Here's a laugh.

[mycheaperstuff]

eBay seems to want sellers to provide shorter and more generic listing descriptions judging by the smaller space and few options for typing descriptions in the new listing form.

Personally, I think most description are far too short already.

So I felt like I was in a time back machine to read the instructions for the description, "Provide a description for your item. Tell buyers about unique features, and/or why you are selling it."

Aren't the days of saying why you are selling something long gone?
I won't be wasting listing space on why I'm selling my items.  No one cares.

[gorgons-gallery]

Dream on Macduff! You want content to supersede advertising!!!! WOW and I thought I was old school! Didn't you see Blade Runner (original release)? That's where we're going. They're going to run ads in your dreams! But not to fret, nobody "sees" them anymore anyway. They're the white noise of a neighbor's TV set at 2am, except they run 24/7. Look, everything Ebay does is based on numbers. If the numbers didn't show they could make more money doing it this way, they wouldn't. Conversely, you're crazy if you think it's going away just because we don't like it! My advice to you is smell the coffee my friend and stop worrying about things you are NEVER going to change. I am sure you have better ways to use your time...like listing more items!

[inhawaii]

My listings would all be the same.

Why am I selling this?

To make money.  😉