The bin doesn't mean that you're meant to delete it, it just means that you can delete it if you want to. On the listing form, you have ebay's standard item specifics for each category plus the option at the bottom of them to add your own custom item specifics. Custom item specifics can be completely deleted so have the bin icon. Ebay's standard item specifics can be left blank but not actually deleted so they don't have a bin by them.
What ebay have done here is add a new item specific called "Materials Sourced From" but they've accidentally assigned it as a custom IS instead of a proper ebay one, meaning it can be completely deleted.
Basically, they've messed the whole implementation up in the last couple of days whereas last week they amazingly had it working perfectly! Last week, in the Records category, I had the normal Country/Region Of Manufacture IS but ebay had also added a Country Of Origin field below the postage on the listing form. Last week, I could fill in either one of these and it was linked to the other and automatically populated both boxes with the same data. All good and that was literally all that was needed. It worked!
As of yesterday, someone has decided to try and add a third, completely unnecessary, field and called it "Materials Sourced From". Not only have they done it all wrong but they've managed to mess up both of the previously working ones as well so that filling one in immediately removes the data from the other or even both of them, with Materials Sourced From also coming and going with the weather. The Country Of Origin field is also missing completely if you create a listing from a saved template.
As usual, they fiddled and fiddled until none of it functions at all.
