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    Listing Nightmare: Press "B" for BOLD - Watch Your Listing Collapse into a Paragraph. WHY?????

    Why would Ebay want to sabotage my listing?  

    For years I have used my own format without a problem.

    I usually write it up CENTERED

    Then I BOLD and Select the FONT

     

    Now when I hit "B" it collapses all of my content into a paragraph.

    I have to rework it.  Why would you do this to me?  

    Your Ai listings may be great.  I am describing MY item.  I don't want AI helping me.

    Has anyone had this problem and how do I get around the sabotage?  

    Or is it easier to just move to another selling site?

     

     

    corbani
    corbani
    3657View listings
    Posted 1 year ago·Last reply 1 year ago
                                           
             
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    katwalker23

    katwalker23

    ·1 year ago
    889View listings

    This happened to me last night also.  I haven't found a work-around.  I spent a long time trying to uncollapse the paragraph, and ended up with all my text in bold.

                                           
    mam98031

    mam98031

    ·1 year ago
    Owner / Operator19676View listings

    I'm sure you know that Ebay did not single you out.  I don't know why that changed for you and I'm sorry it is causing you to change up how you write your descriptions.

     

    I can share with you what I do.  I use Templates.  I set one up for every category or type of item I sell.  In my Template I fill out all the ISBs [item specific boxes] I can that are rather universal on my stuff and I set up new ISBs for stuff that I will fill out for most of my listings.

     

    My first section is for the Description of what I'm selling.  The next is I have my TOS [terms of sale] that remain the same on all my listings.

     

    Then I set up my return policy, handling time and everything else I can.  Then I save it.

     

    To do this the first time can take a little bit of time.  But then when I go to create new listings, they are easy and fast to do.  

     

    Just something to consider.

     

    https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/ebay-tools/selling-templates?id=4097

     

                                           
                                                                                     
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