Buy it now items disappear from inventory "RECENT POST May 2024"

[gottaknowjoe]

Buy it now items disappear from inventory. It's the oddest thing but it has been going on awhile. I'm a one man show, and I keep 150 to 350 items online as im able to keep up with the customers' demands. About twice a yr I'll do inventory and find that 25 to 35% of my items I think are online, simply not . Back in the day BUY it now had time limits you could choose from. 7days, 30 days or until sold. but now I think UNTIL SOLD is all there is and it would be a good thing f I did not have this issue. 

 I've been at this since 2012 and had 3 stores over this time so I'm not new at this but I do not know it all either by far. An Answerer will be a Huge help CHEERS JOE

[golfingaddict]

If your item does not have any sales in a year, eBay may remove it.  I've had the same thing happen.  

It is frustrating.  Just be sure to keep note of when you listed and if it hasn't sold in a year, you may need to end and relist.

[selsa84]

If I end and sell similar 200 items 2 -5 will get lost and disappear. That has been happening for as long as I've been selling. 

[mam98031]

At one point Ebay was going to remove stale listings that were 18 months or older, but sellers really got upset by that and as far as I know, Ebay stopped doing that a few years ago.

[mam98031]

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@selsa84 wrote:

If I end and sell similar 200 items 2 -5 will get lost and disappear. That has been happening for as long as I've been selling. 

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Why do you do that?  Just use your Bulk Editor and change something on all the listings.  That will cause them to re-index in the next 24-48 hours.  You don't need to close them and then sell similar.

I change my handling time between 1 and 2 days.  I just bulk edit all my listings at once and change the handling time.  Then in a couple weeks or so I'll do it again.  I just go back and forth between 1 and 2 days.  So much easier than doing sell similars and it serves the same purpose.