Sales drops and spikes are normal.
I just wanted to show some sellers who come here thinking it is not normal to have sudden sales drops or spikes that it IS in fact normal.
Monday I had a 0 sales day. "Like somebody turned off a switch."
I didn't come to the boards crying about it.
I didn't contact ebay demanding an explanation.
Two days later on Wednesday I had a record sales day.
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brightlightbookseller
·2 years agoI won't post ours to not seem like we're showing off, but even we have really low days (I don't recall a zero sales day in a long time, but with lots of items posted it's less likely, but even then I think it's happened int he past year). For anyone with a relatively small number of listings, that's going to be common. I only have maybe 2 dozen items listed on my personal selling account and I can go months without selling anything.
discountitsolutionllc
·2 years agoThis is weird... no sales but daily charges for ebay promotions
tobaccocardyahoo
·2 years agoI have had a similar roller coaster ride for the past month.
But I have noticed another piece of evidence. During my sales lulls, my number of watchers increased. When my sales returned the number of watchers dropped.
Suggestive that for whatever reason the buyers were not willing to pull the trigger immediately.
dentalsales4u
·2 years agoMy sales have been off more than on over the last four or five months.
Last month was almost back to normal, but then this month it's back to days at a time with no sales.
I know there are good days and off days, but lately, it's been more off days.
I've never called eBay and complained about it though. I figure it's just the nature of the beast 🙂
zobal99
·2 years agoSame with me. There's a sudden burst of sales and then nothing for days. Then a bit here and there.
My feeling is that eBay is have in a shortage of sales and trying to spread the business around to all the sellers so that they keep us in the game. It would not surprise me that they are hurting a bit with all of this competition of similar companies out here now. They are getting hit from all sides.
mightymouse
·2 years agoMarch is my 2nd slowest month, August is the slowest. Sales in April go between 25% and 100% up. I use this time for taxes and cleaning out stuff for the summer. It's nice to take a break and get other things done.
redlinear
·2 years agoMy issue isn't a drop in sales.
It's a drop in sales of certain items.
For an extended period of time.
During which more expensive and worse quality like items have sold.
silverstatetreasureboxes
·2 years ago@inhawaii
Lol oh James that's just your recent EKG!
sakic92710
·2 years agoMy sales chart is like the Canadian Prairies during a blizzard. 😋
inhawaii
OP2 years agoStop showing off. 😉
lakefor94
·2 years agoWe know you are killing it elsewhere, rolling in the c-notes.
hartungcards
·2 years agoI can't believe you haven't sold any of your 7 items in the last 31 days. You should call eBay and ask them what's going on.
sakic92710
·2 years agoNo need. Sale today.
calgal19572014
·2 years agoYup. Same here. Nada.
12345jamesstamps
·2 years agoFunny, that was the day I got that face text about items for sale on my iPhone of your item ...after looking at numerous items of that sort. Could be something new the kids of eBay are trying out.
I have been doing good also. I couldn't make it to the gym last two days due to a lot of sales.
gator08041971
·2 years agoI have noticed that trend as well:
Personally, I have had a lot more activity the past few months than I normally do, but then I also have a lot more items listed than usual. And I have a lot more to list soon. This weekend should be busy.
chapeau-noir
·2 years agoThat's absolutely key for me. With my struggle to find inventory I'm really trickling out the listings and my sales show it.
I must just put my store on vacation for a month in a couple of weeks. We're tearing out the first floor of our house for asbestos abatement and a retiling and it's going to be chaos around here, anyway. Maybe I'll be able to find enough inventory to squeak through to August. Right now I have to list as soon as I find anything.
Bleh.
ten_o_nine
·2 years ago@inhawaii
Let's be fair to sellers that complain, they are not complaining of drops and spikes, they are complaining of no sales for days at a time.
inhawaii
OP2 years agoFair enough.
But let's say my one day of zero sales was a week of zero sales,
do you think I would call ebay to ask what's going on?
lakefor94
·2 years agoSellers calling eBay about sales is one of the reasons there are no direct phone lines to call anymore.
I can remember posters in the past, when you could call ebay, posting about just calling to chat about anything they could dream up. Kind of like there was nobody else to chit chat with.....
Retail sales are all over the board, never level day to day or week to week, but pretty steady, year to year.
I am in the process of listing another ~30k worth of products. Sales will be much better over the next month or two as the most desirable items sell first thus kicking the snot out of the previous 2 months.
I find it is, work hard for the reward. Never fails.
gator08041971
·2 years agoAbsolutely.
I will be starting to list items from a recycling center soon. Mostly things like power adapters for laptops, stuff like that. Low cost, but will have a few hundred to sell or more. Boxes of them. But that's one example. We have some base plans anyway. Probably will pick up late Spring though.
But yeah. If you are going to sell, you need to put the time in, and have stuff to sell. I have 22 listings. 22! But over 350 items amongst them. Sold completely out of my network cables last night. Someone came in and bought all that I had left. lol
Granted, I have all kinds of stuff listed, and I will list about anything, if its worth selling and shipping.
buyselljack2016
·2 years agoMust agree that it happens, but rather than normal I would refer to it as an abnormal common occurrence.
sakic92710
·2 years agoGood for you, my friend. Hope it continues for you. Try not coming to the board crying about rotten sales when it continues for several months or 2 years instead of 2 days. Cheers!
chapeau-noir
·2 years agoIf I had crap sales here for two years (after trying everything I could think of), I would not sell here. I doubt I'd bother after a year - Bonanza cured me of that.