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momcqueen · ‎06-23-2015

Watch your quantities this week on your Good Till Cancelled Listings. I have very few in this format but the few that has renewed within the last few days have reset themselves to the very original quantity of items listed. It seems to depend on the most recent sale. If there was one within the past month, it recalls that fact and has tabulated the remaining correctly. If not, it resets to the beginning of the listing. Obviously, this is a problem and, to be honest, the whole reason I have avoided GTC until now.

rose-dee · ‎06-24-2015

@mjwl2006 wrote:
Watch your quantities this week on your Good Till Cancelled Listings. I have very few in this format but the few that has renewed within the last few days have reset themselves to the very original quantity of items listed. It seems to depend on the most recent sale. If there was one within the past month, it recalls that fact and has tabulated the remaining correctly. If not, it resets to the beginning of the listing. Obviously, this is a problem and, to be honest, the whole reason I have avoided GTC until now.

I'm a bit perplexed as I read this, because GTC listings don't renew on their own. That is of course unless they're manually ended by the seller and then re-listed as GTC, or once the final item in the originally set quantity has sold and the listing is retired by eBay.

In that case, you're right that you'd have to watch the quantity, but I think this has always been the case, at least as long as I can recall. I generally use that opportunity to check my current inventory and make sure I re-set the quantity correctly before putting the GTC listing up again. At least in my line of products, I frequently add to my multi-quantity inventory (by reprinting), so by the time all the original items have sold I may actually have more than the original number ready for sale again.

I've used GTC a lot for years and have never had an issue with these listings keeping up with remaining inventory, at least as long as there is still inventory available in the listing.

Or were you referring to the new feature where eBay will put GTC listings "in abeyance", i.e. hidden but re-usable with their original data intact within a certain period of time (I think it's 30 days)?

pierrelebel · ‎06-24-2015

"because GTC listings don't renew on their own."

???

GTC fixed price listings DO in fact renew on their own. That is the point of GTC. This is the first time I read anything about the quantities not being managed properly with GTC listings.

Until now, GTC would automatically renew every 30 days with the quantity remaining becoming the new quantity.

That was the main difference with 30 day fixed price listings which - if relisted - would carry the original quantity, not the remaining quantity.

I am perplexed. Is it a "glitch", a "bug" or simply a misunderstanding? I have checked some of my GTC listings and the quantities are all OK.

pjcdn2005 · ‎06-24-2015

Actually, using relist keeps the remaining quantities. Sell similar resets them to the original amount.

I had a few GTC renew in the past few days and they all had the correct quantities but it some seem that there are some odd glitches here lately.

rose-dee · ‎06-24-2015

@pierrelebel wrote:
"because GTC listings don't renew on their own."

???

GTC fixed price listings DO in fact renew on their own. That is the point of GTC.

Please scratch my earlier post (I'm embarrassed -- is there a way to delete it entirely?).

I have a really nasty cold at the moment and am not firing on all cylinders! Somehow I was thinking about relist and instead got stuck on "renew". Of course they roll over every 30 days. The fact is that I've been using GTC for years and never had an issue with quantities as long as there is inventory remaining.

momcqueen · ‎06-24-2015

@rose-dee wrote:
@pierrelebel wrote:
"because GTC listings don't renew on their own."

???

GTC fixed price listings DO in fact renew on their own. That is the point of GTC.
Please scratch my earlier post (I'm embarrassed -- is there a way to delete it entirely?).

I have a really nasty cold at the moment and am not firing on all cylinders! Somehow I was thinking about relist and instead got stuck on "renew". Of course they roll over every 30 days. The fact is that I've been using GTC for years and never had an issue with quantities as long as there is inventory remaining.

I sympathize completely. The kids brought something germy home and I'm sick again: I can't see, hear, speak or think. There is much rejoicing here as a result of the no-speaking part. Singing 'Ding Dong, the witch is dead' et cetera.

rose-dee · ‎06-24-2015

@mjwl2006 wrote:
I sympathize completely. The kids brought something germy home and I'm sick again: I can't see, hear, speak or think. There is much rejoicing here as a result of the no-speaking part. Singing 'Ding Dong, the witch is dead' et cetera.

Thanks 'mj' for your kind thoughts. This is the second bout I've had since late May, the first a full-fledged flu, yechh.

As for the kidlets rejoicing at your laryngitis, one can always revert to hand-signals and finger-pointing (remember the Wicked Witch of the West, as she pointed her craggy forefinger with the creepy long nail -- "I'll get you, and your little dog too".....).