@joyofthehunt
My guess what you are seeing is a case of system overload with sellers playing cat and mouse trying to keep up. This has been a new repeat ongoing problem since August of this year. Personally getting veryyyyyyyyyyyyyy tired of filling in N/A ad nauseum to make them right!!!!
Sidenote: If you miss something when either creating a new listing or using Sell Similar/Relist it doesn't give you an error message but waits and adds to the collection for updating after the fact. Should you really need an ebay tool to fix listings after you've created them?
-Lotz