eBay Has Once Again Made A Change Without Putting Any Thought Into It

[eliotdeutsch]

Noticed that too. So ridiculous.

[buymycards]

I ran across the same problems this morning. Let's see - I listed it under the "baseball" category, it is in the "baseball" category in my store, but now I also have to enter "baseball" in the item specifics.

I have to enter a team, even though it may be a lot of 50 1971 Topps cards that have several teams, and when I start typing in the team name, even though I am listing in the baseball category, teams from other sports are in the drop down menu.

I always used the graded or ungraded item specifics, but it wasn't mandatory, but now it is.

I hope they don't make me do that for all 900 of my BIN's when they are automatically relisted at the beginning of the month. (That is another mandatory change that pisses me off.)

These changes don't sound like much, but it is time consuming to enter all of the item specifics for each item, especially when the layout of the specifics changes, depending on what you are entering.

[tonyo]

I don't have nearly as many cards listed as you guys, so I really feel for ya.

But I'll complain a bit anyway......,

they didn't even support "bulk changes"

Typically I can select as many listings as I want, then make the same change to all the listings at the same time.

Looked like it was working, but didn't. Fortunately I was only re-listing about 50 cards, so I ended up cutting and pasting "not specified" or "see photos" or "ungraded" into all the now-required specifics for each individual listing where appropriate. Thank goodness they allowed me to paste those in the "player name" and "team name" fields.

Seems like they would want to make it easy to list things.

[Buythatcard]

Originally Posted by buymycards

I ran across the same problems this morning. Let's see - I listed it under the "baseball" category, it is in the "baseball" category in my store, but now I also have to enter "baseball" in the item specifics.

I have to enter a team, even though it may be a lot of 50 1971 Topps cards that have several teams, and when I start typing in the team name, even though I am listing in the baseball category, teams from other sports are in the drop down menu.

I always used the graded or ungraded item specifics, but it wasn't mandatory, but now it is.

I hope they don't make me do that for all 900 of my BIN's when they are automatically relisted at the beginning of the month. (That is another mandatory change that pisses me off.)

These changes don't sound like much, but it is time consuming to enter all of the item specifics for each item, especially when the layout of the specifics changes, depending on what you are entering.

Rick,

You brought up a good point. What happens to the BINs that are relisted which previously did not have these mandatory fields included?

[BeanTown]

EBay has become a Dinosaur company. The head doesn't even know what the tail is doing. The onlything constant with them is change.

[buymycards]

I just checked. I have 190 BIN's that ended in the last few days. None of them automatically relisted.

[buymycards]

I can't seem to get the listings updated using the bulk editor. I can't find any option to update the graded/ungraded, although the listing are all flagged as errors because of this. I'm not able to update the item specifics for the correct sport, except individually.

I'm not going to change them individually. Hopefully this will be straightened out.

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by BeanTown

EBay has become a Dinosaur company. The head doesn't even know what the tail is doing. The onlything constant with them is change.

They like to fix things that aren't broken.

[BabyRuth]

Fixing the problems we never knew we had......

[midmo]

I noticed this today too. I didn't feel like filling out all those categories so I just entered a period in each field and it accepted it. It's a dumb change. Hopefully they don't stick with it.

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by buymycards

I hope they don't make me do that for all 900 of my BIN's when they are automatically relisted at the beginning of the month. (That is another mandatory change that pisses me off.)

You can set BINs to not relist on their own. It just isn't the default.

[buymycards]

No, all BIN's are automatically relisted, unless you end the listing. In the past, you could choose not to automatically relist, but now you can't. You can with auctions, but not with BIN's.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Wait it gets better. If you're listing a group lot you STILL have to choose a team. Haven't looked to see what happens if you're listing a complete set.

[icurnmedic]

I guess AL , 10 and Yankees as default?

[Johnny630]

The Bay is lowballer buyer friendly not seller friendly .......always will be this way

[LACardsGuy]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Wait it gets better. If you're listing a group lot you STILL have to choose a team. Haven't looked to see what happens if you're listing a complete set.

You can write "i am not doing this" or "your mom" and it will still work. that's how I have now modified my templates in garagesale.

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by LACardsGuy

You can write "i am not doing this" or "your mom" and it will still work. that's how I have now modified my templates in garagesale.

That's great!!!

Love it!!!

[Buythatcard]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Wait it gets better. If you're listing a group lot you STILL have to choose a team. Haven't looked to see what happens if you're listing a complete set.

You will need to put in every team name if you are listing a set. I also heard that next year, you will need to include the weight and IQ of every player that you list.

[LACardsGuy]

Originally Posted by Tabe

You can set BINs to not relist on their own. It just isn't the default.

Really? Since they made the good til cancelled only change (another dumb one), everything does it automatically. any way to fix this would be good info.

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by LACardsGuy

Really? Since they made the good til cancelled only change (another dumb one), everything does it automatically. any way to fix this would be good info.

Yeah, there's a way to turn it off when listing. I just did it for the item I'm selling.

[Buythatcard]

Ok, eBay I am trying to do as you ask. I need help on this one. Which team should I enter?

[swarmee]

Springfield Isotopes

[ReefBlue]

Originally Posted by Buythatcard

Ok, eBay I am trying to do as you ask. I need help on this one. Which team should I enter?

Or any checklist.

What about cards with multiple players from different teams?

[cardsnstuff]

Originally Posted by Tabe

You can set BINs to not relist on their own. It just isn't the default.

how do I do this?