Relisting an item older than 90days

[fishcentswilliam]

I have the item number, but just get message  item not found.

[divwido · Accepted solution]

eBay kills everything older than 30 days.  You need to start over or keep an file with the pictures and data.

[fishcentswilliam]

Thanks

[dhbookds]

 a dumb question........but would any of those  "go back" programs work? 

[m60driver]

I find my unsold, listings are kept on Ebay for 60 days.

[jayjaspersgarage]

Unless it changed the policy is that you need to relist unsold items within 89 days.  I used to have a premium store and downsized back to a basic store when GTC started.   I lost over 800 listings because it was impossible to relist all of them in the smaller basic store in less than 90 days.  I lost 2400 photos and was pretty upset about it because an ebay rep told me or I read that the time limit was increased to 180 days.  That turned out not to be the case.

I am taking the time to reshoot most of the covers and am listing them because we now get 10,000 extra free listings in collectibles.  Plus my fixed listings just jumped to 1,000.  

The worst part is that we need to relist holiday seasonal items every three months in order to keep them "live".  Even 180 would have helped a lot but 90 days is very hard to work around if you sell hundreds of holiday items.

[patd3283]

NEVER trust your photos and written description to someone else, NEVER...

Take your pictures and save them  labeled to your computer or a thumb drive.

Written description save in a similar file with identifying title.

When it is time to list or relist, it is easy to put them together and they are yours - you have them.

[jayjaspersgarage]

"NEVER trust your photos and written description to someone else, NEVER..."

That's great advice except for me.  Until the pandemic started I worked 65 hours a week in commercial construction and had 1800 ebay listings on top of that.  I have 60,000 items in my warehouse so managing photos for all of them isn't practical.  On the upside I am reviewing all my "lost" photos due to downsizing my store and relisting them with five photos each instead of just two.

[toysaver]

If you have the number try to goggle it with the word ebay....  sometimes it can be found, especailly if it's a rare item and was repopulated onto other sites.

[1tuna]

my son started me doing that.........he googles everything

I have found old auctions on google and was actually able to revive them after 6 months

many collector sites aggregate them and show them off for months and months