Item specifics

[foryunz]

The item specific questions you have to answer now with every listing are set up for sellers who sell new merchandise.  The one size fits all form does not work for sellers like me who sell antiques/used merchandise.  You are asked as many as 55 questions yet your only allowed to use 45 or you get a warning in red that you exceeded the 45 allowed.  I recently put a kerosene lamp on and item specifics was asking things like wattage, bulb type, energy star rating all things that have nothing to do with selling an antique oil lamp.  My recommendation pay your tech guys to come up with 2 item specific forms one for new sellers one for used sellers and when you check the bow for new or used item the appropriate form will load.  Listings that used to take 3 minutes to create now take 10.

[dirk12955]

I sell stamps.     I'm not getting buried with new item specifics as some sellers are.

IMO Item specifics do work and they help buyers find your listings.

On my listings,    The item specifics that don't apply I type in "Does not apply"   and ebay bots seem OK 

with that as I've had no problems.   

[cstpos]

@foryunzWe sell a lot of refurbished and vintage items as well. I just put Not Applicable or Does Not Apply (copy & paste from a page I save of ebay terms) in the fields where that works. I also noticed (after months of filling in every field, that in very small letters, the listing form says 'Recommended' underneath the ones that are required. I thought they were all required.

Also, ebay was listing a lot of listings on my Seller Hub that needed item specifics. I added what I could, did N/A where possible. Further down you will see a line that says Do not ask me about this again - check that little box next to that.

They had tech glitches too. They kept asking me for item specifics (for networking switches) did it include a jewel case and other weird things related to music and CD's. I kept checking to see if I had selected to list in the wrong category, but it wasn't that. It is a pain. I don't understand why, when they have an item in their ebay catalog, do they make every seller input the same details?

[jayjaspersgarage]

If pushed by the bots I use 'NA' to infinity and beyond just to make them go away.  We all deal with the item specifics in our own way.