EXTREMELY low sales numbers this weekend! Anyone else?

[replacementradios]

So our weekend sales are a mere fraction of what they usually are. And we are not a small seller. We're used to having dozens of sales over the weekend and have for years. This weekend it was 12 sales! Twelve!! And 5 of those were new inventory added in the last 3 weeks, so that stuff should be on top of all the sales we get from our regular inventory. Not making up nearly half of all sales... 

Add the fact Christmas is just around the corner and sales are supposed to be increasing, and it tells me something has to be going on. This is unprecedented for us. I would suggest it is some sort of 'shadow-ban' of our listings, but we're a Top-Rated seller and our feedback is almost 20,000, with 99.8% positive. Not only that, but it has actually went up 2/10ths in the last month+, as a couple old negatives rolled out of the numbers. So there's no downward trend they should be worried about penalizing us for.

Is anyone else experiencing this? I saw sellers complaining about reduced sales when eBay 're-did' the Categories and Item Specifics last month (don't get me started on that), but our sales weren't impacted too much during that period. This weekend's numbers are ridiculous though...

[urban_picker]

All the updates ebay has done has trashed the site and my sales. I would sell 70-120 items a day before the updates. Now I'm down to 40-60 and have 10-12 hour windows with no sales. I have 30,000 items listed and this is way off the normal for me. As I type this I just hit 12 hours with only 2 buy it now sales, many offers accepted but only two straight sales. Ebay says their technically issues of telling buyers that sellers do not ship to their location has been fixed but clearly this is something MAJOR wrong still when I have the best placement I have ever seen in Best Match yet no sales. This is normally my biggest month of the year and I've been doing this 20 years, as of right now this month is my worst.

[whatmorefabric]

I am having slow sales across all my sites.

I usually have 30 to 40 sales on Amazon and had   16.

Etsy is down by half.

The Amazon seller upstairs in the building is down by 1/2 and he sells toys and sports equipment..

[island_chain]

This time of year normally slows down for me but I've been having two problems at once and can't help but feel they are related.  First, for November I'm running at about 25% of sales I would have, and also for November I have not been able to access any of my active listings, or more than the last 10 days of paid and shipped orders from my seller dashboard.  Ebay tells me they have an "open ticket" on the matter but their declining ability/willingness to respond to seller problems leaves me with little hope it will be fixed this year.  Seems the only computer systems at eBay that work flawlessly 100% of the time are those used to calculate and extract fees.  Never a glitch there.    EXTREMELY frustrating that I pay full fees but cant access or edit my listings. 

[replacementradios]

To further support the idea something was wrong on eBay this past weekend: yesterday (Monday) we sold more items on eBay than we did from closing time Friday through Sunday. (What I define as the weekend...) That simply doesn't happen. We're usually slammed on Mondays because of all the weekend orders, not because Monday orders are voluminous...

12 items is the lowest weekend sales total we've had in 10 years. There hasn't been a slow decline either. This came out of nowhere. Something was wrong this past weekend...

I saw another seller report that they lost all their Item Specifics and Categories changes this weekend. Could it be that new and "improved" categories and specifics changes are biting people yet again? Is eBay still monkeying with things??

[replacementradios]

To further, further support the idea something was wrong on eBay this past weekend: today (Friday) we've already sold more items on eBay by noon than we did for the entire past weekend. (From closing time Friday through Sunday...) That simply doesn't happen. We've never had individual weekdays on which sales were greater than an entire weekend.

There wasn't some slow decline before the weekend either. This came out of nowhere. Something was wrong this past weekend!!

I saw another seller report that they lost all their Item Specifics and Categories changes this past weekend.  Changes they had completed the previous week. Could it be that new and "improved" categories and specifics changes are biting people yet again? Is eBay still monkeying with things??

[public-direct]

Same here... I was on track to meet my goals of trying to increase sales all summer then all of a sudden about 2 weeks ago they dropped off about 25%. Now today, I haven't had one single sale since 6:30 this morning and that is completely abnormal.

For the last 2 weeks, my impressions are down 23% and clicks down 20% with promoted listings.