@goodluckselling wrote:
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30 fixed price listings that end and get relisted is actually an exact copy of the original listings so every thing from the original listing is relisted the same and you need to make the changes that apply to that newly relisted item.
I have seen that claim before. It is not correct. When I relist a regular 30 day listing that has sold some items, but has not sold out, the new listing starts with the ending quantity of the ended listing. Unless the quantity has gone to zero. If the quantity has dropped to zero, relisting starts with the original quantity of the ended listing. Unless I have added to the quantity by editing the listing while it was active. In that case, I think the relisting starts with the original quantity plus the added quantity.
I use that behavior to manage my inventory. I generally get a fixed number of a particular item to sell. So typically I just make a 30 day listing with my starting quantity. When the listing ends without selling out, the listing is in my unsold items list. I simply relist the item and it starts with the correct quantity. If the item sells out during the the listing period, it won't show in unsold listings, so I never end up relisting a sold out listing.
Unless it is a variations listing and a variation has sold out, but some variations have not. Then it is in my unsold items list and if I relist it, the sold out variation does not carry over the zero quantity, but starts out at the original quantity of the original listing.
So that makes it all to easy to end up selling an item that is out of stock. I have now learned to be careful relisting items with variations and I check that my quantities are correct. Now that everything is going to be GTC, I won't have the chance to check before it is relisted or renewed or whatever the correct term is.
