How to see old item descriptions?

[leareamc]

I remember when Ebay announced that it would start to allow you to go back up to two years and see your old listings, but I was disappointed that you can only see the item title and price. I have always wanted to be able to go back to old listings and be able to either relist them or at least be able to copy and paste the info from it to make a fresh listing. Is there anyway, even if it involves googling or going to a certain site, so be able to see the full item description from listings past 90 days? 

[ebooksdiva]

No, sorry when a listing is purged from the servers after 90 days it is gone forever. 

[leareamc]

So there is no way to see it on the internet somewhere? Does worthpoint show only the sold price and not description?

[mkaczorsee]

Look into inkfrog

I think they save listings for a few years. 

won’t help with your old listings but will going forward. 

I think I pay $29/mo. 

[lux-libri]

The best way going forward is to save all your descriptions in a text file or a data base. Mine goes back 20 years or so.

[albertabrightalberta]

I have my items listed on another site. When an item sells on ebay, rather than delete the listing on the other site, I put it on "reserve." That way, I can view the listings and copy and paste the description if and when I get another of the same item.

[wastingtime101]

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@leareamc wrote:

I remember when Ebay announced that it would start to allow you to go back up to two years and see your old listings, but I was disappointed that you can only see the item title and price.

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Your understanding of that feature is mistaken. eBay said they'd allow sellers to access 2 years worth of sales history on the orders page. But the listings themselves are not preserved. Just the order details are. Sorry.

Most sellers that want to preserve listing details save it on their computer, or with a 3rd party lister.

[nicethings321]

Boy, I know this discussion is a little old, but I wish I had known. I'm just a "now and then" seller, so have yet to learn all the intricacies how eBay works. I would have copied my descriptions, etc. had I known, because I have had similar products pop up to sell, and am going to list more soon. But now I have to re-do all that work. Yeesh.

[kh-shakhib]

Hi everyone,

Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.

Thank you for understanding.