Came here just to try and figure out why this was happening and what sense eBay thinks it makes. It feels like a super poor implementation of an extremely popular platform that allows you options such as inventory tracking and selling items after the inventory is sold out was copied by someone who never took the time to reverse-engineer it enough to know it doesn't work well on a site where the majority of items may be one-offs.
On that other platform, you have full control of this feature and it's product-specific not side wide.
I've used it a few times for products I knew would be restocking because I made them or was dealing with a trustworthy vendor.
On eBay, it's a nightmare because they're relisting shoes and shoelaces I definitely cannot get again as some are years old and DS. I first noticed it when they relisted a very popular pair of laces I was selling when I was already sold out of the allotted eBay inventory. Thank god I had a few spares in inventory for another platform and my personal stash.
The truth has few friends but many enemies.
No one is perfect, though a mirror and the right clothes may make some think otherwise.
