eBay

timemachine777 · ‎06-19-2017

I'm now doubling and tripling the time span between sales on my accounts. This is major record territory for me. I have accounts that haven't produced sales in over a month or two. In the past month I've only had 1 sale on this account for less than 5.00 out of 10,000.00 in inventory.

That's completely crazy. All my accounts on eBay are doing the same...Nothing. It's not the economy or the stuff I'm selling because my accounts are mirrored on other venues, and my sales there, are normal an steady. If it were either of those issues, than my accounts would be dead on those sites also.

coolections · ‎06-19-2017

@siayan wrote:
Who cares? This is a eBat forum. People want to learn how to sell here. Got any tips?

LOL. Wrong person to be asking THAT question.

coolections · ‎06-19-2017

@timemachine777 wrote:
If you saw what I have, you'd think that. The difference between me an a hoarder, is that everything I have I'll part with.

I doubt that very very much.

odditiesandantiquities1 · ‎06-20-2017

@tunicaslot wrote:
You can not predict how much a buyer is going to spend whether it be on Ebay or in a B&M. The statement you made is illogical. You had better sales in April and May I'm assuming - that means people were willing to spend more money on your items then - they got their tax refunds what ever - You can't blame Ebay because people decide that they want to save there money for their Vegas vacation instead of buying your jewelry.

@odditiesandantiquities1 wrote:
@tunicaslot wrote:
You've had 17 sales so far this month - consistent with the number of sales you've had the previous 2 months. The 51% is the drop in overall sales. Ebay can't make someone buy a $975 ring instead of the $300 one.

You're getting visibility - buyers either don't have the cash to spend on the more expensive items - or the right buyer hasn't come along. You really can't compare yourself to someone selling CD's at a cost of $10 - $20.
Not at all. When you have months of a consistent income, then it drops by 2/3rds one month and 1/2 another month, it has nothing to do with pricing. The visibility is completely off auctions and only slightly better with BIN's.

That isn't the case at all, no matter how you want to spin it. April was a disaster. May was a complete turnaround, June is not working very well at all. All previous months....were upswings. I have been sellling a long time on various sites and I can tell you that almost every single experience of problems have had to do with technology. Like it or not.

No matter how much you adore eBay you can't stick your head in the sand and expect to be believed.

do.you.read.me · ‎06-20-2017

http://community.ebay.com/t5/Bidding-Buying/Bid-button-not-working/m-p/27119597#M220869

timemachine777 · ‎06-20-2017

@odditiesandantiquities1 wrote:
@tunicaslot wrote:
You can not predict how much a buyer is going to spend whether it be on Ebay or in a B&M. The statement you made is illogical. You had better sales in April and May I'm assuming - that means people were willing to spend more money on your items then - they got their tax refunds what ever - You can't blame Ebay because people decide that they want to save there money for their Vegas vacation instead of buying your jewelry.

@odditiesandantiquities1 wrote:
@tunicaslot wrote:
You've had 17 sales so far this month - consistent with the number of sales you've had the previous 2 months. The 51% is the drop in overall sales. Ebay can't make someone buy a $975 ring instead of the $300 one.

You're getting visibility - buyers either don't have the cash to spend on the more expensive items - or the right buyer hasn't come along. You really can't compare yourself to someone selling CD's at a cost of $10 - $20.
Not at all. When you have months of a consistent income, then it drops by 2/3rds one month and 1/2 another month, it has nothing to do with pricing. The visibility is completely off auctions and only slightly better with BIN's.

That isn't the case at all, no matter how you want to spin it. April was a disaster. May was a complete turnaround, June is not working very well at all. All previous months....were upswings. I have been sellling a long time on various sites and I can tell you that almost every single experience of problems have had to do with technology. Like it or not.

No matter how much you adore eBay you can't stick your head in the sand and expect to be believed.

When your selling on a world wide platform your buyer pool isn't restricted to tax season, US holidays, Vegas vacationers', etc. Your sales move an flow with the interests of all buyers that have access to your functioning listings. Period. If the opposite were the case than all businesses wouldn't be able to keep their business running year round. On or off line. You wouldn't be able to meet your obligations nor make payroll. I would have to hire my guys as subcontractors, or per diem.

do.you.read.me · ‎06-21-2017

http://community.ebay.com/t5/Bidding-Buying/Catastrophic-Ebay-Problem-for-Sellers/m-p/27124869#M2210...

tunicaslot · ‎06-21-2017

So you are selling on a world wide platform - meanwhile the postal costs have gone up - the global economy has gotten worse and even tho your items are seen - either no one is interested - your prices are too high or they don't have the money to buy.

For those of you who constantly complain - it would be very easy to read my posts from a couple of years back - needless to say - I was pretty much anti-Ebay until I pulled my big boy pants up and took responsibility for my own sales. I've already given each and everyone of you the tools - you decided not to use them - so continue to feel sorry for yourselves or make some changes.

do.you.read.me · ‎06-21-2017

Personally, I'm trying to make changes...but with ebay making other changes as fast as I can learn about how and why nearly every aspect of my listing formulas and my business model are now seriously messed up, it becomes futile. It feels like ebay is pulling the rug out from us at nearly every turn. I'm having a hard time getting back to listing, because it is a chhore, and ALL of the parameters I was so meticulous about setting up here to begin selling again have been met with changes and overrides that I can't see coming. eBay speaks sideways, and carries a big stick. If I were a newbie seller, forget it! I wouldn't be able to keep up.

So I sit over here, griping and commiserating with the plight of all those plagued by technical issues, and with user issues, or don't know how to do a google search for their curious queries about their curious items (which is actually very enjoyable for me)..

Maybe not the best use of my time, but I can't stomach doing more work on listings, only to have some new regulation override my hard work and force me to go in and rework major aspects of my selling model. I have been considering opening a store, using seller hub, listing from my tablet or phone, etc.....but ebay needs to get their freakity bleep together! Countless man hours wasted, with no end in site. I can wait it out, but that just means I will be here to comment on the flawed ebay philosophies.

rainbowcolorz · ‎06-21-2017

@bigmotormania wrote:
My sales and traffic have slammed into the floor, items that used to get 5+ watchers are now getting none and items that used to sell somewhat consistently get no attention or activity.

It's like a light switch has been flipped to the off position.

Same here. I absolutely can't believe it. Not even the BOTS are interested in looking!!

tonycea · ‎06-21-2017

Flawed policies, you can't be talking about stuff like paying for placement in the highly flawed eBay search engine using promoted listings when you are already paying eBay to show up in the flawed search engine with store fees, listing fees, final value fees.

You can't be talking about that slap in the face to sellers can you ???

rainbowcolorz · ‎06-21-2017

@siayan wrote:
@timemachine777 wrote:
@siayan wrote:
Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching
I hear that everyday when I cash out my stores, or when I check what sold on other venues. I just don't here it on eBay lately. But it doesn't hurt my revenue stream. If it did, I would have had to move my inventory off eBay months ago. I have more inventory than I know what to do with.

If I wanted to list it all, it would take a small army a year to do it. Maybe even longer. For example: I have over 16,000 silver age comics, with most in NM condition. It would take one person about a year to list them all. Amazing Spider-man, X-men, etc...Mostly Marvel and some DC, and lots of duplicates of rare key issues of 1st appearances.

That's not even a tiny, tiny fraction of what I have. eBay is not a living for me, it was just another venue for me to get rid of stuff on.
If we can't see it, it doesn't exist.

Judge Judy says the same thing.

rainbowcolorz · ‎06-21-2017

@timemachine777 wrote:
@d-k_treasures wrote:
Well, you bought the house to flip it. And since you are like me, that isn't the only storage space you have filled up.

Actually, the best time would have been one of the first few on-site estate auctions in the spring.

I have tons of stuff to list, but no desire with this past week of ebay programming problems. Outside of just no time. A lot of things have been bringing more at on-site estate auctions than here.

Real estate auctions don't do well near me. I'm too rural. Not enough buyers would show up. Right now it's a good write off. Storage is really expensive. A 10x10 is about 80.00 a month for example. Lets just say I threw all this stuff in a bunch of 10x10's. It would cost me about 4000.00 a month. vs about 600.00 a yr. that I pay in property taxes. No morg. on it, so I just look at it as money in the bank.

I have way too much content in there for an estate auction. My stuff would have to sell in huge lots to get it done within a day. I'll eventually pick through it all, an thin it out over time. I just did way too much buying this past year, while not spending the time to go through it. I've been in buy an pack mode. I don't like passing up really good deals sometimes.

I pay $173.00 a month for a 10x10 outside storage space. I've had it for about 10 years. I store not just bins of things from my years of collecting (brass and figurines and books and other collectibles) but I also have one of my van passenger seats and several wheelchairs (that may come in handy one day) and other items. I know I could never sell the contents to make back even 1/2 of what I have already spent on the space but there isn't anything I can do about moving any of it, at the moment.

njrtsr · ‎06-21-2017

I've said it before and I'll say it again: You're prices are too high.

If you're going to insist on a high price point you need more inventory to sell, so you get a little bit of that super high profit margin every day. But if I were you I'd cut prices in half. Your inventory isn't worth 10,000.

d-k_treasures · ‎06-21-2017

Wow - 173.00/month for a 10x10 storage unit?

That would cost about 50 bucks around here. No wonder I live where I do ..........

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timemachine777 · ‎06-21-2017

@rainbowcolorz wrote:
@timemachine777 wrote:
@d-k_treasures wrote:
Well, you bought the house to flip it. And since you are like me, that isn't the only storage space you have filled up.

Actually, the best time would have been one of the first few on-site estate auctions in the spring.

I have tons of stuff to list, but no desire with this past week of ebay programming problems. Outside of just no time. A lot of things have been bringing more at on-site estate auctions than here.

Real estate auctions don't do well near me. I'm too rural. Not enough buyers would show up. Right now it's a good write off. Storage is really expensive. A 10x10 is about 80.00 a month for example. Lets just say I threw all this stuff in a bunch of 10x10's. It would cost me about 4000.00 a month. vs about 600.00 a yr. that I pay in property taxes. No morg. on it, so I just look at it as money in the bank.

I have way too much content in there for an estate auction. My stuff would have to sell in huge lots to get it done within a day. I'll eventually pick through it all, an thin it out over time. I just did way too much buying this past year, while not spending the time to go through it. I've been in buy an pack mode. I don't like passing up really good deals sometimes.
I pay $173.00 a month for a 10x10 outside storage space. I've had it for about 10 years. I store not just bins of things from my years of collecting (brass and figurines and books and other collectibles) but I also have one of my van passenger seats and several wheelchairs (that may come in handy one day) and other items. I know I could never sell the contents to make back even 1/2 of what I have already spent on the space but there isn't anything I can do about moving any of it, at the moment.

I'm from Manhattan originally, and I know that a 10x 10 over there is big money. My family is in the condo construction business, and we own a lot of big new buildings that on average sell for around 1000.00 a sq. ft. Anyway, my brother was selling parking spaces 10 yrs ago for about 100,000.00 a spot. I don't even know what he's selling them for now. One wall, a ceiling and a floor is all you get, with your space number stenciled on the wall.