Unsold items

[sewingrosie51cat]

How long do a list of Unsold Items stay in the list?  I had to stop selling due to illness so ended them all, but wondered how long they'd stay in the list before disappearing.

[moldosgifts · Accepted solution]

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@sewingrosie51cat wrote:

How long do a list of Unsold Items stay in the list?  I had to stop selling due to illness so ended them all, but wondered how long they'd stay in the list before disappearing.

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90 days

[sewingrosie51cat]

Thank you!  Heck, only about four weeks left!!  🤔

[moldosgifts]

If you want to keep them start saving to drafts. they stay much much longer.

[moldosgifts]

Apparently ebay have changed this it 75 days now for drafts.

So wait till the last week and the save to drafts get s you another 75 days

Or you can temporarily relist then end them again if it  falls within your free allowance

That will get you another 90 days

[eastern-lights]

A little warning about saving to draft. Draft listings supposedly last 75 days from last save, and the list of draft items shows an expiry date that reflects that.

However

I recently had a draft listing coming up to expiry which I wanted to keep, so I went in and edited it a little bit and saved to draft again. The expiry date now showed 75 days left. About a fortnight later I went back in and noticed that it had gone. Lost without trace. My guess is it disappeared 75 days after its creation date.

So, henceforth, if I want to extend an item in draft, I will go through the sequence of listing it, ending it, finding it in "ended", sell similar, save to draft.

[*vyolla*]

@eastern-lights 

Same happens to my drafts.

[moldosgifts]

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@*vyolla* wrote:

@eastern-lights 

Same happens to my drafts.

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Am i correct in remembering they stayed for years, as in you could use them as base listing to build others from, Or have i dreamt that?

[magpiecorner1]

If you have a number of free listings per month, you could list them, end them as soon as they are visible (sometimes takes a couple of minutes or longer).  If there is any danger of them being sold super quickly, then stick a couple of noughts into each price when you bulk relist, and they would stay in 'unsold' for another 90 days.