I highly recommend you STOP FORCING people to delete and recreate items if there are orders placed against them. I have had to redo 1,000s of items across multiple stores because of this. It is a waste of my time. If the customer wants to even just add colors to existing listings later or update the logo, I have to recreate all items for any color/logo changes and delete or deactivate the old ones. This multiplies my workload exponentially and gets old very quickly.