Judy:

You're right about the eBay store. It's too bad, but at least as far as I can figure out, Google will only let you do store items. However, as you said before if your auctions are related to a store category then they too will go to GoogleBase.

After a week or so using GoogleBase I found out that every time I have a "major" closing of auctions or upload new material it is a good idea to do the GoogleBase upload. First (again as you said Judy) it will allow you to delete closed/sold items and it will upload everything that can be found in your store. Also you can decide not to list some categories or some items within a category.

The best solution for me has been to redo GoogleBase at least twice a week. It doesn't take a lot of time and you can be doing other stuff while it works so you're not just sitting looking at the screen. Once I started doing the multiple times a week thing with GoogleBase I found that I got a much better result.

Sue mentioned the big guys trampling over her items. I've had that happen to me since day one. So listing more than once a week has given me just a tiny edge over them. I don't know if a daily upload makes any sense? Has anyone tried a daily upload even if your items haven't changed on eBay?

Even with the biggies stepping all over my stuff I still get sales and it has been worthwhile. The great part has been that everything that sells is already in awk2 so the invoicing is sure easy. Once I get a GoogleBase sale it is treated exactly as if it was purchased on eBay using all of the aw2k functions.

Enough of my rambling on - just wanted to put my two cents worth in about GoogleBase. It isn't a great deal of work at all and it is worth it. Even if it is only 10 additional sales a week it is free and that's ten more sales that wouldn't have been made otherwise.

Garry