drop in sales and views
I dont understand what is happening, I am down 42% on sales, page views etc. etc. I can barely make ends meet these last few weeks. I dont' know what do do.
I know the economy isn't great but there has to be a reason for the sudden drop.
Anyone else seeing it? Is it ebay? why arent my items getting seen?????
Thanks for your input
98 comments
jersey..authentix
·2 years agoIts for sure the economy but, it would be nice if they would advertise. Cant remember a commercial. I think they advertise eBay motors a while back. Its suppose to be a busy time of year . Year after year eBay drops the ball on advertising.
What your selling also is a big factor, and who you are as a seller. I noticed a lot of Negs on your rating. That a seller killer
albany_sellers
·2 years agoThe answer is incredibly simple. eBay wants more money from promotions, so they tank your sales hoping you will pay up to get them back. Has nobody noticed that everything went wrong right about the time they started pushing PLA?
Why would they NOT sabotage sellers? They make more money by crippling you to the point you shovel cash at them just to make a few sales. That is the game here, to squeeze us until nothing else comes out.
cool.jewels.by.jeff
·2 years agoCause your not giving more of your profits to ebay via promoted listings. The search engine pushes them first then scatters relevant listings with more irrelevant listings. Buyers get irritated when their search pulls up items they are NOT looking for.
cyberontix
·2 years agoThe reality of it is that the working classes are getting hammered by stagflation: corporate-greed-driven inflation coupled with rising interest rates, which makes it harder for people and small businesses to borrow money. The Fed is going to keep raising interest rates because the "experts" think "the economy is doing great," which it is, for the very rich.
This holiday season will be the worst ever for most of us, that is unless you're lowering your prices to ridiculous levels, which is what I'm going to do in a week or so on some of my stuff.
I think we'll see a burst in the next week or so, but other than that it will be absolutely awful. Don't feel bad about anything you're doing. The only strategy available for long-time sellers is lowering prices, that's it. Mark this post and see if I'm proven wrong by December 26th. I won't be.
nilis13
·2 years agoYou're 100 percent correct! I've been here since 2005, this is by far the worst it has been for my sales.
cyberontix
·2 years agoI also wanted to add to this that one thing you *definitely* want to do now, if you have an eBay store with more free listings than you know what to do with: end a bunch of stuff and relist it as SELL SIMILAR every day. I have around 1700 items and am ending-and-relisting 200 items (as Sell Similar) every other day and will increase it as the holiday approaches.
Why to do it: It gives your items new Item numbers, which gets rid of the stale factor. It's basically been reliable as clockwork. Lower some prices while you're at it.
That technique was being used a couple of years ago by eBay's CS reps, who could end and Sell Similar on 500 items at a time. Might take a couple days for the listings to reach Google, but it seriously helps, I'm telling ya.
desertmodels_uae
·2 years agoYes, I noticed that recently.
You need to keep in mind the following forces:
1. Online retailers are going aggressive with early campaigns for holiday season. I sell mostly diecast models and I can see from e-letters I am receiving from online retailers in Europe, US, and Asia Pacific that early campaigns are common with some extending it for additional days.
2. Check competitors on eBay all times. It happens that when you list an item that you set a competitive price but someone else come and list the same item at lower price causing demand / traffic to shift from your listings/store
Beyond that I am personally evaluating the impact of few policies revision by eBay on the traffic. These are:
1. Buyer must enter payment method before making a bid/best offer
2. The price suggestion offered by the site to buyers when making a best offer.
3. New policies revision introduced by eBay: for international shipping rating and to be launched the service standard policy. At face value, IMHO, these are damaging policies revisions and potentially my affect how the algorithm will be showing listing in such extremely crowded space.
atlasesattic
·2 years agoWe now have only 2 weekends for Christmas buyers, so it doesn't look good, most buyers will stop buying for Christmas gifts around the 15th
dbfolks166mt
·2 years agoSome sellers have an overinflated expectation of views. Views mean nothing only sales and you have sold 260 items in the last 90 days and currently only have 119 active listings. A lot of sellers would consider that to be pretty good, not sure what your expectations are or what your historical sales look like.
As others noted based on some of your feedback along with your counter responses if I was a buyer I might be a bit worried about your quality control.
retro_entertainment_collectibles
·2 years agoBasically speaking in some respects its a fault in the Feedback system in a way. 95.7% makes things appear as 1 in every 20 orders has had a problem yet the OP has fulfilled 600 some odd orders yet 1/3rd left rating thereabouts. If we were to assume those 600 orders w/o issues that rating is would be higher. Clearly I would guess (oh my that sounds bad!) it exists as it does keep seller on their game better.
Now eBay's search engine does take into account many factors when ranking products in search rewarding good performance over poor performance. How that all mooshes together algorithmically is an unknown to the site users.
tobaccocardyahoo
·2 years agoThe FB system was never intended to be used by anyone to measure seller performance.
It was designed to create at no cost to Ebay a form of policing on the site.
On true mass market retail sites like Amazon, it is totally meaningless. Under 1% of transactions get FB, usually those which went poorly.
When the DSRs were created it was a recognition by Ebay that FB was not doing anything for the safety of the site. And the DSRs were hated by many sellers, and did not help buyers.
When I go to a big box store, other than myself, I see few buyers who thank the checkout clerk.
Leaving FB is mostly an activity for old Ebay sellers who are steeped in the culture, or unhappy buyers.
I get FB on roughly 50% of my orders, and the percentage has been dropping forever.
Over all the years, I have never had a bad transaction as a buyer where the seller did not have 100% FB. I only read FB when I am looking at a poster on this forum's listings. And what I often see based on seller responses to FB is indications that the seller is not customer service oriented.
Since the buyer who left unhappy FB is unlikely to read the FB responses, this only serves to accentuate the negative to buyers who still expect FB to rate the seller.
I know Amazon wanted to eliminate FB entirely, substituting a quantitative rating, and only backed off to avoid a seller generated PR stink, claiming the buyers would suffer from lack of FB.
I'd bet Ebay would drop it too, if there would be no PR crisis.
When a seller starts a thread and feels the need to point out their 100% FB before telling us how Ebay has done them wrong, I immediately question whether that seller has any real feel for how large and impossible to manage Ebay and other online marketplaces are.
chapeau-noir
·2 years agoLeaving FB is mostly an activity for old Ebay sellers who are steeped in the culture, or unhappy buyers.
That seems a bit broad brush - I'm on mobile sites with younger demographics and feedback for sellers is quite common. I have quite a bit of it on Posh, for example. eBay is no different for feedback.
reallynicestamps
·2 years ago@retro_entertainment_collectibles
its a fault in the Feedback system in a way. 95.7% makes things appear as 1 in every 20 orders has had a problem yet the OP has fulfilled 600 some odd orders yet 1/3rd left rating thereabouts.
I agree.
On the bright side, eBay doesn't use FB to assess seller accounts.
On the down side, some buyer do, and few actually understand it.
What eBay should do is make number of transactions + number of Disputes (won or lost) public. And stop giving Defects to sellers who win disputes.
terrific_buys
·2 years agoI’m busier here on eBay and pretty steady elsewhere. I sell in 4 places and have a steady amount to do. I create my own products so I am always able to keep myself different.
In the past I wouldn’t have been able to handle 4 sites at Xmas !!! I have seen a steady decline for years. I blame it on way more competition. Your items get harder and harder to get found. Everyone wants you to pay to play now. I’ve been selling here over 20 years ! That might be helping my sales bc I have so much feedback. The other big sites since 2012. It was incredible in the past. Now it’s just so so as everyone wants to have a side hustle. All these YouTubers making it seem so easy to sell online be a crafter, reseller or whatever. We need the herd to be thinned out which no offense to anyone. But im hoping this is the year we lose a lot of sellers ! There’s way too many on every platform. You can’t all be seen. It’s a little bit the economy but mostly what you sell. People are spending plenty. It’s just where are they spending it? The good ole days are gone selling online. Too many people caught wind of it and now it’s getting ruined and over saturated with too many sellers for the amount of buyers.
annadryl
·2 years agoGummy pickles sounds, I dunno, Awesome. Just sayin.
yellow-snapdragon
·2 years agoProbably been said a gazillion times but eBay search is garbage. I put in Victoria's Secret red sequin bow thong and came up with something like 700+ results and actually found 26 with those keywords exactly. Too many sellers promoting their items to trump your possible buyers' search. It's ALL pay to play now. I have 134 listings and can't sell anything... anyway.
hartungcards
·2 years agoYour items probably are being seen.. Unfortunately, your feedback is probably being seen as well.
yuzuha
·2 years agoWas going to say. No way would I buy from OP after reading their feedback. Ouch.
tobaccocardyahoo
·2 years agoIt is not like the old days on Ebay.
Far fewer people spend their lives buying here.
There are many items which people do not buy used, even though times are tougher than they were not that long ago.
And more people get brand new Chinese goods, delivered in a day from Amazon with easy returns.
If money is short, the risk is lower to buy from Amazon and if you do not like it, drop at Kohl's or Whole Foods and get a quick refund, so you can buy something else. And not risk a cranky Ebay seller who believes any buyer who wants a return is a scammer. And a slower Ebay returns and refund procedure.
A lot of buyers who haven't bought on Ebay recently, still think of it as an auction site, and having to deal with a 7 day auction and not necessarily concluding a sale when the auction is over. So they stay away from Ebay.
Everything can be working properly and you can be getting no traffic on your listings some days.
For many sellers, it is essential to offer your products on multiple marketplaces, but some of the same issues apply on other marketplaces. Used is not only unattractive, it may be banned, Some will not allow you to list branded product unless you are buying wholesale from the manufacturer or their authorized distributor.
And your brand new merchandise may be picked over with only the stuff which belongs on the clearance shelf still available.
I can go into thrift shops every few months and see the same stuff on the shelf as a previous business and see only stale merchandise.
Goodwill in our area is discounting some merchandise 50% one day a week and running bag sales another.
The past few weeks they are offering an additional day of 30% or 50% on donated merchandise.
They have so much coming in that they have reduced the donation hours. A lot of that donated merchandise shows up on online marketplaces competing with sellers like you.
Its been a long time since the last round of hard times. Some of us were around to see them, others are too young. They manifest themselves in many different ways. Some of us are affected more than others. Some of us want to deny there is a problem.
I see the effects on my sales by seeing more peaks and valleys, but my profits are not needed to put food on the table.
When I actually had to deal with peaks and valleys in the past, I increased the number of listings I had, and increased the sites I sold on.
inhawaii
·2 years agoI have to be honest, considering your feedback (6 neutrals and 9 negatives in one year) I would have a hard time buying anything from you.
jsna-76
OP2 years agoWow.! What an answer. Way to make another fellow ebay seller feel good about their 95.7% rating. I have to say, I'm pretty happy with that rating. I'm human. I'll take the 95.7% and my humility all day.
You, on the other hand,
Not worth my time.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
I dont think I'll ever come on this "community " page again. What a waste of my time.
jsna-76
OP2 years agoand you sell "gummy pickles".
chickadee8618
·2 years agolakefor94
·2 years ago@jsna-76 you are moving a lot of product. Sales are expected to be up and down. This is retail.
Every month will not be the same.
As another poster mentioned, moving forward, you have to curtail the amount of neg feedback you are receiving. 95% rating is not inviting.
Best of luck moving into 2024.
jsna-76
OP2 years agoI dont know how anyone can get 100% ratings. I think my "uninviting" 95% is pretty good considering I am a human.
thanks for the upbeat reply.
lakefor94
·2 years ago@jsna-76
I read all your replies to the feedback you received from other members and I read their feedback and suggestions.
Experienced Members provided solid information and suggestions. You are taking a defensive stand which will not bode well to improve your business as you wish.
Best of luck thru the holiday sales season.
frugalmarketplace
·2 years agoI think most people are having the same problem. I ended all my 500 plus listings about 2 hours ago. Relisted all of them, and had 3 good sales within 30 minutes. I do believe that our items get buried and are not seen.
I have done this periodically and it does make a difference.
rugerskick
·2 years agoSome ebay youtubers have done some tests, and one has based on those tests, stated that as the algorithm is now, a newly listed item gets roughly 3 days of visibility to sell, and if it doesn't sell then, its visibility drops significantly. As time goes on it drops further. But 3 days seems to be when it really changes for the worse.
hepie-5522
·2 years agoSo how much does it cost to get them relisted for so many items?
jsna-76
OP2 years agothank you very much for that suggestion. Do you have to re-;ist all of them or can the system somehow do that for you? I appreicate your response.
frugalmarketplace
·2 years agoFirst of all I think the comments about your feedback are accurate. Obviously you are not giving the buyer the :experience†you want them to have. I would make a real concerted effort to go out of your way to be kind to every buyer all the time. Yes I know that can be difficult.
Secondly I have the basic store with 1000 “free†listings. I try to cancel and relist them when things seems super slow. You can end all all of them or just some of them. However when you end whatever listings. Don’t hit “relist†hit SELL SIMILAR and that will hopefully make the crazy “system†think it is a new item.
I wish you lots of good luck, and you might go over all your listings, and see if they are accurately described. Selling pre-owned bedding can be tricky. Also I would be tempted to put a note in every package letting the customer know “you appreciate their business, and satisfaction is guaranteed†sometimes we have to really swallow our tongue. I know I do. Best wishes and think of every comment as constructive on this thread, although we don’t always like what other people say.
toomuchstuffagain35
·2 years agoSupposedly the sell similar doesn't work to make it a "new listing' anymore as ebay now tags the photos somehow and knows it's not. Maybe we all need to keep a photo or 2 back when we first list so we can swap them out sometime down the road?
chapeau-noir
·2 years agoHousing market is perking along here - I think people just move around.
I was just thinking this evening how I used to shop on eBay all the time, back in the day. Now I rarely do - why? There is so much competition, so much choice, and in the last few years, particularly since the pandemic was wiping out almost entire families where I live, I began to question if I really need "stuff" - I'll bet I'm not alone.
jsna-76
OP2 years agoThanks for the honest helpful answer. Much appreciated. Most others just critisized my store and ratings. Thanks for being kind and upfront.
tools*
·2 years agoTwo different townhouses on my block in NYC sold this year for a little over seven million dollars apiece, each setting a record for the highest price ever paid for a single-family house in my neighborhood.
ckimodog
·2 years ago@tools*
Sounds like Hawaii! My home here in KC is worth just under $200,000, in Hawaii it would be worth $2 million. My dear friend who is a top real-estate agent back home quoted me. Crazy!
reallynicestamps
·2 years ago@tools* The value of our house has doubled since we moved here in 2014.
The problem is that low income workers can't find appropriate housing.
There are condo blocks going up downtown but the builders have signs offering $40 an hour for Apprentice carpenters.
And BCTransit has cut bus services back to 15 minutes from 10 minutes because they can't hire drivers even at union wages.
@retro-entertainment-collectibes
its a fault in the Feedback system in a way. 95.7% makes things appear as 1 in every 20 orders has had a problem yet the OP has fulfilled 600 some odd orders yet 1/3rd left rating thereabouts.
I agree.
On the bright side, eBay doesn't use FB to assess seller accounts.
On the down side, some buyer do, and few actually understand it.
What eBay should do is make number of transactions + number of Disputes (won or lost) public. And stop giving Defects to sellers who win disputes.
toomuchstuffagain35
·2 years agoIt's getting to where you simply can't afford to live some places.
maxxilano
·2 years agoNot even the 2008 crisis caused this huge drop in sales, so the economy is a weak excuse, people still need stuff and online everything is cheaper than any brick-and-mortar store. I think the real issue here is the growing competition. People these days have so many options, so many platforms to choose from, and some of them do a really good job of attracting customers, offering new buying experiences etc..
gamersbaystore
·2 years agoWe didn't have record high inflation in 2008 and contrary to your statements, the economy is absolutely in the dumps right now. Every major retailer has resulted to mass layoffs this past year. Amazon alone laid off tens of thousands of workers this past year.
Everyone I know has lost their jobs over the past several months, including my entire family. I've been looking for work since July and have yet to find anything.
The people who still do have jobs are seeing their pay/hours cut across the board. You'd be hard pressed to find anything that's not part time right now.
2 years ago I was earning over $1,000 a week working in restaurants, by the beginning of this year my income had dropped to a lousy $2,000 a month, and today its zero!
I seriously doubt people who's incomes were cut in half, or literally to nothing, are looking to shop online right now.
yuzuha
·2 years agoIt literally isn't. My friend who owns a liquor store has had such great sales this year that he's opening up a bar down the street next month, paid for entirely by his sales from the store. Around here, you can't walk a block without seeing places that are hiring starting at $18 and up. My local Target is currently hiring overnight stockers for $24/hour. The local Starbucks is starting at $20+ an hour. All of these places are hurting for workers. If I needed a job I could go out tomorrow and have one by the end of the day, guaranteed at least $18/hour and most likely more, because places want to be competitive.
reallynicestamps
·2 years agoOn that bikini, instead of "See Size Guide" in the title -- You have one. It is a Size 2. And you can put the measurements in the Description.
See Size Guide would be useful if you had a dozen different suits.
jsna-76
OP2 years agoIm pretty sure I'll never post on this community site again. All I got was a whole bunch of criticism.
thanks for nothing and good luck to you "rockstar"
richard1rst
·2 years agoAn inherent problem with posts like this is that sellers who are showing an increase in sales (yes, they do exist) are reluctant to respond because it could sound like bragging, and/or salt in an open wound.
So, essentially, posts like this reinforce the perception that everyone is struggling. Yes, some sellers are having problems, but not all of them.
A lucky mix of in demand products might be one explanation, a larger inventory which generates a larger total number of views to the seller's store thereby increasing the likelihood that something will sell, and a confidence building higher feedback percentage which in turn reduces the anticipation of ultimate disappointment. It may be tacky to say it during dire times but those are things the individual sellers are capable of addressing on their own. The fault is not in the stars.
annadryl
·2 years agoThere are SO many of this carbon copy thread, and so many ask "Anyone else?". Why not just scroll down the front page before starting yet another one?
Yes, views and sales go up and down for most of us. I happen to be surging now because I am currently offering new stuff. The old stuff sits and waits. It'll come. Meanwhile, list more new stuff...
jsna-76
OP2 years agoyeah - whatever.
inhawaii
·2 years agoWhat a great reply!
sakic92710
·2 years agoI'm very glad you seem to have steady sales. I wish that for everyone. My only question is - you do mention, frequently, about having items that are in demand but do you really feel yours are "in demand" ? Just a friendly question. lol I don't think they are but you do fairly well. 🙂 If I listed baseball caps, they would sit & sit & sit. I have very little luck with shirts. I have a rare trucker's cap that barely gets any views. I've tried lanyards with no success. Just sayin' Cheers, my friend!
inhawaii
·2 years agoI don't really think my items are "in demand" but I have such a wide variety of junk that if whatever happens to be selling well at the time makes up for whatever is not selling well at the time. I also have my share of "flops" or items that are not selling or have sat a long time without selling.
If the sellers who come here complaining about slow sales were selling the exact same things as those sellers who are experiencing good sales, they wouldn't be having slow sales. My crazy theory: It's all about what you're selling and how badly people want to buy it.
If you're selling vintage belt buckles and sales are slow, you might want to consider selling something else.
sakic92710
·2 years agoIt frustrates the hell out of me that I have a good variety of items with very little competition & barely get any sales now. Never had that difficulty for my first 20 years on here.
hartungcards
·2 years agoThings will probably turn around for you when the next 20 years are up. I'm sure you'll still be here.
sakic92710
·2 years agoCancelled my store subscription then, the next step will just be ending my listings. That should make you happy, hartung. You might learn a lesson that you are unable to judge people; especially absolute strangers.
eBay was so sorry to see me cancel & asked for more info about how they can improve the situation. I told them they need to make it possible for my listings to be more visible to potential buyers!
kensgiftshop
·2 years agoI think your biggest problem is shipping charges.
$14 to ship a card?
sakic92710
·2 years agoCanada Post is expensive when it comes to tracking. I have to pay almost $10 Cdn just to send a bubble mailer to the US & that is w/o tracking.
jsna-76
OP2 years agoYour just full of great wisdom arent you?
isaiah53-57
·2 years agoWow - You have over 11,000 items listed and 38 feedback in the last month and you are bragging like you got it all figured out - If I had to contend with the amount of time, effort and money it takes JUST to simply maintain 11,000 items: including storing items, storage cost, locating, answering questions, promoting, refreshing, revising, dealing with item specifics, site glitches, ebay store maintenance, ebay store cost, etc, etc and only had a 1% monthly sell through rate?? I would burn my stock and get a real job...
toomuchstuffagain35
·2 years agoI don't see richard bragging, and besides, he's done well enough here for years.
You sold here long enough to know that FB received and even what ebay shows as 'solds' don't show the full picture, especially on MQ and Variation listings.
jsna-76
OP2 years agoAwesome. Thank you.
jsna-76
OP2 years agoGood answer.
rugerskick
·2 years agoWell its 3 things.
1. Ebay problems
2. Economy problems
3. What you sell
3 is what you can control. 100 items for sale is not a lot. Use up all the item slots available to whatever seller level you are on. You are kind of narrow on what you sell, mostly clothing and certain home goods. Diversify into some other categories of items that a) you like and b) have high sell through rates.
mtgraves7984
·2 years agoFWIW, you mainly have linens... not something on many wish lists, I suppose. Hoping it'll pick up in January. 🙌
windycityart4u
·2 years agoHi, be careful. You have too much negative feedback. That is hurting your views.
frugalmarketplace
·2 years agoI totally agree with you. That sums up the problem in my opinion.
jsna-76
OP2 years agoI am 95.7% positive? are you kidding?
kensgiftshop
·2 years ago95% is not that good.
jsna-76
OP2 years agoneither are you (not that good!)
oldwestcoins
·2 years agoMaybe people are just buying for Xmas and not used items. Just a thought.
oldwestcoins
·2 years agoActually, for the first time, I have noticed a ton of house foreclosures in and around other small towns/cities near me. I'm talking about small rural cities. I have lived in the area for over 60 years and have never noticed so many at the same time. Even a neighbor down the small road I live on got booted recently. He had built a new $500k+ house with a pool just two years ago with his family. It's sitting empty and showing on Sunday. Just what I have been noticing.
tools*
·2 years agoI think you explained the reason for your neighbor's foreclosure in your post.
reallynicestamps
·2 years agoHe had built a new $500k+ house with a pool just two years ago
That happened a lot in the 1970s, when mortgage rates suddenly soared as governments tried to get inflation under control.
Your neighbour may have worked out that they could afford the house at 1.5% interest and then learned they would be refinancing at 6%.
When we bought our first house at one point we were paying 20% interest. Fortunately we had bought less house than we could "afford" and were paying off the balance as fast as we could. (No car, no vacations, rented out part of the house, and managed to pay off the house in ten years.)
laststopgeneralstore
·2 years agoUnless your traffic is reading double zero's, your items are getting seen, they just aren't selling. That could mean that your items are not desirable, take a very long time to sell(slow sell thru rate), priced to high or to low, can be found elsewhere for cheaper etc...
Focus on getting better, quicker selling items in your store that sell for a good price.
I have not seen a decline in sales since I had really really bad items in my store. That was about 2 years ago, since then sales go up every year.
allthings-collectible
·2 years agoI strongly disagree with your assumption that it's the OP's items. The economy is robust right now, especially retail. Like most sellers, the OP's issue is the direct result of eBay no longer being driven by GMV and has everything to do with now being driven by ads. Another words, despite an anemic holiday ad budget (in comparison to other marketplaces), and despite the continuous drop in overall sales, buyers and now sellers, eBay can still increase their net revenues with Promoted Listings. This is especially true when sellers start to panic when sales are abnormally low and then continue to increase their ad rates, hoping that it results in more sales. EBay can't stop the GMV bleeding, nor can it slow down the dominance of marketplace competition. Therefore, in order to maintain net revenues for shareholders, PL was born. Genius!
My advice for every seller is to keep their expectations and their ad budgets low in order to protect your net profits, and diversify!
inhawaii
·2 years agoWhile I strongly disagree with your theory, it is very refreshing to hear someone call ebay "genius" instead of myriad of other bad words. 😉
laststopgeneralstore
·2 years agoOkay, I'm just saying I went from having a multi-thousand item store(little over 3k) 2 years ago with nothing but bad slow selling items that people didn't want, averaging 7 sales/day to a store with under 1000 items that are desirable, good, quick selling items averaging 10 or more sales/day. My max promoted is 5% and 70% of my sales are organic. In fact this month I have not promoted any items listed in November and they are selling quickly with no issue and %0 promoted.
You don't need to promote your items at high percentages to get sales. You need better items. If you promote your items at a high percentage and your traffic goes up but your sales don't, that should very very clearly tell you that your items are the issue, not eBay.
I guess I will never understand why sellers don't even want to TRY and source better items instead continuing to source/sell the same items that don't sell but then blame eBay.
I figured out the problem a while ago and that problem was me. I fixed that and here we are. Been great and continues to get better.
rugerskick
·2 years agoWe blame ebay when its proper to blame ebay. Ebay is not blameless here when it comes to seller sales. They do multiple things here that directly negatively affect seller sales.
Yes sourcing better items (more desirable in demand) will yield better results. But recent changes make decent longer tail items harder to sell, when before, there was a better chance.
Also, selling a wider variety of things instead of on or two narrow niches, is a better strategy right now as well. Sellers do need to consider making these two adjustments.
And since ebay essentially stops showing a new item after 3 days, people need to adopt a delete/sell similar strategy to refresh their best items that don't sell in those 3 days to remain more visible in searches.
reallynicestamps
·2 years ago@laststopgeneralstore
If you promote your items at a high percentage and your traffic goes up but your sales don't, that should very very clearly tell you that your items are the issue, not eBay.
This should be embroidered on a sampler.
toomuchstuffagain35
·2 years agoYep. Anytime something makes your traffic go up but sales don't follow, you need to look at the actual listing as the issue.
kensgiftshop
·2 years agoDepends on where you're at.
Went to Walmart Monday and that place was almost dead.
cyberontix
·2 years agoNo it isn't. Last month we saw a dead-cat bounce in consumer confidence after 4 months of decline. Any uptick is probably coming from sales of big-ticket stuff, purchases people have been putting off since the greed-based spate of inflation hit. The economy is suffering from stagflation. https://www.usnews.com/news/economy/articles/2023-11-22/nothing-thankful-about-novembers-consumer-sentiment
Endorse. I only resort to listing upgrades when I'm really bored. It's a sucker bet. Lower prices will get sales.
jsna-76
OP2 years agoOK - that was less than helpful.
laststopgeneralstore
·2 years agoI mean what exactly are you looking for? If all the answers that you don't like or agree with are "less than helpful" then maybe you've figured out whats wrong.
Would you prefer us to all say that you're doing great and things will pick up soon?
I don't know about you but I'll take constructive criticism and someone who's doing better than me telling me what I'm doing is wrong over getting sugar coated. It has gotten me much farther in life.
ckimodog
·2 years ago@jsna-76
Sorry for your situation. Many sellers are struggling right now with even higher percentages. Hopefully with the holidays in season, we will see a little financial relief. Keep the faith and God bless us everyone.
Happy Selling.