Hey, eBay! Stop adding incorrect item descriptions to my old listings! | Selling

1786davycrockett · 2024-06-30T16:49:17.647000Z

This morning I was in the process of listing another edition of THE LAST BATTLE, by Cornelius Ryan -- an outstanding military history concerning the fall of Berlin in April 1945, in the final days of World War II in Europe; and I decided to click on the "sell similar" feature, since I knew that I had previously listed another edition of the book a while back. To my anger and dismay, it was clear that eBay (in its infinite wisdom) had added additional item descriptions into my previous listing -- and even had the unmitigated gall to CHANGE item descriptions which I had previously entered, such as: (A). The title had now become LAST BATTLE, instead of THE LAST BATTLE (a minor change, admittedly; but still not the full and correct title of the book, as written by the author, and published by the publisher, and listed in the Library of Congress). (B). An ISBN codes (the wrong one, naturally) had been added to my listing. Since eBay does not seem to understand the significance of ISBN codes on particular book editions, their adding this ISBN code to my original book listing provides erroneous information which I, as the seller, can not back up, if a buyer decided to open up a NAD case against me. (C). The topic had been changed to "General" -- what bookseller in their right mind would choose to provide such an obscure and meaningless term for the "topic" of a book?!? (D). The genre had been changed from "Nonfiction" -- to "FICTION"!!! What ignorant moron at eBay concluded that a serious historic study of the final days of Nazi Germany in World War II was a work of FICTION?!? Doesn't ANYBODY at eBay actually READ books? (E). While all the other book dimension remain unentered, someone at eBay decided to enter an "item weight" -- perhaps one of the most useless determinators for buyers interested in purchasing books. And, of course, this listed "item weight" is the pre-shipping weight, and not the actual weight which determines the USPS shipping price. Furthermore, it wasn't even the CORRECT item shipping weight of that particular edition! So why does eBay seem to put such value in listing it -- and why add it to the listings of sellers who have obviously previously decided that it is of NO value to their listings?!? So, knock it off, eBay -- I don't need you to second-guess and "correct" my listings! I've been selling books, comics, magazines and records since the mid-1960s -- a generation before eBay was even a glint in a mainframe computer's brain -- and I'll handle my own item descriptions, thank you!

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