jonathanbrightlight Volunteer Community Mentor
Zilch. Few Sales. Lucky to get 1 sale a month. For at least 3 months. Could the reason be because I haven't joined the sponsored ads club? PLEASE DO NOT talk about my account listings and what I'm selling. Don't do it. Simple yes or no.
My company does not promote at all anymore, and our sales are great. But we don’t sell items that are super common, and we usually try to beat our competitors on total price (item price plus shipping), so our items show up high in the search results in most cases. I didn’t look at your listings, but know that it is possible to make plenty of sales without promoting, but that will depend on your categories, items, prices, and listing quality, among other things.
If you sell clothing, you pretty much have to promote, I say this as a clothing seller. It's the most saturated category on eBay & the easiest one for people to get into, which means you have a LOT of competition, so yes, I think not promoting makes a difference. My numbers are MUCH different than yours, but also you have 69 listings, I have somewhere around 1300. When I was under 100 listings, I got approx 1 sale a week. There are other reasons too, but you don't want us to talk about them, so I won't. It's never as simple as yes or no & it's never as simple as just 1 reason.
But yes, the more competitive the category, the harder it is to stand out, esp if you don't promote.
