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Blackthorne Basic is a sales management tool that lets you create professional listings in bulk, track your listings on eBay, and manage communication with your buyers. It can save you hours of work and help you get paid faster.


Creating professional listings

Blackthorne Basic helps sellers create professionally formatted listings with easy-to-use templates. Just select a layout, enter your item description, and Blackthorne Basic will create an attractive eBay listing instantly. You can even spell-check your listings before uploading.

Blackthorne can also automatically insert payment terms, tax, shipping, or any other messages you want to include. You only have to enter this information once—no matter how many listings you create.

Tracking your sales

Blackthorne Basic offers powerful tools for tracking items, transactions, and customers. Use it to automatically retrieve information about your eBay listings, including item number, current price, and buyer.

Managing communication with your buyers

With Blackthorne Basic, you can create standard emails for all your customer communication, including sales invoices and notifications to customers when items have shipped or when payments are received. You can also leave Feedback in bulk. Simply create your standard Feedback comments and use them to leave Feedback for a single buyer or a group of buyers.

Subscribing to Blackthorne Basic

A subscription to Blackthorne Basic is free for the first 30 days. After that, it costs $9.99 a month. Note that insertion and final value fees still apply during the 30-day trial period. You can cancel your subscription at any time during the trial.

To subscribe to Blackthorne Basic:
  1. Go to My eBay and sign in.

  2. Place your pointer over the Account tab and select Subscriptions.

  3. Under eBay Blackthorne, click the Subscribe link next to Blackthorne Basic. For security reasons, you need to sign in again.

  4. Accept the User Agreement.

  5. Follow the instructions to download and install the Blackthorne software on your computer.

To unsubscribe to Blackthorne Basic:
  1. Go to My eBay and sign in.

  2. Place your pointer over the Account tab and select Subscriptions.

  3. Under eBay Blackthorne, click the Unsubscribe link next to Blackthorne Basic. For security reasons, you need to sign in again.

  4. Follow the instructions.

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