Bulk Edit Tool not allowing me to delete a statement I added to every listing under "Item Specifics"

[gatorsman]

Bulk Edit Tool not allowing me to delete a statement I added a couple of years ago to every listing under "Item Specifics".   Spoke to agent and she couldn't fix the issue.  Help!

[kensgiftshop]

I gave up on the Bulk Editing Tool years ago, I never could get it to work.

[reed-sales]

I am guessing that you would like to remove this from you item specifics, 

NOTE: GOVERNMENT SHIPPING DELAYS USPS:

The issue might be that your item specific would be listed something like this on your header line

C:NOTE: GOVERNMENT SHIPPING DELAYS USPS

Perhaps the extra : is the issue?

I haven't uploaded with file exchange to alter item specifics for years, just a guess.

Maybe try a header field of C:NOTE  or C:NOTE:  then leave the data field for the item blank and see if that works. 

Also, the "NOTE:  GOVERNMENT SHIPPING DELAYS USPS:" has two spaces between the : and GOVERNMENT.

Best of luck, hopefully someone more current will come along to help.

[reed-sales]

Sorry, I just noticed OP issue was with bulk edit tool and not file exchange.  I have only edited item specifics through file exchange (now seller hub reports).  I was unaware item specifics could be changed with the bulk edit tool.

[shipscript]

@gatorsman 

eBay's bulk editor only allows adding to your list of item specifics. It does not contain a method to edit or remove a single item specific.

You can bulk update your item specifics using eBay's Seller Hub uploader.

However, to change a single item specific, you must restate ALL item specifics for that listing. That is where the challenge arises and why the bulk editor can't do the job.

This online tool will capture all of your item specifics in spreadsheet format.

https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ItemSpecificScanner.htm

From there, you can edit or remove the offending specification and upload the new list to Seller Hub Reports > Uploads.

https://www.ebay.com/sh/reports/uploads

Important: to revise item specifics, all prior item specifics will be overwritten by the upload. Thus, the entire group of item specifics for a single listing must be included in the upload.

However, since it appears that the USPS message is the only item specific in all your collectibles, you don't really need to download your original item specifics. All you will need is a list of affected item numbers in category 14027 (Collectibles) to create your revision spreadsheet. You can add a new set of one or more item specifics to overwrite your originals:

The spreadsheet will look like this:

Action	ItemID	C:Language
Revise	185718371255	English
Revise	185718373127	English
Revise	173000316675	English

I've shown a replacement of one Item specific, but you could add more C:Whatever columns to add more Item Specifics.

Or you can eliminate the item specifics entirely, like this:

Action	ItemID	DeleteFields
Revise	185718371255	ItemSpecifics
Revise	185718373127	ItemSpecifics
Revise	173000316675	ItemSpecifics

As an alternative to the above tool for collecting your list of item numbers for your collectibles category, you could download eBay's Active Listings report from Seller Hub.

https://www.ebay.com/sh/reports/downloads

Then sort on the Category column and throw out those not in category 14027 (Collectibles) . Cut out all the extraneous columns except the Item number, and add the new columns as shown in the tables above.

Note that ItemID and Item number are interchangeable, and either will work.

If you are on a Mac, be sure to save your CSV spreadsheet in Windows format prior to uploading to eBay on this page:

https://www.ebay.com/sh/reports/uploads