For a year or so, the field "original/reproduction" in the art category has been problematic. Prior to that time, I would enter "original print" manually, but then I was unable to, and was told it had too many characters, but it was only the amount of characters necessary to accurately answer that field. You see, "original" would generally indicate something like an original oil painting, or an original sketch, which is not (at least in the vast majority of cases) what I'm selling. However, "reproduction" would generally indicate a mass produced poster (generally a lithograph) on thin/cheap often glossy paper (which, again, in the cast majority of cases, is not what I'm selling either). A hand pulled screen print or archival giclee (which I sell many of) would be considered an "original print" not an "original" or a "reproduction." After the recent sales tax collection change (which was not described in nearly enough detail in advance, but that's another story), I needed to increase prices by 0.75% to account for the PayPal fees on sales tax, but I was unable to do so on art listings with a blank "original/reproduction" field. Just this afternoon, I was able to do a bulk edit on price without adding that field, but I don't know why I was able to today but not Monday through Wednesday. If you are ever going to require sellers to enter the "original/reproduction" field, you need to allow for sellers to enter their own notation, as the ones provided by eBay are not sufficient for all items.
