@dollyhodge wrote:
Now ebay changes the listing format again. Half the categories are missing. Okay, I added the categories in my template. When I use the template, there are errors.
I think your best bet may be to dump the old template and start fresh. When the new listing form reads in a template that was generated by a past listing form, it may not correctly recognize the template values that you stored, or may place the template values in the wrong fields.
Once you have a new listing the way you want it using the latest listing form, try saving that as a new template. You can also do a Sell Similar off one of your new listings (i.e. a listing generated by the new listing form), and that should be a stable way to go forward with new bear listings, possibly needing only a few tweaks for the new item to be uploaded.
One thing I try to avoid at all times is to change to a new category, as that will lose most if not all of your item specifics that were part of the previous category. Good luck.
P.S. Mostly irrelevant anecdote: years ago we were collecting Gerber TLC bears, basically in all their available colors. We came across another one at a garage sale some years back, and bought it, though the seller (not a kid but a woman in her 40s) was near tears as we were leaving with the bear. When I got home, I had the inspiration to photograph our new purchase snuggled in with the other bears in his new home, printed the photo, and drove back to the garage sale to drop off the photo, show them that he was in a good home, etc. She was visibly relieved to get the photo; I think we resolved that pretty well. 😊
