albertabrightalberta | Volunteer Community Mentor
evry1nositswindy • seller since 2013
"New automatic description system:" Are you referring to using an AI description?
How difficult is it to write your own descriptions, specific to the items, condition and details of the items you're selling?
I consider sellers who use AI and its flowery language that tells nothing about the items to be lazy sellers. JMHO.
In short, it doesn't matter 'who or what' wrote it. It is under your seller ID, so you are responsible.
It's meant as a tool to aid you. It does not promise correct or complete descriptions, and you are still fully responsible for verifying the accuracy and editing as needed. I avoid it entirely as it's less work to just write my own descriptions, but I also only describe the condition of an item with rare exceptions, not its purpose or features.
@1786davycrockett wrote:
Same problem using the eBay catalog -- so filled with misinformation as to be unusable.
Yep, we often do use the results from the eBay catalog when we're listing books with ISBNs or DVDs/CDs with UPCs, but we have to correct a fair bit on the actual listing.
@luckythewinner wrote:
@jonathanbrightlight wrote:It's meant as a tool to aid you. It does not promise correct or complete descriptions, and you are still fully responsible for verifying the accuracy and editing as needed.
I think the OP is talking about the new system that auto-generates description summaries for mobile listings.
These appear to be done on the fly, and thus the seller does not appear to have any ability to verify the accuracy or edit them.
https://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/news/sprupd16/view-item.html
Oh, yes, I forgot about that. In that case, most of what I said does not apply, though the seller is generally still held responsible for any issues, even though in that case it would not be their fault. I don't like that new "feature" and hope it's quickly removed.
