File exchange specific value help please, concerning sports cards

[firiona_vie_trading_company]

Hello,

New to file exchange and have a couple fields that I am unsure of what to use.

*C:Card Name

Seems simple and I know it lets me use the player name, but there is a field for player name, second thought it would be the card type but also a field for manufacturer. So I have some ideas but would like to see if anyone knows exactly what its looking for.

*C:Certification Number

 Same as above I am quite unsure of exactly what it wants, currently I am using "No" but want to be precise.

I downloaded the second template that is supposed to answer these questions but it is lacking.

Thank you,

Erin

[shipscript]

@firiona_vie_trading_company 

See my post here where I have taken the spreadsheet for "singles" and rearranged it to something more meaningful:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Seller-Tools/Sports-card-bulk-listing-help-needed/td-p/31906823

I discovered the meaning of mysterious fields by starting a listing in the card category. Each of the item specifics on eBay's listing creation page has a comment that pops open, and will have dropdown suggestions.  From that, I was able to put together the spreadsheet example above.

Unfortunately, eBay's downloadable template appears to sort the item specifics in order of popularity. That means some related columns are scattered all over the place.  In the sample download I posted in the other thread, I rearranged the columns to put related columns together again.

*C:Card Name  expects some common name by which the card is known. I looked at the face of the card I was sampling and it simply had the name of the player.

*C:Certification Number is a dependent field. If you look at the listing creation page, you will see that it is stacked underneath *C:Graded.  If the answer to Graded is "No", then all attached fields can be ignored, even if they appear to be mandatory because of the asterisk.

[firiona_vie_trading_company]

Curious my friend, how do you KNOW that it is a dependent field, also I am not questioning I am trying to educate myself.

Thanks,

Erin

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@firiona_vie_trading_company 

It's a good question, and no offense taken. By looking at eBay's listing creation form, I can see that eBay has indented fields one under another. In the "Graded" area, you can see two levels of dependency. Only if a "Grade" is given, can the certificate be populated.

Also on the listing form, you will see the info links on each field that describe what is expected.

Business Lister - sports card grading heirachy

The other reason that I am aware of this dependency is because eBay had a neat little tool that downloaded an item-specifics report based on category. In that report, it stated (or encoded) which fields were dependencies, which fields allowed selections only from a predefined list, and which fields allowed custom text. Using that tool, I developed an online spreadsheet tool that allowed sellers to enter their own basic spreadsheets and populate the spreadsheet from droplists in the online grid.  Alas, eBay retired their tool last fall and I haven't had time to learn (and get qualified for) their API that produces the same sort of data.