eBay

gschwertley · ‎08-23-2013

Well, it's been a while since I visited the discussion boards and consistent with everything eBay, I see it's all changed. Or my memory has gone south.

Anyway, I checked with the "customer support" feature and after wasting some time, couldn't find an answer to my question.

That is, does eBay offer any option for putting your listings "on hold" while you are going to be away? Or do you simply have to let them run down (or end them early), one at a time? Thanks.

wtsa29673 · ‎03-13-2018

By now, you're probably back from vacation but for next time, raise all of your prices to some ridiculously high amount. After raising your prices, you’re sure to have no sales. Then, when you get back and are ready to resume selling, bring the prices back down to the ''pre-vacation'' amounts.
This will work well, too, on ''Good till Cancelled'' listings when you run the risk of selling off all of your ads' items. Rather than selling the last item and losing all of the impressionable ''number of items sold'' shown in your listing(s) just raise the price, get re-stocked, lower the price back down and resume with your good sales momentum.
Doing it this way will save you from having to spend time figuring out the ''monthly store'' thing and the extra fees associated with it.
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Hopefully this helps everyone else with a similar dilemma as gschwertley.

buzzerfly · ‎05-31-2018

Maybe we could keep politics out of this?...That would be great..Thanks.

thatsallfolks · ‎05-31-2018

@buzzerfly wrote:
Maybe we could keep politics out of this?...That would be great..Thanks.

We managed to do that for nearly a year. The post you responded to is from August, 2017.

hidy-hoo · ‎05-31-2018

@thatsallfolks woo hoo TAF is back from vacation! ~ we have had lots of whiners while you were away and have missed your sockittoem spot-on replies!

How much better life would be, if a liar's pants really did catch fire!

zosorcha · ‎06-27-2018

There is a much simpler solution for this; I am just about to implement it myself. You don't have to end your listings or up your prices to something absurd.

All that you have to do, aside from making sure your email response reflects that you will be gone, is to change your handling time to sometime after you will return.

For instance, I will be gone for the next ten days, so I universally edited my listings by going to "handling time," and selecting "Change to..." "10 days." So my listings will continue while I'm gone, still receiving views and interest, and the listing will warn the viewer that if they purchase the item, they will have to wait awhile - 10+ days - to receive it.

thatsallfolks · ‎06-27-2018

@zosorcha wrote:
There is a much simpler solution for this; I am just about to implement it myself. You don't have to end your listings or up your prices to something absurd.

All that you have to do, aside from making sure your email response reflects that you will be gone, is to change your handling time to sometime after you will return.

For instance, I will be gone for the next ten days, so I universally edited my listings by going to "handling time," and selecting "Change to..." "10 days." So my listings will continue while I'm gone, still receiving views and interest, and the listing will warn the viewer that if they purchase the item, they will have to wait awhile - 10+ days - to receive it.

Yes, adjusting handling time is often suggested as a solution, when the delay is only a few days. I have no interest in having someone buy something without noticing the long delay, and leaving negative feedback because I didn't ship for a couple weeks.

supremacy-motorsports · ‎07-01-2018

Don’t you still have to do that individually to each listing? Or is there a way to bulk edit the handling time on all listings?

@thatsallfolks, I’m looking at being gone for 2 days and just want to make sure I don’t upset someone too much. I usually have a 2 day handling time, but would change it to 4 just to be safe and give some buffer. Does that seems reasonable in your experience or am I likely to get someone upset at me still?

sylvancoins · ‎11-15-2018

Just raise your prices to a place nobody will pay!

Then readjust when you return

lvas2921 · ‎11-21-2018

I put all my listing super overpriced so nobody would buy it, when I come back I change price to normal. I wish I could just put vocation hold, it would much easier

wildfang_62 · ‎12-21-2018

I did a bulk edit and raised the "handling time" to ten days, so then I can handle them when i return. ebay says it notifies the buyer of the increased handling time when they try to place a buy.

wildfang_62 · ‎12-21-2018

go to Summary, then All Selling (have to switch to 'classic mode')
on the right scroll down past performance, selling reminders, scheduled, to "Active Selling"
click the box to highlight all and then go to edit tab, once again select all, and then edit fields 'handling time', submit changes, and then it will ask AGAIN to confirm, you have to submit TWICE to be sure it accepts all the changes

bobriensan · ‎12-31-2018

Since my vacation time for the item I have for sale would be several weeks, would it be better for me to end the listing and then when I return place it as a new listing? What's the pros/cons of doing that vs artificially raising the price for the period I'm gone? Thank you!