Closing Ebay Store for 3 months... How can I do that?

[zebosbest]

Shutting down this year for 3 months in Florida. Contacted ebay and was told I can only do an away message for 30 days. Is there a way to pause for 90 days without loosing my listings???

Mike

[luckythewinner]

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@zebosbest wrote:

Shutting down this year for 3 months in Florida. Contacted ebay and was told I can only do an away message for 30 days. Is there a way to pause for 90 days without loosing my listings???

Mike

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I would end all my listings.

Then I would relist them briefly once a month and immediately end them again. 

[nobody*s_perfect]

You can refresh the "Away" time before day 30.  

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/selling-tools/time-away?id=5137

Or you can end your listings; they'll be available for 90 days, so don't let it go any longer than that.  

Or you can activate the "Out of stock" option and change all of your "quantity available" to zero, but for sellers with multiple items, especially variations listings, this gets complicated.

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@luckythewinner wrote: ... I would end all my listings.

Then I would relist them briefly once a month and immediately end them again. 

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Or end them all, and relist them on day 88.

[caldreamer]

You can put your store in vacation/time away for 30 days (be sure to check NO PURCHASES ALLOWED.  Then you can keep renewing for another 30 days vacation.

[soh.maryl]

Wouldn't he have to end them and relist and then end on day #29 or so? 

[bashort]

sixbit would be a option, you would loose watchers and sold history on multi quantity but you could relist them when you get back

[laststopgeneralstore]

Super easy. If you don't want to end them and relist them, just lower your quantities to zero then put them back when your back. done and takes less than a minute.

[buyselljack2016]

@zebosbest 

For fixed price items.

I would go with the "OOS".

Problem with "time away" is that there is a "lag" when ending and restarting "time away".

We can no longer just start "time away" and have it take hold immediately. (well min. lag for the interweb to function)

With 30 minutes time blocks, the minimum time lag to start "time away" is now 31 minutes (give or take a few seconds) and can be up to 59 minutes if you don't catch the clock right.

[slippinjimmy]

I agree with @buyselljack2016 

Use the Out Of Stock option, they will remain listed for a minimum of 5 monthly cycles, no one can purchase while OOS. When you want to resume sales you can just bulk edit the quantity back to one.

If you have multi-quantity listings you will need to manually track the quantities and make the necessary adjustments when you reactivate.

This is the method I used back in the days when non-Store sellers did not have access to Vacation/Time Away.