MY LISTINGS ARE GONE!!!

[legalnurseconsultant]

In the past, I have put seasonal listings in INVENTORY and relisted as the seasons changed. Then, I started putting some in ENDED. I tried to go into ENDED and relist some items and ENDED goes straight to UNSOLD.  I'm not aware of any changes. So, my listings that were in ENDED and INVENTORY are gone!  Does anyone know about this "change" and what, if anything, can I do to find these listings. 

Thank you and many blessings!

Julie

[comics-scifi-collectibles]

@legalnurseconsultant  

I remember there was an Inventory option in higher level stores.  I was at a meeting one time and Brian Burke mentioned that it was going to be ending but some sellers were grandfathered in,  I think that this was early last year.   

I haven't had a store in a LONG time though and never had one that had the inventory option, only basic.  

I am going to "phone a friend"  that knows  about offsite option to store your seasonal listings, otherwise you will need to relist before the 90 days is up on the unsolds or they are deleted.    

@eastlaneave  Can you help out with recommendations for third party listing services to store the OP's seasonal listings.  

[eastlaneave · Accepted solution]

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@comics-scifi-collectibles wrote:

@legalnurseconsultant  

I remember there was an Inventory option in higher level stores.  I was at a meeting one time and Brian Burke mentioned that it was going to be ending but some sellers were grandfathered in,  I think that this was early last year.   

I haven't had a store in a LONG time though and never had one that had the inventory option, only basic.  

I am going to "phone a friend"  that knows  about offsite option to store your seasonal listings, otherwise you will need to relist before the 90 days is up on the unsolds or they are deleted.    

@eastlaneave  Can you help out with recommendations for third party listing services to store the OP's seasonal listings.  

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@legalnurseconsultant 
Inventory is only available to those with a premium store who are grandfathered in to the service. It's not available to sellers at any level who didn't have it when the cut off time occurred.

Ended/unsold listings seem to be the same thing now and they do disappear after 90 days.

You can either
1) save your seasonal items as templates

2) save your seasonal items as drafts and be sure to edit update every 60 days (they expire at 75 days)

3) Store your seasonal items in a 3rd party listing program as mentioned by @comics-scifi-collectibles 

Here are some approved 3rd party options. They will download all your listings for you and save them. These are listed in no particular order.

1) Auctiva

2) InkFrog

3) Vendoo

4) Vendio

5) Flyp

6) List Perfectly

7) Sixbit

Third-party Apps have a separate fee, but it may be worth it to do what you would like to be done.

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling-tools/selling/using-apps-ebay?id=4663

https://www.ebay.com/sellercenter/ebay-for-business/third-party-providers 

Please ask questions of the App provider before subscribing.

[legalnurseconsultant]

Thank you for your suggestions. It just doesn't seem right that eBay has changed things to the point that we can't "store" our seasonal listings until it's time to list them again. I've done this since I started with eBay in 1999. After all as sellers, we are giving eBay our all, doing our best when it comes to listings and this is the thanks we get.  I'm not sure it's worth continuing. The last thing I want to do is relist over 100 listings. 
Thanks again!!