Am I in kindergarten? Was just given lots mindless busy work cuz teacher is lazy or stupid!

[jewelbiz]

What’s with redundant item specifications that have no meaning lousy teacher says I must now fill out all new questions again?

Why must I answer what stones are there in Sterling silver earrings when vintage earrings have no stones whatsoever & are just 100% metal?

Busy work because lazy teacher wants class quiet…& to act like she’s doing something with her fed up bored class…

P.S. Didn’t  have to say this is a metaphor right?  You understood?

[donsdetour]

None stone if going to be a popular stone now. is it not.....

[bigdeals.etc]

This is no different from the all the other busy work ebay causes us to do when a minor unnecessary change of theirs glitches out and messes up other more significant areas of ebay... sometimes causing us a whole year to change all our systems like remove a specific punctuation from our variations so it stops erroring the system.

It's an endless cycle of busy work.

If ebay programmers were pharmacists, they'd be sued like there's no tomorrow with all these conflicting medications they are giving out to a patient.

[katzrul15]

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@jewelbiz wrote:

What’s with redundant item specifications that have no meaning lousy teacher says I must now fill out all new questions again?

Why must I answer what stones are there in Sterling silver earrings when vintage earrings have no stones whatsoever & are just 100% metal?

Busy work because lazy teacher wants class quiet…& to act like she’s doing something with her fed up bored class…

P.S. Didn’t  have to say this is a metaphor right?  You understood?

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Suddenly Van Morrison is playing in my head..............."and it stoned me"..............

[buyologist-3]

Huh? 

[buyologist-3]

I don't think it'll fly, but I made listings and filled out the specifics as far as they pertained, then ignored the reminders for more specs.  Nothing bad happened.  And I slept just fine.  'Busy work' is a very good description.  If sellers use all their time on 'bay then that's what fills the mind.  

[iart]

Think about this.

A million eBay sellers spending half a minute on each 'required'... Having to list a photo as a photo when it is already in the photo category, type stuff.

Think of how much time that adds up to. Thousands of hours of our time.

What would it take for a tech person to do this automatically? Half a day? A week?

eBay figures thousands of hours of our time is better than a handful of hours from a techie they have to pay for.

[fern*wood]

When the dust settles, I will work on the IS that say required.  I always have a running total of recommended IS for listings on my dashboard, but I do nothing with those.  I don't want a list of IS on my listings that just state N/A.  I skip all that don't apply. 

[buyologist-3]

Exactly.  Sanity is well worth it.  😁

[richard1rst]

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@buyologist-3 wrote:

Huh? 

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I think he meant "no stone" which is what I put in. Type it once then copy it to your clipboard and ctrl/v from there on.

[ckimodog]

My specifics keep asking me about diamonds...I don't sell diamonds.  It's pretty jacked up and the results aren't looking good. 

[ckimodog]

That's cuz they love all the click,click, clicks = $$$$$$

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

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@katzrul15 wrote:

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Suddenly Van Morrison is playing in my head..............."and it stoned me"..............

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Lol! Now that's going back, Sly and the family Stone era?

[chapeau-noir]

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@iart wrote:

Think about this.

A million eBay sellers spending half a minute on each 'required'... Having to list a photo as a photo when it is already in the photo category, type stuff.

Think of how much time that adds up to. Thousands of hours of our time.

What would it take for a tech person to do this automatically? Half a day? A week?

eBay figures thousands of hours of our time is better than a handful of hours from a techie they have to pay for.

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I'm not sure I want any more of what passes for IT "talent" at eBay to be messing with listings - dollars to doughnuts they've already been doing just this, but are skrooing it up so badly (poor taxonomy, inability to migrate IS's properly and restore categories) that we end up spending more time fixing it than should ever be necessary.

[katzrul15]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

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@iart wrote:

Think about this.

A million eBay sellers spending half a minute on each 'required'... Having to list a photo as a photo when it is already in the photo category, type stuff.

Think of how much time that adds up to. Thousands of hours of our time.

What would it take for a tech person to do this automatically? Half a day? A week?

eBay figures thousands of hours of our time is better than a handful of hours from a techie they have to pay for.

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I'm not sure I want any more of what passes for IT "talent" at eBay to be messing with listings - dollars to doughnuts they've already been doing just this, but are skrooing it up so badly (poor taxonomy, inability to migrate IS's properly and restore categories) that we end up spending more time fixing it than should ever be necessary.

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I just wanna know where the get the idiotic ideas for the IS?  Some of the item specifics are so stupid that you would have to work really hard to find several more inane.