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 gasolineguys
  		posted on March 23, 2008 12:48:19 PM new
How long do most of you keep your hard copy's of your ebay sales?? One year,2-3-??

 
 max40
  		posted on March 23, 2008 12:51:44 PM new
If it were up to me, it would be 3 yrs. My wife insists on my keeping them for 7 years. Lots of paper!

 
 gasolineguys
  		posted on March 23, 2008 01:09:41 PM new
Max man that has got to be a LOT of paper, LOL I was doing like 1-3 years and that's a lot !! Thanks

 
 deichen
  		posted on March 23, 2008 02:33:01 PM new
1 year. I also have my sales on an excel spreadsheet, but I trash the copy of the invoice, etc... after one year.

 
 gasolineguys
  		posted on March 23, 2008 02:41:39 PM new
deichen that makes more sense, I think even if we just kept the monthly statement that should also work??


 
 ewora
  		posted on March 23, 2008 04:28:40 PM new
If you have a local copy center they might have a scanning service.

The law office I work at sends a bankers box over full of papers. They organize and scan them for $30 a box.

I have sent over half the file room so far...I'm working on getting the other half box ed up over the next couple of weeks.
 
 ST0NEC0LD613
  		posted on March 23, 2008 05:52:04 PM new
I guess I am a pack rat when it comes to that. I have them from when I first began selling online. That goes back to 1999. That file cabinet is getting pretty full though.


 
 mcjane
  		posted on March 23, 2008 08:02:44 PM new
My copies go back to 1999. One day soon I'm going to toss them all.

 
 agitprop
  		posted on March 24, 2008 05:37:33 PM new
We have electronic copies of all emails and invoices going back to the beginning of our time on eBay. Have over the years transferred them progressively from floppies to MOs to CD-ROMs to DVD-Rs. Keep two copies of our files; one at home for ease and a second off-site encrypted backup in case of fire, burglery, flood, etc. Works for us...

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 wgonzales
  		posted on March 24, 2008 07:33:32 PM new
I have always gone the 7 year route.

If it wasn't so challenging for me to do discs and downloads, I would prob. only hold for a year.
But I even continue to do all our accounting records by hand...just easier for me and my brain.

 
 sciclone2000
  		posted on March 25, 2008 04:35:46 AM new
I save my invoices as pdf files with my web browser.

Tony.


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