How to recover email messages older than 6 months by a couple of days?

Hello,  I was going to send myself some e-gift vouchers purchased on 21-Oct-2016 tonight.  I know I should have done this much sooner, but life gets in the way.  Wife went into hospital mid week and got out today.  I was going to book our trip using e-gift vouchers and I can't access those messages.  Kind of upset when storage is so cheap and eBay's retention policy is 6 months.

 

Does anyone know if or how I get these messages about 5-6 days older than 6 months?  Vouchers are $4000 in total. 

 

Cheers

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How to recover email messages older than 6 months by a couple of days?

If you are referring to Messages in ebay that have aged-out, there is no way to find those again. I asked ebay Canada staff about this. They're gone. I was flagging harassment messages from another member that went back steadily for two years but even those disappeared after a limited amount of time. 

 

Check your personal computer for copies. 

 

Or contact the issuer to see if they still have record of it. 

 

Good luck. 

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How to recover email messages older than 6 months by a couple of days?

I have no idea if it is possible to recover older messages.  I always receive a copy of any message in my email as well...have you checked there?

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How to recover email messages older than 6 months by a couple of days?

If you are referring to Messages in ebay that have aged-out, there is no way to find those again. I asked ebay Canada staff about this. They're gone. I was flagging harassment messages from another member that went back steadily for two years but even those disappeared after a limited amount of time. 

 

Check your personal computer for copies. 

 

Or contact the issuer to see if they still have record of it. 

 

Good luck. 

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How to recover email messages older than 6 months by a couple of days?

EBay's message system is only good for 180 days (6 months) then it's gone from their system. There is an option to save messages to a file and download them to your computer (not a choice for you this time).

 

Did you keep a copy of the message in your own email program?

 

Otherwise you are going to need to contact your supplier of the e-gift vouchers for the details.

 

For eBay Purchase history select the 2016 view.

 

Paypal classic history: https://history.paypal.com/ca/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_history (sign into paypal first before using the URL link) and select the date range to display your purchase info.

 

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