no listing=no sales?

IN your experience or word on the street does no listing eventually catch up in terms of lagging sales?

I've been on staycation for the most part this month. I couldn't bring myself to go on Time Away so I've done mail, when I sold. Now sales have really petered out, though I still get listings on Watch lists and answer those.

OTOH it has been an OK experience in terms of recreating and taking care of things on my Level D to-do list.

keziak

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Posted 1 year ago·Last reply 1 year ago

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sin-n-dex

·1 year ago

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@keziak wrote:
IN your experience or word on the street does no listing eventually catch up in terms of lagging sales?

I've been on staycation for the most part this month. I couldn't bring myself to go on Time Away so I've done mail, when I sold. Now sales have really petered out, though I still get listings on Watch lists and answer those.

OTOH it has been an OK experience in terms of recreating and taking care of things on my Level D to-do list.

I find listing regularly helps sell, but isn't always necessary. Sometimes I'm too busy all week to put up listings.

I have held off on listing too much since the ever changing tariff threat means some items I have will be subject to tariffs, so listings are going up and down on a whim as the rules change, so I've gotten tired of trying to put up new items and keep up, now I'm just keeping up with the listings I have. (I did run some auctions starting today, but the listings were done a while ago... I decided to run extra listings and sell more at once in case of the March 1 tariffs coming into effect for Canada). We don't know yet if non-Canadian goods shipped from Canada will be tariff exempt, if they are I can probably still sell for a week until the tariffs come off again.

yuzuha

·1 year ago

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@sin-n-dex wrote:
I find listing regularly helps sell, but isn't always necessary. Sometimes I'm too busy all week to put up listings.

Same. I hardly listed anything in January but as you can see, it didn't seem to hurt my sales at all.

onefootflipper

·1 year ago

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My two stores are pretty big and when I list a new item for each sale they both do pretty good, they quickly go to crap if I am not doing that. My 11,000 item card store quickly tripled in sales after I started replacing sold listings with new listings within a day or two, even though most of the sales are of listings that have been up for years.

luckythewinner

·1 year ago

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@keziak wrote:
IN your experience or word on the street does no listing eventually catch up in terms of lagging sales?

I have never seen any evidence that creating NEW listings causes me to get more sales from OLD listings.

When I creating NEW listings, there is definitely an uptick in sales - but that uptick in sales is almost always due to the NEW listings selling.

chapeau-noir

·1 year ago

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@luckythewinner wrote:
@keziak wrote:
IN your experience or word on the street does no listing eventually catch up in terms of lagging sales?
I have never seen any evidence that creating NEW listings causes me to get more sales from OLD listings.

When I creating NEW listings, there is definitely an uptick in sales - but that uptick in sales is almost always due to the NEW listings selling.

I've had old listings consistently sell when I list new items.

chapeau-noir

·1 year ago

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I sell OOAK - If I don't consistently list, my store falls off the face of the earth.

ANY website rewards engagement - think about it- why would they expend resources on just placeholders, dead listings, etc.

chevymontecarlo88

·1 year ago

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@chapeau-noir wrote:
I sell OOAK - If I don't consistently list, my store falls off the face of the earth.

ANY website rewards engagement - think about it- why would they expend resources on just placeholders, dead listings, etc.

Bingo!

Good post @chapeau-noir

kensgiftshop

·1 year ago

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I always here that listing constantly will increase sales, but I don't know.

A few years ago, I was listing something all the time and had very few sales that year.

The next year, didn't list anything new or do anything with my listings all year and had more sales that year then the year before.

slippinjimmy

·1 year ago

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There are tons of factors involved, what works for me might not work for you.

Last year was very much up and down on sales but for the full year my sales are not that much different in 2024 than they were in 2023.

Most of my listings (the ones that actually generate sales) are multi-quantity listings. In all of 2023 and 2024 I created exactly ONE new listing.

Obviously if I listed more I would likely sell more but to maintain sales levels I do not need to create any new listings.

Back in the day when I was listing mostly single quantity listings it was imperative to create new listings every day/week or I would see declining sales really fast.

keziak

OP1 year ago

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that is what I think. Thanks for the response.

chevymontecarlo88

·1 year ago

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@keziak wrote:
IN your experience or word on the street does no listing eventually catch up in terms of lagging sales?

From my understanding, it does seem like activity (new listings) does impact the algorithm and CAN lead to more traffic. It is a numbers game to an extent. The more eyes that can see your listings, the better chances that someone purchases from you. Sellers still need to have items that others want/need and listings should be competitive and described in a way that buyers WANT to buy it.