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Article re Ebay Item Specifics Fixes
Importantly, Ebay is offering temporary free access to an outside program to ID your listings with issues:
“Use tool to find problems with existing listings: eBay recommends using the Optiseller Aspect Finder Tool to help sellers quickly identify and correct existing listings that are missing key item specifics.” Link in article.
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Were you able to check that site?
I apparently had an account there at some time, I believe they had some tools in the past that were useful, maybe the active content change. I don’t know the password and now I’m stuck on waiting for them to send me an email to confirm my email address in order to reset my password so I can sign in. It’s been over 15 minutes, not received or caught in the SPAM filter. It lowers my faith in a tech company that can’t do simple things right.
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I’m working on this now. My thoughts so far:
* Optiseller said it was downloading listings. After waiting for 10 mins I thought something might be wrong and clicked the reload button to try to start over. When I did, the page said that the listings were ready. Had I not clicked reload I guess I could have sat here all day waiting.
* In the US there are only 4 main categories that Optiseller works on. They are listed on Optiseller as Toys, Home & Garden, Fashion and Collectibles, Media & Gift Cards. That seems like it’s leaving out a lot of categories.
* Once downloaded, the site takes you through a quick tutorial.
* Based on the initial results I thought I only had one listing that needed to be fixed, which surprised me. But then I noticed that you have to go to a drop down menu at the top and select each subcategory one by one. For example, my one listing was in the women’s activewear hoodies & sweatshirts subcategories. I now have to select the drop down for the sub category, fix those and so and so forth.
* For a missing item specific, Optiseller recommends what you could use for that item. For example, a hoodie I had was missing the color and it took the color from the title and entered it for me into the item specific & asked if that’s what I wanted to choose. It will then fix the listing on ebay for me so I don’t need to go back into ebay to fix it.
* While there is room for improvement, the Optiseller tool seems easier to me than going through my individual listings myself on eBay to find what is missing. -
Okay one thing that is really annoying as I’m going through this – the dresses category. Over time ebay has changed the spelling of various item specifics within their drop downs. For example; A Line, Multi-color & Knee-Length used to be in various item specific drop downs. Over time ebay has changed those to A-Line and Multicolor and Knee Length. So now any older listings that had Knee-Length chosen for example, are showing up in Optiseller as needing to be changed to Knee Length. I wonder if listings with Knee-Length as an item specific will show up when a buyer selects Knee Length during their searches. To be safe, I guess I’ll change all of them.
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There was a post 3-4 weeks back on SL about Optiseller. Seems like not all comments were positive.
This may be a better alternative at isdntek.com:
You can download all your auctions with item specifics to a csv file and use Excel to review them on your desktop.And, You do not have to give them any credentials or account authorizations.
Here is a link:
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ItemSpecificScanner.htm-
@Timo, I recognize this site as one I have used in the past, but its been several years. Very geeky, which is not a problem for me.
I ran an export of all my listings in eBay Motors (2633) and found I have 69 with no Brand name and another 24 with no Manufacturer’s Part Number (although not the same listings). These had to have had both those attributes when listed.
I have seen this occasionally when editing old listings, and they sometimes trip an error if I do a bulk edit. Frustrating,
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@Old-Dad:
Yes this is all geeky and it gets deeper.
I am seeing something a bit strange with some of my item specifics when downloaded from isdntek. (Isdntek is not incorrect, but rather uncovered the issue.)There is some interaction for those items where I have used an eBay EPID. The EPID specs override my intended settings. This is particularly bad because the EPID gives more page views but EPID data is also full of errors.
The override could be an eBay issue or perhaps a Sixbit issue.
Are you using EPID for any of your items and if so, is there a correlation with those that drop data as you described above?
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