Filling out item specifics

[pargran3]

Just my take on this but...

At least the listing forms put the REQUIRED item specifics at the top of the form. Most of the rest of that nonsense not only is useless but clutters the heck out of your listing. 

I get irritated when looking for something that the seller has spent untold amount of time filling in all that item specific stuff and ends up a whole page of who cares. Followed by one sentence of description.

Use some common sense and make it easier for you...the seller...and for your buyers

[pargran3]

No. I was advising sellers not to fill out all that useless carp. I meant exactly what I said.

[pargran3]

And the rest of my post was use some common sense when filling out item specifics.

I do not have a clue why you interpreted my post as an appeal for pontification on the importance of item specific boxes (find ISB in help)

[mam98031]

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@pargran3 wrote:

No. I was advising sellers not to fill out all that useless carp. I meant exactly what I said.

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Why would you do that?  However if you do have the info for the ISBs, then how is that "useless"?  It could be important info to some buyers.

[0426sheila]

Agreed! I pull my hair out listing costume jewelry and have to put n/a in a hundred diamond places. I have complained to Ebay many times about this. If I ignore it, I get reminders I need to add info. By definition costume jewelry is fake, faux, not real so why do these bots ask for info? I had a pin pulled down three times for not following ebay policy. It said ruby red cut rhinestones. Finally changed it to plain old red rhinestones. Bots did not like the phrase ruby red. Next will it take down lemon yellow or put it in the food section? 🙂

[partfinds]

They won’t make it different because of ads they make money on. They program AI to use specifics when displaying items in searches. 

[toomuchstuffagain35]

The worst example of a page full of "I don't care" rubbish are the offshore sellers who not only fill in every.single.box. but also use them to blatantly keyword spam, entering things that are not only not applicable to their listing item but overtly used as search manipulation.

[mam98031]

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@partfinds wrote:

They won’t make it different because of ads they make money on. They program AI to use specifics when displaying items in searches. 

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Item specifics has nothing to do with the ads at all.