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.

emerald40 · ‎06-19-2017

Have you tried opening up a brand new account, lisingt some of your usual items, and seeing what happens?

odditiesandantiquities1 · ‎06-19-2017

@timemachine777 wrote:
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.

TIme, I've fallen in to another massive slow down. My auction items are doing absolutely nothing. I have taken new pictures, put in key words in the listings, changed around pricing, etc. Nada.

I am finding more interest in the BIN's and when you do searches the first page returns usually all BIN's. It seems eBay has a preference. When my auctions finish this weekend, I'm just going to turn everything into BIN's and see what happens.

Frustrating!!!!

bigmotormania · ‎06-19-2017

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.

Bigmotormania

odditiesandantiquities1 · ‎06-19-2017

@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.

I agree. My sales summary says I'm down 51% over the last period. Not as bad as April was. Had a great May, then boom, June goes down the toilet yet again.

tunicaslot · ‎06-19-2017

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.

hioctane62 · ‎06-19-2017

@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.

I'm seeing 1 sale this month for $4.49.

Ebay's "fill your cart with color" is more like "fill your cart with headaches" with all the site glitches for both buyers and sellers. They can advertise all they want, but if users can't navigate the site, very few sales will result from that advertising campaign.

siayan · ‎06-19-2017

Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching

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Prov 20:14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

odditiesandantiquities1 · ‎06-19-2017

@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.

timemachine777 · ‎06-19-2017

@emerald40 wrote:
Have you tried opening up a brand new account, lisingt some of your usual items, and seeing what happens?

One of my guys wanted me to do that under his name, but I passed on that idea. I have thought about doing one under a relatives name with a matching Paypal account though. I have several that never use eBay, and never have. This would give me a clean slate to work from, because eBay ties all the accounts together.

All my current accounts are all tied together. If one has a defect, the rest will suffer for it. That's why I passed on the employee option. I didn't want to have any affect on his personal selling account, which is doing fine so far.

timemachine777 · ‎06-19-2017

@odditiesandantiquities1 wrote:
@timemachine777 wrote:
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.
TIme, I've fallen in to another massive slow down. My auction items are doing absolutely nothing. I have taken new pictures, put in key words in the listings, changed around pricing, etc. Nada.

I am finding more interest in the BIN's and when you do searches the first page returns usually all BIN's. It seems eBay has a preference. When my auctions finish this weekend, I'm just going to turn everything into BIN's and see what happens.

Frustrating!!!!

There is also embedded in the search algorithm a placement preference built into the code. What this means is this...If the category that you list an item in have very few views for auction formatted items vs BIN items, then all BIN items will get top placement.

The only way that an auction formatted item can appear somewhere on the top in this situation, is if there are several other measured variables that outweigh the format placement measure. For instance, all the other listings don't meet the best practices measures. IE; 14 day returns, Very few photos, No Free shipping, etc...But that auction item does.

timemachine777 · ‎06-19-2017

@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.

That's what all my accounts are doing too.

tunicaslot · ‎06-19-2017

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.

timemachine777 · ‎06-19-2017

@hioctane62 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.
I'm seeing 1 sale this month for $4.49.

Ebay's "fill your cart with color" is more like "fill your cart with headaches" with all the site glitches for both buyers and sellers. They can advertise all they want, but if users can't navigate the site, very few sales will result from that advertising campaign.

I can't even count how many seller listings I've accessed and the BIN button is dead, shopping cart doesn't work, or Checkout is disabled. I use to call eBay whenever it happened, but after a while I got tired of being told that they can't do anything about it, except report it, and for me to try again later.

I've even had a few tell me straight out...buy something else. I bet the sellers would have loved those responses, especially the latter.

timemachine777 · ‎06-19-2017

@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.