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eBay's sports trading card deadline for the item specific "Graded" arrived today.
Sellers with variation listings could not modify their item specifics until they resolved conflicts with the variation name "Card Attributes". Now sellers can not bulk update the "Card Attribute" conflict until they add the "Graded" item specific (most will state "No" as the graded item specific) .
Catch-22.
Time to move to Plan B.
For those sellers who still have listings with hundreds of variations to update, but who missed the opportunity to use the bulk variation scanner provided here, and who now can't bulk update at all, the next solution is to include the full set of item specifics in the bulk revision of variations. We can not simply add the missing attribute. Unfortunately, the whole set of Item Specifics must be restated in a bulk revision. I'm working on some sort of solution.
I've got two tools to work with.
The Variation Scanner will pull in the variation data.
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/VariationScanner.htm
The Item Specifics Scanner will pull in the item specifics.
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ItemSpecificScanner.htm
The task will be to merge the two spreadsheets and restate the old item specifics with eBay's new headings and values.
I made most of the updates to card number a few months ago with the grading included in my postings. Whenever I tried to update some quantities, I get an error that Card Number is not a valid variation anymore and I have no idea why. Any insight would be awesome
Responses from a Bulk File upload to Seller Hub:
Revise Failure 21920061 Error - Card Number is not allowed as a variation specific.
Revise Failure 21920061 Error - Card Attributes is not allowed as a variation specific.
Revise Failure 21919303 Error - The item specific Graded is missing. Add Graded to this listing.
Card Number was valid until yesterday. It is sad that there was no warning of this coming at us. You will have to again revise all of your variation listings. Fortunately, the tool will make that faster.
I looked at your 68 card listings that have variation named "Card Number" and at your 11 that are named "Card Attributes". Some are missing the "Graded" item specifics, and some still have unsupported condition numbers. We can still fix the remainder in bulk.
I would recommend that you start with the variation scanner to gather your variation data.
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/VariationScanner.htm
To make it easier, I used the search filter to return only the 261328 category, and have preloaded your settings at this link with the recommended settings for your "Card Attributes" job. There is a find/replace for condition that is loaded, based on what I saw in your listings. You will need to choose the new name for your Variation Group. I used Card#, but you may want something different.
If you are facile with a spreadsheet, you can select the "comma" report format, but I have set it to "tab" so that you will get a text file that won't automatically open a spreadsheet. eBay will accept either file format.
When the job loads, make any adjustments to the settings and click the "Build Report" button. Download the file to your computer so that you can upload it to Seller Hub.
Then change the find/replace to find "Card Number" and run another report.
When you upload to Seller Hub, the few listings that are still missing the "Graded" specific will fail, and we'll deal with those differently.
This is where you will upload and separately process each file on Seller Hub.
When the upload finishes, close the little dialog that appears in the lower left corner. Your file history will appear on the page. Scroll over to the right of your most recent file and download the response file. That file will tell you which items failed and will give a reason. If you uploaded a comma file, you'll receive a spreadsheet file. If you uploaded a tab file, it is better to open eBay's tabbed response in a text editor.
If you used the Variation Scanner tool to pull in all of your variation listings, then you will need to set up the options in the report area. Below are the settings I used for your listings. I renamed "Card Number" to "Card#", but you can choose any other name. After you set up the slots on your report screen to look like this, click the "Build Report" button and the report will be displayed. (I included the condition number merely as an example to others who have a missing condition. Yours were fine, so that condition replacement will be ignored).
At the bottom of the report, click the button to download a copy to your computer. You can then upload that report to eBay's Seller Hub as shown below:
When the upload finishes, close the little dialog that overlays the lower left corner. Your file history will appear on the page. Scroll over to the right of your most recent file and download the response file. That file will tell you which items failed and will give a reason.
I'm glad you only fixed a couple of listings because adding only one or two item specifics in a spreadsheet upload could cause the other specifics in that listing to disappear. Do you have the two items to check? It would be wonderful if the Hub would accept a partial revision, but, historically, the entire item specific set must be uploaded when uploading a spreadsheet.
However, you do have the gist of how it is done. The entire list of item specifics would be inserted into the spreadsheet for each master record.
You should be able to download a spreadsheet of missing item specifics from your Hub page and can use that spreadsheet to bulk upload all of your specifics at once. The problem is the you will be blocked because of the variation names. Thus, if that spreadsheet is married to the spreadsheet that the Variation Scanner produces, you should be able to fix it all at once. In theory, that is. In practice, there will be gotchas, like a listing with an active sale.
I'll see if I can put more info together on that.
