Yes, what shows up in search and what actually exists on eBay are quite different - the search is heavily skewed to what it thinks is useful, so will hide things that are out of stock, don't ship (or are not set up to ship) to your region or even if the business seller has had a few too many returns and customer complaints, eBay may bury their listings for a while, in preference to other sellers of the same items. If you are a business seller and pay a monthly stipend you get a number of listing entries per month, so even if you run out of something if you haven't used up all your listings it may be useful to leave old ones live but zeroed out in case you are able to restock, then you can benefit from the back history of sales...
On Wednesday, 7 April 2021 at 17:15:13 UTC+1 Robert G. Schaffrath wrote: > I haven't sold on eBay in ages but I bought some items from time-to-time > that are often "Out of Stock" but still have their history going back a > year or more. Didn't realize it was possible to keep the entry live while > the item was unavailable. Crazy thing is an eBay search does not show them > in the out-of-stock state and if not for having them on my watchlist, I > would not be able to find them. > > On Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 3:05:40 PM UTC-4 Alex wrote: > >> eBay makes it hard to pause a listing, though you can set qty to zero in >> reality, though people don't know that (you need to set up zero qty persist >> in settings, else the listing vanishes forever and you loose the valuable >> sheep heading sales history... There is a lot of subtlety to eBay selling >> and banging an extra zero on to reserve something is a common practice... >> > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/ed3a0bac-d55a-4b66-b8aa-d07f85403ed5n%40googlegroups.com.
