Taking a four month break from selling

[lbwynne321]

I need to pause selling for about 4 months.  How do I accomplish this without taking all listings down?  Many thanks.

[monica-sells]

Probably a better way, but maybe this will work

Take the full 30 day Time Away option, the either

A. End your listings (they will stay in your completed file for 90 days)

B. Activate the "Out of Stock" (OOS) Option and zero all your inventory. I believe that will buy you 90 days also, then at 80 days you can "end listing" to buy another 90 days.

Just thinking out loud.

I suspect you could also download something to reupload when you return. But I am not familiar with that method.

[slippinjimmy]

The Out of Stock Option, listings will renew a minimum of 5 times and then go to Unsold for an additional 90 days.

Simply turn on Out Of Stock and then bulk edit quantity to zero.

Or if you have internet access while on Time Away, turn it off on Day 29, turn it back on immediately, your listings will be exposed for perhaps an hour so best to do it in the middle of the night.

Personally I use OOS when I will be away for 30 days or more.

[mam98031]

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@monica-sells wrote:

Probably a better way, but maybe this will work

Take the full 30 day Time Away option, the either

A. End your listings (they will stay in your completed file for 90 days)

B. Activate the "Out of Stock" (OOS) Option and zero all your inventory. I believe that will buy you 90 days also, then at 80 days you can "end listing" to buy another 90 days.

Just thinking out loud.

I suspect you could also download something to reupload when you return. But I am not familiar with that method.

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@lbwynne321 

These are excellent options that @monica-sells  shared, but there is one more.  Well at least for up to 50 of your listings.  You can save the listings as a TEMPLATE.  You can have up to 50 of these.  There is no time limit for the Templates to stay on your account.

You can go to your Seller Hub.  Then Active Listings.

https://www.ebay.com/sh/ovw

https://www.ebay.com/sh/lst/active

On the left side of the listing you will see the EDIT button with a little down arrow next to it.  Click on the down arrow.  Now a menu appears.  Select the 5th item which is Save as a Template.