The shop answers, so Sellhelm asks
Sellhelm reads the product page itself, on your schedule, while Sellhelm is running on your PC. Up to two pages at once with a short pause, so it never looks like an attack.
Suppliers
10 shops. One clean listing, every time.
Paste a product link from any of 10 shops, or any other shop with an ordinary product page, and Sellhelm reads the price, the stock and the photographs, then builds a ready-to-list draft. No typing prices by hand, no guessing what is still in stock, no missed price rise.
- 2read directly
- 1read gently, one page at a time
- 7read through your own Chrome
- + anyother shop you paste a link from
A shop's page
"price": "96.40", "availability": "InStock"
Another shop's
Was $129.99 Now $96.40 · Only 3 left
And another
Sale $96.40 · Add to cart
What Sellhelm keeps
- Cost
- $96.40
- Stock
- In stock
- Photos
- Measured
- Specification
- Neat rows
- Selling points
- From the shop's copy
- Category
- Suggested
Not on the list?
Ask us to add your shop.
You can paste a link from any shop into Sellhelm and it will do its best, but a shop with its own reader is much more reliable. Tell us the shop you buy from and we will look at the ones people ask for most. A shop is added to the list only after it has been tested on real product pages.
- It takes a minute. Only the shop's address is needed.
- Leave an email if you want to hear when it is added. We use it for that and nothing else.
What Sellhelm reads for eBay US today.
10 shops have their own reader so far, listed below. Any other shop with an ordinary product page can be pasted and Sellhelm will try its general reader, described further down. A shop joins this list only once it has been proven on real pages, so it stays short and true.
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Amazon
Read gently- Price
- The buy box's "price to pay", never the list price or another seller's price further down
- Stock
- From the page
- Photos
- Full gallery
Good to know 3
- Shows a robot check after a handful of pages; Sellhelm stops asking and the product waits for your browser. It never tries to get past the check.
- Read Prime delivery from your own signed-in browser: a plain request sees no membership and a guessed address.
- A product address is one color or size: open the variant you want and paste that address.
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Ashley Furniture
Through Chrome- Price
- The page's sale price, never the crossed-out original
- Stock
- The page's own answer; some clearance items are final sale
- Photos
- Up to 1600px; swatches and dimension drawings left out
Good to know 3
- Refuses a server, so every page is read in your own Chrome.
- Sold from local stores: the price and stock shown assume no store is chosen, so check a few against what a buyer in your area sees.
- Delivery cost and time are not read: set a delivery cost for this shop.
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Best Buy
Through Chrome- Price
- The page's price - a page selling New alongside Open-Box at different prices is refused
- Stock
- The page's own answer
- Photos
- Full gallery, the shop's own product photos only
Good to know 3
- Refuses a server, so every page is read in your own Chrome.
- A page whose New and Open-Box options cost different amounts is refused, because the address does not say which condition you mean.
- Delivery cost and time are not read: set a delivery cost for this shop.
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eBay (item pages)
Read directly- Price
- The item price plus the seller's shipping (free shipping counts as $0)
- Stock
- The quantity eBay shows for the listing; an ended listing is read as out of stock
Good to know 3
- Read through eBay's own API with the keys you saved in Settings. eBay's item pages refuse a program, but eBay answers its own API. It is public listing data only, and the seller's name is never read.
- A listing with options (color, size) has one price per option: open the option you want on eBay and paste that address.
- Check eBay's own rules on reselling another seller's listing.
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Home Depot
Through Chrome- Price
- The page's own price, never the crossed-out original
- Stock
- The real count next to "ready to ship" or "available"
- Photos
- Upgraded to the shop's own 2000px originals
Good to know 3
- Refuses a server, so every page is read in your own Chrome.
- Sells its own labels (Home Decorators Collection, StyleWell, HDX ...) and other makers' brands: check trademark rules before you list them.
- Delivery cost and time are not read: set a delivery cost for this shop.
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IKEA
Read directly- Price
- The everyday price in dollars; delivery and the IKEA Family price are not in it
- Stock
- IKEA's home-delivery answer for its default area
- Photos
- Full gallery at 2000px
Good to know 3
- Only ikea.com/us/ addresses count; IKEA's other countries are different shops with their own prices.
- Every color or size is its own address with its own price and stock.
- Product names (BILLY, HEMNES ...) are IKEA's own trademarks: check IKEA's terms and eBay's resale rules.
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Kohl's
Through Chrome- Price
- The sale price when the page has one, otherwise the regular price
- Stock
- The page's own answer, per option
- Photos
- 1500px photos in the shop's own order
Good to know 3
- Refuses a server, so every page is read in your own Chrome.
- A page whose colors or sizes cost different amounts is refused, because the address does not say which one.
- Delivery cost and time are not read: set a delivery cost for this shop.
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Macy's
Through Chrome- Price
- The sale price on the page while a sale runs
- Stock
- From the page; a sold-out closeout can show no price at all
- Photos
- Up to 1600px, in the page's own order
Good to know 3
- Refuses a server, so every page is read in your own Chrome.
- Some items are sold by another company through Macy's: those pages are refused.
- A furniture return sometimes goes to the maker by mail, not a Macy's store: check each product's own returns.
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Walmart
Through Chrome- Price
- The current price, never the crossed-out "was" price - only when Walmart itself is the seller
- Stock
- The page's own answer
- Photos
- Full gallery, the shop's own full-size files
Good to know 4
- Refuses a server, so every page is read in your own Chrome.
- Most search results are other companies selling through Walmart: a page not sold by Walmart itself is refused, because the price and shipping are the seller's, not Walmart's.
- Sells its own labels (Mainstays, Better Homes & Gardens, Ozark Trail ...) and other makers' brands: check trademark rules before you list them.
- Delivery cost and time are not read: set a delivery cost for this shop.
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Wayfair
Through Chrome- Price
- The sale price beside the crossed-out "was" price
- Stock
- Whether the Add to Cart button is on the page
- Photos
- 1200px, named product photos only
Good to know 3
- Refuses a server, so every page is read in your own Chrome.
- Wayfair's own labels (Ebern Designs, Wade Logan ...) are not named in the page heading.
- Delivery depends on your buyer's zip code and is not read: set a delivery cost for this shop.
- You ask for a shopTell us the shop you buy from, and a product link if you have one.
- We test it on real pagesPrice, stock and photographs are read from real product pages, not guessed from a design.
- It is added only when it reads rightA shop that does not read cleanly is not listed, so the list is never longer than the truth.
- It appears on this pageWith its own notes on what is different about it.
Shop names are shown only to say what Sellhelm can read. They belong to their owners, and Sellhelm is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by any of them.
How a page gets read, and what happens when a shop pushes back.
The shop limits bursts, so Sellhelm slows down
The same direct read, but one page at a time with a gap of over a second between them. A long list never gets you blocked.
The shop refuses programs, so your browser does it
The Chrome extension opens the page the way you would, in a background tab, reads it and closes it. It opens public shop pages only, never eBay accounts or anything on your own network.
- A shop refuses Sellhelma "forbidden" answer, a limit, or a robot check
- It is left alone for 15 minutesand the products are queued for your browser
- Your browser reads themup to four pages a cycle, one tab at a time
- A page that keeps failing waitsafter five tries it is set aside for a day, or press Retry
Sellhelm never solves a captcha. If a shop shows one, the tab is brought forward for you to answer, or the product simply waits.
What comes out of a page.
The same clean result whichever shop it came from, so your drafts, prices and listings all look alike.
- Title
- The product's name, with the shop's own name cut out of it.
- Price
- The price a buyer pays now, in dollars. Crossed-out, list and MSRP prices are ignored. Sales tax added at the till is not included.
- Stock
- In stock, low stock or out of stock, from the shop's own words or counts. Unclear means unknown, and unknown is never acted on.
- Photographs
- Up to 24 per product. Each is fetched and measured, so you know which are big enough before you list.
- Specification
- Up to 40 neat key-and-value rows, with units converted, from tables, lists and the shop's data.
- Selling points and features
- Up to 6 selling points and 8 feature cards, taken from the shop's own copy.
- In the box and warnings
- Up to 12 "in the box" items and 4 safety notes, where the page has them. A block with nothing to say is dropped.
- Category and identifiers
- The category path (without the product's own name), color, brand, and the barcode and product code where the shop publishes them.
How it decides a product is in stock.
The words that mean "you cannot ship this" are checked first: out of stock, sold out, discontinued, back order, coming soon. Then low stock. Then in stock. Anything else is unknown, and unknown is never acted on.
3In stockthe quantity sent to eBay by default
1Low stock"only a few left", "last one"
0Out of stockheld if it would end the listing
The three quantities are your settings. Where a shop shows a real count (eBay does), that count decides between the three.
What Sellhelm refuses to guess.
A wrong price on a live listing costs more than a product that waits for a human. So on anything doubtful, Sellhelm stops.
- A price in another currencyIt is not used.
- A page with several optionsIf it cannot tell which option you mean, it refuses the page rather than pricing the first one.
- Crossed-out and club prices"Was $100, now $80" reads as $80. Membership and club prices are ignored.
- The wrong pageA redirect to another website, a maintenance page or an error page is refused and retried later.
- Promotional linesShop banners such as "price match", "sign up" and newsletter prompts, in-store offers and Klarna or PayPal Credit promotions are dropped from your listing.
- A reading it does not understandYour listing is left exactly as it was, and the product is flagged so you can look.
- A captcha or robot checkIt never tries to get past one. The shop is left alone and the product waits for your browser.
Set what is different about each shop, once.
Shops charge differently for shipping. Tell Sellhelm once and it is in every price from that shop.
- What shipping costs you. Per shop, or per product, so a shop that charges $7.95 is in every price.
- The shipping, returns and payment policies its listings use. Changing them asks first, and skips any product with its own.
- A listing template for each shop, seeded with your default design, which you can edit.
A shop that is not on the list?
Paste its product link anyway. Sellhelm tries its general reader, which looks in the places most shops publish their details, in this order:
- the page's structured product data
- microdata
- meta tags
- the page's own data
- the visible page, as a last resort
What you get
Price, stock, photos and details for any public shop that publishes them, and a probe on Sellhelm's Suppliers page that shows you how a link reads before you add it.
What you do not
No shop-specific fixes and no ready-made template, and a shop with no standard data may read poorly. Check the first few products you add from a new shop before you rely on it. If it refuses Sellhelm, the extension asks you once for permission to read it in your browser. To have a shop added properly, ask from your account or use the form above.
Your responsibility, said plainly.
Some shops' terms restrict automated reading, and Sellhelm cannot make that decision for you. Read a shop's terms before you rely on it.
Photographs and words belong to whoever wrote them. Check you may use what you list, and that a shop can supply what you sell.
Some brands carry trademark rules, and eBay has its own rules on where stock may come from. You are responsible for following them.
Your buyers never see where the stock comes from. Sellhelm strips a shop's name from your titles and refuses to send a listing that names one, however it is spelled.
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