Crickets After Vacation Hold Ended - In a State of Panic
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‎07-26-2018 11:00 AM
I wonder if anyone can shed some light on this. A few days ago, I put my Store on Vacation Hold and did not permit purchases. A day later I removed the Vacation Hold and since I have removed it I have had frighteningly dismal sales - just a few.
Now, I do not have many listings yet prior to the VH I was selling relatively well, even with a handful of listings.
All the listings are showing up - they are not slowly coming back from VH - they are active.
Still, what in the world have I done?
This may be quite normal subsequent to the ending of a VH; yet this, along with the many glitches that have eroded my enthusiasm for ebay, is more than I can handle.
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‎07-26-2018 01:31 PM
It may not have occurred to you that things are slow all over right now. I have accounts on other sites and everything is slow.
The heat wave gripping a majority of the country hasnt helped things either.
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‎07-28-2018 02:53 PM
Your not alone. I've noticed the last 2-3 years that if you put your store on vacation just for a day or two, when you come back it can take months to recover back to normal sales level. I hardly ever take just an extra couple days
for a 5 day weekend but now I'm scared to take any time off at all!
It's like ebay punishes you if you have any down time. I recently did just that, had "no sales allowed" on vaction mode for only a Thursday and Friday just a couple weeks ago and my sales are down to the lowest leven they've been in a few years even though I've added a bunch of new items and tried
everything in the book to get sales back up.
Right now I have more inventory than I've ever had in my 18 or so years selling here. ebay is 90% of my income, and I've never been more worried!
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‎07-28-2018 03:41 PM
@public-direct wrote:Your not alone. I've noticed the last 2-3 years that if you put your store on vacation just for a day or two, when you come back it can take months to recover back to normal sales level. I hardly ever take just an extra couple days
for a 5 day weekend but now I'm scared to take any time off at all!
It's like ebay punishes you if you have any down time. I recently did just that, had "no sales allowed" on vaction mode for only a Thursday and Friday just a couple weeks ago and my sales are down to the lowest leven they've been in a few years even though I've added a bunch of new items and tried
everything in the book to get sales back up.
Right now I have more inventory than I've ever had in my 18 or so years selling here. ebay is 90% of my income, and I've never been more worried!
OMG. That sounds like me, except for the amount of time selling in ebay. Ebay is all of my income right now - this is unreal. I have a funeral to attend next week. I am going to avoid the vacation hold and just work around it.
This is nuts. What a slow-down since the VH. I have so much inventory in my house it is driving me insane.
Thank you for posting. 🙂
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‎09-15-2019 05:31 PM
I thought it was just me, but nowI see that I am not alone. I had to put my biz on "vacay hold" because I had serious medical issues & couldn't package & ship. Now need surgery & will have to put it on hold again at that time, as have no one to help me post/ship etc. Very discouraging. We are all humans & unforseenthings happen in our lives that make us take time off,even if we prefer not to. I certainly can't post coming off anesthesia--as can't imagine what I would write for copy, could make an error. Currentl I have 677 postings and CRICKETS again a few weeks after the vacay hold was removed.. It's so crazy as I have from soup to nutz, beautiful items, both new & vintage & all price ranges from splurge to very small amounts of $. On here now almost l6 years, yet I feel INVISIBLE. I keep posting, hoping that will help, but so far, NOT. jUST strange questions--& I answer them and those people who ask never purchase. All purchases seem to be spontaneous, & always from buyers who do not ask strange questions--Now have 126 "watchers" but no action. Frustrating. My buyers are always happy--l00% feedback, which is not easy to obtain given all the lookie loo buyers. Doesn't seem to matter. Like everything else in the USA, all that matters is $$$$$$$ these days. Not quality, not originality....Venting only because it doesn't matter one way or other. I still LOVE eBay, it's the BEST board anywhere, but just frustrated as cannot understand why this inactivity in sales is happening for such a long period. I read the new update, & it clearly says your listings may not be seen. It APPEARS that my listings ARE VISIBLE, so that's even worse, in my opinion. And to top it off I had one total wacko potential buyer, the nastiest person in all my years on here-now blocked. But who needs to put up with abuse AND crickets??? Pity party here. Will get over it & move forward, just needed to vent and to say thank you to the poster who inspired my post. Misery loves company. Instead, I hope we both have boffo sales--asap!
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‎09-15-2019 05:47 PM
I looked at your store and I can't find products for sale. (0 results shown in all categories)
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‎09-15-2019 06:08 PM
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‎09-15-2019 08:01 PM
I see zero current or sold auctions.
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‎09-15-2019 08:09 PM
The OP started this thread a year and a half ago...
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‎09-17-2019 01:32 PM
I just took a Thursday and Friday off a couple weeks ago. My sales are now down another 40% from before vacation.
Overall, my sales volume is down 65% since January!
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‎09-17-2019 01:41 PM
