Am i the only seller on EBAY with slowing sales?

[a1rjohn]

The last 3 months have been very slow ,Although i lowered prices and variety.

[ckimodog]

@a1rjohn 

No...you are not.  Summer time is slow for many sellers.  Hang in there.

Happy Selling

[mam98031]

No, have you read any of the other threads currently going on this vary subject.  With as many sellers as Ebay has, this will always happen to some of them year round.  Not all 18+ million sellers will ever have steady sales.

For me, I find spring and summer rather slow and things pick up in the fall.

[meme6253]

Summer slow down happens for many sellers, But this is Exceptionally Slow, Not Normal by any means!

[dbfolks166mt]

     As others noted you are not alone and the summer slowdown is normal. You also have a limited number of active listings (16) in a single category. 

[dirk12955]

I have 3 selling accounts with about 3400 total listings.

The 3 accounts are down an average of 56%  in the last 30 days.

[vintagecraze50]

Here comes the NO MAJOR HOLIDAYS FOR consumer spending incentive time and sloooower sales. Every year this happens especially for certain types of items.

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@a1rjohn 

"Am i the only seller on EBAY with slowing sales?"

No. There are some others.

[chariot_badges]

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@a1rjohn wrote:

The last 3 months have been very slow ,Although i lowered prices and variety.

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Look at your metrics.   

On one of my accounts, it shows a decrease in impressions and views of about 25%.  

But, conversion rate and click-through rate is unchanged.

That tells me that I am getting fewer eyeballs on my stuff, but even though there are fewer eyeballs they do like what the see enough to keep purchasing at the same rate.

So, it's not me.

Who is it?

The entire world is beginning a recession, maybe a depression.  Your customers just don't have a lot of money.  That trend will continue for a while.

As unemployment goes up, more people will be looking for income.  Increased competition is in our future too.

These are macro pressures that EVERY business large and small are facing right now.

It's not because Ebay wants you to fail, or you've been blacklisted or something.

[the-hook-and-the-loop]

Everyone has figured out that to sell on eBay and pay the fees to be seen, that the price must be higher on eBay. Not really a place for deals anymore. And everyone wants deals now. It doesn't help when eBay does whatever they do with all of the manipulating behind the wizards curtains.

[chapeau-noir]

It has been slow every spring/summer for the 20-odd (some very odd) years I've been selling here. I actually used to shut down for the summer because I had other things I wanted to do. This goes for the 7 or 8 sites I've sold on down through the years (I'm on three sites now, all kind of slow, though I temporarily closed my store here until our house renovations are done and the downstairs ceases to be a pile of rubble).

[psfhobbies]

Ive been slow since end of April BUT its always this way .In May people getting back to nice weather buying less eating out more Vacations etc.Last year I had to do flea markets because since 2021 the new administration has stifled middle Americas disposable income. Before 2021 I could survive the summer slowdown didn't have to search outside ebay for income...not no more.Bet you cant guess who I won't be voting for this november..

[tobaccocardyahoo]

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@the-hook-and-the-loop wrote:

Everyone has figured out that to sell on eBay and pay the fees to be seen, that the price must be higher on eBay.

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Higher than where else. The need to pay for promotion is just as great on bigger marketplace sites like Amazon.

There are plenty of competitors of the OP whose ads are appearing on his listings, a good sign that they have discovered that promotion is necessary. Some are prices higher, some lower than the OPs price.

[kingdiamond91]

You have no seller fees on mercari  

[kingdiamond91]

EBay has become a waste of time I  been  spending more time on mercari  you have no seller fees  my items are being seen I don't have to waste money on promotions I get to keep more money in my pocket not paying those ridiculous seller fees