New policy regarding clothing sizes
Summary: lotzofuniquegoodies is seeking advice on efficiently determining which listings need updating to conform with eBay's new standardized sizing policy for apparel and footwear. rainday6 suggests adding a 'One Size' option for items like ponchos and capes. devon@ebay promises to pass this feedback to the eBay Product team. flipistics proposes a workaround by temporarily changing shipping policies to identify affected listings. lotzofuniquegoodies expresses concern that sellers with many items will face a lengthy process to manually update each listing.
Has anyone figured out an easy way of determining which listings do and don't conform to the new clothing policy? The email from eBay did not include a tool. Is it one at a time????
Starting in August, we’re standardizing sizes across Apparel and Footwear listings to help your items show up in searches and give buyers clearer sizing information.
To continue listing and selling without interruption, review and update your listings to use supported sizes before this change takes effect. Please note that you’ll be unable to create or revise listings with unsupported sizes.
Supported sizes include:
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Alpha sizes (2XS, XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL)
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Numeric sizes (where applicable)
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Region-specific formats (US, UK, EU)
To see supported sizes for your category, list an item and view the size options available from the drop-down menu.
You may need to update items where the size field has:
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Blank, missing, placeholder sizes
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Custom size descriptions, like “See description” or “N/A”
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Multiple sizes in a single field, like ‘S/M/L’
If there’s no exact match, choose the closest option and add more detail in your item description. Please note that, for some listings, sizes may now appear in a standardized format where there was a clear match. For example, “Medium” may appear as “M”.
If you use APIs, File Exchange, or third-party tools, make sure your sizing matches eBay’s supported options.
To learn more about eBay listing requirements, visit the Item description policy page.
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flipistics
·2 weeks agoIt's not ideal, but you could make a temporary change to your shipping policy. Any listings that fail when it updates are the ones that are likely affected by the various new changes - at least any mandatory ones.
lotzofuniquegoodies
OP2 weeks ago@flipistics Thanks for suggestion but will not work in my and others situation due to the fact I am unable to use shipping policies because when I attempt to modify current ones it gives me hundreds I need to update. STILL unable to correct approx 50 +- listings with conflicts eBay caused when they changed formatting for item specifics and has corrupted those listings. (Yes, this was passed on to ebay months ago but went nowhere.)
This is a similar issue to COO missing. The easiest way to resolve would be a separate column for COO from sellers hub. Extremely important this information was not always available when sellers created the original listing and still may not or they used unknown (if it was an option) at the time.
rainday6
·3 weeks agoEBay needs to add a One Size Option for Ponchos and Capes
lotzofuniquegoodies
OP3 weeks ago@devon@ebay
Can you pass this on please?
devon@ebay
Hi @lotzofuniquegoodies ! I will be sure to have this passed along to the Product team and share any insight they may have with you and others.
lotzofuniquegoodies
OP2 weeks ago@devon@ebay
If sellers have a large quantity of "clothing" type items this will be major process to check 1 at a time....and then confirm and update.