@thecatspjs wrote:
There's a lot of very unhappy sellers in the US. I imagine there will be too in Oz ...... weird it wasn't included in our Spring update.
Given many sellers want to keep their listings stored indefinitely and I can't imagine that eBay will be moving from keeping listings older than 60 days to forever .... unless of course a hefty price tag is involved.
This move is all to do with streamlined product identifiers and in-house catalogues of items. In a nutshell, eBay is trying to mirror Am***n.
All of my items are either unbranded, or my own brand. When the product identifier changes have been fully implemented, 'Does not apply' will no longer be allowed and my stuff will be assigned an eBay-generated identifier, which anyone else can use and create listings from.
There are benefits to this kind of system, and drawbacks.
One of the drawbacks I can see happening - it's a common complaint of sellers who sold their own brand of items on Am***n that even though they no longer list their products there, they remain part of A's catalogue and are the first result in google searches. Then, when someone clicks on that result to view the item, they are shown it's not in stock on the site, and are given a range of other similar products to choose from instead.
