a few items that would make eBay more practical and relevant (in my opinion)

[kalandry]

a) I can understand  that you need to understand the product that is being sold/bought

    MPN is one number that is requested (required?).  Finding the MPN is not trivial.. seems it would be easier for the sellers/buyers to have a straight forward way to find the MPN for the product of interest quickly

b) there are some items that are not necessary ( in my opinion) that are currently required. For example for golf balls  there is a request (requirement?) to have the golf ball related to an event. (i.e. The Masters golf event)  I don't think that is useful (and I believe now it is not required.. but saves typing 

c) bidding to me is not straight forward... .. one example can think of is a person who puts a bid on the product and the seller is not completely aware of it.. and when the bid posts ..  possibly putting a reminder on the bid when it is to expire..

Hope this is helpful

[brian_burke@ebay · Accepted solution]

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@1786davycrockett wrote:

@tobaccocardyahoo 

Back in 2017, I regularly was emailing brian_burke@ebay  regarding issues that I was encountering with the eBay book catalogue, particularly the manner in which book publishers were ending older ISBN numbers, only to re-issue the identical ISBN number with entirely DIFFERENT titles at future dates.

After I had sent several of these emails, I received an email from brian_burke@ebay  requesting that I no longer refer that information to him, but rather to the individual at eBay who was in charge of making corrections to the catalogue.

Unfortunately that individual never acknowledged receiving any of my emails, nor were ANY of the changes that I had suggested ever implemented.

In other words, eBay is not interested in correcting the errors on their own catalogue.

Which is the major reason that I no longer find it useful to use the eBay catalogue.

I'll stick with "Does Not Apply" instead of entering an ISBN number to my listings.

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The best option is to report these types of issues to sdsupport@ebay.com - please be as specific as you can and if there are two books with the same ISBN, please include examples of both. I'm not sure how the team reconciles those issues. If you do not get a response from them, let me know and you can send the example to me and I will escalate it to the team. Thank you. Brian

[anjofak]

When we started here it was primarily for books and small easy shippers,  we would fill in all available info and constantly have it just poof away or change at some random point, same as dvd and Blu-ray,  scan it in and snap some pics ran great could list a pile in an hour, then all the specifics just started poofing away or changing constantly..it became a waste of 45 mins on a corrupted listing .