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    How to see old item descriptions?

    I remember when Ebay announced that it would start to allow you to go back up to two years and see your old listings, but I was disappointed that you can only see the item title and price. I have always wanted to be able to go back to old listings and be able to either relist them or at least be able to copy and paste the info from it to make a fresh listing. Is there anyway, even if it involves googling or going to a certain site, so be able to see the full item description from listings past 90 days? 

    leareamc
    leareamc
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    Posted 2 years ago·Last reply 2 years ago
                                           
             
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    kh-shakhib

    kh-shakhib

    ·2 years ago
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    Hi everyone,

     

    Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.

     

    Thank you for understanding.

                                           
    nicethings321

    nicethings321

    ·2 years ago
    15View listings

    Boy, I know this discussion is a little old, but I wish I had known. I'm just a "now and then" seller, so have yet to learn all the intricacies how eBay works. I would have copied my descriptions, etc. had I known, because I have had similar products pop up to sell, and am going to list more soon. But now I have to re-do all that work. Yeesh.

                                           
    wastingtime101

    wastingtime101

    ·2 years ago
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    @leareamc wrote:

    I remember when Ebay announced that it would start to allow you to go back up to two years and see your old listings, but I was disappointed that you can only see the item title and price.

    Your understanding of that feature is mistaken. eBay said they'd allow sellers to access 2 years worth of sales history on the orders page. But the listings themselves are not preserved. Just the order details are. Sorry.

     

    Most sellers that want to preserve listing details save it on their computer, or with a 3rd party lister.

                                           
    albertabrightalberta

    albertabrightalberta

    ·2 years ago
    I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.104View listings

    I have my items listed on another site. When an item sells on ebay, rather than delete the listing on the other site, I put it on "reserve." That way, I can view the listings and copy and paste the description if and when I get another of the same item.

                                           
    lux-libri

    lux-libri

    ·2 years ago
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    The best way going forward is to save all your descriptions in a text file or a data base. Mine goes back 20 years or so.

                                           
    mkaczorsee

    mkaczorsee

    ·2 years ago
    14773View listings

    Look into inkfrog

     

    I think they save listings for a few years. 

    won’t help with your old listings but will going forward. 

    I think I pay $29/mo. 

                                           
    leareamc

    leareamc

    OP2 years ago
    5052View listings

    So there is no way to see it on the internet somewhere? Does worthpoint show only the sold price and not description?

                                           
    2 years ago
    6923View listings

    No, sorry when a listing is purged from the servers after 90 days it is gone forever. 

                                           
                                                                                     
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