Doubled promoted listing standard ad rate and sales dropped drastically

[sallyjeffers257]

I have had my listings promoted at a fixed rate with Promoted listing standard at 5% for awhile now.  On September 10 I ended that campaign and started a dynamic rate Promoted listing standard for my listings.  So that is pretty much double the 5% 

On September 8 my total impressions were 376,746

On September 10 my total impressions were 67, 630

That is a 309,116 REDUCTION in impressions AFTER DOUBLING my ad rate!!

My sales have tanked as a result and it has been almost 2 weeks and nothing has changed.

I am scared to mess with this because I don't want to start over any kind of grace period and I have tried to wait this out but I am starting to get desperate because my sales are so drastically bad after doing this.

Has anyone else had this experience? 

[selsa84]

What I find interesting is my graph shows the same date as yours when pl dropped and are always in the red

[lmc_auctions]

I am having the same problem with all of my listings. I have not promoted any of the listings. I run auctions every single day and I have regular customers that bid on my auctions. I have noticed that my sales have dropped dramatically and my regular customers have no longer been bidding on my items. I couldn't figure out what the problem was. Then today, I received a message in my feedback from one of my customers stating that they are being blocked from my listings. I messaged the customer right away and they told me that they are blocked from every auction and buy it now in my eBay store. They told me they have no problems with any other eBay seller and so they've been purchasing from them instead. 

I contacted eBay today and they have opened up an investigation on the problem.