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Problems with Drafts

I've been using Turbo Seller for a long time.  It was useful, but it had bugs.  It would crash on me occasionally, sometimes a listing was inaccessible, etc.
So I was happy when I heard about Seller Hub and doing drafts through that.
Now I'm miserable.
I spent quite a long time creating about 1,000 drafts, all ready to go, my entire inventory.  Then, a whole bunch disappeared.  Someone told me that eBay only keeps them for 30 days!  What?  Turbo Seller didn't do that!  Why?
Great... so I figured, let me try going to my Unsold and saving things as drafts, and I can periodically update my drafts I still have so they don't time out.
Almost all of my drafts are useless.
Nearly 90% of my drafts that remain are giving me the error:
Item cannot be accessed. (155)

What gives?  Why can't they give us software that allows us to create draft listings, keep them as long as we want to keep them, that doesn't give us ridiculous errors.  Why can't I access my items?  My mouse works fine.  My keyboard works fine.  It's the software that doesn't work!

It seems like all I can do is... go back to Turbo Lister.

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I know if it was the software that allowed eBay to collect their money from me, they wouldn't click on it and it come back to them and say, "Seller's money cannot be accessed.  Error 1234"

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And by the way, eBay's software designers, if you're out there watching...
If I say I want 200 listings per page, that doesn't mean, "just this time, and when I save or refresh flip it back to 50 again."
Getting tired of going to the bottom of the page and changing to 200 EVERY time I'm trying to do something!

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So frustrating.  I checked... it's every page of every list of drafts.
The vast majority of all the drafts I have, are useless.  I can't get into them.

What the hell am I supposed to do? 
Is eBay trying to get me to quit selling on eBay?
Creating draft listings in Hub is like trying to build your house out of sand.

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I'm beside myself.  I literally do not know what to do.
I have boxes and boxes and boxes of new inventory I was prepared to list on eBay.
I have old inventory that I already had listed on eBay.

Do I delete the 95% of my listings that are no good and try to create them again as new,
when I know that all my work could get wasted AGAIN?
Do I go back to Turbo lister, which had problems in the past where I needed to contact support, but now if it happens again they're not supporting it any more?
Do I try to dump all my inventory?
Do I put it all in the attic and wait until, some day, eBay gets their act together?

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Go back to TL and list everything. Then get Wonderlister or SixBit and they will import your listings so that they are save locally. Wonderlister is 5 bucks a month(billed quarterly) and works - I use it now. SixBit is a bit more - I haven't tried that. 

 

I wouldn't trust ebay software to save a draft for me while I went to the bathroom, let alone many of them over a period of time.

 

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