I haven't read through this but is it suppossedly a work around for book listings:
Sellers typically offer the titles, say Pick the quantity of books you rwant and message me with the titles and hope that they're still available. If the seller has 1 only of a particular title and 2 buyers buy it at the same time, one of those buyers is going to be mad and the seller can end up with a defect.
There is a workaround which I learned today texting with an eBay rep who walked me through the process.
1 pick a title but not an obvious BOOK title. Even 'thing' will do. and start the listing
2. eBay will default to some category like who knows? In my case today is was men's shoes. Complete with the item specifics for mens shoes. Ignore that
3. Select ADD VARIATIONS none of the variations it offers you will be any use whatsoever. That's OK, select CREATE VARIATION
4. If TITLE is one of your variations, whatever you do, don't create that name! You won't be able to launch your listing. But you can make up something else, like VOLUME or NAME etc. Add variations as you please
5. Remember not to enter any quantity of zero (e.g. say you have 5 titles and multiple copies of each, some hardcover, some softcover. if you don't have any of title 4 in softcover don't put the quantity as zero - just delete that particular variation)
6. When you've entered all your variations, quantities and prices and finish, you'll go back to the main form. Enter the right listing title you want. Choose the right category in books. Add your other item specifics like publisher etc.
7. Launch the listing
It would be nice if you could just create a book listings with variations from scratch, but for some reason you can't. But this workaround it not horrendous. Just kind of head shaking.
Thanks to the agent REA, who worked on this with me and got the listing successfully launched.
