Ebay auto adding made in China; can't edit out with some listings
Listing knives. Ebay is automatically including China as country of origin even when I manually edit it out. This is only some listings. Some listing I can manually remove it. Others can't be removed even when I try multiple times (including knife I'm not sure is even made in China so I may be misrespresenting it). Is there any solution for this? Thanks.
8 comments
nh_sales_lv
·7 months agoPresident XI ordered this. I bet he himself went to Ebay and wrote the Code.
Rise the Red Flag Comrade the Artificial Sun settles to the East in China
gal220joy
OP7 months agoThis is problematic though. I just listed a knife lot. Country of origin varies, but I had to put a country of origin in the specs so now I may have to start putting some type of disclaimer in listing description.
caldreamer
·7 months agoI would "end listing" and relist with correct "country of origin". You cannot leave "country of origin" blank when you are shipping internationally. Otherwise, EBAY bots will "guess" and fill it in for you.
gal220joy
OP7 months agoKnives don't go overseas anyway anymore but not sure that makes a difference. I do have other items for sale that will ship internationally though so good to know country of origin is required.
savythreads222
·7 months agoWhat gives with this new "feature" because I use the Listing Specs section to say where the item is from.
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stainlessenginecovers
·7 months agoPossible reasons:
UPC?
Brand Name?
gal220joy
OP7 months agoThis could be it. Ebay is picking up on brand and model and AI determines where it's from and if it thinks from China, then applies China and won't allow me to remove it. As I've listed today, it seems that knives ebay thinks are made in China auto keep country of origin as China in listing but some other knives it won't. Perhaps if one brand is always made in China it does this while when a brand is not always made in China or never, it won't apply. It's not a problem for me if it's accurate.
participatrophy
·7 months ago@gal220joy
Sort of, but whether it will prove to be a solution depends on whether you can do it or not: Accept and adapt.
On the bright side I doubt anyone on the planet would be disappointed if they bought a made-in-China widget and discovered it had been made somewhere else.