Sold Items appear back in active listings!

[rockyroadtradingpost]

For the past few days, I'll sell and ship an item, then the next time I review my active listings, I see it still listed there and have to "end the listing."  Is anyone else having this problem?

[moondogblues]

There are a couple of threads here regarding this glitch.  You may want to add your info to them.

[rockyroadtradingpost]

Thanks, hadn't seen those.

[femmefan1946]

This is an ongoing problem for decades.

I've been here since 1998, and  find a few duplicated listings every time I review my Active Listings.

What might be happening (and happening and happening  and happening ) is that some items occasionally pop up as duplicated listings. One of these sells. The other remains live.

Since most sellers don't review One Of A Kind listings constantly, we don't notice.

About once a month , I review all my IDs, after putting my  Active Listings into alpha-numeric order.
That puts the duplicated listings, which may otherwise be weeks apart in time,  side by side, and one can be quickly deleted.

None of my accounts have over 2000 different listings, so this takes less than half an hour. Mostly I watch the pictures.

Even so, if you have sold something and the next time you review there is a duplicate, you may not question it.

But it's a start.

Don't depend on others/eBay to do this for you. This is a deeply entrenched glitch and eBay does not believe it exists.

[buyselljack2016]

@rockyroadtradingpost 

Are they "active" for others to see, or just on your active with a quantity of "0".

If just for you to see then possibly the out of stock (OOS) is activated.

If OOS, others will not see it, buy it will renew each month using a free listing, or charge a fee.

If OOS is activated it keeps the listing active for you to restock.

Go to site preferences to see if it (OOS) is activated.

[femmefan1946]

Further ti my earlier post.

I realized it had been nearly a month since I reviewed this account, so I just did.

I removed six listings.

Two were sold , one of which I had made a Special Listing for using my customer's name as the Title,

and four were duplicated, although one of those four had a different version of the title, so I will accept than may have been my error.

Because I sell used books and older sewing patterns on this account, I very very rarely have more than one of any given title.

My sales are long tale, and it is not uncommon to see a 16 month warning on them.