Does Not Apply

Works fot me

MAybe a silly question, but what is a UPC number?

 

It's a barcode number used only in the US and nowhere else whatsoever, so of course eBay spams the term "UPC" all over the place. The rest of the world use 13-digit EAN barcodes (or rarely, 8 digits), which is also backwards-compatible with UPCs by adding a zero in front of the UPC number (13-digit EAN and 12-digit UPC barcodes are identical in appearance and are read the same way, except that UPCs lack the first digit, which was grandfathered in as a zero in the EAN format; Australian EANs always start with a 9).

UPC = Universal Product Code

EAN = European Article Number

 

They are just the barcodes you see all over products that are scanned at checkouts etc.

There are many different formats of the codes. These are two of the commonly used ones.

when a barcode doesn't scan at a checkout and an operator has to type a number in, this is what they are typing.

 

If you are selling common products the barcode links it into google searches and probably helps it pop up all over web pages when people have searched similar items.

 

I leave it as "does not apply" even for my new items that have it, as they are one offs and unlikely to be search linked to other same items..also cant be bothered typing in big numbers.

 

This not the same as MFN, which is more of a manufacturers internal tagging like a style number

Thanks for the replies. As I sell mainly vintage I will not need to bother about it.

 

I tried typing in Not Relevant, Not Applicable, Does Not Apply, the latter 2 have too many characters and it doesn't like Not Relevant, so still getting the same error message requiring UPC/EAN.  Totally frustrated now!!

 

Anyone have any other suggestions for this in Turbo Lister??

 

Thanks