Listing Expiration Dates

[ButterflyFeetDigital]

I have been editing some listings that are set to expire mid-April with the intention of renewing them before they expire. (I have all my listings set to manual renew.) But the dates given for expirations in the listings list in the Shop Manager is not even close to the date given when editing the listing. Instead of giving the same date as the listing list shows, they all say they are due to expire August 5.

??? 

[JJewellerySuppliesUK]

There have been some glitches recently.

[UptownYvette]

If your intention is to renew them before they expire, the new expiration date will be 4 months from the day you renew it.  The renewal period resets itself whenever a listing is newly listed or renewed even when done days, weeks or months ahead of time. 

[ButterflyFeetDigital]

Yes, I know. It's always been this way. 

I just never noticed before that the listing itself (when in edit mode) has an expiration date different from the actual expiration date. I checked many of my listings, and they all say they expire August 5, 2025. Correction. Today they all say they expire on August 6, 2025. I just checked a few. 

[GlassyFields]

I've never understood renewing before the listing expires. I try to squeeze every penny out of a listing.

I sometimes edit active listings ... but I don't renew them until they expire.

[ButterflyFeetDigital]

I meant I renew them the day they are set to expire. I agree, generally I don't renew one day before the expiration. 

[JJewellerySuppliesUK]

@GlassyFields  When the search default was recency then lots of sellers renewed their listings before expiration to show up in results, even every day!! 

[UptownYvette]

@GlassyFields I will sometimes renew only a day or two before when I want to make any significant edits to things like title and tags. Otherwise, I don't renew early myself. Other times, I will set those listings to manually renew, that way I don't need to renew earlier than necessary which is probably the better option.

[GlassyFields]

@JJewellerySuppliesUK 

Not sure what "search default was recency" is (I suspect that your thinking is faster than your typing). 

If you mean Etsy's April 1st fix to the glitch that allowed some listings to live past their expiration dates ... I read many posts about that, and it seems Etsy's notice was interpreted in a variety of ways and sellers took a variety of actions.

[JJewellerySuppliesUK]

@GlassyFields No, I'm referring to search results back in the day when the most recent listings were shown first in search so it was helpful to keep renewing to stay at the top of the results. 

[GlassyFields]

@JJewellerySuppliesUK 

Thanks. That would make renewing earlier than the expiration date make sense. 

[TwoDogFarm]

This problem is still happening!  ALL of my listings (when in edit mode) show the same expiration date (exactly 4 months from today) regardless of when they were created or previously renewed.

[ButterflyFeetDigital]

Yes, this. I have decided they show that same listing expiration date - four months out - because they assume you are going to renew the listing when you are done editing it. I often edit without renewing. 

[BagmakerSupply]

@TwoDogFarm: What you are seeing is an example of poor design - probably the specifications were created by someone who does not actually use that edit mode in real life and has no clue of how the data could be (mis)interpreted.

We see that all the time too but the existing expiration date does not actually change unless you specifically renew the listing.

[TwoDogFarm · Accepted solution]

I edit without renewing all of the time!  If it doesn't actually change the expiration date then I guess no problem then.