Any Snowbirds in the Group?

[bysmallchance]

Are there any Snowbirds in the eBay comminity who travel for more than 90 days? How do you delist items and relist when you return home without losing the data and photos? I need a solution! 

[luckythewinner]

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@bysmallchance wrote:

Are there any Snowbirds in the eBay comminity who travel for more than 90 days? How do you delist items and relist when you return home without losing the data and photos? I need a solution! 

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There are third-party tools that will store your listings offline indefinitely. 

Another options would be to relist them and then immediately take them down every couple months in order to keep them in your history. 

[dnasilver · Accepted solution]

We travel often and 3 months of more is common. Close out all your listings. They will end up unsold/ended folder. They will last 90 days, to be safe after 80 days relist as similar and then save as draft. That gives you another 30 days.

[mybigsale]

@bysmallchance 

I have a simple solution that has helped me through many scenarios and eBay glitches. One scenario being an alternative to vacation mode.

In your Selling Prefences:

Multi-quantity listings, Listings stay active when you're out of stock. TURN ON

With this setting on, when you sell an item, and the quantity goes to "0" the item is not searchable. You can easily search for out-of-stock items in active listings and delete them (or leave if you are expecting to get more).

For your solution with out of stock turned on:

1) Take note of any items with quantity more than 1 and save (Almost all my items are quantity 1 and just need to note several items with quantity more than 1)

2) Delete all quantity 0 items (out of stock).

3) Change quantity to 0 for all items.

4) ENJOY YOUR VACATION

5) When you return change all quantities to 1 (and update items with quantity over 1)

I believe eBay still charges for 0 quantity listings. Not a problem if you have enough included free listing credits. I also sell mainly 1-offs and vintage. For sellers with many items with varying quantities, this may not be a practical solution. 

Selling preferences (ebay.com)

[chevymontecarlo88]

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@bysmallchance wrote:

Are there any Snowbirds in the eBay comminity who travel for more than 90 days? How do you delist items and relist when you return home without losing the data and photos? I need a solution! 

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 Just relist and cancel every 60 days with the Bulk Listing Tool .

By clearing out your UNSOLD folder BEFORE you begin, there will be no duplicate listings.

I have found this to be the easiest method that does not require you to change any parameters within each listing.

-Good luck

[selsa84]

Yep. That's the way. Good info

[dolcetreasures]

This has been a complaint for years, inventory can be in more than one location or it can be seasonal. Why eBay makes it so difficult to toggle between inventory groups is absolutely bonkers. 

[mikvic]

My husband and I travel a lot and often longer than the 30 days I can close my store for.  What has worked for the past couple of trips is putting  all my inventory on ZERO 0 (bulk edit) and then add the closure, and when it reopens I reclose, but nobody can buy anything since its I have zero inventory. 

[brightlightbookseller]

You appear to have 452 listings.  I don't remember if they have a limit on how many, but have you looked at eBay's Inventory feature?  I don't believe items ever disappear from there, we have ones in that which are not listed currently that have been in there for well over a year at minimum.  You just go to your Active Listings page, select everything (you'll have to do it in batches probably, but only a few since you can display 200 items at once) and click Action -> Save To Inventory.  Then you can end the listings whenever you want, and when you go to relist them, go to the Inventory option at the top  left on the Active Listings page and relist the ones you want.

[slippinjimmy]

I also use the Out Of Stock option, listings will be kept for 5 renewals and then go to ended and unsold for an additional 90 days.

I'm also using third-party tools (SixBit) so I can dig up every listing I've ever made for the past 23 years. Unfortunately the really old ones no longer match the current Item Specifics plus the ancient ones have images which do not meet the current requirements for image size.