complete history

[rustyjoe41]

Hello ebayers is there anyware i can see my complete selling (and buying ) history including item and prices since i started ebay cheers people.

[saarzi]

I asked a similar question in terms of seeing the total revenue for the financial year.... didnt get a real answer...

Id like to know your question too!

[pennyforum14]

Short answer, no.

eBay keeps detailed records for 90 days and  limited info after 90 days. You can go back through past invoices, but I'm not sure how far and even then, that might not give you all the info you need.  But basically, like with any business, it is your responsibility to keep your own detailed records.

[clarry100]

I dont believe there is any way to retrieve the history you want from ebay as they don't hold it for more than 90-days.

At each month end I download (in CSV format) a copy of the Paid and Posted report. I keep this in Excel on my local PC drives.

This report contains all the relevant info including what you mention and more.

At any time you can search back thru this local data to find anything you want.

[saarzi]

I do keep my own, but I only recently started checking what I have against what Ebay has at the end of each month.

Prior to that I assumed Ebay would give sellers a full summary of each financial year, because as a business, Ebay is required in virtually every western country to keep records of their financial activities, which clearly they do. So the ability to provide a yearly summary to seller is already within the system they have, they just dont bother to do it (it would be automated, its not like theyd have to DO much at all).

I hope this is one thing that changes soon. There's no reason why it shouldnt be provided to sellers ongoing, and every reason why it should be. It would be cheaper for Ebay to have it incorporated into their current system, which has the ability to do it, rather than pay out for time and man power for each individual request when a seller is audited or their harddrive dies (unless they charge for that too!).

[clarry100]

There is always the risk of losing your home hard drive and all you data and photos etc with it. So you need to keep it backed up and safe.

We have a D-Link NAS drive (Network Attached Storage) configured as RAID.

It has two drives inside the box and automatically mirrors your data in the background between both the drives.

The chances of both drives failing at the same time is so remote it is negligible so the safety backup is actually done by the box istelf.

So we do not store data on our local PC hard drives but on the NAS drives instead. This way all PCs can see the data at any given time and its safe.

Only cost us about $300 to set up with two 1TB drives in it. A good solution and saves you having to pay for slower cloud storage which uses your internet bandwidth. All you need to have is a home network as the box plugs into a spare ethernet port on your switch or router.

If ever you had a disaster in your house you would just have to grab this box in one hand and run with it and you have saved everything.

[digital*ghost]

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@gtx305 wrote:

I asked a similar question in terms of seeing the total revenue for the financial year.... didnt get a real answer...

Id like to know your question too!

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If you have Selling Manager Pro, you should be able to access sales records from the last couple of years (I'm not 100% sure if you need to access them to trigger them, but you do need to access them at least once every 90 days to maintain the records (better to do it more often, though).

Try going to SMP > Reporting. The default view is the current month, but there should be a dropdown menu for previous reports (mine goes back to December 2013). The reports show sales, total revenue, and fees paid to eBay / PayPal (not perfect, as I don't think they account for cancellations, but it's good for a general overview, ball-park figures etc.

You can download the reports, as well - one time, I found myself on a page that listed all the currently available reports from the last two years, and I could just click to open whichever one I wanted (rather than choosing individually from the drowpdown menu, but I can't remember how I go there and I can't find my way back >_<). 

[phorum_junkie*]

Only cost us about $300 to set up with two 1TB drives in it

You can back up files using a free cloud account so don't need to pay threehundred bucks.

[clarry100]

I understand that but... you can't beat the independence from your broadband connection tho.

We also store all our ebay listing pictures on there and we are randomly accessing those day in day out. They are accessible from any computer in the household at the speed of the ethernet network, 100MBPS. Almost as quick as an internal HDD.

We tried a cloud service to do this but it was so painfully slow to upload/download over a broadband connection it became too frustrating to work with. To upload a pic to ebay, first it had to download from the cloud store (at the broadband speed) then upload (again at the broadband speed) it back to the ebay servers. Just too clumsy and time consuming.

Having it all stored on a fast ethernet connection in-house is far more convenient, much faster and far less stressful.