I couldn't agree with you more! Initially I never even got a notification about this fiasco going into affect on July 12th......it was only through a phone from a friend (who also sells vinyl associated products) that I became aware of this thing. So I contacted Seller Support to get the 'scoop'.....I was told "that since vinyl is NOT part of the Collectables category, that the Item Specifics process will not affect my 6,000+ listings". My fellow vinyl Seller insisted that WHAT HE IS SEEING (again, nothing to me....nor to another friend that is a vinyl associated Seller.....), vinyl should definitely be IMPACTED! Over a period of about three (wasted) weeks, the Seller Support 'ball score' was: FIVE said vinyl WILL NOT be impacted; and FOUR said yes it would. FINALLY, the 9th individual did her 'homework', and found that vinyl was 'buried' in one of the other categories entitled 'Media'. THREE PLUS WEEKS of Item Specifics 'corrections' wasted.
So there it began for me (as well as my other two vinyl selling friends....one of which only had slightly over 100 listings; but the other had over 3,000+...none of which had any information within those stupid three Item Specifics categories)......I started with 5,942 listings needing updating. I've wasted hundreds of hours filling in 1-3 of those fields (none of which can use a BULK update...IF one existed); and of course, I am constantly 'surprise' with UPC errors (another stupid late eBay software requirement) and (periodically) HTTP errors (caused by eBay's long ago migration to Google Chrome.
Well, I have to go.....I now working on the items listed on the '2nd day of the month' (a procedure I created so that I can avoid dropping off my store store on August 12sth.....need a procedure....write me at LOA...backwards). I still have 1,650 left to update. LISTING ITEMS......you've got to be kidding....even in my retirement, who really has time to both activities efficiently.
