mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
A screen shot of what you are seeing would really help. I use variation listings often. I do know it is a bit of a learning curve, but once you learn it, they are really easy to use. We are happy to help, just let us see what you are seeing and that will help us help you @ghost-gambino
Yeah I've been trying again for the past 45 minutes...whoever decided to implement this in the way it is needs to re-think things. I've never seen something so complicated for something so easy in my life. So it keeps saying "to add this attribute, remove the value added for it in Item Specifics". I cleared out everything in item specifics, deleted the product name, everything that I could and it still says the same thing.
One thing, for variations, I ALWAYS start a new listing. Don't use sell similar. I don't even like to edit a variation listing I already created because it is so fussy.
Re this screen shot, to get the SIZE TYPE added, I clicked the +add that was next to ACCENTS and is now next to SIZE TYPE. Then REGULAR showed up below that line when I clicked SIZE TYPE. Then I clicked +add next to REGULAR and added PLUS. If you don't want PLUS, then don't add it.
If you want FABRIC and ACCENTS to go away, click in the X on them. But, I always add what I want to add before I delete what I don't want.
Then you click on each size you want to include in your listing, ie S, M, L, XL which go in to the box to the right.
@toomuchstuffagain35 wrote:I'm assuming when you say switch to business account you meant the advanced listing tool?
It sounds like you were using the (very) basic so called quick listing tool.
There are two types of accounts on Ebay for sellers. Personal and Business.
@ghost-gambino wrote:I got aggravated and deleted the listing. I got as far as adding the sizes but when I tried to name the variation "size" instead of "fabric" I kept getting a pop-up saying I had to "delete colo or size" or something else before I could change "fabric" to "size". It took me a while before I could figure that I had to switch to a business account or whatever to even access variations. I don't know why they wouldn't make that one of the default settings on both personal & business accounts. I've been building websites & ecommerce sites for years & never saw anything like this lol. I'll start all over today & see how it goes.
This likely happened because there were preset titles for you. When you chose to create one that already existed, that is when you see an error like you did.
