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Sales are Horrible Scarce. Practically no buyers this year. What is wrong with eBay?
Sales are Horrible Scarce. Practically no buyers this year. What is wrong with eBay?
Is it just me or has anyone else had issues with incredibly slow sales this Christmas Season?
I have seen no TV Commercials for eBay.
Etsy, on the other hand, I see TV ads throughout the day including several Prime Time Commercials and Ads on several different networks.
This year's sales have been the worst we have experienced in the past 10 years of selling on eBay.
"Is", or "was" there a method we missed out on?
One would think that after 10 yrs we would have this pretty much figured out.
Thanks for any input.
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone!!!!
17 comments
kh-shakhib
·2 years agoHi everyone,
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Thank you for understanding.
deltilogical
·2 years ago"It's not ebay's job to sell your products."
Agree 100% but when Ebay basically blocks my listings with layers of ads, that doesn't help me. Sellers should be getting a piece of the revenue from sales linked from their ad pages, I mean listings, it might make up for some of the lost sales. It gets tiring to wade through all that noise again and again. It is not fun to shop. As a buyer. i get tired quickly.
gloryglorygifts
·2 years agoI'm sorry that your sales are down this year. What worked 10 years ago on here will not work now. Competition is stiff and search engines have been tweaked to death to no avail, but I am a firm believer in self-promoting off ebay. Just about the only coupon I will use on here is sending a small savings on watched items. Other than that, I do not do promoted listings, nor send out any other coupons to use later. I have a Google business listing, YELP, Merchant Circle, Pinterest, Facebook and I use my personal Twitter and LinkedIn pages as well and all have links either to this store or the website. Use social media, and free listings, to bring your beautiful products to people's attention. It's not ebay's job to sell your products. That's on you. Ebay is just a place to list your items to make it easy for people to purchase them but you have to promote them.
Good luck to you and may 2024 be a banner year for you!
gail5176
·2 years agoHow were your sales in 2023?
drbriliant
·2 years agoMy sales were good to very good for 18 years consistently up until The beginning of April of 2024. Ive had no sales for 4 weeks! Unheard of. Ebay changed the listing format so that we sellers could not see individual "the pay to promote your listing button" on the seller listing page anymore and all we could see were NO SALES and other peoples listings which clogged up my own page. I know theres a lot of data mining going on and graphs and charts and selling of information to other advertisers. I am constantly getting unwanted ads from being "tracked" all over. We're being FEE-D to death too. I mean when I "made money" once upon a time this year, the final value fees I paid to ebay at the end were big. Ebay was makin good money from my sales and so they are actually losing money now by not allowing sellers to make money. I don't see any good business desicions being made at the top, do you? Ruining long standing loyal ebay sellers businesses is not lucrative for anyone. If you want to be another disatrous "Google Ads" type of chaotic ad campaign world well you're doing great but thats not what the majority of YOUR CUSTOMERS, WE THE SELLERS WANT AND PAY FOR. Sellers are leaving ebay in droves you know. AND AMAZON is AMAZON. We don't need another one. We want the unique, successful, old fashioned ebay collectibles, antique online auction back with our freedom to be individuals who offer items that people look for at competitive prices. STOP the behind our backs selling of our data and ad trackers to other big corporations . WE NEED SALES AGAIN PLEASE!
blurryrobot
·3 years agoYeah, my Christmas sales were really bad too. Hope you do better soon.
northernsurplus50
·3 years agoEver since the divorce of Paypal and the introduction of Managed Payments , my sales have dropped off drastically . A lot of my buyers were also sellers and only spent the money they had made on ebay , to make purchases , using Paypal . I know with Paypal gone ; I may of made 5 purchases over 2 years , no longer 2-3 purchases per week .
an-57470
·3 years agoAs a buyer I can tell you that I am getting very discouraged by the pages and pages of Chinese dumping all over every single area of the site. I cannot even get to the goods I am actually looking for. The Country Of Origin filters are useless as the Chinese just lie and bypass it all. Ebay is practically Alibaba at this point.
gloryglorygifts
·2 years agoEbay is not the only marketplace that they have infiltrated. I bought items from Bed Bath and Beyond and was really po'ed when I got the tracking notice that one of the items was coming from China. Ordered it on the 5th and it got here on the 23rd. THANK GOD, it came via DHL in the U.S. because it went thru Georgia and their post offices are a complete and utter disaster. They do lie and use U.S. addresses to sign up for a site and then ship from China. It is beyond ridiculous.
chapeau-noir
·3 years agoI wouldn't blame the economy - spending is up and consumer confidence is up. I *do* think that eBay has a shrinking market share, a lot more competition and a changing focus. Also, a lot of spending is in B&Ms. It will never be "like it used to be", and in fact never was. Just go back through forum archives for the same complaint every year.
5594shelleys
·2 years agoIt will never be "like it used to be", and in fact never was.
Au contraire, it used to be like that, and in fact always was.... until 2017 and forward.
-eBayer since 1997.
the-hook-and-the-loop
·3 years agoMost all sellers will recall how this platform changed overnight one day in May of this year. Specifically with the update to view counts. That for me, wasn't a problem, but it's when it happened. Then they forced promoted listings to about 12%. Meaning if you didn't promote at that rate, you would not get the impressions you did prior to May. The fact that they eliminated 1% PL only helps prove that. Then there was that nice little update of changing how PL's were calculated(on the total sale price). I still cringe at every "AD FEE STANDARD" highlighted in green on 90% of my sales now versus 50% of sales prior to May. Every month they shrank the margins of sellers. For what? So they could lose billions of dollars and hand out dividends while pizzing off thousands of users daily. That's the one thing they succeeded at the most, unhappy users, many of them long timers. They have chased people out and restricted accounts for sport. No one can risk selling an item over $100 here, while eBay wants to be a high roller with the Vault and authenticity programs, FAILS!
Happy Holiday's y'all!
mindeyefirestorm.2
·2 years agoThis place.. in the current way of ebay thinking of sales and shareholders
priority .. Will come back and haunt them..
Sadly they are only beholden to shareholder..
Yes, Without Sellers and Buyers.. Stocks in ebay will be just toilet paper..
Sellers are mistreated buyers at times are mistreated..
Pushing payment policys without sellers knowledge or buyers.
Just push the button and change everything..
Both sellers and buyers should have a voice.
Ebay , must have positive management that cares.
Other wise this place will end like vhs no longer needed.
earthdreamer
·3 years agoLately, I actually get a shock when I sell an item.
frecklesfinery88
·2 years agoExactly! My phone went off on Christmas eve and I jumped.
Hang in and Hang on. That is all we can do.
Merry Christmas
paraquip
·3 years agoHundreds of posts on this already.... there are many ways to look at it but certainly Ebay bears some of the responsibility here.
What is under ebays control:
1. Marketing/Ad dollars spent
2. Website coding / functionality / bug fixes
3. Customer service / lack of it
4. Website security
What is not under ebays control:
1. The economy
2. What you sell
3. How you sell it
As you can see.....ebay might have some explaining to do
HK
jasoheat_0
·2 years agoyou forgot customer / buyer retention
i believe they have lost well over 25% to date , from 179 million down to 132 million ... no signs of stopping