@craf47 wrote:
I called ebay and was told that any item that is not listed in a 60 day time period is dropped. Plus there is no way to know which items they dropped. I have 600 items in my inventory and have no idea which ones are still in Selling Manager Pro and which have been dropped.
Yes - or if you have Selling Manager they stay for 90 days, but you can tell when they're ready to go - at least mine, the photos drop first, then 24-48 hours later the listings disappear. Items that ARE listed should never be dropped, but they can be dropped anywhere between 30 and 90 days.
Yeah, I've had the 'ghost' listings, too - one was a mouse that I sold and then a week later the same mouse sold, and I KNOW I did not accidentally relist the mouse. This has been happening for years, eBay takes no responsibility but gives us a big black mark for canceling orders. Thing is, that mouse was not in my store, because at that time I only had a very few, so there's no way doing an inventory check would have done any good, it relisted on the site itself - again, I blame database futzes which would be consistent.
ETA: Agree - Inventory checks are important for catching those items that have been running and were dropped, though. I've been going through my racks pulling sales and finding this item or that item and think "I haven't seen that in my store lately" and sure enough, a good 20% of the time it is because it was dropped.
And yeah, Etsy keeps your stuff forever. So does Poshmark and Mercari.
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