The Scenario
Your manager pinged you at 4:45 PM. There's a product quality audit due to the category team by end of week, and the workbook with 150 eBay item IDs in column A is just a list — no ratings, no review counts, no seller feedback scores. Someone needs to enrich it. That someone is apparently you.
The bad version:
- Open eBay, search the first item ID, navigate to the product page, find the star rating and review count, write them into columns B and C — then repeat for item ID 2
- By item 15 you've hit a listing that redirects to a different product, so you spend five minutes figuring out whether to skip it or use the redirect target, then mark it as "check manually" and move on
- Get through 40 items in an hour, realize at that pace this audit is going to take until Thursday, and start wondering if there's a way to script this — which is a different three-hour project you also don't have time for
The audit is supposed to surface quality problems, not create new ones.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads your item ID column, calls Countdown API for each one, and writes the rating and feedback data directly back into the columns you specify — no browser tabs, no row-by-row grinding.
For each eBay item ID in column A, fetch the product star rating and review count using Countdown API and write the star rating to column B and the review count to column C
What You Get
- Column B filled with numeric star ratings (e.g. 4.7) for each item ID in column A
- Column C filled with the total review count as a number
- Items that return no rating data get a blank cell rather than a zero, so you can filter them as "unrated" without skewing averages
- Rows processed in order, preserving your existing sort
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The item IDs in column A have inconsistent formats — some have leading zeros, some are prefixed with "eBay:"
Before fetching from Countdown API, normalize the values in column A by stripping any "eBay:" prefix and removing leading zeros, write the cleaned IDs to column F, then fetch ratings and review counts using column F and write results to columns B and C
You also need seller feedback score and total feedback count for each item
For each item ID in column A, fetch the product star rating and review count using Countdown API and write them to columns B and C, then fetch the seller feedback score and total seller feedback count and write them to columns D and E
Some rows are for items that have been removed from eBay and will return errors
Fetch ratings and review counts from Countdown API for each item ID in column A; for any item that returns a 404 or "item not found" response, write "delisted" to column B and leave columns C through E blank
Full audit prep in one shot — normalize IDs, fetch all quality signals, flag items below threshold
Normalize the item IDs in column A by removing any prefixes or formatting artifacts, fetch the star rating, review count, and seller feedback score from Countdown API for each item, write them to columns B, C, and D, then add a column E flag of "review needed" for any item with a star rating below 4.0 or a seller feedback score below 98%
One prompt normalizes, enriches, and applies the audit logic — you open the workbook and the flagged items are already marked.
Try It
If you have a list of eBay item IDs that need quality data, get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and ask it to enrich the whole list in one pass. Also see: Pull eBay Search Results Into an Excel workbook for Competitive Pricing or return to the Countdown API overview.