eBay Item Specific Glitchfest Hursts Sales for Many Sellers

[amy]

The intelligent person will correctly recognize EBAY is responsible for this glitch  hurting sellers sales.  The maroon will blame sellers lower sales on the government or on Summer.  :twistedevil:

eBay sellers noticed a problem with eBay's Item Specifics display. The problem appeared when visitors went to eBay.com and clicked on the Buy tab, then clicked on a category link. The left side of the resulting page, instead of showing Item Specific attributes, all said "Other."

An eBay seller documented the problem on the eBay booksellers' discussion boards on Monday, and the glitch was still occurring on Wednesday evening when an eBay moderator acknowledged the problem. He said eBay had "identified the problem for the disappearing Item Specifics and are working on a fix".

One AuctionBytes reader wrote in to say, "The inability for a buyer to browse a category is EXTREMELY frustrating for sellers...

full article: http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m07/i21/s02

[sneakymagenta]

He said eBay had "identified the problem for the disappearing Item Specifics and are working on a fix".

They said that about disappearing store items 50 years ago.