Simply-the-best-for-you Volunteer Community Mentor
It's not you, it's thousands of CSA sellers & it is at least partially an error. Most of us are seeing that SIZE is missing. BUT size isn't missing, b/c YOU CANNOT LIST IN CSA WITHOUT SIZE & haven't been able to for a good 6 years or so. IT's another botched IS implementation that they will hopefully pay attn to & fix b/c they PROMISED to move all the appropriate fields, to the new field.
Also, do not enter NONE in any field, it is unnecessary & not in your best interest. If you cannot find an appropriate item in EBay's drop down, leave it blank.
There are at least 5 other threads here on this. IT's a mess b/c they implemented it incorrectly, yet again.
@mynewfindstore wrote:Why is it not in our best interest not not enter "none" for a field? I was under the impression that the more that is filled out, the search algorithm would favor that. If not, I have done a LOT of work for nothing!!
ONLY if it is from their drop down list. ANYTHING else you enter, whether it be "none" or something you feel is more appropriate (say peach instead of orange as an example) then means that item will not come up when a buyer uses left side drill down to search. So if they search for orange in color, your item you entered in peach for, will not come up. Would have been to your benefit to select orange b/c then it WOULD come up in their results & you can explain in your description.
Anything you've entered 'none' for, will not come up, when an a buyer uses a dropdown value in their left side navigation search.
I am not sure how 'none' compares to blank. That is, leaving it blank, may also cause it not to come up, but you've saved yourself a lot of effort.
So in worst case scenario, it hurts you, best case scenario, it doesn't hurt you, but it doesn't help either & you've done all that work for nothing. If you're going to fill out an IS, you pretty much ALWAYS want it to be one of the drop downs. It is to your benefit. I realize that very often there is no appropriate value, just choose the closest one so that your item will get returned in way more search results that way compared to leaving it blank or typing in none.
Item Specifics are all about left side search navigation.
I have not tried changing any of them b/c I know this is an implementation glitch & I'm going to wait & see what happens. If it's requiring Character, that's yet another glitch b/c obviously 99.9% of womens clothing does NOT have a character & there shouldn't even be an IS for Character b/c it's bizarre & makes no sense LOL.
Personally I give these a few days or weeks for Ebay to fix the errors with every implementation. This has been going on for years. That said, IDK when the drop dead date is, so if you HAVE to put something in there, I guess None is fine. IDK why it would require it, as it has never required Character before & I haven't heard anyone else complaining of that.
Depart may become required. It's dumb b/c it's redundant with the Item Title, but I could see that one becoming required. If you can afford to wait it out a bit, do so. If not, you gotta do what you gotta do.
But this happens with every IS implementation. Glitches & bugs galore.
Mynewfinds, you're not alone, sales have been HORRIBLE in Oct & not so hot in Sept either. These are historically my 2 best months 😞
I was an IT professional for most of my adult life, so I totally understand & know what's going on & frankly, it's pathetic. We are basically beta testers for them & have been for years now. Can you imagine if you had put out untested changes to a live system? Or if you had simply deleted fields that users had been entering & told them they have to re-enter them for thousands of records?
Anyway, congrats on your sales. I had 2 days over the weekend where my Send Offers count was only 5 or 6 & barely changed, I usually have the high teens to 20's. I've been going days on end without sales, which hasn't happened in ages.
THis is a crazy year, def impacted by COVID, the horrible USPS service, the many people out of jobs, etc. The pattern this year has been turned upside for me. My summer, which is normally dead was excellent & my Sept/Oct, which are my best months, have been dead. I'm selling more on the weekdays & the weekends are dead, which is also backwards of usual. I barely get any hits on weekends right now. But, much of the country still has nice weather. I also had to drop my GSP b/c of delivery issues at the GSP center, so there went all my Int'l sales. It wasn't a lot, but there were some. And then there's all the problems being reported with PL's & the new PL program they put in place.
Last year I was getting 4 sales/day on most days, now I'm going 3 days in a row with 0 sales.
LOL, as soon as I typed all that & hit Reply, I got a tiny sale. Better than nothing.
