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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.
The clothing update is bad. Women’s jeans in particular for me, now has a silouhette descriptor but still required style for a few days, since removed. The problem is going back to update all these listing to now reflect silouhette instead of style. I’ve also gotten yellow warning for rise values which match current values but this is classic bad coding without any heads up on changes. In another instance. the other day I listed a men’s Pendleton blazer, and went to update the price and flagged red because I didn’t have a “Waist Size” (half shrug/half SMH on that) It’s all completely out of whack in almost all clothing categories. I sincerely wish that eBay would email updates when they have made major changes like this and also work better to allow sellers to mass update items when they are completely reorganizing category descriptors. Obviously that won’t happen any time soon. Too busy pushing returns instead of sales.
This is Ebays solution to their Catalog Problems. They have no idea what they are doing and just keep making shots in the dark hoping that something finally works for them. i think they have finally come to realize that Sellers are not going to help bail them out of this situation for free this time..
Odd how eBay expects us to roll up our shirt slaves and fix their problems, at the same time waving away Seller issues with their canned ‘that’s just the cost of doing business’ response.