How to keep out of stock listings for over 90 days without being ended by ebay?

[vookerman]

I've been selling on ebay from time to time and mostly it's same stuff every time. I'm tired of relisting and creating listings over and over again with my personal style and template. Most of the time it takes me over 90 days or more to get stock and that's the problem. My listings are being removed and disappear from ebay history so they can't be relisted anymore.. I do have "out-of-stock" option enabled in my store however it only works for certain time: exact 90 days. So now I wonder how to keep them alive for a longer period.. Creating templates is not a solution here as in that case new listings wont have any sales history.

Ebay says "If a listing is in the Out-of-Stock state for 90 consecutive days, the listing will end." I wonder if ebay will end GTC listing with out of stock option enabled if it's out of stock for 89 days and 23 hours and 59 min? How do you guys keep them alive?

Any thoughts and help would be greatly appreciated!

[inhawaii]

I asked this same question about a week ago.

When it gets close to the 90 days, add some stock.

When you are done, bring it back to 0.

You should be good for another 90 days. 

If you're worried someone might sneak in and buy one while you do this, raise the price to $10,000  before you add some stock.  Bring the price back down after you bring it back to 0. 

Good luck!

[vookerman]

Do you know how long should I have it in stock? I did exactly what you suggest, added some stock when it was getting close to 90 days, then in about 3-5 min I set qty back to to zero but so far they've been ended by ebay.. I suspect they do have some trashhold for these.