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mam98031 · ‎10-09-2019

I was trying to list a book this evening and I get this message.

I get the same message if I do a Sell Similar or a Relist.

Has anyone else experienced this or do you know what it is about??

mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999

mam98031 · ‎10-10-2019

@equid0x wrote:
@mam98031 wrote:
I was trying to list a book this evening and I get this message.

I get the same message if I do a Sell Similar or a Relist.

Has anyone else experienced this or do you know what it is about??
So you list books?

Looks like category gating just like Amazon.

Nope, not gating either.

I don't know why what I sell is of concern for you as this is the second thread you have brought that up on. It is no secret. It is easy for you and anyone that wants to, to see what I sell under this ID. I'm surprised with your knowledge of Ebay that you don't know how to do that.

mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999

equid0x · ‎10-17-2019

@readabouthorses wrote:
@dhbookds wrote:
@readabouthorses

I've had a couple of listings done in TL that I chose categories that weren't "good". When I tried uploading, get an category error message and it won't upload.... Not sure if one was books or not.....and can't remember what the categories were.
TL is probably on its last legs ... I still don't have an option of choosing United States in the Country section of Specifics ... it stops at India.

They won't just kill it off ... it will die by a thousand paper cuts. They are hoping when it just becomes so out of date that we will all just stop using it.

If its of any use to you, I used to use a plugin called wp_lister for woocommerce on a Wordpress site. It is actively updated and can handle books.

You don't necessarily have to run it on a website. You could always use it on a private VM just to push listings to eBay. This is what I did before I decided to have a live website.

Its subscription software and as such, you'll need to purchase it yearly as well as a subscription to a hosting provider. I don't know if TurboLister costs anything as I have not used it in many years (I used to call it slowlister).

The software was pretty feature complete. You can also purchase a support subscription should you run into problems. I do not work for wp_lister, woocommerce, or wordpress.

equid0x · ‎10-17-2019

@mam98031 wrote:
@equid0x wrote:
@mam98031 wrote:
I was trying to list a book this evening and I get this message.

I get the same message if I do a Sell Similar or a Relist.

Has anyone else experienced this or do you know what it is about??
But to give you a good answer, @mam98031, the reason is because your book's ISBN doesn't match whatever category you're trying to list it - or at least, eBay doesn't think it does.

I'd suggest searching the ISBN in eBay search and seeing if any other listings (even sold, closed) pop-up with a different category and try to list it there.

The ISBN is fine. It was listed with it before otherwise the product details and the prefill option would not appear. I think another poster answered the question for me.

eBay catalog listings may stick you in the wrong category, though.

equid0x · ‎10-17-2019

@mam98031 wrote:
@equid0x wrote:
@mam98031 wrote:
I was trying to list a book this evening and I get this message.

I get the same message if I do a Sell Similar or a Relist.

Has anyone else experienced this or do you know what it is about??
So you list books?

Looks like category gating just like Amazon.
Nope, not gating either.

I don't know why what I sell is of concern for you as this is the second thread you have brought that up on. It is no secret. It is easy for you and anyone that wants to, to see what I sell under this ID. I'm surprised with your knowledge of Ebay that you don't know how to do that.

I don't make it a habit to look up peoples' listing especially considering they may be using a posting ID.

I just throw out what's on the top of my head based on my knowledge of the site and my experiences here and on other sites. You never know what will stick.