Ebay is relisting some of my sold out ,out of stock item .. 5 in the last three weeks??

[savetons347]

In the last 3 weeks I had over 5 items that were relisted by ebay.. I even had an item that sold over two years ago relisted.. What is going on???  I had to explain myself to the customers, sometimes they don`t believe you and give you a bad rating... on top of that one has to refund the buyer and I`m not even sure if ebay keeps the transaction fee??  If anyone one can shed some light on this issue it will be appreciated..

[coastaltechsolution]

I have not seen this but thanks for the heads up 

[jayjaspersgarage]

I had to explain several of these a few years ago.  I started deleting the listings from the sold list when the quantity reached zero and it solved the problem.  At least I hope it has.

[southern*sweet*tea]

This has been happening for almost two decades. It's happened to me a dozen or so times over the years.

Items that have sold years prior will suddenly appear for sale. I sell one-offs, so it's not a quantity or out of stock issue.

So far, I've been able to catch them before they sell, but the more listings I have up the harder that is to do.

Ebay knows. They do nothing about it. They don't care. Sellers are left to deal with the cancellation defects.

[kensgiftshop]

@savetons347 

This has been going on for years, but Ebay doesn't think it's a problem on their end.

[caldreamer]

If you cancel sale and use reason "address is bad" you will get fees refunded and you don't have to worry about getting "defect" for cancelling transaction.

[itemblock.shop]

I am having this same issue

Items that sold already, months, even a year ago.  Items that were "Good Till Cancelled" but remained at 0 quantity (which I wanted to keep incase I got back in stock again I could re-use the listing).  But eBay is randomly adding them back in stock.  It only happens to certain listings.

The item i sold a year ago has almost doubled in price, there's no way that has been sitting in-stock at the current price for a year.

ebay's customer service is awful I might as well be telling my dog about this issue than whoever works their chat, they don't understand anything.   

Worst of all, this has happened to me about 4 times now and I had to cancel the sale and now ebay hit me with enough defects I'm getting higher fees.   Seems seriously messed up and something that will result in a class-action-lawsuit.