How good are the drafts? Look at the work
Here is one lot, from four shots on a phone to a listing a person checks. You will see what comes back and what does not.
We list our own inventory with it every day, in Mid-Michigan. Unshelf is not for sale before mid-2027.
From the shots to the listing
- ShootScan a code on the shop screen with any phone or tablet. Tap Next item between items. Nothing to install.
- FixedThe photos come back upright and sized. Tilted labels are straightened and borders trimmed. Dark shots are brightened when they need it. Location data is stripped, and a mailing label you mark is blurred.
- WrittenA title, a category, item details from eBay's lists with the required ones flagged, condition notes and a description.
- Priced and boxedA price suggestion that says where it came from, and a box and weight estimate. Weigh one kind of box once and it is remembered.
- Checked by youIt lands on the review page. Anything Unshelf is unsure of is held, with the reason. Nothing posts until you approve it.
Shoot a whole pile and you get separate drafts. If an item is already listed, the new shots are offered as extra photos for that listing. The review page shows what you do next.
Low-value items go into lots
A single tape is not worth a listing, a box and a label. Anything under your floor goes to the bundler without you asking. It builds lots by decade, genre, show, franchise, series or a set that goes together. A run of fanzines is kept together. The best piece goes first, the lot is priced under the pieces' total, and the buyer sees the saving. Every photo below shows all the items in its lot.
Trading Places, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Thunderbolt, grouped by decade. 
On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Hud, two 1960s films on tape. 
The X-Files, From Russia with Love and Lost in Space in one lot. 
Two thrillers, No Man's Land and Seven, sold together. 
Eight Star Trek fanzines, kept together as a run. 
Comics and a Wizard magazine, one reading lot. 
Five Ford dealer bulletins from 1935 and 1936. 
Independence Day, Apocalypse Now and Pulp Fiction, four shots.
You set the rules for lots
Any item can be set to always go in a lot, never, or let Unshelf decide. You set the floor. The price a lot aims for and the most a lot may be discounted are settings too, though they have no screen of their own yet.
A consignor's items stay with their own, and putting them in a lot needs a yes.
It looks across everything waiting, not one item at a time. It can also suggest folding slow listings into lots, and you approve each one. Or build your own lot by hand.
Lots land on the review page, like every other listing.
Offers go out while you work
Once a day, watchers get an offer at the discount you choose. It never goes below your floor, your cost or a consignor's minimum.
The defaults wait for at least one watcher, leave a listing up three days first, and leave a week between offers. You can change all three.
Best Offer works the same way: set a price and offers at or above it are accepted automatically, and offers at or under another price are declined. Between the two, you decide.
What it does not do yet
It does not yet check an item against public records such as recall lists, and it does not yet warn you before you list something eBay might not allow. Both are Planned.
Repricing old listings from your own sales is Planned too.
Bring us a box of low-value items
Tell us what you sell and how many pieces sit under your floor. We write back within two working days to set a time.
$49 and $99 a month are the prices we expect to charge when Unshelf opens to other sellers, no earlier than mid-2027. Nothing is for sale yet and nobody is charged.