I just started using AW2000 and I noticed something peculiar about how Ebay Store "closing dates" are handled. Granted, I might be doing something wrong, so bear with me :)

(note: All of my store items were imported from Ebay.)

On the Auction Lots screen for the store item, there is no start or close date. Not a big deal, except that when the notification email is generated, it sticks in a closing date using the year 1899.

The "duration" field also seems to default to 30 days, even though all of my store items are 120 days.

The email template doesn't have an option for "purchase date" - so there's no way to create an accurate email (at least that I can find). My workaround is to insert "Current Date", since I usually generate my notifications every evening.

This isn't a huge problem except that I might close 10-20 regular auctions plus a few store auctions each day and I'd like to use the same email template for everything. The real problem comes with followup emails, which really need the "purchase date".

Another workaround might be to edit the "close date" for every purchase - but that breaks down as soon as I have multiple buyers for the same item purchasing on different dates.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!
Rich