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Drop in sales
I have been with ebay for over 20 years. My sales have dropped roughly by 80% recently. Especially, after they started the live sales. Has anyone else had this happen and any suggestions. I want to stay with ebay, but NOTHING is selling.
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mr_lincoln
Mentor5 months agoHi @zalapa-collectibles
You have sold 105 items in the last 90 days. Is that typical for 90 days? In all those 20 years of Selling have you kept track of the number of sales per month plus the total dollar amount of your sold items each month? If so then you would be able to see if you are selling below, at or above your monthly average.
Just looking at your Feedback history it shows you have sold 11,000 items. Your account started in December of 2005. So just using the 20 years you mentioned and a straight monthly average that would equate to about 45.8 sales per month. In 90 days that would about 137 sales so only selling 105 the last 90 days seems like a drop but hot 80%. Plus, you only have 44 items for sale ... obviously, the more you have to sell the better chance something will sell ... plus most of your good stuff might be gone and what is left is of less interest to Buyers ...
inceptions
Mentor5 months agoHi @zalapa-collectibles
Well the good news is that you've sold six items so far in May. The bad news is that if you don't know this, you may not have shipped them within your stated handling time.
Sales are always slower this time of year (and into/through September) for most sellers, so there is nothing unusual there. eBay sellers experienced a HUGE sales increase during COVID, and sales have declined since then. Business everywhere and buying approaches have changed since then too. Meanwhile, there are more and more sellers coming to eBay to compete with you. There are a host of other reasons, but those are some of them...
zalapa-collectibles
OP5 months agothx for reply. I've done ebay for over 20 years and ALWAYS done well. This is the 1st time I have questions about what is going on.
inceptions
Mentor5 months ago@zalapa-collectibles
In my 22 years of selling on eBay, I have also seen that sales decrease year after year. That's partially because there are so many more sellers and items listed on eBay compared to in the "good ol' days."
From day 1, I set up a spreadsheet to track my sales $ and units by week. After three years, I crated a chart for those sales so that I could see my selling curve (which is pretty typical for sellers in most categories...the best months are October through February and the rest of the year is slumber time. It gets worse and worse as the summer months approach and go by.
Without data like that, you can only "feel" that sales are decreasing. It's best to track actual data to see what is happening and accept that the business climate is constantly changing. (Shipping costs are astronomical now and a lot of people are only buying essentials for themselves and gift cards for gifts.)
As I said before, there area myriad of reasons sales drop.
How popular are the items you are selling, how much competition do you have, is your pricing competitive, are you photos clear and your description complete, do you have a friendly return policy, and on and on and on...