Offline storage

[Anonymous]

Wondering is there a way to save listings offline for future use, I know eBay holds them for 60 days, but I would like to make new listings and keep old ones so I don’t have to remake the listings after that 60 day period. Thanks for any response’s.       fleatiquehopper 

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@Anonymous 

Listings remain on the site for 90 days after they end. So if you have the item number, you should be able to find the listing using this format:

https://ebay.com/itm/000000000000

An alternative is to use eBay's 'out-of-stock' feature to hide listings for up to 180 days when their quantity or stock level is set to zero.

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/listing-tips/bulk-listings?id=4160#section5

This feature should help most seasonal items. The listing can be brought back into stock and visibility for a single day and can be taken back out of stock for up to another 180 days. The downside to this type of inventory management is that out-of-stock inventory still counts against your monthly insertions, and it does take a little time to manage when and what will go in and out of stock.

For offline storage of listings, eBay previously developed, and later retired, Turbo Lister. A company called SixBit developed a similar offline tool to manage and archive listings on the desktop to be relaunched at a later date.

[Anonymous]

I save all pictures in a file and copy and paste the descriptions in another file. Of course, when I relist I still have to fill in the specs, but that's no big deal. Taking pictures and writing out the description is most of the time consuming work when creating a new listing.

It's nice just to keep all of that saved in my own files. Like now, I won't have any listings up until after the first of the year. Of course, I'm retired. This is just a hobby for me. I don't have 100's or 1,000's of listings. 

I might not even relist anything again. With what I deal with I can just as easily deal face to face with other collectors/dealers in my area and pay fee's to myself...... Oh Yeah!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Thank you for the information. I didn’t realize 90 day storage was there. Very helpful.     fleatiquehopper