Going away for 2 weeks what to do with my 500 listings?

[gary6587]

Hi am going away for 2 weeks.  I have over 500 items listed.  Asked ebay and their great idea was to go and edit each 500 listings to mention im away or to make my  postage times to post much longer.   Or do i just take them all off?  and then pray they have a free listing when i get home to put them all back on again?

[davewil1964]

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@jellybirddesigns wrote:

If you have 500 listings, it would probably be worth it to subscribe to a basic store for under $30.00 a month.

Stores can be put into vacation mode and there is an option to prevent buyers from purchasing at all.

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OP runs auctions, which don't work with a store unless they're collectibles.

[wide-world-of-stamps]

Again, we've found that only works with BIN listings, not auctions.

[brerrabbit585]

If you don't need to end them immediately, bulk edit them to 3 days and then use the dropdown menu to remove automatic relist.  Even if you have to remove AU individually it's still quicker than ending each one separately.  If they've already run more than 3 days of their current cycle you won't be able to change them to 3 days but you can bulk edit them to 5 days to get them to end just that little bit sooner.

If you've known for a while you were going away you should have listed them on a shorter duration so that they'd auto relist and then fall into unsold and not have to be ended early.

If you have business policies set up you could easily change your handling time to 30 days without having to edit individual listings, but I'm not a fan of leaving listings running when you aren't home to post things.

[brerrabbit585]

Being auctions you may even be able to change them to 1 day listings. If they're only on their first cycle they'd run another 8 days if they were on 1 day cycles and it may be a bit close to when you go away, but it'd save you having to do any individual editing or ending.

After they roll over you've got exactly 2 hours where you can change the duration to anything you want, but you can also change them to a shorter duration later, so long as the duration isn't shorter than the time they've already run, eg. if they're originally 7 days and you're on day 4 you can't change them to 3 days (because more than 3 days have already elapsed).

I'm not sure whether it's even possible to do 1 day auctions any more, but if you can it'd only be possible if you change them within that first 2 hours.

[*tippy*toes*]

The option to remove the automatic relist is no longer in the dropdown. You have to edit the listing. It would be quicker for the OP to end the listings one by one. They are going to be very busy either way!

[curraone]

I think you can do it using the AUTOMATION option further down on the screen shot ^^

[brerrabbit585]

That's if they use seller hub. You're right though - the quickest way would be to use the automation rules to remove AR as most of their listings are due to roll over in the next few days. If they don't want seller hub they could opt in temporarily and then opt out again later.

[gary6587]

Hi thank you for that ive finally found where this seller hub is but i can only use the edit button to hover down, the other three are blanked out and i cant use them. Do you know why?

[brerrabbit585]

Once you tick some listings (down the left) the other buttons will no longer be greyed out. That's assuming we're talking about the same thing.

[gary6587]

arggh yes that worked but this is what comes up
These listings cannot be edited, because of following restrictions:

Item #283627944138 - ORIGAMI girls skirt size 4 - $4 post option


This feature cannot be used with this item because it is an Auction-style Format item.

Item #283627944145 - MILKSHAKE girls dress size 4 - $4 post option


This feature cannot be used with this item because it is an Auction-style Format item.

Item #283627954443 - LADYBIRD girls pink knit jacket size 4 - $4 post option


This feature cannot be used with this item because it is an Auction-style Format item.

Please do one of the following:


To edit different listings, click the Back button.