So, by Thursday night I'd run out of 'already prepped' auction items to upload, so spent a frantic few hours last night prepping the remaining of the next batch of 20... all the while trying to find out from eBay - for the fifth time in the last 24 hours - why 2 of them items listed the previous night were not appearing in the "view seller's other items" view.
Finally - FINALLY - got somebody who would actually investigate the issue (and not refer me to technical support, who sent me an email referring me back to Live Help).
Get this... hold on to your hat.... it seems that in the eBay universe the word "shit" is profane. So of course having described one photo that had a signature from Michael saying "Holy Shit I'm Claudia Black!", the word "shit" came up in their alerts, and they decided not to make it searchable.
This meant that the only people who were seeing the item listed on eBay were those who went to the item listing specifically through the MSOL link. No other search for anything related to Michael, Stargate or anything else would have found it.
Compounding this problem was the fact that I wrote a moderately funny description based on the whole "Daniel/Vala checking out Mitchell's ass" thing from the episode. Apparently the word "ass" is also profane.
And - this will amuse even further. The other item that was missing from the view list was an SPN comic and T-shirt... missing because I had mistyped "shirt" and put... yep, you guessed it, "shit."
Now, you'd think, given it wouldn't have materially changed the item description, that I could have gone into the entries and made it "s**t, and fixed the type, and maybe made the "ass" word "butt". Noooooo, that would have been too simple! Nope, had to cancel the listings, and start again if we wanted them to appear.
So I cancelled the photo... left the other one alone cos it was doing pretty well for that item (beyond expectation in some ways).
So... for anybody who was bidding on the "Holy Shit" photo....
it now has
a new link on eBay, and does appear in the item view for MSOL. .
For anybody following the SPN comic signed by Samantha Smith (and the bonus T-shit *g*)...
it's
where it was originally.
If you're into SPN, please spread the word on that one. :-)
For now, I'm going to take out my frustration in the pool, and come back and hopefully be de-stressed enough to focus on prepping the next 20 for tonight!
Bests to all
Mon
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