items that should be listed and items that have already been sold and appreared again
In the last 2 days or so i have sold 2 items to a regular buyer that have already been sold months ago and they have appeared for sale again and my regular buyer purchased them, i had to cancel both sales.
Also while looking for items for this particular buyer i have found 6 items that should be for sale and are not listed and not in the unsold area ready to be relisted. So now im having to go through nearly 2000 items to see what should be listed and are not listed!
Also can you keep relisting items until they are sold or do they eventually disappear into the ether at some point?
Has anyone else had these problems?
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Never had a similar problem.
For the 2 items that shouldn't have still been for sale check that you haven't accidentally made them multi item listings (ie the quantity field >1) when you only have one item for sale.
I never let my listing close. Every now and again I do a bulk edit of all my listings to reset the Auto Repost field to 10. Letting them close then relisting is fraught with potential mistakes.
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Thanks for your reply
You could be correct re the multi thing although i cannot check because it doesnt show the qty i presume because i cancelled the orders. but it doesnt show any previous sales either
Re the items that should be listed and are not, I now have a box full of these items a lot have been (or at least i thought they were)listed for several years.
I too started do this -
"I never let my listing close. Every now and again I do a bulk edit of all my listings to reset the Auto Repost field to 10. Letting them close then relisting is fraught with potential mistakes."
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It sounds like your problem could be related to this post https://www.ebid.net/forums/showthre...sted-only-once
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Thanks Shesawaya,
Doesnt look like a solution has been found, If i get a neg or neutral for this problem i hope Admin remove it!
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purplestevie
Thanks Shesawaya,
Doesnt look like a solution has been found, If i get a neg or neutral for this problem i hope Admin remove it!
It could take a while for them to figure out what is going on, but since they are aware of it I'm sure they would remove a neg or neutral if you got one. But, if you canceled the sale, would it even show up on the feedback page? If it is a regular buyer, maybe you can contact her and explain it was due to a computer glitch?
If you read the other thread you'll see how I found my duplicates and maybe use the same process to check for more duplicates in your listings. One of these years, I'll have 1,000s of items posted and hope they get it fixed before then - lol!!
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I've often relisted things that have been sold. Being so used to another site that will remain nameless where only unsold items go into the folder that I relist from, it is difficult to remember that the folder on E-Bid also contains the sold items. I have gone to the items I ran section and relisted everything. Could this be what has happened with you?
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Fudbucket
I've often relisted things that have been sold. Being so used to another site that will remain nameless where only unsold items go into the folder that I relist from, it is difficult to remember that the folder on E-Bid also contains the sold items. I have gone to the items I ran section and relisted everything. Could this be what has happened with you?
I always use Listings I Ran - Without sales. This should solve the problem.
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bunsock
Never had a similar problem.
For the 2 items that shouldn't have still been for sale check that you haven't accidentally made them multi item listings (ie the quantity field >1) when you only have one item for sale.
I never let my listing close. Every now and again I do a bulk edit of all my listings to reset the Auto Repost field to 10. Letting them close then relisting is fraught with potential mistakes.
Perhaps I'm stupid but how do you sort the listings into reposts remaining in order to select the ones which need editing?
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tony41
Perhaps I'm stupid but how do you sort the listings into reposts remaining in order to select the ones which need editing?
Do a bulk edit to select all your items. You can do this by not putting any criteria in on the first page of the bulk edit dialogue and just press the search for listings button at the bottom. It doesn't matter how many reposts the items have left just change all your items so the Auto Repost is set to 10 - it makes no odds what they were beforehand. However, DO NOT use the "Close Listing" time field else you will end up with all your listings ending at the same second!
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tony41
I always use Listings I Ran - Without sales. This should solve the problem.
That's the way I've always done it - usually in blocks of 20-30 so not too many at once.
My problem is missing listings that I don't find until updating shipping rates - a few always seem to disappear after a site update.
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Anniemcc2
That's the way I've always done it - usually in blocks of 20-30 so not too many at once.
My problem is missing listings that I don't find until updating shipping rates - a few always seem to disappear after a site update.
I would suggest that doing that way is more time intensive and prone to error if you are not careful. Another advantage in using Bulk Edit is that it doesn't affect the finish times so you don't get blocks of items finishing together.
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tony41
I always use Listings I Ran - Without sales. This should solve the problem.
me too
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But what happened to the items that should have been listed and have disappeared into the ether? I have a small box of such items and to be honest not sure what to do with them, i will have to photograph them all and then relist them but question is, will the original listings reappear again???
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Using "listings I Ran - without Sales" won't pick up everything that closes. For example if you have a multiple item listing with say 10 items and 2 of them sell, when the listing closes you will still have 8 items to sell. In this case the listing will not appear in "listings I Ran - without Sales" but in "listings I Ran - with Sales", which is correct as even though you have unsold items the listing did sell some items. Also if you relist it from "listings I Ran - with Sales" the item count will be wrong (eg it will be 10 and not 8).
I would suggest that there are too many complications in using "listings I Ran" and its still much safer and easier to bulk edit the repost field.
