on 06-18-2022 05:26 PM
I have - or had - 130+ work-in-progress listings in my Drafts folder a couple of months ago.
Then before I could complete and schedule more than a handful of these works-in-progress, they began disappearing, and in no discernible pattern. Initially I dropped under 100, followed by another 15 or so more in subsequent days and weeks. But then yesterday, after relisting a couple of drafts my remaining total dropped by 20 plus. This morning I woke up to another one gone.
Today, I'm sitting at 51 drafts total out of my original 130+ roughly 6 weeks ago with less than 20 relisted during that period. FTR, none of these drafts had gone without an update and save within any rolling 30 day window.
Any idea how or why this might be happening? Has eBay's draft reterntion policy drastically changed recently?
I don't know if there has been recent changes but I had this happen to me a couple of years back at the start of Covid. I was trying to wait a bit to see what was happening and I found some of my drafts could not be accessed even after 30 days. I could still see them there but couldn't update them or make any changes.
Ever since then, if I have anything sitting in drafts for a while, I make a minor change (even a space where there wasn't one!) just so the change would bump it up to the current date! Because I had tons I lost back in 2020 waiting it out, I don't take a chance and like I said make a small change just so they are more current.
Someone may know more about this than me but that is what I did in my case! I know it's awful when they disappear! 😞