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Honestly Ebay.....sheesh

jellybirddesigns — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:10:58 GMT

All of my items are handmade.

When I make a new listing, I click the "Handmade" option at the top of the item specs.

Today I was looking at my listings on a different browser and noticed that the ones that I had marked as "Handmade" were not showing up. So, curious to see what was going on, I open a listing and this is what I see... (refer pic).

So, if you choose "Handmade", your listings don't show up in the handmade filter, but if you choose the third option, Handmade, without the quotation marks, they do!!!

WHY ARE THERE TWO HANDMADE OPTIONS!!!!???? Is this considered an Ebay "improvement"????

So frustrating! Now I have to go back and redo the better part of 200 listings!

GRRRR

Re: Honestly Ebay.....sheesh

digital*ghost — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:15:48 GMT

(My apologies, I'm not laughing at you and don't want to trivialise your frustration, because I understand it - I'm more laughing at eBay, for making a differentiation between handmade and "handmade").

By which I mean it's like they're putting this on listings

Edit: maybe it's to differentiate between handmade by others, and handmade by the seller - I sell some items that are technically handmade, but not handmade by me, and I know handmade cushion covers can be imported in bulk from some places.

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jellybirddesigns — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:28:15 GMT

LOL Digital, that's so funny/

Sums up the situation really.

Sometimes Ebay can "genuinely" make my head spin.

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kopenhagen5 — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:33:30 GMT

Can it be done in bulk?

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jellybirddesigns — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:54:08 GMT

Hi Kope, yes I did mange to get it done in bulk, but not being very familiar with the tool, it's 30 wasted minutes of my life that I can't get back.

🙂

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davidc4430 — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:05:40 GMT

oh the brilliant ebay "thinktank" spent a whole week comming up withis one and got a chocolate cookie for a job well done.

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jellybirddesigns — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:08:31 GMT

Maybe they got a "chocolate cookie", rather than a chocolate cookie.....

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digital*ghost — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:12:44 GMT

I'll give 'em a "chocolate cookie"

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amber-eyed-girl — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:27:57 GMT

There is some talk of eBay setting up a separate section for handmade items. Maybe they are experimenting already.

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davidc4430 — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:34:44 GMT

actually it was prolly just a few extra peanuts in their pay that week

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lyndal1838 — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:49:13 GMT

Digi, has anyone told you that you have an evil streak in you? Well, at least a wicked sense of humour!

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digital*ghost — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 11:10:44 GMT

@lyndal1838 wrote:
Digi, has anyone told you that you have an evil streak in you? Well, at least a wicked sense of humour!

Not very often

The most common reactions to my humour typically involve any combination of the following:

Blank Stare
Quizzical / Confused look
Extended silence followed by one of those sharp intakes of breath through the teeth while they give someone else a knowing / WT* look, followed by an immediate change of subject