Because of the ongoing issues with Saving to Draft I have been in contact with tyler regarding this problem. Unfortunately, this is still an issue. Recently I went to use a listing that was saved as a draft. Found out by accident it didn't actually save properly as I thought and was corrupted and received the following "Something is wrong message. Please try again."
This is the response I received from tyler beginning of October. Hope it helps clarify for anyone else having the same problem and give them an idea how to proceed going forward.
Thanks for the additional detail. Draft listings can be a double-edged sword. They stay active for up to 30 days from when they were last updated. Once past that time they will not always work, which is what it looks like is happening to some of your oldest drafts.
The other thing I've learned from tech is that a draft listing 'freezes' the listing form in time to the version that existed at the time you made the draft. The older it gets, the more out of date it can become and it can slowly become more quirky, increasing the chance of a corrupt listing or it not allowing you to complete it when you're ready.
For long term storage of listing data I strongly recommend an offline tool. eBay offers (and still supports) File Exchange. There is a learning curve to it, but they have a phone support team that is remarkably good at helping you through any issues you run into with it. Other than that there are 3rd party tools, but most of those come at an additional cost to you.
The plus of an offline tool is that it lets you keep things stored indefinitely. File Exchange is great in that it will let you bulk upload edits and manage changes in a (relatively) painless way. Some sellers I work with keep their seasonal inventory set up and ready to go in File Exchange and then do a bulk upload when they're ready.
If you're running into drafts that are less than 30 days old that are giving you that error will you please let me know which ones they are so I can grab some screenshots from my end?
Tyler
When I check an example in drafts (chose one last saved Sept 12, 2018) to find one with this problem, there is no actual item number to reference because these are non-active listings and are basically in eBay Never Neverland. And this item would not be past its 90 day expiry date. So until Save to Draft is fixed 100%, there appears to be no guaranteed way to save a listing for future use when you receive the bad unsafe link message. The other observation is you are only able to confirm there is a problem to complete a draft if you go through and check each draft one by one. Error problems to these drafts are entirely random.
-CM
