How do you delete an eBay Unsold Item using the Trading API?

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atticpostcards asked Feb 5, '12

How do you delete an eBay Unsold Item using the Trading API?

How do you delete an eBay 'Unsold Item' using the Trading API? There doesn't appear to be any obvious method in the Call Reference.

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Answer 1 · 2012-02-08T09:40:27Z

epinapala answered Feb 8, '12

Hello,

Thanks for posting in forums. Can you confirm what you meant my "Unsold Item" ?

if an item is ended without being sold?(I don't think you meant this).

The item is already ended.

if an item is still active and unsold?

You can use EndItem Call to end the item giving appropriate ending reason in the request.

Please let me know if you were asking something else.

Thanks

Rajesh

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milletsports commented · Feb 20, 2012 at 04:09 AM

Hi,

I have got the same question, how to delete a product once it moves into UNSOLD LIST.

thanks

Umer

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atticpostcards commented · Mar 12, 2012 at 12:02 AM

Yes, I was asking something else.

If you end an item on eBay, (or an auction ends without a sale), it's placed in 'Unsold listings'. (Click 'Unsold' in 'Selling Manager' in My eBay.) From there you can relist it. But after relisting the old item is still there, though flagged as relisted. To get rid of it (to prevent an accidental double-listing, for instance), you have to manually delete it. (See the 'Action' dropdown in 'Unsold listings' - there's a Delete option there.)

What I want is the API equivalent of that Delete in the Action dropdown.

And sorry for the late reply. It seems I wasn't notified about it...

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beesally commented · Aug 27, 2012 at 06:19 AM

I have exactly the same question, how can we delete an item from unsold listings?

Our code will end an item (when it's been sold through another channel) automatically but then, if the item is re-stocked, it will attempt to list is again, the AddFixedPriceItem, correctly, failed with duplicate SKU. We then revert to RelistFixedPriceItemCall which succeeds. But, in many (but not all) instances, we find that the item has been duplicated although for all of our calls.

Mike

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Answer 2 · 2013-06-22T08:49:53Z

miniature-gardening answered Jun 22, '13

Same problem: need to delete items from "Unsold" items list via API. Cannot find in eBay SDK docs.

Thanks for any hints!

Ole

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Answer 3 · 2015-06-17T16:27:10Z

jlee2027 answered Jun 17, '15

I would like this ability added as well.

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Answer 4 · 2015-06-18T07:57:18Z

atticpostcards answered Jun 18, '15

@jlee2027 3 years since I first asked and still no method provided. :) My guess would be they consider this to be too much of a risk to add to the API. I'd suggest the best approach is to treat the Unsold List as an archive you never delete and maintain your own list of your active and ended listings.

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Answer 5 · 2015-06-24T05:01:07Z

atticpostcards answered Jun 24, '15

@franhuan6 You could filter the UnsoldList with "DurationInDays" based on the number of days since you last checked the UnSoldList. From the docs for UnsoldList/DurationInDays... "Specifies the time period during which an item was won or lost. Similar to the period drop-down menu in the My eBay user interface. For example, to return the items won or lost in the last week, specify a DurationInDays of 7."

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Answer 6 · 2015-06-30T19:30:36Z

shulmani_developer.support answered Jun 30, '15

Sure, We will make a note of it Cheers!!!

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