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As an addition to what @pjcdn2005 told you, using "NA" instead of leaving eBay RECOMMENDED Item Specifics that don't apply blank is the proper approach.
In my Category there are dozens of "recommended" Item Specifics, I fill in a few of them that actually relate to the item I am selling and leave the rest blank, you only need to fill in the IS that are shown as "required".
@msau4301 wrote:I definitely agree the Item Specifics reminders have been annoying since it started a few years back but as others have said I don't think it matters when you leave blanks. I don't know how much they help (or if we don't use them hinder) people finding us. I use sell similar which helps pick up a lot of the repeat info but there are many, many blanks.
I don't have a lot of experience with action figures (I typically sell vintage Barbies) but last fall my brother gave me a big box full of his 80's action figures with a "I don't know if these are worth anything, they're pretty banged up". Well I knew absolutely nothing about 80's boys toys aside from regognizing some GI Joes and Masters of the Universe but some online searching helped me match some weapons to the figures and identify some of the characters but I put very little in for Item Specifics (even less than my usual stuff) but let me tell you people had no trouble finding them, I did auctions and many were bid way beyond what I would have thought and all found with very little in terms of item specifics. I think your heading is what gets you noticed first. I had a few lots of mixed items and weapons I couldn't identify, there was mix of Hasbro, Mattel and many unknowns, impossible to identfiy specifics for in a large mixed lot and it was one of the most successful auctions. Collectors and people trying to recapture their youth (that's what brought me here!) are going to find it without all the specifics.
Going forward even the category you choose has become irrelevant. All you have to do is click on a category, any category and see the other totally unrelated items that pop up. You could say close enough is now acceptable. I'm finding many categories I used to use religiously are nowhere to be found. (Mostly on ca but are still available on dot com.) Others have been merged in some unserendipitously haphazard dogs breakfast kind of way. Unsure how bad this is between all eBay sites but I guess we can only imagine. It has definitely made it harder to find when you are looking for, pardon the pun "specific" on eBay.
In my years on eBay I have never seen 1 to 1. It should still be about describing an item accurately vs a collection of irrelevant item specifics.
-Lotz
I disagree that selecting the correct Catagory is not important.
Two reasons, the most important is that when doing searches eBay will often force your search to specific Categories, for experienced buyers it's less of a problem because buyers can change eBay's directed search to All Categories but for those not paying attention your search could be directed to a specific Category and if the item is in a different Category they will never see it.
Second reason is that there are still browser buyers who go to specific Categories, sort by price and skim through pages of listings, if you are in the wrong Category your listings will be invisible.
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