4 hours to go...

[inhawaii]

It's almost 8:00 PM Hawaii time.

So far I'm having a 0 sales day.

If I don't get a sale in the next 4 hours, I'm coming back to complain.  😉

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

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@mr_lincoln wrote:

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@silverstatetreasureboxes wrote:

@mr_lincoln 

😆🤣😂 

Your last picture, I can just hear that little piggy saying Weeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

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Yep @silverstatetreasureboxes   it's the "Happy Pig" ... I post that on The Community every now and then ...

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I remembered his name after posting..it's Maxwell! 

One of the most popular and successful Geico commercials to date.

[chapeau-noir]

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@jeff-second-chance-silver wrote:

Chill with the political crap. I credit the decline in sales 100% to the people at ebay making major changes without having a clue about what they are changing all in the name of "streamlining".  It made NO sense combining 4 VERY large categories into one. Its absolutely ridiculous to the added item specifics to the jewelry listings. Things that most jewelers would not know. It destroyed the searches, turns off buyers and causes seller more time in creating listings.  It has become tedious.   

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I have to agree that making so many changes to categories is a problem because IS's and other attributes are not migrated properly, and these are essential to search.  If search can't find them, the items may or may not come up.  I well recall the argle-bargle when they did this to the clothing categories.  It also plays havoc with people's stored searches.

We yelled a lot, fixes were made, eventually things settled out to the semi-ridiculous situation we have now (one that is workable). 

[mr_lincoln]

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@jeff-second-chance-silver wrote:

Chill with the political crap. I credit the decline in sales 100% to the people at ebay making major changes without having a clue about what they are changing all in the name of "streamlining".  It made NO sense combining 4 VERY large categories into one. Its absolutely ridiculous to the added item specifics to the jewelry listings. Things that most jewelers would not know. It destroyed the searches, turns off buyers and causes seller more time in creating listings.  It has become tedious.   

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@jeff-second-chance-silver   I tend to agree with you that most of the decline in sales for those experiencing it is due to changes made by eBay and the inability to get the Search Algorithms tuned to the new normal.  Lots more work is an accurate statement too and NOT just limited to the new Item Specific roll out ...

I have seen more Buyers on here complaining about Search then in previous years ... which to me is good they are here complaining ... maybe eBay will listen to them since they are Buyers ... well, I am a Buyer too but mainly a Seller ... the category changes last year were a set back too.

I have watched Impressions on Promoted Listing Campaigns flounder all over the place and while normally I don't look at traffic reports I started to since the middle of Feb.  I had noticed some changes in what formats were selling, Auctions have been out pacing GTCs by a wide margin.  So for the last 10 days I have periodically taken screen shots of the Traffic report on Seller Hub ... Impressions keep dropping as does the Sales Conversion rate ... now, while sales this month are not terrible there is no significant growth ...

[johnrj1226]

With the continued increase in inflation and rising mortgage plus cc interest rates interest rates the buck just doesn't go as far as it used to -  time to be frugal.  The discretionary spending budget shrinks when that happens.

It smells a whole lot like the late 70s and earlier 80s - especially if you were the bread winner. then - I was.  November can't come too soon IMHO.

[johnrj1226]

I preferred it with Smirnoff's, a splash or two of Tabasco, float some ground pepper on top plus a lime wedge.  Then a dozen  of fresh shucked oysters as an entree.  Got hooked on  that on Bourbon Street in New Orleans at 2:00 AM - years ago on our second honeymoon of the year in 1984 with my newer bride.

[chapeau-noir]

November isn't going to change anything.