posted on September 9, 2003 09:22:03 AM new
Hello. Sonya we had two more errors for last night. As instructed, we left them on our pending auctions with the error codes. Please do not launch these however. Both are brand new auctions and not reposts. Thanks.
John
posted on September 9, 2003 11:15:22 AM new
Hello John,
Thank you for leaving the errored listings in pending.
The error 5111 (category not mapped to VCS) is an error in the eBay API, which unfortunately there is no known workaround other than to launch to a different category and change the category once the listing is live. eBay has fixed many categories that were causing this error, and oddly, we have tested the Entertainment > Entertainment Memorabilia > Music Memorabilia > Country > Apparel (29879) category from here, and were able to launch without an error, so please try launching this one again.
We are still looking into the other item, and will post back when we have more information on that.
posted on September 9, 2003 11:27:02 AM new
Hi there,
OK, I copied the listing that was producing the error 475 (Hooters t-shirt) and left it in your account (changed the title to indicate it's a test item.) I am able to do an eBay preview on this one, which means it should launch without an error - all I did was switch the order of the categories. If you want to use this one to launch, just edit the title - otherwise, you can use the original item and switch the order of the categories.
This is happening because of a bug at eBay - if you list with a main category that does not have attributes, and with a second category that has attributes and provides attributes in the form, listing will fail with "Error 475: Wrong item specifics domain." eBay is aware of this problem and is supposed to be releasing a fix for it on Wednesday evening.
