title
  • Change the primary and secondary category
  • Change the quantity and Store category
  • Add or remove optional listing upgrade (fees may apply if you add listing upgrades, and you won't receive a refund for any listing upgrades you remove)
  • Add to the description
  • Add or change photos
  • Lower the Buy It Now price of your item
  • Increase or decrease the number of items for sale
  • Edit the postage details (note that buyers who made a purchase prior to any postage detail changes are charged the original postage cost during checkout)
  • Add or remove variations to the listing (if it is a multi-variation listing)

You can't:

  • Edit variations on the listing (if it is a multi-variation listing)
 
No purchases

You can:

  • Edit the title
  • Add or remove a Best Offer
  • Change the primary and secondary category (fees may apply if you add a second category)
  • Add or change the gallery photo
  • Add or change photos
  • Adjust the Buy It Now price of your item
  • Increase or decrease the number of items for sale
  • Edit the postage details
  • Add or remove variations to the listing (if it is a multi-variation listing)

You can't:

  • Edit variations on the listing (if it is a multi-variation listing)
 

When an offer is sent or received

Offers can be sent or received for auction-style or fixed price listings (but not auction and fixed price listings combined)

When an offer is sent or received

You can:

  • Add optional listing upgrades to increase your listing's visibility (fees may apply)
  • Answer buyers' questions through messaging, but you can't update the description with new information to your listing
  • Change the available quantity of the listing
  • Add additional postage options, including local pickup
  • Add additional photos (on an auction-style listing), but not remove existing photos
  • Add additional, separate description (on an auction-style listing)

You can't:

  • Change the listing duration (on an auction-style listing)
  • Change the starting price (on an auction-style listing)
  • Change the item specifics/aspects of your listings
  • Change or add to the existing postage details
  • Edit the existing listing description
 
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