An Abrupt and Complete Stop in Sales: Why? What's Going On?

[getitright1234]

An Abrupt and Complete Stop in Sales: Why? What's Going On?

The baby needs formula!

The light bill needs to be paid!

The mortgage needs to be paid!

The cupboards are getting bear!

..........................................................I do not have time for these abrupt and complete stop in sales.   Sheesh!

PS:  I am not referring to this acct. 

[mam98031]

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@uncseniorsportsfan wrote:

I was researching some Pokemon plush items before listing a couple - I needed to know the name of one of the figures as well.    When I searched only Pokemon plush - there were over 40,000 results.  When I added the word dinosaur to narrow the search - over half the results were not Pokemons.   Needless to say I had far more luck using Google search -  took me less than five minutes to find the critter I had been searching eBay for over 20 minutes.   

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If you put it in quotes you get far less.  Not sure how accurate it is, but this is what I got.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=%22pokemon+dinosaur%22&_sacat=0&LH...

[greg5000]

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@coolections wrote:

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@gwens*4saleitems* wrote:
Really !?!? How is he to know which listings eBay is hiding if the listings are hidden ?

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@gwens*4saleitems* 

The better question is how does he know they are hidden. Has he looked and not found it ? Every person so far who has said an item was hidden I searched and found it. Not a single person to date has proved otherwise.

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Can you please provide a summary report with screenshots?

[beautifulbeauty2012]

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@uncseniorsportsfan wrote: I also have no desire to buy anything made in China.

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You got my vote. Hopefully, we will see more Made in America. There are still some brands I love (for example, Life is Good) that I made outside of China (LiG made in Peru - I don`t mind, excellent quality and you can even resell after 100 washes - still looks like new).

With UPU (Universal Postal Union) withdraw (in case those who are not aware - by January 1, 2020, President Trump ordered a withdraw from an agreement, which was designed for developing countries to ship to the US for pennies, and China has been benefiting from that, while USPS has been losing the money because the rates are very low), the inflow of Chinese junk onto eBay should decrease, which will also contribute to eBay`s loss of revenue/profit. 

[wastingtime101]

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@vintagecraze50 wrote:

We have seen a significant drop in sales since GTC as well. Cannot totally figure out why this coincided with the steep drop off.

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TLDR

The drop is not because of GTC, it's because eBay drastically reduced their marketing efforts around the same time GTC went into effect. Pile on the problems with eBay's search, lower tax refunds, summer slowdown, etc, etc, etc...

But specifically, the big drop around the time GTC went into effect is when eBay decreased marketing. I haven't seen any tv commercials or internet ads since very early this year.

[flo_mingo]

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@uncseniorsportsfan wrote:

I was researching some Pokemon plush items before listing a couple - I needed to know the name of one of the figures as well.    When I searched only Pokemon plush - there were over 40,000 results.  When I added the word dinosaur to narrow the search - over half the results were not Pokemons.   Needless to say I had far more luck using Google search -  took me less than five minutes to find the critter I had been searching eBay for over 20 minutes.   

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This is what I have found to be true too. I find item much faster and more directly with a google search than I do in the eBay platform. 

[movieman630]

Today was a HUGE blank.  Ebay was a ghost town.  I'm really done with the IT games.

[gamersbaystore]

Agreed! Most states are raising the minimum wage, including mine, and I have no doubt in my mind as wages rise more jobs will vanish. Just as you stated, many workers will be stuck doing twice the work.

Raising wages can be a good thing to keep workers pay inline with inflation. But raising wages to twice what they previously were in short periods of time (just a few years), is likely to backfire.

But what's really ruining our economy is Trump's worthless tax cut that did nothing but create more junk jobs that no one could possibly live.

Rather than giving tax cuts to billionaires, who by the way will never spend that money nor invest it in our society, we could have taken that $1.4 trillion dollars and expanded government loans to small businesses who would've invested that money to expand their businesses, and we would've created a lot of good paying jobs as a result.

The Republicans gave the American people an additional $1.4 trillion dollars of debt that drives down the value of every dollar in our pockets. Its just making inflation worse, not creating any real jobs, and American workers are getting the short end of the stick.

[pburn]

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@wastingtime101 wrote:

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@vintagecraze50 wrote:

We have seen a significant drop in sales since GTC as well. Cannot totally figure out why this coincided with the steep drop off.

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TLDR

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TLDR? A two-sentence post? 

[joesoucie22012]

They could be bot watchers. Yes they exist. 

[beautifulbeauty2012]

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@movieman630 wrote:

Today was a HUGE blank.  Ebay was a ghost town.  I'm really done with the IT games.

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I think I got used to it. After July 19, 9 days with $0, then now 5 days with $0...eBay is still displaying that I had sold for almost $4K within 3 months, which is a very old data and getting on my nerves now, as the real number is much low with almost a month of those $0 days. 

[beautifulbeauty2012]

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@joesoucie22012 wrote:

They could be bot watchers. Yes they exist. 

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Yes, and you can`t send offers to them. if the system doesn`t allow to send offers, it means those are bots - see it all the time. So bots are watching our items to inspire us. Sad.

[turquoisetulips]

The unfortunate thing is that sellers desparate for sales have bought into paying an extra FVF for promoted listings which shows eBay they are on the right track and encourages them to look for more revenue grabs.   uncseniorsportsfan 

The trouble with their new strategy  is its only a short time solution . Sooner or later sellers will realize they're being robbed . Tulips

[turquoisetulips]

In fact, in April, when eBay reported a 6% decline in GMV in the US, eBay CEO Devin Wenig told analysts that its own 4% revenue *growth* was partly driven by Promoted Listings - he said sellers were "flocking" to Promoted Listings. yem crystals 

Reading stuff like this disgusting   . It sort of makes a seller feel used and taken advantage of. I'm just about through  here  as far as selling goes . It's like I've been doing all the work  but between the  seller fees , shipping fees , Pay Pal fees and promotional fees  I'm making less money than e bay does off of my efforts . Tulips 

[turquoisetulips]

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@movieman630 wrote:

Today was a HUGE blank.  Ebay was a ghost town.  I'm really done with the IT games.

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One or two 12 dollar sales a week  isn't going to pay the 104 dollars in sellers fees  that I owe . So either they're crazy  or I am . Tulips

[turquoisetulips]

Rather than giving tax cuts to billionaires, who by the way will never spend that money nor invest it in our society, djdaniel 

However  many do  ,, it's not the poor  underclass who create jobs and put people to work . Tulips