Crosslist from Tilt to eBay — Automatically
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- Tilt: a London-built live-auction app for fashion, streetwear and collectibles, live in four markets — the UK, Spain, Poland and Italy — with over a million buyers.
- eBay: the broadest marketplace on the internet, with more than 130 million active buyers across 190 markets, and no seller fees at all for UK private sellers since September 2024.
- The strongest reason to run both: Tilt is a closed, curated, apply-to-join community of a few thousand sellers. eBay is open to everyone and indexed by Google. Different discovery entirely.
- Titles are the one thing to watch: Tilt allows 100 characters, eBay allows 80. FLUF cuts on a word boundary rather than mid-word, but a long Tilt title will lose its tail.
- Inventory sync runs both ways — Tilt began emitting real sale signals on 15 August 2026, so a sale on either channel withdraws the item from the other.
- Check Tilt’s cross-platform policy first: while an item is live on Tilt, Tilt asks you not to list it elsewhere. Crosslist the stock that has already run and not sold — details below.
- Cost: 7 days for £1, then plans from £9/month (Starter — 300 products). There is no free plan.
Why sell on both Tilt and eBay?
Tilt and eBay solve opposite discovery problems, which is the whole argument for running them together. Tilt puts your item in front of a room of people who are already watching you sell. eBay puts it in front of somebody typing the exact model name into Google at eleven at night, eight months later. Neither audience is reachable from the other platform, and the item does not care which one buys it.
Tilt is a curated live-auction marketplace built by Retro Labs Ltd in London. You apply to sell on it, with a stated minimum of 15 to 20 items ready to go, and applications are accepted from five countries. It raised $26 million in June 2026 and says it has grown eightfold since 2024. The seller fee is 2% plus 50p a transaction, with the buyer separately paying a protection fee of 50p plus 5% of the order up to £150 and 3% above it.
eBay is the opposite in every structural respect. It is open — no application, no minimum inventory, no category approval for ordinary fashion — and it is enormous: eBay reported its most recent quarterly results against an active-buyer base of over 130 million. It is also the only one of the two whose listings are systematically indexed by search engines, which means an eBay listing keeps working as a search result long after you have forgotten about it.
The fee comparison is the part most sellers get wrong, because it depends entirely on which kind of seller you are. Since eBay UK removed private-seller fees in September 2024, a UK private seller pays eBay nothing at all — no listing fee, no final value fee — and the buyer pays a Buyer Protection fee instead. A UK business seller still pays category-based final value fees. So for a hobby reseller clearing a wardrobe, eBay is the cheaper of the two channels; for a registered trading business, Tilt’s 2% plus 50p is likely cheaper on the seller side. Work out which you are before assuming either way.
| Tilt | eBay | |
|---|---|---|
| Selling format | Live auction rooms, plus Buy Now on the seller profile | Fixed price and timed auction, always on |
| Getting in | Apply and be approved; 15–20 items minimum | Open registration |
| Markets | UK, Spain, Poland, Italy (sellers also accepted from France) | 190 markets worldwide |
| Seller fees | 2% + 50p | £0 for UK private sellers; category final value fees for business sellers |
| Buyer-side fees | 50p + 5% up to £150, 3% above | Buyer Protection fee |
| Discovery | Live rooms, follows, the app feed | Search — on eBay and on Google |
| Effort per sale | High — you have to be live and hosting | Low — the listing works while you don’t |
| Payout timing | 5–7 business days after delivery on the free payout option | Typically within a couple of days of the sale |
That payout line is worth dwelling on. Tilt’s payouts FAQ is explicit that the clock starts at delivery rather than at sale, and its own delivery estimate is roughly seven days and up to fourteen. Standard payouts are free but land five to seven business days after that. Realistically, money from a Tilt sale can take about three weeks to reach your bank; you can shorten it with the paid Fast (1.5%) or Instant (3%) options. If cashflow matters to how you buy stock, running eBay alongside changes the shape of your month.
Tilt’s cross-platform rule — check this first
Tilt publishes a cross-platform sales policy stating that while an item is live on Tilt you must not attempt to sell, promote or list that same item on another platform. Penalties escalate from reduced visibility and temporary suspension to permanent removal for repeat violations.
The scope is narrower than the headline suggests: it attaches to an item while that item is live on Tilt, and Tilt separately encourages you to promote your streams wherever you like. It is a sequencing rule, not a ban on selling elsewhere.
- Move the tail. Items that have already run in a Tilt room and not sold are the natural crosslisting candidates — they are no longer live.
- Do not double-book a stream. Avoid having the same piece up on eBay while it is going under the hammer on Tilt the same evening.
- Let sync handle the withdrawal. If a crosslisted item sells on eBay first, FLUF withdraws it from your Tilt catalogue automatically.
- Ask your account manager if a specific case is unclear. Tilt assigns one, and the policy page is short.
How to crosslist from Tilt to eBay
The two connections work very differently, and knowing which is which saves confusion later.
Tilt has no password login — sign-in is phone and SMS code, Apple or Google — so there is no credential pair for a tool to hold. FLUF uses the browser extension exactly once, at connect, to lift your existing Tilt session out of the seller portal. Everything after that runs server-side against Tilt’s API.
eBay is a straightforward OAuth channel. You authorise FLUF once through eBay’s own consent screen, and every listing, revision, price change and withdrawal runs server-side thereafter. There is no extension involvement on the eBay side at any point, and nothing has to stay open on your computer.
- Sign up for FLUF Connect and open the Channels page.
- Connect Tilt — the extension prompts a normal Tilt sign-in and hands the session over. Once only.
- Connect eBay through eBay’s OAuth consent screen. Pick the eBay site you sell on.
- Import your Tilt catalogue. FLUF reads titles, descriptions, brands, sizes, conditions, prices and every photo.
- Review the mapping — in particular the eBay category and the shortened title.
- Select the items and crosslist, singly or in a bulk pass of several hundred.
- FLUF uploads the photos, publishes the eBay listing and links the two records so stock stays in step.
If you sell on more than one eBay site, connect each store separately. FLUF pins every listing operation to the specific connection that created it, which is what stops a revision or a withdrawal being fired at the wrong store.
What transfers — field and category mapping
Tilt’s data model is unusual: price and stock quantity sit on a SKU object beneath the product, and there is no reference-code field at all. eBay’s model is the richest of any channel FLUF connects to, with structured item specifics per category. The gap between them is mostly about eBay wanting more than Tilt holds.
| Field | Tilt (source) | eBay (destination) | What FLUF does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | 100 characters | 80 characters | Cut to 80 on a word boundary — never mid-word. A long Tilt title loses its tail, so check the ones that matter |
| Description | 2,000 characters | Effectively unlimited, HTML allowed | Carried across in full |
| Photos | Up to 20 | Up to 24 | Every photo transfers; each is re-uploaded rather than hot-linked |
| Price | Held on the SKU object | Listing price | Read off the SKU and converted if the site currency differs |
| Brand | Free-text brand | Item specific, often required | Passed through as the Brand specific; falls back to “Unbranded” when Tilt has none |
| Size | Free-text size | Item specific, per category | Mapped into the size specific for the matched category |
| Condition | Five values: new with tags, new, like new, used, damaged | Numeric condition IDs, varying by category | Mapped value to ID |
| Category | ~300 nodes | Deep eBay taxonomy with per-category required specifics | Mapped to the closest eBay leaf; override before publishing where it matters |
| SKU | No such field on Tilt | Supported and useful | Nothing to carry — FLUF tracks the link internally |
| Postage | Tilt’s own label system | Your eBay postage policy | Not transferable — eBay uses the business policy on your account |
The 80-character title problem, and how to think about it
This is the single most consequential difference on this pair. Tilt titles are written to be read aloud in a room — they can be conversational, they can carry hype. eBay titles are read by a search algorithm and a scanning buyer, and you get 80 characters to carry brand, item type, size, colour and any model name. A Tilt title that runs to 100 characters will be trimmed, and what gets trimmed is whatever you put last.
The practical fix is to front-load. If the brand and the model name are in the first sixty characters of your Tilt title, the eBay version will be a good listing whatever gets cut. If your Tilt titles start with words like “STUNNING” or “RARE FIND”, the eBay version will waste its most valuable characters on adjectives no one searches for. It is worth adjusting the source titles rather than fixing the destination ones one at a time.
Item specifics, and why the category matters more on eBay
eBay requires certain item specifics per category and ranks listings partly on how completely they are filled. Tilt holds brand, size and condition, which covers the mandatory ones in most clothing categories, but eBay will also ask for things Tilt has no field for — department, type, style, material, colour. FLUF fills what it can from your product data and leaves the rest blank rather than guessing, because a wrong specific is worse than a missing one. Spot-check a few listings in each category the first time you crosslist and fill the gaps once; subsequent items in that category inherit the pattern.
What does not come across
- The live sale itself. Streams, rooms, bidding histories and follower counts have no eBay equivalent.
- Your Tilt reputation. Ratings and sales history are per-platform.
- Postage settings. Tilt generates its own labels through its carriers; eBay uses the postage policy on your eBay account. Set that up on eBay once and every crosslisted listing uses it.
What syncs, and what doesn’t
Two live listings for one physical jacket is how you end up refunding a buyer and taking a defect on your eBay account. This pair syncs in both directions.
| Event | What happens | Timing |
|---|---|---|
| Item sells on Tilt | The eBay listing is ended automatically | Next sales-detection sweep — 15 to 90 minutes by plan |
| Item sells on eBay | The Tilt listing is withdrawn automatically | Next sales-detection sweep |
| Price changed in FLUF | Pushed to both channels | Within minutes |
| Description edited in FLUF | Pushed to both channels | Within minutes |
| Item deleted in FLUF | Withdrawn from both | Within minutes |
| Edit made directly in the Tilt or eBay app | Read back on the next index, not mirrored across | Next index |
eBay’s revision API replaces the item specifics block rather than merging into it. That means a price or description update pushed from FLUF sends the full set of specifics each time. If you have hand-edited specifics directly on eBay that FLUF does not know about, make the same edit in FLUF so it survives the next revision. This is an eBay platform behaviour, not a FLUF limitation, and it affects every tool that revises eBay listings.
Sold-detection on the Tilt side is recent — Tilt only began emitting real sale signals into FLUF on 15 August 2026, and the path self-heals, re-issuing the withdrawal if an order is recorded while the product still shows as in stock. Sync is polling-driven rather than webhook-driven, so it runs on your plan’s interval rather than instantly. On a busy live stream where a lot sells in an hour, that gap is worth understanding.
Before and after FLUF Connect
Doing it by hand
- Open Tilt and find the item that did not sell on stream.
- Download each photo.
- Start a new eBay listing.
- Upload the photos one by one.
- Rewrite the title to fit 80 characters and to lead with searchable words.
- Paste the description.
- Find the right eBay category.
- Fill in brand, size, condition, colour, type, department and whatever else the category demands.
- Set the price and the postage policy.
- Publish, then note somewhere that this item is now live in two places.
- When it sells, remember to go and pull the other listing down.
Eight to ten minutes an item, and eBay’s item specifics are what make it slow. Across fifty unsold pieces that is a full day, and the last step — the one that prevents an oversell — is the one that gets skipped when you are tired.
With FLUF Connect
- Filter your Tilt inventory to what is still unsold.
- Select it.
- Crosslist to eBay.
- Spot-check the shortened titles and the category mapping on a handful.
The withdrawal step stops being your job at all, which is the part that actually protects your eBay seller metrics.
Automation on this pair
The two channels are asymmetric in what FLUF can automate, and eBay is the richer side by a distance.
| Feature | Tilt | eBay |
|---|---|---|
| Crosslisting in and out | Yes | Yes |
| Bulk operations | Yes | Yes |
| Withdraw when sold elsewhere | Yes | Yes |
| Sale detection feeding other channels | Yes, since 15 August 2026 | Yes |
| Price and description updates | Yes | Yes |
| Automated relisting | No — Tilt’s API does not expose it | Yes |
| Offer management | No — Tilt’s API does not expose it | Yes, against eBay Best Offer |
| Order import | Yes | Yes |
eBay’s Best Offer is where the offer-management difference actually earns its keep. A crosslisted item sitting on eBay for weeks will attract offers, and answering them by hand is the thing that stops sellers using Best Offer at all. FLUF will accept, counter or decline against a floor price you set, so you can leave Best Offer switched on without it becoming a second job. Automated relisting similarly keeps eBay listings from going stale. Neither exists on Tilt, because Tilt’s API does not expose them, and we would rather state that than let you find out.
The sensible division of labour is the same as on any live-versus-static pair: Tilt is where you sell actively, and eBay is where FLUF keeps selling for you in between streams.
What it costs
FLUF Connect is a paid tool. Every new account starts with 7 days for £1 — the rest of the first month is charged after those seven days, so you are not paying more, just not all of it up front. After that it is a monthly plan. There is no free plan.
| Plan | Monthly | Active products | Sales-detection interval |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | £9 | 300 | 90 minutes |
| Growth | £19 | 1,000 | 60 minutes |
| Seller | £49 | 2,500 | 45 minutes |
| Pro | £99 | 5,000 | 30 minutes |
| Super Seller | £299 | Unlimited | 15 minutes |
Crosslisting, inventory sync, automated relisting, offer management and bulk operations are included on every plan rather than sold as add-ons — the plan you pick changes how many products you can hold active and how often FLUF re-checks your channels for sales, not which features you get. The full table is on the pricing page. Every plan covers all your connected channels, not just the two on this page.
Sources and verification
Every figure on this page is either taken from a primary source linked below, or measured directly by FLUF against the live channel and dated where that is the case. Marketplace fees and policies change — check the source before relying on a number.
- Tilt Help Desk — Seller fees
- Tilt Help Desk — Buyer Protection policy
- Tilt Help Desk — Cross-platform sales policy
- Tilt Help Desk — Payouts FAQ
- Tilt Help Desk — Become a seller
- Tilt Help Desk — Supported countries
- Tilt — $26M funding announcement, June 2026
- eBay UK — fees for business sellers
- eBay — selling fees
- eBay Inc. — Q2 2026 results
- eBay Inc. — annual report on Form 10-K
- Field limits, condition values and sync behaviour: read from the FLUF Connect integration code for both channels, August 2026.
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Frequently Asked Questions
FLUF Connect is £1 for your first 7 days, then plans from £9/month (Starter — 300 active products). There is no free plan. Crosslisting, inventory sync, relisting and offer management are included on every plan, and every plan covers all your connected channels rather than just this pair.
Yes, if they are long. Tilt allows 100 characters and eBay allows 80, so FLUF trims on a word boundary rather than mid-word. Whatever you put last is what gets lost, so front-load brand and model name in your Tilt titles and the eBay versions look after themselves.
Yes. A sale on eBay withdraws the Tilt listing and a sale on Tilt ends the eBay listing. The Tilt side is recent — Tilt only began emitting real sale signals into FLUF on 15 August 2026, so anything crosslisted before then did not propagate.
Tilt's cross-platform sales policy says that while an item is live on Tilt you must not sell, promote or list that same item on another platform, with penalties up to a permanent ban. The scope is the item while it is live, so the safe pattern is sequential: run the Tilt auction, then crosslist what did not sell.
That depends what kind of eBay seller you are. eBay UK removed private-seller fees in September 2024, so a UK private seller pays no listing fee and no final value fee, with the buyer paying a Buyer Protection fee instead. UK business sellers still pay category-based final value fees. Tilt's own fee of 2% plus 50p applies only to items that sell on Tilt.
FLUF fills what your product data supports — typically brand, size and condition, which covers the mandatory specifics in most clothing categories — and leaves the rest blank rather than guessing, because a wrong specific is worse than a missing one. Spot-check the first few listings in each new category and fill any gaps once.
No. eBay is a standard OAuth connection: you authorise FLUF once through eBay's own consent screen and everything after that runs server-side. Tilt needs the extension once, at connect, because Tilt has no password login — after that it is server-side too.
Yes. Connect each eBay store separately and FLUF pins every listing operation to the connection that created it, which is what stops a revision or a withdrawal being sent to the wrong store.
Tilt's free standard payout lands 5 to 7 business days after delivery, not after the sale, and Tilt estimates delivery at roughly 7 days and up to 14 — so about three weeks in practice, or sooner with its paid Fast (1.5%) or Instant (3%) options. eBay pays out on its own schedule, typically within a couple of days of the sale.
Yes. Every FLUF plan covers all your connected channels, so the same Tilt inventory can go to eBay, Vinted, Depop, Whatnot and the rest in one pass, and sold-out sync then covers every channel the item is live on.