'Listings Require Action' - I've updated & updated but can't see what is wrong with my listings

[jane-de-cluttering]

I posted here about this notification I 've been receiving from Ebay, about a month ago.  No-one here could advise me as to what was my problem or the general issue.

Since then I've received more 'urgent' emails from Ebay.  On 23 Sep an email said I still had 19 listings which required action & if they weren't updated then "you won’t be able to publish new, relisted or revised listings in certain Home & Garden, Food & Drink, and Fashion categories".

So I undertook the very tedious exercise of inspecting & updating every single one of my listings - scrupulously.

Today I get a similar notice - still 19 listings require action.

All of the notices recommend I subscribe to Optiseller in order to be able to easily view which are the problem listings.  [I haven't done so & can't see what this might cost without doing the initial registration.]

Is this a hoax?!!  Is anyone else getting this?

[curraone]

and it should look like this:

<br>These are a lovely loafer made in Italy by Stilmoda.&nbsp; Euro size 41 or AUS size 10<br><br>&nbsp;<br><br>They are in a nude pinkish tone of patent leather.&nbsp; The white rubber sole is man-made.&nbsp; The heel is 2cm high. The interior length is 27cm.<br><br>&nbsp;<br><br>Tassels to the front and stitching around the edge of the sole.&nbsp; Classic loafer look.<br><br>&nbsp;<br><br>Beautifully comfortable.&nbsp; Not much worn.&nbsp; In very good condition.&nbsp; Purchased new by the owner.<br><br><br>Happy to answer questions, or take more photos – esp in regards to colour.&nbsp; <br>

[jane-de-cluttering]

Thanks Curraone.  I have fixed that one AGAIN.  Too maddening.

I rang Ebay and the person I spoke to said (after some to & fro) it's because I hadn't filled up the UPC field.  Ahhh I said.  Thank you very much.  And then started to search out those listings where I hadn't entered in the UPC code.  So just 19 I was looking for, remember.

 Well happily the first 19 I looked at were the ones, and I rectified the UPC field.  That was an amazing coincidence, I thought, NOT.  

So I proceeded to inspect the rest of the listings (haven't finished) & virtually all of them were non-compliant in that respect.  So that leads me to think that it is not the UPC field which is causing me to be sent these increasingly urgent notices about 19 listings.  The last one cited '5 days until mandate'.  

So I will wait for the next exciting instalment

BTW the person I spoke to was quite adamant that the Optiseller ap was completely free for 3 months with no commitment for anything further.  But I'm not sure  😞 

[curraone]

That was a good idea about UPC, i did read that they were going to be compulsory

Luckily you can bulk edit and fill in that option.

[twyngwyn]

read about it here:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Listing-keeps-saying-item-specifics-are-missing/m-p/3...

[twyngwyn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1dNfAoJh44

[countessalmirena]

It is indeed a mess.

[twyngwyn]

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2019/10/17/ebay-still-working-on-tech-issues-impacting-item-specifics...

[gumleaf_goodies]

The two spaces 'rule' was designed for typing using a typewriter, as they had only the one typeface (usually) which meant that every letter/character took up the same amount of horizontal space. However, with the invention of the computer, and the wealth of typefaces that became available, proportional typefaces became more common, and this meant that skinny letters such as 'i' took up less space than wide letters such as 'm'.

So word processsed typing, as long as it doesn't use a non-proportional typeface such as Courier, is much easier to read with single spaces at the end of sentences. If double spaces are used, then the gap becomes roo obvious and spolis the look of the text. 

[twyngwyn]

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2019/10/1571448608.html

[twyngwyn]

Is eBay OVER for me?? | Revising 3,400 listings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KbEie2FLRY