Can't exclude listings from showing in store

[systametric]

The feature is the 'Exclude from my Store inventory' checkbox. It is completely unavailable everywhere.

I have already performed all the standard and advanced troubleshooting. Let me summarize what has been done so far:

1. The option is missing on the regular listing page.

2. I have confirmed I am on a desktop computer, not the mobile app.

3. I have tried multiple browsers and cleared my cache.

4. To rule out a category-specific issue, I have changed the listing's category to 'Everything Else'. The problem persists.

5. I then moved to the Bulk Editor. In the Bulk Editor, the 'Store Categories' option was missing from the 'Bulk edit' dropdown menu.

6. I then successfully used the 'Customize columns' feature to add the 'Store Categories' column to the grid.

7. I can see the column, but when I click on the cell to edit it, the pop-up window that appears does not contain the 'Exclude from Store' checkbox.

This confirms the feature is not being provisioned to my account's user interface at a fundamental level. 
I have items I do not want listed in my store.

What can I do?

[mam98031]

@systametric 

May I ask why you would want to exclude certain listings from your Store?  What purpose does that serve?

I am not aware of any policy / procedure that would allow this.  Doesn't mean it isn't there, just means I've never heard of it unless you are try to put your listings on Time Away / vaca hold.

[kensgiftshop]

I've never heard of an option to exclude items from your store.

[tobaccocardyahoo]

I've never seen this function either.

[stainlessenginecovers]

Doesn't exist and no reason to do so. Most buyers (90%) don't even know what an 'ebay store' is, nor how to get to it. 

For those that do, what a 'store' is, is a place where all YOUR items are listed. Doesn't matter what the items are. 

[systametric]

Google Gemini led me astray.

It made me hallucinate right along with it.  Hours I'll never get back. 😏

[tobaccocardyahoo]

@systametric 

My sympathies. You apparently do not have or have not extended your suspicion of search engines to include large model AI.

I do not believe search engine results which are not from a prime source, and discount all large model AI results unless their sources are identified and pass muster with me.

I often use AI AFTER I have researched a topic, and can often identify the wrong result and its source without looking at what the AI tells me its source is.

[jonathanbrightlight]

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@systametric wrote:

Google Gemini led me astray.

It made me hallucinate right along with it.  Hours I'll never get back. 😏

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That’s far too common for all the AI models. They often just invent answers that are completely false. In this case getting to the correct answer wasn’t too hard, but with less easily verifiable answers it’s a real danger.

[chapeau-noir]

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@jonathanbrightlight wrote:

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@systametric wrote:

Google Gemini led me astray.

It made me hallucinate right along with it.  Hours I'll never get back. 😏

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That’s far too common for all the AI models. They often just invent answers that are completely false. In this case getting to the correct answer wasn’t too hard, but with less easily verifiable answers it’s a real danger.

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Yes, given that AI just regurgitates what it consumes from internet, and the internet is like at least 50% bull$hit...it can be a quagmire. And it'll just get worse as the regurgitated (sometimes hallucinatory) content gets reconsumed like an ouroboros. 

[mam98031]

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@systametric wrote:

Google Gemini led me astray.

It made me hallucinate right along with it.  Hours I'll never get back. 😏

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What does that mean?  Why would it even be something you'd find useful?  There must have been a reason you asked AI about being able to do this?  WHY?