eBay

lasantino · ‎08-01-2020

Check your listings. I ALWAYS make sure I fill in all of my item specifics. As we know Ebay programmers attempted a disastrous migration of item specifics .. Since then every other week there are issues.

I just looked at my ebay page and out of 650 listings that ebay says I have. Ebay has flagged 446 of the listings and put them in purgatory.

I have been going through one by one , most of the item specifics that ebay claim I haven't filled out. Actually are filled out. But ebay changed the prefilled option..

example.

shoes.. ebay used to have one of the styles as "pumps,classics"

now the drop down options have replaced that with "pump"

however, ebay did not migrate the listings that has previously selected pumps classics. over to pump.. so now when buyers search using the left hand filters.. if they select pump.. your listing will not show up.. it is thrown into the unspecified category!..

Um. I'm pis***

Can other people check their listings and let me know if ebay has flagged most of your listings also.. thus making them less searchable and discoverable by buyers.

davko9760_avtzj83tu · ‎11-24-2020

Ebay is still randomly blocking items because of missing "Item Specifics"..

monster-deals · ‎11-24-2020

@gwzcomps wrote:
I hate to say it, but this is nothing new. Just look at their clothing screw up in October 2019. They broke a bunch of my electronics listings when they meddled with that. On top of that eBay expects me to fix their mistakes on my dime which is a load of 💩

How about books? That has been a dumpster fire inside a volcano for about 20 years.

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎12-21-2020

@monster-deals wrote:
@gwzcomps wrote:
I hate to say it, but this is nothing new. Just look at their clothing screw up in October 2019. They broke a bunch of my electronics listings when they meddled with that. On top of that eBay expects me to fix their mistakes on my dime which is a load of 💩
How about books? That has been a dumpster fire inside a volcano for about 20 years.

Is every book now a cookbook for the Mediterranean or is a cookbook the same as a book on how to grow cactus...cacti...You get what I mean!! 😉 I guess someone thought throwing gas on a fire would be the way to go!!!

-Lotz

zigzag55 · ‎03-06-2022

Most of the so called item specifics dont apply to the items I list. Also the information is already stated in the category of the listing or in the item title itself. Sometimes, If it is required and I cant relist it because of that, I am forced to just make something up. Example is some books really dont have a author. Some listing categories have more than 40 item specifics. Who the heck is going to go thru all of those and fill them in for a $10 item?? This is what we are going to be faced with more and more, on Ebay and other platforms because of AI (Artificial Intelligence). Its not like a real human designed it, but a uninformed programmer who does not understand all of the different variations that come up. Corporate America at its worst.

kh-vince · ‎03-06-2022

Hi everyone,

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Thank you for understanding.