15-11-2025 6:17 PM
I had 99 items on draft.
Today it's down to 47.
I updated some items a couple of days ago & the majority of those have now gone.
None of the items were due to be deleted, apart from a few I updated earlier this week.
I hope this is a temporary blip as it takes me an age to list anything.
Is anyone else experiencing (or have previously experienced) the same thing?
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15-11-2025 6:26 PM
That sounds odd, drafts expire and are automatically deleted 75 days after the last updated date. If you recently updated them then they should still be around.
Maybe ask eBay to take a look at your account and see if they can explain what happened there.
I’ve found that the easiest route to contact eBay Customer Services is via the link below where you can request a call back:
15-11-2025 6:26 PM
That sounds odd, drafts expire and are automatically deleted 75 days after the last updated date. If you recently updated them then they should still be around.
Maybe ask eBay to take a look at your account and see if they can explain what happened there.
I’ve found that the easiest route to contact eBay Customer Services is via the link below where you can request a call back:
16-01-2026 11:37 PM
eBay couldn't find any reason why my drafts were missing & suggested I may have deleted them myself by mistake!
They did tell me that once a draft was gone, there was no way to retrieve it.
This week it happened again!
28 of my 63 drafts were due to be deleted on Tuesday 13th January (26 autographs & 2 other items).
On Monday I updated them. Everything seemed fine & they were all showing 75 days left.
Everything was also fine on the Tuesday.
On the Wednesday I was doing a new listing. I saved it & went to drafts to check it.
Instead of 64 drafts there were only 59.
My three most expensive autographs & the other two items have been removed.
They were the five most expensive items, but they were also the last five I updated, which seems unusual.
There's no point contacting eBay as they can't help.
There's obviously a glitch in the system, but the strange thing is that I think I'm the only one who's admitted to being affected.
I'll keep a lookout going forward in case I find a solution.