Translations:Ebay FAQ/42/en

Fundamentals of eBay variants:

Only a listing gets an eBay ItemID. In the case of variants, the parent and the respective variants get the same eBay ItemID, since the variants are considered attributes of the main (parent) item. If this eBay ItemID is sent to eBay with the option 'close' (delete), then the parent and all variants belonging to this parent will be terminated (deleted). Please note, that individual variants therefore cannot be separately terminated (deleted) via API transfer.