Product impression suddenly dropped by 60-70% and not healing back, why? | Selling

ten-avatar-x-10 · 2025-07-06T13:24:51.757000Z

my product visibility is dropped and not getting back onto the track what could be the potential reason? has anyone encountered same situation how did you recover it ?

sfau

·1 year ago

9944 View listings

Find something that you know will sell and list that as auction and then see if it comes back up.

slippinjimmy

·1 year ago

4 View listings

My impression are down substantially but my click through rate is up, I read this as eBay not giving me as many useless Impressions because they are filling those slots with PL listings. On the positive side both my click-thru and conversion rates are up and my sales are steady even though Impression are way down

To get a feel for what the numbers mean one needs to consider more than just 1 factor (Impressions), more important is click thru rate and conversion rate.

chapeau-noir

·1 year ago

No bad meows!6558 View listings

If I don't keep listing regularly, my sales fall off.

reallynicestamps

·1 year ago

2473 View listings

How do your sales compare with June/July 2024? 2023? 2022?

Do they normally drop in July?

Why does Amazon have their big sale days in July? Is it because their sales drop off then?

Are you adding new listings?

Are you using PL? I find that PL does bring moreViews but the PL items are not the ones selling. PL seems to bring eyeballs to my Store, and then the customer browses and buys other stuff. Which is great- I get the Views but not the higher fees.

originalgentlemen

·1 year ago

2187 View listings

I've had a significant decrease in sales and views the last two months. Seems to be more of internal issues with Ebay than other factors in my opinion. When my sales first starting declining the few that would trickle in were from Europe which made me question if my items were some how more visible overseas than within the US where I am based. As someone who has sold on here for 10+ years, the entire site functioned better 5-6+ years ago and sales were more consistent.

baydealz

·1 year ago

966 View listings

5-6 years ago was the Covid lockdown and everyone had cash and lots of free time, I couldn't imagine the stuff and volume I was selling. But I think this current slowdown isn't just a reversion to normal buying. I'd like to see insight into traffic and sales. We've pounded enough about the risk to sellers, maybe they've dwindled enough to not entice buyers to even look in the first place. Probably too many markets to cause that, but I think there are problems that aren't being addressed. BUT, other sites haven't seen any more activity either.

windycityart4u

·1 year ago

2243 View listings

Our sales dropping to virtually 0 this summer but record highs on their stock. Hmmm. Something fishy in Denmark.

johnrj1226

·1 year ago

1193 View listings

Things could be worse-

Like January 1 The Big Recession was on 1982 10.2%, unemployment, 30 year fix price mortgage rat 12% + and still rising, unemployment 85 bucks/week, my utility bill was $650 for Jan,

Here is why.

BTW I was laid off on Dec 16, 1981 after 14 years w/same company - moved south of the Mason Dixon Line in April, 1982. Lived in the Village of Frankfort, IL - south of Chi Town.

January 1982 in the Chicago area was a month of exceptionally cold weather and winter storms

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Key Weather Highlights of January 1982:

Extreme Cold: January 1982 stands as the fourth coldest January and month on record for Chicago, with an average temperature of 12.2 degrees.
Record Lows: The city experienced a brutal 11-day cold spell from January 7th to 17th, with several record low temperatures. Notably, January 10th recorded a low of -26Â°F, which was at that time the city's all-time record low, and January 16th saw the temperature drop to -25Â°F.
Dangerous Wind Chills: During the coldest periods, wind chills were reported to be as low as -70 to -80Â°F.
Ground Blizzards: Strong winds accompanying the extreme cold created ground blizzards and whiteout conditions, despite only a relatively shallow snow cover (reaching 4 inches by the end of the cold spell).
Back-to-Back "Horrific Sundays": January 10th and 17th were described as "horrific Sundays" due to a combination of extreme cold, strong winds, snow, and treacherous travel conditions.
- January 10th: High of -4Â°F, low of -26Â°F, nearly an inch of snow.
- January 17th: High of 4Â°F, low of -23Â°F, 2 inches of snow.
Minimal Snow Cover: While there was snowfall, the cold wave was notable for occurring with minimal snow cover at the outset, allowing the ground to freeze deeply.
Impacts: The severe winter of 1981-1982, particularly January, had significant impacts on Illinois, including transportation delays, increased energy usage, and even contributing to water main bursts due to the deep ground freeze.

bashort

·1 year ago

11780 View listings

@windycityart4u wrote:
Our sales dropping to virtually 0 this summer but record highs on their stock. Hmmm. Something fishy in Denmark.

they have done a excellent job selling promoted listings to the sheeple

mam98031

·1 year ago

Owner / Operator19676 View listings

@bashort wrote:
@windycityart4u wrote:
Our sales dropping to virtually 0 this summer but record highs on their stock. Hmmm. Something fishy in Denmark.
they have done a excellent job selling promoted listings to the sheeple

So unfair and simply not based in knowledge of the program. PL works great for some sellers and not so much for others. This tool was never intended to work for everyone. It can't, imagine the chaos if every seller used it.

I respect that PL may not be right for you, I don't use it either, and many other sellers don't use it as well. However that does NOT make it wrong for those sellers that feel they are getting a benefit. It simply works better in certain categories than others, especially over saturated categories.

Calling people names is never the answer anyway.

movieman630

·1 year ago

21830 View listings

The only "benefit" I found is that my inventory actually gets shown to people. You know, like what used to happen when a buyer used ebay's search before the invention of PL's.

mam98031

·1 year ago

Owner / Operator19676 View listings

@movieman630 wrote:
The only "benefit" I found is that my inventory actually gets shown to people. You know, like what used to happen when a buyer used ebay's search before the invention of PL's.

OK, but to suggest that sellers that use PL are the only ones that buyers are seeing is simply not truthful. It logically can't be because most sellers don't use the program.

But if you are saying that because you use PL you get more views, but not more sales, then it isn't working for you either. Views do not always = sales. And sales are what we all need to survive.

movieman630

·1 year ago

21830 View listings

You're not alone. All I can say is this is the worst "summer slowdown" I've experienced in years. We're quickly dropping into poverty territory. If this was a B&M store, we'd be hanging "going out of business" signs all over town.

The Algo is murdering my business.

kickin.assets

·1 year ago

5635 View listings

@ten-avatar-x-10

Iâ€™ve noticed impressions drop off if I fall off my routine of listing daily, revising old listings, or as Iâ€™ve recently done, stop promoting. Impressions have fallen off a cliff since Iâ€™ve done this, as expected.

When I did promote, impressions would fall off if I lowered my percentage rate also.

Have you changed anything recently with your routine or how youâ€™ve handled buyers requests?

le-5262

·1 year ago

816 View listings

I believe mine dropped dramatically like that after I stopped using promotions...