Listings still active, but should have expired a year ago

[TheRitzyRose]

I have a number of listings that say expires on February of 2023. There's probably about five pages of listings that look like they should be expired but aren't. Does anyone know what this is? I have all of mine set to expire and not auto renew. I would like them to expire if they haven't sold for 4 months so now that I see these possibly have not sold for a year and 4 months I'm frustrated.

[ThePurplePuppy]

Have you been charged for renewels? If not count your blessings!

That said: It may have something to do with Feb. being short of a full 30 days month. I know every Feb someone complains about something srange--and it seems to because there is no 30th. Etsy is also confused by months with 31 days. IT ALWAYS tried to skip from the 30th to the 1st of the next month.

My advice would be to simply let the listings keep running-unless you are afraid of back charges when they notice. In that case just go and deactivate them--however--the clock usually keeps running anyway on deactivated items so you might want to do a test first to see if that happens.

[PrimFun]

February especially at the end of the month makes it screwy for Etsy.  It's the 28 day versus 30 day expiration. So often get a day or two before the expires happen.  If you know it is set to expire, just renew it.  I never wait for the final day.  

[hopeandjoystudios]

(Psst..it is March 2024..they are over a year late for renwal fees)

[hopeandjoystudios]

There were some previously this happened to then Etsy finally caught up to it and renewed all those listings at once (with back charges I believe) and people were peeved because instead of spread out like they were originally they had like 500-600 all renew at once and all set to KEEP renewing at once. You might want to go in and renew part of them to end run that.

[EccentricHandbags]

That's good to know about.  

I like to reevaluate things that are due to expire.  If back charges are possible I would just renew or deactivate. 

[BluKatDesign]

Yes, I had a handful of listings that should have expired, probably have a couple still that are active. 

[NoFrogsAllowed]

The nothing expiring on January 31  and the end of February seeming glitch are easily explainable.  Your $0.20 literally buys you 4 months.  It does not buy you 120 days.  Sometimes you get an extra day or 2 and sometimes you get a couple days less, but it probably pretty much evens out in year. 

The reason nothing renews on January 31 is because there is no September 31, so nothing comes up for renewal on January 31 as nothing can be listed or renewed on September 31 as it doesn't exist.  As for February, there are a 29th, 30th and 31st in October which don't usually exist in February so anything listed on those 3 days expires on February 28th or as in this year the 29th.

There have been a few people with this non-expiring listings problem who HAVE suddenly had their items all renew on the same day (so they will all expire on the same day) and have also been charged all the back renewal fees, which can make for a large bill.  I would try deactivating them (make sure they are all set to manual renewal and bulk edit them once a week or so to make sure they stay on manual renewal or renew them, before Etsy notices the problem and charges you.