But I didn't delete these listings!!

[femmefan1946]

As I ready my stock for moving to Victoria, I pulled seven dress patterns that I doubted would ever sell. (Unpopular brand, children's costumes, Eighties shoulders).

Of the first seven I pulled, only one was actually listed.

So now I have to go through all my patterns and confirm that the ones I want to keep in stock are actually listed. Good thing I'm retired. I wouldn't have time to work.

But how did these listings end? Most would have been in my Store as Good Til Cancelled and the children's costume ones I verified last fall.

[pierrelebel · Accepted solution]

"But how did these listings end?"

I have come across similar circumstances where the inventory was on the shelf at one time (five? ten? fifteen? years ago), should have been in my eBay store but was not.

Many things could have happened over the years. Moving a GTC listing to auction because of a "free listing" promotion and forgetting to put it back or put in back in the store for 30 days (instead of GTC) because eBay may have offered one of the promotions where GTC  listings were not eligible and forgetting to relist after 30 days.

In other instances, it may have been a case of having multiple quantities in stock, larger than listed.  Once those listed were sold, I missed listing the remaining inventory.

Or it could be the result of ending all my listings for the Holidays (I usually close my store from late November until early January) and missing a few of them when the time came to relist.

And... or...  so many possibilities.

I do not know about you but... I am not getting any younger.  I forget things.

And life does go on.

[femmefan1946]

Found over 20 more and haven't finished going through all the publishers.

Sigh.

[avionsunantiques]

I have had the same experience.

I have only 1 of each almost all of my items.

I've had many occasions when I decided to check on a particular item I know I have on ebay as a buy it now, with a good till sold listing, and discover it is no longer on ebay!   I then go back in time to try to find when it was last on ebay so I can restart it, only to find its been off ebay so long that I can't find in the preceding few months!

This is a pain, because I then have to recreate the listing.

[the_d_consortium]

I have a stack of missing listings that need to be written up again.

(Mostly because my PC crashed.)

Those lost during my ebay.com site's enduring the growing pains of system updates, vanished, I had no backup and it took a while to say, hey what's this still doing here and where is it's live listing?

I recommend using TL to write up your listing in, then copy paste them onto eBay through the sell your item or sell similar system.

Your main problem with TL is that it does not overwrite previous saved compacted data bases and you need to get in there and delete them or they will over populate your hard drive. I've seen the evidence when we brought the old xp back to the living. I had my geek delete them all to save the machine.

It might also be a good idea to buy a clip drive and have a scheduled time when you save your TL files on it.

We may be retired but there are a lot of other things we have planned for this time of life rather then pawing through our inventory and writing up listings all over again.