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mangorunner · ‎03-12-2019

Please see screenshots, below.

Does a listing's revision history ever drop off? For example, when an auction ends unsold, if you relist, do the revisions remain in the new listing? I know that the revision history sticks with a relisted fixed price (buy-it-now) item.

Is the only way to get rid of the history by creating an entirely new listing from scratch?

richard1rst · ‎03-12-2019

Don't "relist" it. Use "sell similar" instead. That is considered a brand new listing and nothing from the old follows it.

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nobody*s_perfect · ‎03-12-2019

@mangorunner wrote: ... I know that the revision history sticks with a relisted fixed price (buy-it-now) item. ...

The revision history is specific to the listing. You can see the place for the item number at the top of your screen shot. Your screen shot is from a "Good until canceled" listing; it doesn't show a revision history from a relisted item. If a listing ends, and is relisted, that listing has a new listing number and there is no revision history to show.

mangorunner · ‎03-12-2019

@nobody*s_perfect wrote:
@mangorunner wrote: ... I know that the revision history sticks with a relisted fixed price (buy-it-now) item. ...
The revision history is specific to the listing. You can see the place for the item number at the top of your screen shot. Your screen shot is from a "Good until canceled" listing; it doesn't show a revision history from a relisted item.

Yes, I realize all of that. That screenshot was just an example taken from a random listing (not even mine) so that people would know to what part of a listing I was referring. I'm the one that removed the item number from the top. It was just an example.

@nobody*s_perfect wrote:
If a listing ends, and is relisted, that listing has a new listing number and there is no revision history to show.

I don't think that is true. Here is an old, old OLD listing of mine that is still active (unsold) and automatically relisted every 30 days. It has been relisted many, many times and just look at all the history (stitched together into one image by me).

mangorunner · ‎03-12-2019

@richard1rst wrote:
Don't "relist" it. Use "sell similar" instead. That is considered a brand new listing and nothing from the old follows it.

Thanks! I will give that a shot as some of my ancient listings near rollover date. I would also like to lose some of the ~~Watchers~~ Sellers that latched on months and months ago.

coffeebean832 · ‎03-12-2019

@mangorunner wrote:
@nobody*s_perfect wrote:
If a listing ends, and is relisted, that listing has a new listing number and there is no revision history to show.
I don't think that is true. Here is an old, old OLD listing of mine that is still active (unsold) and automatically relisted every 30 days. It has been relisted many, many times and just look at all the history (stitched together by me into one image).

@nobody*s_perfectis correct. The important word in your post is automatically. A good 'til cancelled listing retains the same item number and the same listing history.

A listing that is manually relisted is stripped of the old revision history.

nobody*s_perfect · ‎03-12-2019

@mangorunner wrote: .... Here is an old, old OLD listing of mine that is still active (unsold) and automatically relisted every 30 days. It has been relisted many, many times and just look at all the history (stitched together into one image by me)....

That's from a "Good until canceled" listing, not a 30-day listing that has been repeatedly relisted.

mangorunner · ‎03-12-2019

Well, that was just the (bad) luck of the draw. I just pulled it at random to use as an example so that people would see the AREA of a listing to which I was referring, not that specific listing. Too bad for me.

Thanks for everyone's time and expertise. I understand it now. Will manually end and manually relist some things as rollover dates come around.

dentalsales4u · ‎03-12-2019

That is correct. The listing has to "end" not renew for the revision history to go away.

mangorunner · ‎03-12-2019

Oops - almost forgot. Back to my original question: when an auction item ends unsold, if you relist, does the Revision Summary remain in the new listing? Or does a relisted auction-style listing get a new number? The listing has ended. It does have to be manually relisted. Are auction-style relistings stripped of history?

nobody*s_perfect · ‎03-12-2019

@mangorunner wrote: ... when an auction item ends unsold, if you relist, does the Revision Summary remain in the new listing? ...

No, it does not.

Every relist gets a new listing number and thus a new revision history, whether it's an auction or a fixed price listing. This happens whether it's an automatic relist or done manually by the seller.

When a "Good until canceled" listing rolls over, it keeps the same listing number (and its history of Solds and of revisions). This is the only situation where the revision history carries over.

mangorunner · ‎03-12-2019

LOL, I've got a million of them in "the only situation where the revision history carries over".

nobody*s_perfect · ‎03-12-2019

Yes, you do. Looking at your listings and sorting by "Newest first," I can see that at least half of them have start dates over 30 days ago; those would all be GTC listings.