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Is there away to recover deleted private messages?
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Normally no. Sometimes, you can get the recipient to forward the PM history if they did not delete their side. In extreme cases, we can recover them through a server roll back (but that would be in EXTREME cases).

When a message is deleted, there is no trash bin like most inboxes. It goes poof.

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Okay thanks
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Check your sent folder.
In an act of kindness and respect, please respond to PMs one way or the other with in a timely manner.
Im sorry but I do not ship outside the US.
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This is true. Perhaps you have a message chain sitting in your sent folder!

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Once you delete it, it's gone. The only way to retrieve it is from the recipient or the unicornishly rare server rollback (Seriously... without a court order, you're more likely to see an ACTUAL unicorn!).
It should be totally gone from your Sent messages (happened to me before).

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Is there an easier way to delete older messages, like an auto delete aged message function we can use? I just deleted a page of current sent items because I was making space and didn’t notice that the page hadn’t jumped to the end yet.
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Page by page is how I've always done it. Also, after a trade is complete (feedback from both parties), I'll often clean out the correspondence on that trade, since I no longer need those "records".
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