mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@jonathanbrightlight wrote:There's no exact criteria, but I believe I've even seen in a policy document somewhere (though I'm having trouble finding it right now, probably because I don't remember the wording clearly enough) that older listings without enough activity may be removed. I can look right now and see listings that have been active for 10+ years from some sellers, while other sellers have come to the boards and reported things removed that were 1-2 years old (I don't recall any that were more recent than that).
We don't have the space for items to sit around that long, so we just manually purge items after around a year. That kinda just avoids the question of whether eBay would remove them if we left them up longer and didn't get any/enough activity on them (presumably meaning views and possibly other interactions).
They did announce that a few years ago and started to apply it until so many sellers objected to it, they finally stopped doing it. A couple years later they tried it again and the sellers reacted the same way.
I don't believe Ebay is doing this again. There would be far more than one seller complaining about this.
If Ebay removes a listing, the seller should get an email notifying them of that and why it was removed.
This will however be an interesting conversation to have with other sellers that may have stuff to say about this too.
@lacemaker3 wrote:@nujik, and @jonathanbrightlight
elizabeth@ebay.com
kyle@ebay.com
devon@ebay.com
Does Ebay still remove older listings as described above? I thought they stopped doing that years ago.
@mam98031 wrote:
@lacemaker3 wrote:
@nujik, and @jonathanbrightlight
elizabeth@ebay.com
kyle@ebay.com
devon@ebay.com
Does Ebay still remove older listings as described above? I thought they stopped doing that years ago.
Hey @mam98031 and @dhbookds eBay does still remove old listings as you mentioned here. But what isn't mentioned in that screenshot is that we also take into account buyer traffic. So if you have an item that hadn't sold in more than a year, AND it's generating little to no buyer traffic, there's a good chance it'll end up being removed.
Kyle,
kyle@ebay wrote:
@mam98031 wrote:
@lacemaker3 wrote:@nujik, and @jonathanbrightlight
elizabeth@ebay.com
kyle@ebay.com
devon@ebay.com
Does Ebay still remove older listings as described above? I thought they stopped doing that years ago.
Hey @mam98031 and @dhbookds eBay does still remove old listings as you mentioned here. But what isn't mentioned in that screenshot is that we also take into account buyer traffic. So if you have an item that hadn't sold in more than a year, AND it's generating little to no buyer traffic, there's a good chance it'll end up being removed.
Hi kyle@ebay, so that is basically what I said here, then:
@lacemaker3 wrote:
@short_circuit.lineman61 wrote:
I have many listings 7, 8 10 years old still active never ever got a message that they were removing one
They aren't all necessarily going to be removed when they reach one year old. It says one year "or more".
I believe that eBay probably uses an algorithm to judge the amount of interest in the item, perhaps using views and click-throughs. But they don't publish anything about this algorithm.
