What happened to Sales?
Summary: rivvyandraven expressed frustration about slow sales in August. reallynicestamps asked about sales trends compared to previous years and noted their overall sales seemed average. onefootflipper suggested issues like store rot, using the example of overpriced items. kensgiftshop and mam98031 discussed recent sales figures, indicating a reasonable performance. Meanwhile, inhawaii shared similar difficulties with slow sales, contrasting with monroe67, who reported their best month in August.
Haven't had ANY month as bad as August...
9 comments
monroe67
·1 month ago · EditedAs long as we're talking about How Our August Sales were,
my selling ID had her best selling month all year in August.
inhawaii
·1 month agoMy sales are slow also.
Apparently people are not interested in buying what I am selling.
kensgiftshop
·1 month agoYou've sold two items this month and looks like you did ok in August.
mam98031
·1 month agoFrom their sold items, they have sold about 35 items in August and September is starting off OK with, as of this post, 7 items sold.
onefootflipper
·1 month agoYou might be suffering from store rot. It gets a lot of long term sellers when they have sold most of their good finds and years of mistakes build up.
For example, it only took me 10 seconds of looking at your store to see "TY Beanie Baby FUZZ 1998/1999, Retired, RARE WITH Silver TAG ERRORS, RARE!!". For $23.75. There are 665 of Beanie baby fuzz tag errors listed on ebay as low as $2, 2 sold in the past 3 months. One of the two solds does match all your keywords but it sold for all of $5. You could have a lot of stuff like that in there.
onefootflipper
·1 month agoAnd 24 hours later, same beanie baby still listed, still at 5 times the price of the only sold one like it, and still more expensive than every other listing with the same title.
That could be exactly why someone is having bad sales. Ignoring advice, ignoring obvious problems and thinking that unicorns exist that will pay far more for your item than someone else's identical one.
reallynicestamps
·1 month agoHow do your August 2026 sales compare with August 2025? 2024?
Is the drop in number or in value? Or both?
You had 137 sales in the last 90 days, and ~40 of those were in August, which seems about your average.
reallynicestamps
·1 month agoThe first complaint about slow sales on eBay was made in October 1995.
monroe67
·1 month ago"How come Pierre's broken laser pointer was sold, but my broken laser pointer didn't sell? Are you throttling my listings? I predict eBay will be history by the end of 1995."