What are seller's with inventory that does not have UPC Codes going to do?

[mrconran]

Most of my items do not have UPC Codes. How am I supposed to list that in the catalog?

Also a lot of my items have been listed with the correct UPC codes and Ebay sates the codes are incorrect. I have checked a few and they are correct.

[jason_incognito]

I want to know what I do with merchandise that is used and the UPC code is long gone?

[bubbleman2010]

If ebay refuses your listing due to no UPC code just go to sold completed and get the UPC code from a like item that sold.... easy peasy....

[audioarchive]

When I run across a CD or DVD without one, I just search by the title and find it. I just make sure it's all the correct version (Widescreen, etc).

[dande2016]

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@audioarchivewrote:
When I run across a CD or DVD without one, I just search by the title and find it. I just make sure it's all the correct version (Widescreen, etc).

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That is a little hard to do with vintage clothing or even used clothing.  Heck a lot of new clothing does not even have UPC's example Old Navy is one.  

What then?

[dhbookds]

tthere are only certain categories that will be impacted in May..........and used clothing isn't one......  the UPC stuff is probably far down the line for it........

[whatmorefabric]

I need a UPC on another site.    I purchase them with a certificate,  but you can get them off of Ebay.    Lots of sellers on the other site buy them here.

Fabric does not have UPC codes except for a few companies like Spring.      Apparel fabrics that I have are not made for consumers so there would never be a code.

[sharingtheland]

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@dhbookdswrote:

tthere are only certain categories that will be impacted in May..........and used clothing isn't one......  the UPC stuff is probably far down the line for it........

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Somewhere in the jumping around reading I've been doing today, a blue said they have carefully curated the categories that are included in this first rollout of product whatever.  And that ebay will do that for all items eventually (2087?).

I agree, dh, until at least some of the glaring glitches are worked out, I think we're pretty far away from worrying about items without UPCs.  The catalog as is, one hot mess.

I saw that blue answer, btw, in a mass of words reply when asked about sellers being held responsible for catalog errors.  Why, of course it's the seller's responsibility, not ebay's, for listing something with those errors.

SMH

[luckythewinner]

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@sharingthelandwrote:
Somewhere in the jumping around reading I've been doing today, a blue said they have carefully curated the categories that are included in this first rollout of product whatever.  And that ebay will do that for all items eventually

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I do not believe that eBay will require UPCs in all categories. If a blue said that, I believe that blue was either mistaken or what he said was misinterpreted. 

Vinyl records did not generally have UPCs prior to the 1980s.  Trading cards don't have them. Antiques don't have them. Paintings don't have them. 

Neither does "mid-century modern" ... and that alone accounts for almost 75% of the stuff being sold on eBay 🙂

[sharingtheland]

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@luckythewinnerwrote:

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@sharingthelandwrote:
Somewhere in the jumping around reading I've been doing today, a blue said they have carefully curated the categories that are included in this first rollout of product whatever.  And that ebay will do that for all items eventually

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I do not believe that eBay will require UPCs in all categories. If a blue said that, I believe that blue was either mistaken or what he said was misinterpreted. 

Vinyl records did not generally have UPCs prior to the 1980s.  Trading cards don't have them. Antiques don't have them. Paintings don't have them. 

Neither does "mid-century modern" ... and that alone accounts for almost 75% of the stuff being sold on eBay 🙂

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I wasn't clear.  As I remember (who knows how long it would take me to find that again), the blue's answer was per usual vague re categories, product catalog and items without UPCs but that eventually all items sold on ebay would have product pages/be categorized.

Read into that what you will:  Emphasis on only new items?

[sharingtheland]

Neither does "mid-century modern" ... and that alone accounts for almost 75% of the stuff being sold on eBay

Source ?

[luckythewinner]

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@sharingthelandwrote:

Neither does "mid-century modern" ... and that alone accounts for almost 75% of the stuff being sold on eBay

Source ?

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That was an attempt at humor, which is why I put a big smiley face after it.

I was joking about the fact that almost any piece of furniture made in the last 100 years seems to get tagged as "mid-century modern", whether it had anything to do with that movement or not. 

In a similar vein ... I remember a couple years ago someone listed a 45 rpm on eBay for $1 million and described it as "The rarest record on earth - the only record released in the 1960s that was NOT northern soul". 

[laylajames9]

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@bubbleman2010wrote:

If ebay refuses your listing due to no UPC code just go to sold completed and get the UPC code from a like item that sold.... easy peasy....

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It's not that simple. If you tie your listing to a different item in the product catalogue by using an inaccurate UPC, you are responsible if the buyer makes their purchase from the product page and files SNAD because your item does not match what they saw on the product page.

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Inventory-Optimization/Question-Re-Catalog-Errors/m-p/28173582#M41

Take a look at the terms in the UA because those say the same thing. eBay is not held acountable if there are errors in product pages, the seller is. This is outlined in two different sections of the UA.

There are going to be a lot of growing pains as the product-based shopping experience takes over and the brunt will fall on sellers. eBay hasn't worked out how it's going to handle some aspects of this big transition yet. One of the blues said today that's why they are implementing this roll out in stages.

Bob Kupbens said recently that some categories will never conform to the product-based experience and therefore won't be a part of this change. He referenced preowned clothing as an example but implied there are other categories that will not conform.

[jason_incognito]

What scares me is that there are huge chunks of items that Amazon just doesn't carry at all. They just don't fit into their catalog experience.

Will eBay end up the same way? So that the vintage PEZ that started the whole thing can't even be sold here?

[b86fiero]

eBay staff did give a couple of answers to this type of inquiry on the Spring Update discussion board ~ Inventory Optimization.