Not only do the buyers suffer from this change, the sellers do as well.
First of all, eBay never sent me an email regarding these changes. I only heard about it thru the Net54 Forum. I have been selling for over 18 years on eBay and thought it might be nice of them to inform me.
I have about 5,000 different templates thru my listing software that I use over and over. I just go in and update the pictures, headings and descriptions if needed. Each one has their own category, Trading Cards, Baseball or Trading Cards, Football, etc.
In order for my listings to work, I had to make sure that all the categories were changed to Trading Card Singles. Nothing separates the sports anymore. Luckily I was able to do some bulk edits.
I haven't received anything yet from eBay stating that my Item Specifics need to be updated. I am waiting for my listings to start getting kicked off because of that.
If eBay listens to the complaints and reverse everything (I doubt this will happen) then I will really run into an issue. I will not be able to do a bulk edit since all my listings now fall under Trading Card Singles. I will no longer be able to distinguish the different sports unless I manually update everything.
Bottom line. eBay sucks big time and once again they prove that it's run by a bunch of incompetent people who do not think outside of the box.
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