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genius_mart · ‎08-23-2020

I am very depressed over this. My August sales are decreased.

I was doing well before that. How can I do. Thank you

burns4thewin · ‎08-23-2020

In the USA it's known as "the Summer Slump".

aldente28 · ‎08-23-2020

A few things are happening:

Federal relief payments ran out. Enhanced unemployment payments ended and are in limbo. Eviction moratorium expired. 1 million more people filed for unemployment last week. The USPS is imploding. The current administration is exploding. Fire is ravaging CA, 2 hurricanes are hitting the South. Rolling blackouts, national heatwave, and to top it all off, it's the dog days of summer, there is a plague running through the land, and 75% of all small businesses are expected to close forever because our economy has collapsed.

Other than that, everything is fine.

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burns4thewin · ‎08-23-2020

Folks suddenly became aware it wasn't a paid staycation after all and businesses are still closed and even those who are open are NOT calling back those they laid off.

aldente28 · ‎08-23-2020

@burns4thewin wrote:
Folks suddenly became aware it wasn't a paid staycation after all and businesses are still closed and even those who are open are NOT calling back those they laid off.

Yes, and you can add riots and civil collapse to my list if the federal government doesn't get money to people pronto, and they become unable to feed themselves because the government shut down the economy.

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mr_lincoln · ‎08-23-2020

@genius_mart Don't feel bad, sales can be off for many reasons ... compared to last year mine have been off 5 out of 8 months. Jan and Feb were great, best Jan & Feb ever ... then the Pandemic from China, quarantines and closures making it hard to get inventory ... then other issues affecting US jobs which I won't get in to here but suffice it to say once people get back to work things will change.

This chart ONLY compares THIS year with the same month LAST year, August LAST year was the 4th best month in 2019 ... with a week to go this Aug I doubt I will get close to last year ... plus I diverted some inventory to another venue near the end of July due to slumping eBay sales ...

Regards,
Mr. Lincoln - Community Mentor

aldente28 · ‎08-23-2020

@mr_lincoln wrote:
@genius_mart Don't feel bad, sales can be off for many reasons ... compared to last year mine have been off 5 out of 8 months. Jan and Feb were great, best Jan & Feb ever ... then the Pandemic from China, quarantines and closures making it hard to get inventory ... then other issues affecting US jobs which I won't get in to here but suffice it to say once people get back to work things will change.
This chart ONLY compares THIS year with the same month LAST year, August LAST year was the 4th best month in 2019 ... with a week to go this Aug I doubt I will get close to last year ... plus I diverted some inventory to another venue near the end of July due to slumping eBay sales ...

Oh my. I'm down too though. Don't know how much. Afraid to look.

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postingid7659 · ‎08-23-2020

It's worth noting that some people believe eBay's servers cannot handle the traffic they get, so your visibility varies from region to region; certainly one week I might have several sales to the midwest, or the west coast, then the next week it's somewhere else. So if your items have higher appeal in some areas than they do in others, your sales may drop because those areas can't see the items as readily.

I've never found a good rhyme or reason to slow sales. Sometimes things just don't sell but if I let them run long enough later on they do sell. Just last week I sold an item I'd been running for 18 months, since I got it new from a wholesaler.

fashunu4eeuh · ‎08-23-2020

Sorry to hear of your trouble. I see you are in Sri Lanka, drop-shopping unbranded items from China. How did you go about selecting these items to sell in the US market? Did you do any market research?

Gathering from your other post, you said you placed your store on vacation mode and when you turned it back on a week later, you had a sudden drop in traffic. Is that correct?

To ask the obvious, did you then turn your store back on? (I don’t have a store, so am not familiar with the procedure.)

My best guess on what might have happened to cause your slump is that during the week without sales, you may have dropped in Search. That is particularly hard to recover from when you are selling the same items as hundreds of other sellers (in some cases, using the same stock photo and same title). There is little to distinguish your listing from a thousand others, leaving your position in Search, along with pricing, about the only way to compete.

I hate to be discpuraging, but i do not believe your business model will produce the results you seek. My advice is to find a niche in the market and go from there. Ebay may not be the best place to sell unbranded, generic inexpensive item

chapeau-noir · ‎08-23-2020

I haven't looked up everything, but the number of listings you have that I did check can be easily gotten off Amazon right here - no hassle with auctions or overseas shipping because I see they are fulfilled by Amazon. That seems to include the Ghanaian dancing pallbearer funeral team (I had no idea).

It may be simple competition.

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