I don't get it.

[shigbig]

I've been on Ebay over 20 years and don't understand the thought process of the Ebay bigwigs .  Up until about 6 months ago, I was selling 5 to 10 items daily with average daily sales over $100.........Yesterday I had 0 sales and the day before I had 1 $12 sale......I don't think the economy is responsible for a large part of the decrease in sales....It doesn't make sense for the bigshots to curtail sales as the Ebay revenues will drop accordingly........I'm thinking that maybe the big cheeses want the stock to drop so they can tender an offer to buy but that's probably illegal.......Maybe the way to go is to short the stock........Frankly, I don't get it.  

[stainlessenginecovers]

There are other items shown on your listings that are cheaper than you are selling for.

You NEED to be the lowest price, or this is what happens. 

[chpgts]

I recently read article about Ayden becoming so large because of the processing accounts they are having trouble keeping up with processing transactions. The articule stated that that Ayden only sees .10 or .12 per transaction.

So Ayden is processing large amounts of transactions  and having trouble keeping up. So what I think Ayden is doing is giving large corporations a limit on how many transactions they can process a day and that my look like Ebay is throttling sales. It would then make sense for Ebay to give priority to large dollar sales and sales that have promoted fees.

Adyen charges a processing plus payment method fee per transaction. The processing fee is a fixed amount collected by Adyen, $0.12 in North America, Asia Pacific, Latin America and €0.10 in Europe.

Paypal and others charge much more and that would affect Ebay profit so using other payment processers is not viable.

See Article at :https://medium.com/iveyfintechclub/how-adyen-is-disrupting-payment-processing-7e0e261f0ea

I an not saying this the reason for slowing sales but it has made me think it could be a possibility,

Just  a possibility, do not shoot the messenger.

[downunder-61]

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@ittybitnot wrote:

I don't get it.

@shigbig 

I am a buyer. I get it just fine.  A year or so ago, eBay placed buyer management restrictions on all seller account with a default set to YES.  They didn't do much, because they required the BUYER ID to be forced into mandatory participation.  In the last few months eBay ramped up the mandatory buyer participation, first to make offers and then to even bid.  

It was advertised to buyers that this was to for their convenience, and the 'new smoother checkout' was a good thing for them.  All they had to do (they couldn't proceed until they did) was enter a default payment source.   THEY DID NOT TELL BUYERS that this new buyer convenience would not allow them to use Google Pay, Apple Pay, Spendable Funds, Gift Cards, seller promotions or coupons, PayPal Pay in 4, PayPal credit,  etc.   Combining items for one invoice/shipping charge was removed from the options and full shipping for each item would be paid in full.....yes, a buyer does not need to use the cart....they get to pay more.  

It was advertised to sellers that it was going to take care of non-paying buyers.  They refrained from mentioning that the seller's customers could no longer combine items for one shipping charge, and many buyers simply would not participate in this new "more expensive" program.  Buyers are not stupid, and who wants to pay full shipping on their multiple auction wins when the items could be combined in one parcel for $8 instead of the $80 the auto-pay charged them. It did not inform sellers that they were likely losing sales due to buyers who DO PAY,  just passing them  by. 

eBay has now proclaimed in their last update that ALL Buyers will be required to participate in this going forward for making offers, while they continue to force buyers to do so simply to make a bid.  If you don't want to encourage multiple purchases from the same buyer, never use auctions, and never use the best offer feature, please by all means keep the preferences/blocks intact. 

https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/buyerrequirements

Buyer Payment Requirements

*Require buyers to provide a payment method before they place a bid.

*Require buyers to provide a payment method before they make an offer.

Since this has been ramped up to make it mandatory for buyer participation, many buyers are looking elsewhere.   If you are NOT newbie and know how to deal with non-payers, perhaps you should rethink your settings.  I sold here for 22 years, had ONE npb.  If I still sold here I would be advertising "BUYER FRIENDLY, combined offers for one shipping price, combine your auction wins!  No auto-pay required here. Shop here and enjoy, pick your payment source! "  Do this before eBay runs off more of the long time payers. 

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This ^^^^^ needs to be repeated.............