I understand that filling out all these item specifics required by eBay is a lot of work.
Please note that itās not GarageSale that requires these attributes, instead they are required by eBay. If you donāt enter the required item specifics, eBay wonāt let you start your listing.
If you use a āProductā/barcode at the same time, eBay sometimes overwrites some of these attributes. Unfortunately, you have to fill-out the item specifics anyway. There is no way around this, I am afraid.
I donāt use item specifics. I use a AppleScript to automatically insert the commonly required ones with the phrase āNot Applicableā. Doubleclick the AppleScript as its done.
I have another AppleScript which copies āNot Applicableā to the clipboard so I can immediately past that into any other additional required attributes.
If you sell in a category regularly create a template with the attributes already set, then keep duplicating that template.
I use item specifics on 100% of my listings. It helps the algorithm place your items in front of the searchers. If you use not applicable on every listing it will cripple the search and your sales will be hampered. Yes, it requires extra work but we are on ebay to sell.
And you can always (āalwaysā) copy and paste the item attributes between listings that are similar. When I find myself listing a pile of magazines with similar attributes (same title, different months), I will fill out the Attributes pane in the first one, and then use the little gear dropdown in the upper corner of the Attributes pane to āCopy Settingsā, then select the others and āPaste Settingsā.
This speeds things up a lot.
The only caveats here are (1) it can be tricky to find the places you need to change manually in the pasted attribute pile, if itās a complicated category, and (2) you need to use āPaste Settingsā before you use the clipboard for anything else. If you accidentally cut-and-paste some text, the attributes will be removed from the clipboard and youāll need to open the pane and select āCopy Settingsā again.
Given how often I use this feature, Iām reminded that I wish the main Edit menu would include āCopy Settingsā, grayed out when the context is inappropriate but active when I have one listing selectedā¦
That might be risky, since I would be cutting-and-pasting data I might not be looking at, but it is also a laborious process to find the information I do want to cut-and-paste so maybe about the same amount of risk vs work.
This is what I do as well. Sometimes the pasted ones donāt ātakeā until you click off and close the pane ( in a ātorn off paneā instance) causing the new ones to be lost and not pasted in.
Instead of using the gear icon to copy/paste item specifics, you can right-click on the listing in the left outline view and use the āCopy Listing Componentsā/āPaste Listing Componentsā commands there. Maybe that works better for you.
What is the āleft outline viewā? I am right clicking all over the place and donāt see copy and paste listing components. Never mind I finally found it. I will try it.
OOOOh boy, that is better! I can pull all kinds of info over. Price, weight, shipping info, returns. Wow, why have I not seen this before?
Iāve read it beginning to end. If I donāt know what I am missing then I just donāt know what I am missing. I will have to do it again to see what else I am missing. I was only using that list to do design settings. I will have to read the list closer. Thanks for creating a great program!
I would like to suggest, respectfully, that maybe the documentation is a little too ādo not repeat yourselfā. This sort of thing would be great in a section like āWays to Approach Common Tasksā, which just repeats all the many ways to do X. Where X is stuff like
this implies the documentation might get 2x as big, but it might get 10x as useful 
Ok, I know I am just being greedy but it canāt hurt to ask. What I now need is some way to flag a listing that I am using to get components from. I often go looking to another listing to see what it sold for previously and I need a quick way to get back to my listing I am working on. Like the mail program has a little flag to add to an email. It also could be a very quick way to make up special smart groups to do special work on
You could use the āTagsā feature to flag such a listing maybe:
https://manual.iwascoding.com/gs8/en/Listings_Section-Tags.html#Tags
How it that possible!!! 2 new things in one day! 
By the way, the āWhatās Newā section on the GarageSale website gives you a nice overview over everything thatās new:
ā¦ and the āFeaturesā section offers a long list of all major features (including links to the help).
Are the tags Smart Group accessible? Say I mark 10 listings with a red tag, can a smart group put them in one folder?
You could create a smart group that uses āTag > Is > Redā
When I think of all the time Iāve been doing repetitive tasksā¦ You are the best!
Is there any way to add āFONTā āType faceā āFont Colorā and āFont sizeā to the Copying and pasting list? I spend tons of time cleaning up these as they constantly are changing on their own. Bold type shrinks from 18 to 15 and type font jumps to Arial from Georgia and color jumps to light grey or blue from black.
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