Need advice ...

[chariot_badges]

I have a personal family emergency developing that will affect my store operations, and I need some help with damage control.   I'd be interested in any experienced sellers advice on this.   

If you needed to 'shut down' a store for six months, how would you do it?   Obviously, it's not an 'on vacation' thing (turn it on for a day then off for a long period to reset ....?) So, if you had to shut down your store for six months ... how would you do it to mitigate loss ...?

I want to come back to this when this has passed ... and it will, but I don't want to have to deal with repairing carnage ... unfilled orders, eBay shutting down the site ... all that ... NOooooo.  I want to come back to zero ... not below zero.

And, speaking of that (and this is must a matter of curiosity, I don't want this to consume your answer ... there's a lot up there that I really need to know): what can I expect when I do come back?   Will I 'start over' with zero?   What will my 'selling' page look like in six months?

PS: I am willing to pay the store fees to keep it open for six months ... if that makes a difference.

[femmefan1946]

I hope you have a desktop file with all your pictures already.

Now open a new desktop text file and put in all your Descriptions.

This makes you fairly independent of eBay or any other listing sites in case something goes pear-shaped.

However if you keep your listings on eBay either as OOS or as Unsold (which should be opened for a few minutes every 60 days and closed almost immediately to put them back onthe Unsold List), it is worth having that backup info just in case.

When you are ready to return, you do NOT want to open all your listings at once.

Even with FixedPrice, you want to open some listings every day to get the most Visibility.

This  also will allow you to check your stock for changes- rising or falling values, missing stock, poor pictures that can be upgraded, repricing, PL if you want to.

If you do your 1500 current listings over 30 days, you will be relisting 50 items a day. Which is a lot more doable than 1500 all at once , considering that errors may have crept in.

The first time I did this, btw, I found that eBay had dropped about a third of my listings without any notice, so there's that.

Best wishes for a good resolution of your current problems.