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Published: September 25 2006, 9:57:00 AMUpdated: July 31 2022, 8:21:13 PM

Every time I made a call to AddItem, why am I getting the following response?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<AddItemResponse>
  <Timestamp>2006-09-21T17:40:34.681Z</Timestamp>
  <Ack>Failure</Ack>
  <Errors>
    <ShortMessage>An error occurred.</ShortMessage>
    <LongMessage>An error number "SYI.BIZ.174" occurred while processing your request.</LongMessage>
    <ErrorCode>36</ErrorCode>
   <SeverityCode>Error</SeverityCode>
    <ErrorParameters ParamID="0">
    <Value>SYI.BIZ.174</Value>
    </ErrorParameters>
    <ErrorClassification>RequestError</ErrorClassification>
  </Errors>
  <Version>479</Version>
  <Build>e479_core_Bundled_3575203_R1</Build>
</AddItemResponse>


Summary

If the user has not established a seller account, AddItem will return above error message. To establish a seller account, the user needs to log on, go to MyeBay and click on the link Start Selling!


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