topic Re: Missing or recommended item specifics in Selling

Missing or recommended item specifics

egglesdtp — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 07:23:10 GMT

I received notification that I had 37 items (shirts) that were missing item specifics. In my listings, I always include condition, size, all the fabric components, colour, manufacturer, sleeve length etc. When I went to look, one of them required a colour (I had chosen 'Multicoloured' from the original dropdown list provided, but apparently that wasn't good enough), so I added 3 of the colours of the several in the shirt. Another one that was missing anything was a shirt for which I had no brand name, so I left that out in my original listing. This time I put in 'Unknown' - which is not available in the dropdown list. If it is necessary to always add the brand name, why is it possible to choose to NOT include it? It isn't marked as one of the required fields. The only other one I found was a sleeveless top, which was missing its style but this wasn't a choice in the provided styles, and since the photo clearly shows what it is, didn't include it. So I added my own style.

Be bu@@ered if I can find what the other 34 were missing. Is this something new?

By the way, what is the difference between a blouse and a buttoned down shirt?

Re: Missing or recommended item specifics

thecatspjs — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 07:33:03 GMT

I treat these notifications as SPAM and ignore them.

Only very occassionally do they hit on an important missing item specific - they are just more of the numerous unhelpful suggestions that eBay likes to SPAM us with.

Re: Missing or recommended item specifics

egglesdtp — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 07:38:37 GMT

Thanks for the info - it's just I had never seen it before and thought it must be something new they were fiddling with.

Re: Missing or recommended item specifics

thecatspjs — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 07:44:19 GMT

A buttoned down shirt has a collar that can be secured with buttons.

Buttoned down shirt tends to get used as a more generic description for many business style / corporate / traditional shirts.

A blouse is a loose fitting shirt. However its more frequent generic use is a womens dress shirt or top.

Based on where I think people would search, I tend to use shirt if it is corporate wear and buttons up in some fashion, and blouse for most other things.

lol though if a top is loose fitting I tend to use tunic. choices, choices, choices

Re: Missing or recommended item specifics

curraone — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 07:44:23 GMT

I try to ignore it - the main specific seems to be "origin" - which I don't think is really important for anything but food

Re: Missing or recommended item specifics

egglesdtp — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 07:52:05 GMT

'origin' - is that an item specific for clothing? as I haven't noticed it before, except in furniture.

Re: Missing or recommended item specifics

egglesdtp — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 07:56:02 GMT

I never thought of 'buttoned down shirt' as being an item that has a buttoned down collar. I assumed that the term meant a garment that buttoned down the front. I think of a blouse as something that doesn't necessarily have buttons down the front. So I have always used the item specific 'buttoned down shirt' for all my shirts/blouses that button down the front. It probably doesn't matter, as who searches for 'buttoned down shirts' anyway?

Re: Missing or recommended item specifics

chameleon54 — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 08:37:45 GMT

I seem to get those messages every few days. I hope they are not planning to mandate the changes as I have a very large number of listings affected and couldnt realistically, physically change them. ( it could literally take several months of full time work. ) I have to admit its another small worry, trying to run a business on ebay, you never know when they are going to mandate changes that could take an enormous amount of work to fix...

Re: Missing or recommended item specifics

phorum_junkie* — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 09:23:48 GMT

I had no clue that anyone took any notice of those messages, I fill in the item specifcs I think appropriate and that is all, I would nnever dream of just putting something non specific in just so the space was filled.

Re: Missing or recommended item specifics

davewil1964 — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:45:21 GMT

I am in the process of ending and relisting everything, and I am making sure I have the item specifics correct. I am still getting an ever increasing list of items that allegedly need fixing.

I've only been getting this for the last couple of weeks, so it might be due to going back to 30 day listings from GTC.

Re: Missing or recommended item specifics

egglesdtp — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:47:48 GMT

I don't have 30 day listings that are GTC, so it can't be that.

Re: Missing or recommended item specifics

davewil1964 — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 13:10:40 GMT

I'll rephrase it.

I used to use GTC. Now I am using 30 days.

Since I started changing them over I have the 'item specifics' list.

I suspect any timeframe under GTC attracts it.

Re: Missing or recommended item specifics

egglesdtp — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:23:46 GMT

Sorry - I am not really sure what GTC or 30 day listings are about, as I don't have a store, so neither are available to me. I just use the free listings (and relistings) that are offered.

Re: Missing or recommended item specifics

davewil1964 — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:07:12 GMT

Forgive me for trying to explain 1+1.

Or 'any timeframe less than GTC'. Which would be 1, 3, 7 or 10 days.

Why ask questions when you are not prepared to understand answers?