Excessive Listing Removal Policy

At Recess, shoppers love discovering fresh inventory—not seeing the same items over and over. Keeping your listings active and evolving helps attract repeat customers and leads to more sales than repeatedly recycling old listings.

Occasionally refreshing a listing can help boost its visibility, but excessive listing removal and relisting is not allowed. This behavior disrupts discoverability, derails prospective sales, and frustrates other people using the platform.

What Counts as Excessive Listing Removal & Relisting?

The following actions are considered abusive and are not allowed:

• Repeatedly removing and/or relisting the same items within 60 days.
• Mass listing removals, whether manually or through automation.
• Any action that circumvents marketplace listing policies in order to gain unfair search or marketing advantages.

A "listing removal" includes deleting a listing, marking it as "sold," or making changes (like significantly altering price, title, or description) to discourage purchases, thereby effectively making it not available.

What is Acceptable?

We understand that there are legitimate reasons for occasionally removing listings and managing inventory freshness. It's OK to:

Refresh listings that haven't sold for 30+ days

You are welcome to refresh older listings. This policy is about how often you revisit your listings—not how you do it.

Improve your refreshed listings

Add new photos, update titles and descriptions, or use our AI listing tool to enhance your listings.

Remove listings when no longer available

If your item sells elsewhere or is out of stock, you can mark it as sold on Recess.

Consequences

Sellers suspected to be engaging in excessive listing removals may receive automated warnings. Continuing this behavior after a warning may result in temporary restrictions on creating new listings. In severe cases, permanent account limitations may apply.

By maintaining a balanced approach between refreshing old listings and creating new ones, you help keep Recess a vibrant and fair marketplace for everyone!