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mlhj87 · ‎10-26-2019

We have over 1000 listings of hockey cards.

Now - all of a sudden - to relist we have to add 6 specific pieces of information - Manufacturer, player name, team, grading, is it original (don't even know what that means) and what sport (hockey)

This is insane. This information is useless and is already in description.

We cannot list in bulk and are going to lose our monthly allotment of listings as it will take too long. Then - if too much time goes by - we will lose our listings as we can't relist fast enough.

Anyone else dealing with this? any workarounds?

Thx

femmefan1946 · ‎10-28-2019

(for example, the shoe category had 3 different spellings of 'culottes' because folks were spelling it differently).

Ummm.

Since "culottes" are a type of riding skirt/ pants, or an 18th century French revolutionary, why would they be in Shoes at all?

Fastening on the trivia since 1946.

tyler@ebay · ‎10-28-2019

@femmefan1946 wrote:

(for example, the shoe category had 3 different spellings of 'culottes' because folks were spelling it differently).

Ummm.

Since "culottes" are a type of riding skirt/ pants, or an 18th century French revolutionary, why would they be in Shoes at all?

Fastening on the trivia since 1946.

Hahahaha - that's a very fair question, now I'm curious!!

Tyler,

mlhj87 · ‎10-28-2019

In response to the ebay reply.

First - your "bulk" editing isn't working when we try to relist a bunch of hockey cards. Have tried numerous times to relist a bunch of cards where the 6 new item specific categories were actually the same for those listings. Did all the work and then it said ………..0 of 9 listings updated so …..thanks So get that fixed and let us know when it is.

Second - BULK listing doesn't work when you have listings with...…...DIFFERENT PLAYERS...…….you can't bulk list them - because...………………………... the PLAYER NAME item specific is DIFFERENT and likely the team name too

This is a HUGE fiasco you have created. I just spent over two hours relisting about 50 cards. Should have take me about ten minutes Thanks

and by the way - will you credit us back our listings WE HAVE PAID FOR if time doesn't allow us to use up those listings - because we have to relist ONE BY ONE

Thanks again

mlhj87 · ‎10-29-2019

Tyler@ebay

Further to my rant of yesterday a couple of comments - the first out of frustration - the second a suggestion.

I take exception to your comment that ebay had been telling us all year that they were going to add these item specifics as mandatory fields.

That wouldn't have helped us at all with the problem we now face. It's not like we could SLOWLY make the changes as we were relisting because we didn't know which fields you were going to arbitrarily tell us were mandatory. So even if I had gone in and changed each listing ONE BY ONE to add info to item specifics - I might have not added info to all 6 categories you picked - and so would have had to repeat the editing ONE BY ONE for over 1300 created listings we have.

But here's the suggestion. Since you say adding these item specifics is for OUR benefit (we will have a greater chance our listings are seen) why don't you let US decide which item specifics we choose to fill in. If we don't it's OUR loss. Or - we can test different item specific categories to see how it affects traffic and sales.

And here's another concern: we go and add the item specifics to every one of our listings so they can go up - and then you guys decide to add one more needed field - and we have to edit every listing AGAIN

To help us for now as we have so many listings to edit - could you guys simply remove the mandatory requirement on the new item specifics you just added? I notice when I'm editing listings that there is a red asterisk beside a field called UPC code - yet I can relist without filling that one in.

Could you not simply - for now - remove the mandatory status of those new item specific categories?

Thx

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎10-29-2019

@femmefan1946

Borrowed/repossessed from dot com:

"List something turkey for Thanksgiving and eBay will keep insisting that you make the country of origin Turkey. List something pumpkin for fall and eBay will keep insisting that the color is orange. No, eBay's AI is not smart enough to know the difference."

-Lotz

tyler@ebay · ‎10-29-2019

Hi @mlhj87 - thanks for your input - I can definitely get that passed along for consideration!

At this point in time there has not been any announcements made that the required item specifics will be made optional, nor have there been any announcements regarding compensation. I recommend checking the announcements page for updates as they are available. Thanks!

Tyler,

femmefan1946 · ‎10-31-2019

@lotzofuniquegoodies

There was a story on RadioOne this morning about AI and how dumb it was, even though it was really good at calculation.

kawartha-ephemera · ‎10-31-2019

@femmefan1946 wrote:
@lotzofuniquegoodies

There was a story on RadioOne this morning about AI and how dumb it was, even though it was really good at calculation.

Good with numbers ... makes sense ... numbers usually follow logical patterns ... the human mind, not so much!

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎10-31-2019

I had a customer recently purchase multiple units. I normally make maybe a 1 dollar on handling. I lost 4.00 with the inaccuracies of calculated shipping. And calculator only adds handling to first unit. AI and numbers. Depends on who is doing the programming and if they know what they are doing.

-Lotz

widgetc · ‎11-02-2019

I managed to add the useless item specifics to about 2000 archived stamp listings using turbolister bulk editing a few days ago. It is still working. It took me about 3 hours.

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎11-02-2019

@widgetc

In an attempt to add 30 day returns using bulk edit, the system was nice enough to bring up a quantity of listings that are NOW missing these new added random item specifics. As soon as I spotted that, I hit the back button. I wasn't entirely ready of having to dig through over 6 hundred listings for that kind of headache. Need more !!!

-Lotz

paqu2920 · ‎07-17-2021

Yes, we're also finding that since the introduction of eBay payments and these new field requirements, we're also seeing a huge drop in business. Some of the required fields make no sense, like "Is the card graded?" "No!" "What's the grade?" And no option to put UNGRADED. I mean we shouldn't be asked what the grade is, if we've answered that the card is ungraded. Now every listing I do says it's missing 3 required fields, so I have to list them, then go back in a check a box telling them to stop asking me about missing required fields. Then we get an email saying that soon, those 3 fields will be required, or we won't be able to list the card. They're going to be losing a lot of commission, because we're all going to lose a lot of business. All for what?