Open thread: Useless Item specifics (for the Moderator)

[liawri-75]

I'd like to start a thread of your list of useless items specifics.  Since EB is making changes, let's help them.

I'll start with clothing and item specifics "Fabric".  You already have a specific for Material, what's the point of FABRIC?

[randomchans]

Materials are  cotton, polyester, wool, etc which can be spun into different types of fabrics like canvas, chambray, fleece, knit, etc. These are pretty important specifics for clothing (and if it's showing 571.9K total searches, it can only help your listing). There are many other specifics that are far more useless than "fabric" imo.

What changes that ebay is making are you referring to?

[liawri-75]

I hate fabrics as an item description esp. when you have "materials" as a specific.  If only they had 4 options, but EB lists about 20 for fabrics....ridiculous.  I just bypass it.

[dhbookds]

just for info..........for them to make  changes in IS, they need to know the specific category..........

[lacemaker3]

Some sellers are their own worst enemy.

Fabric type:  knit, woven, or felt/nonwoven?

There are some more detailed possibilities for each of these, but all fabrics are one of these types.

[bashort]

You may as well tell your complaint to the nearest inanimate object, a ebay  moderator is pretty far removed from where the decisions are made

[maxine*j]

Fabric and material are quite different.  Fabric is the end product of a process that uses a material as the raw ingredient.  The process involves knitting, weaving, or felting the material into the fabric.

Example:  Cotton is a raw ingredient that can be woven, knitted, or felted into fabrics such as denim, satin, sateen, chambray, lawn, canvas, batiste, poplin, corduroy, terrycloth, voile, velour, chintz, calico, broadcloth, gauze, gingham, cheesecloth, twill, and flannel, among others.

P.S.  The moderators here are just that, not representatives of decision-making corporate eBay.

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[az93]

I agree. While there is a difference between fabric and material, I think anyone shopping for fabric knows it will not be made of steel. I am glad they no longer ask how long coffee stays hot the cup. Many downright stupid item specifics have been eliminated and I, as a seller,  appreciate it. 

[luckythewinner]

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@liawri-75 wrote:

I hate fabrics as an item description esp. when you have "materials" as a specific.  If only they had 4 options, but EB lists about 20 for fabrics....ridiculous.  I just bypass it.

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As a buyer, I would love knowing what fabric and what material were used in an item.

I guess you can't please everyone.

[frankenhobbit]

Well, I learned something about materials and/or fabric!

I'm pretty clueless, barely past 'Is it cotton or not cotton' when I buy clothes. Was way more fancy when I lived in the UK. Could have been wool OR cotton......

[fern*wood]

I merely skip ones I find irrelevant to my item.  Frankly, I don't want to ask ebay to do anything I think might help me.  This has been done before, and many times, the fix is even worse. 

[winterpalace25]

I sell dishes and there is an IS for when it is produced. All the choices are by even decade. I wish there was a place to put your own, like 1985-1995. I have to add an IS and ignore this one. Also, I wish there was a place in the original listing form to say, Don't Ask About This Again. Now you have to go back in Tasks to check that box.  You can ignore the Task about Item Specifics, but it bugs me that it keeps nagging as a Task.

[ittybitnot]

 Useless Item specifics (for the Moderator)

@liawri-75 

Moderators on this board are not eBay employees.  They work for Khoros, and are in charge of closing old threads, moving old threads, removing comments, removing discussions, etc. 

For making suggestions to eBay regarding IS issues: 

sdsupport@ebay

[toomuchstuffagain35]

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@fern*wood wrote:

I merely skip ones I find irrelevant to my item.  Frankly, I don't want to ask ebay to do anything I think might help me.  This has been done before, and many times, the fix is even worse.

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 Like let's fix too many unpaid offers & auctions?

[bashort]

The purpose of these discussion boards is for ebay to provide free customer service to sellers, not a place for sellers to make recommendations on how ebay could improve, that is being handled by people who have never sold a item on ebay.