eBay

annasbirds · ‎10-10-2023

How many months can an item be listed on ebay before it needs to be removed or refreshed (older items sell slower)

mtgraves7984 · ‎10-10-2023

They can be listed infinity. "Removed or refreshed" is up to the seller.

12345jamesstamps · ‎10-10-2023

I do pay for a store at $21.95 which you can do basically anything back and forth and heck if I know how many I can post and such...useless information to me...since I am able to do almost anything or maybe I can do anything....until items are sold.

splendidthreads · ‎10-10-2023

No matter how long you leave them listed, check your inventory against what is active fairly regularly. Ebay will randomly drop listings without telling you. I don't know if anybody has figured out the formula or timing for when they do it.

25kenwood · ‎10-10-2023

I do seem to find a few in my inventory each year which somehow got un-listed at an unknown point.

mam98031 · ‎10-10-2023

For myself, I try to refresh my old listings about every 45-60 days. I just use the Bulk Editor. I ship pretty fast for my customers, but for refreshing listings I will change my handling time on all my listings to 2 days. Then the next time I need to change them, I go to 1 day. Its quick and easy. It has worked for me for years.

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mam98031 · ‎10-10-2023

@12345jamesstamps wrote:
I do pay for a store at $21.95 which you can do basically anything back and forth and heck if I know how many I can post and such...useless information to me...since I am able to do almost anything or maybe I can do anything....until items are sold.

You don't have to have a store.

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wastingtime101 · ‎10-11-2023

@annasbirds wrote:
How many months can an item be listed on ebay before it needs to be removed or refreshed (older items sell slower)

The answer is not straightforward @annasbirds . Some sellers won't see eBay remove stale listings even years later. Other sellers will see eBay remove listings that have essentially died in search. I know sellers that fall into both camps.

The official policy can be found here:

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/creating-managing-listings/removed-listings?id=4656

We'll only remove a listing for one of the following reasons:

It violates one of our policies
It violates a law
The rights owner of the item requested its removal
It's been active on the site for a year or more without any sales

GLORIOUS!

ebooksdiva · ‎10-11-2023

@12345jamesstamps Does have a store.

mam98031 · ‎10-11-2023

@ebooksdiva wrote:
@12345jamesstamps Does have a store.

I understand. But you don't have to have a store [which I thought was implied] to change your listings back and forth as they said.

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luckythewinner · ‎10-11-2023

How many months can an item be listed on ebay before it needs to be removed or refreshed

Do what you think is best. There is no hard and fast rule, although eBay does state they may remove it after a year.

older items sell slower

That is self-evident. The reason the listing became old in the first place is because it was not selling fast.

slippinjimmy · ‎10-11-2023

I appear to be in the never group. 90% of my GTC listings where started in March 2019 when GTC became the only only option for Fixed Price. eBay has yet to end a single one including those of my "dead stock" selling id that has a couple of hundred listings. That account originally had 250 listings, only 1 or 2 sell each month, many can go months without a single view! (they all get impressions).

The only "refreshing" I do is bulk revisions to update shipping charges, usually only once per year.

On my more active selling accounts I still have a few items that get almost no "action" eBay doesn't end any of those either.

Why some sellers have old listings ended by eBay is a mystery to me.

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep

mam98031 · ‎10-11-2023

@slippinjimmy wrote:
I appear to be in the never group. 90% of my GTC listings where started in March 2019 when GTC became the only only option for Fixed Price. eBay has yet to end a single one including those of my "dead stock" selling id that has a couple of hundred listings. That account originally had 250 listings, only 1 or 2 sell each month, many can go months without a single view! (they all get impressions).

The only "refreshing" I do is bulk revisions to update shipping charges, usually only once per year.

On my more active selling accounts I still have a few items that get almost no "action" eBay doesn't end any of those either.

Why some sellers have old listings ended by eBay is a mystery to me.

That yearly update to those old listings is all it takes to keep Ebay from closing them.

What do you mean by "almost no action"? Once a year is all that is needed.

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reallynicestamps · ‎10-11-2023

I've sold items that have been listed, according to their inventory slips, for eight years or more.

At one time eBay sent Notices to sellers when a listing had gone 16 months without a sale. I used that notice to remind me to pull down the listing for a few weeks, reconsider and perhaps rewrite it, then upload it again after marinating for a few weeks.

This usually gave it a tiny New Listing boost.