Sales have been Dead for MONTHS

[girligirltutus]

I have been selling on Ebay for over 20 years now..... I sell handmade personalized merchandise as of about 5 years ago. Sales used to be very good very steady and this year especially over the past 3-4 months they have become non-existent. I even click the fee percentage to give Ebay more money to promote but still dead. Has something changed I an unaware of? I also sell on Amazon and I know recently they had  new title keywords guidelines change so I spent days updating listings. I am not aware of any such things changing here on Ebay but this is crazy! Never seen such slow sales it's like now even worth paying for a store anymore on Ebay. Any comments or advise is appreciated.    Thanks

[ed8108]

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@girligirltutus wrote:

I have been selling on Ebay for over 20 years now..... !

Never seen such slow sales it's like now even worth paying for a store anymore on Ebay. Any comments or advise is appreciated.    Thanks

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Some may attribute the failure of steps to successfully & significantly reduce the number of bad seller experiences & bad buyer experiences has had an unfortunate consequence.

[gramophone-georg]

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@ed8108 wrote:

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@girligirltutus wrote:

I have been selling on Ebay for over 20 years now..... !

Never seen such slow sales it's like now even worth paying for a store anymore on Ebay. Any comments or advise is appreciated.    Thanks

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Some may attribute the failure of steps to successfully & significantly reduce the number of bad seller experiences & bad buyer experiences has had an unfortunate consequence.

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eBay could start by fixing all the site issues but it seems they refuse.

[onestopnerdshop]

Sales are absolutely dead. We usually call once a week to have eBay "refresh" the store and we'll usually get a few sales afterwards but it keeps getting worse.

Its pretty irritating considering about 2 years ago we were doing so good we made eBay our primary platform. I doubt I'll still be on here in a year at this rate. They've gotten worse than Amazon lately.

[yuzuha]

Do you have the rights to be using those images of trademarked characters on your shirts?  I would be more concerned about that than I would about sales-- Disney in particular is VERY aggressive about protecting their intellectual property.

[kathieskorner]

Seems like eBay is bent on removing 20 year sellers with their AI changes - rather than fix what is broken.  According to the posts on the selling board in 2019,  most of those experiencing rapidly declining sales are long time sellers.

[dentalsales4u]

I too am a long time seller and this last quarter has been the worst ever!
December is my biggest month in sales (not Christmas related), but this year has been dead.
I've had 2 sales since the 17th.
My sales are down over $25k and I still refuse to promote my listings.
I pay enough to eBay as it is right now with my high dollar items.
Promoting my items would mean all profits would go to eBay.
Last time I checked, we do this so WE make a profit too!

[campy-sr]

Yeah same here. I pulled all of my items except for one. I'm giving up on eBay and as soon as I send out what needs to be shipped I'm bailing

[luckythewinner]

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@kathieskorner wrote:

Seems like eBay is bent on removing 20 year sellers with their AI changes 

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Perhaps longtime sellers are more likely to use the boards.

Also, new sellers who get few sales have nowhere to decline from  🙂

[hotspotauctions]

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@campy-sr wrote:

Yeah same here. I pulled all of my items except for one. I'm giving up on eBay and as soon as I send out what needs to be shipped I'm bailing

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I haven't listed anything all month. I'll still sell what makes sense, but it is not worth trying to make a decent living doing this anymore. I'm doing 6 different  things to make a living these days. 

[kathieskorner]

Perhaps longtime sellers are more likely to use the boards.

And yet I've been on the boards for 20 years - four months before I listed my first item - and most of the longtime sellers posting here about the 2019 decline in sales are not folks that I recognize as regular posters.   

Through the years many of the complaints posted here have been initiated by inexperienced sellers - longtime sellers generally only start threads when ebay makes changes or something out of the ordinary occurs.