Ebay Marketing Program Terms Updated on March 19th and my sales crashed - anyone else? | Selling

impossible_objects · 2024-03-25T20:34:25.943000Z

I saw the notice that Marketing Program Terms had an update on March 19. I've been digging around anywhere trying to find out why my sales went off a cliff on Tuesday of last week - sure enough, that was March 19 when they updated the Marketing Program Terms. Now, I've read them, and since I didn't memorize the previous Terms, I don't know what has changed, but whatever it is, it has killed my sales. I promote maybe a quarter of my listings and prior to Tuesday I was selling at a pretty steady and expected rate, sure there were up days and down days, but nothing like my sales since Tuesday. I'll attach the bare bones graph of my daily sales. Just visually you can tell something changed. Is this Ebay once and for all forcing sellers into promoting our entire stores? I am in pre-owned clothing, mostly athletic and activewear. This time of year sales should be picking up, not slowing down (or nearly disappearing completely) - I've always promoted the listings in categories that make sense to promote, and I've done fine. Steady sales, steady income, everything has been working fine. This is a paradigm shift. This isn't an organic slowdown or me changing anything about my inventory quality or pacing of listing. It's a little like walking down a flat street at your normal pace then suddenly you fall off of a hidden cliff. You weren't walking slower or faster, you thought you could see all the paramters of the street clearly, so there was no reason to change your pace or your energy expended..... and yet suddenly you've tripped and fallen to a lower level in the street you didn't even see up ahead. I am just wondering if anyone else is out there seeing the same situation in their sales. Graphic below: That first very short bar after the tallest bar represents Tuesday March 19th.

Discussions

Ebay Marketing Program Terms Updated on March 19th and my sales crashed - anyone else? | Selling | eBay Community