Honestly Ebay.....sheesh

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 Smiley Mad

Smiley LOL (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

 

...and it costs 100 billion dollars.jpg

 

 

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. 

LOL Digital, that's so funny/

 

 

Sums up the situation really.

 

Sometimes Ebay can "genuinely" make my head spin.

Can it be done in bulk?

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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. 

 

🙂

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

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

I'll give 'em a "chocolate cookie"

 

Spoiler
*insert maniacal evil laugh here*

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


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