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Dramatic Drop in Sales/Very Slow October 2018

Hi everyone, I have been having a regrettable October, with sales from 10/1 to 10/6 as abnormally slow, then a small spike in sales 10/7-10/9, then a sheer dive to 1 sale over the past 42 hours. I started a sale in all 4 of my eBay stores on 10/11 at 8:30am EST, with one purchase on 10/11 at 5:36pm EST. Yes I have 4 eBay stores, near 3000 total listings, close to 125,000 total available inventory items....and I’ve had a total of 4 sales in 3 days (including the 1 purchase in the past 42 hours). I’ve contacted eBay twice (once today and once yesterday) because this has not happened to my stores before. I generally have 6-12 sales a day as an average (all 4 stores combined), and I have followed slow times and higher selling times as usual ebbs and flows. Every promotion/sale I’ve started (10% off usually with combined shipping) has purchases being made with some consistency everyday. It’s now 2:30pm EST on 10/12, and again no purchases across all 4 stores. 

 

I feel like I seeing a deficit on eBay’s part here. They’ve assured me that my listings are visiable, I’m using the correct key words, I’m running promotions....and yet there is no explanation for the stunning drop in sales. 

 

Is anyone else seeing something similar? I’m very concerned....

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the art gallery ad search i just looked at has 2 of my listings on the 6th page I'm having a sale making my prices lower then some of this sellers yet by page 7 i might have 4 items showing of the 111 i have listed. Another seller starts being shown on page 7 as well ,  so buyers go through 1200 listings by one seller before seeing one of mine! dominating seller has fast and free, not cheapest price, next seller  that is shown is free shipping and returns, so i would like to know how many pages a buyer has to go through to see the rest of my 100 listings? 1200 listings all from one seller page 1-6 and i can only get 4 items shown?   it isn't being the cheapest, it is being at certain price point ebay wants, with fast and free.

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This weekend my lights got turned off 😞 One $8 top on Sunday, followed by a whopping 3 items yesterday and 1 today. Oddly enough,all of these sales came between 8 AM and 9:30 AM? Almost as though I don't exist at all after breakfast-time.

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@designerconsignertampa wrote:

This weekend my lights got turned off 😞 One $8 top on Sunday, followed by a whopping 3 items yesterday and 1 today. Oddly enough,all of these sales came between 8 AM and 9:30 AM? Almost as though I don't exist at all after breakfast-time.


I'm in the same boat.  Few and far between this past weekend.  With a couple smalls yesterday and a small today.  I've heard folks talking about uncertainty with the mid-term elections coming up - but, I thought the 2nd half of October would be on the upswing with 4th quarter sales.  I'm waiting.

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My sales have also tanked. Everything I try leads to nothing. I wish I know what is going on so it can be correct.

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 Relying on ten pictures and a sometimes skimpy description is not worth the risk of more than $25. 

 

And you're lucky if you get that.  Many times it is one picture and the description is, see pictures.

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Same here, total nose dive in sales for last few months. I've been selling for many years and you get a rough estimate of what sells and how much you make a month. My sales are down 70% , no where close to what I normally make this time of year. From other seller comments seems it's not something with their stores/or merch. but something different going on with ebay system or possibly new updates/changes they've been making. If this continues I'm seriously thinking of opening a store on another platform.

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That sounds just like my thoughts also. Open the curtain let people see for 2 days, close it for 4 days. My sales have all but quit.
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Sure hope your right about Q4
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I'm also near dead called and asked why, was only told how great my store is doing. I'm over 60% down but it don't show on their end (Strange)
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Funny my carrier thought the same thing, we went nearly a week with nothing. Fed Ex has went from daily to once a week for me.
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You are probably correct as I have seen weather effect sales before. The economy is doing better I'm almost afraid a lot of my used parts buyers or actually buying new cars now.
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Not to worry. I doubt if the economy is doing that much better for the 98%. And for the over 60's, much worse for many.
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I have been selling on Ebay since 2011. This is the first month I have had no sales. Zero. Zip. Nada. My prices are cut to the bone. I have sold in all 50 States, Canada, Mexico, Ireland, England, Wales, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, The Netherlands, Poland, Greece, Israel, Australia, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong. Now I am lowering my inventory from highs of over  300 to where now I am shifting to other venues and not renewing expired listings. Something more than a simple tweak is needed here.

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@grasshopperx wrote:

Well everyone. Years ago we used to get 50 views a day, EVERY day per item. Now we get 1-2.  So? I've been waiting for ebay to pull themselves together SINCE 2012. I have no clue why this happened to us years ago? and it's now only catching up to everyone else? Maybe by catagory? Because we were 100 percent postive. Never even had a return and this hit us LONG ago. I say the Artificial intelligence  is not so smart. But if any of you think this is gonna be fixed, I wouldnt count on it.


I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU ANSWERS AS TO WHAT IS HAPPENING TO EBAY.  Why good sellers were throtteled over others.  AND why sales have gone down.  I have posted for a few years on the truth and it has costed me here.  This post may be yanked soon, so agree or not, for those who are enlightened, you will get some answers.

SITE CHANGES = LOST SALES

CHINA = LOST SALES

 

When the web designers here got the green light to basically take over this place, they took in thousands of top rated sellers to use as there guinea pigs, they claimed it gave them the best results.  We were put in tests every day, all kinds of them, ones we could see, ones we could not.  With every test, our sales would go down.  So litterly after destroying our accounts, they moved onto the next group of top rated sellers and the trend keeps going.  The sellers crying now about it didn't care when it happened to us, they bragged we were imagining the throtteling that was CAUSED by being a continual test subject. 

The site is never ending changing.  No other site changes there look and the way a site runs like this one.  NONE.

Ebay admitted years ago when they did a sudden massive site wide change that wiped out sales for about a month for everyone, that the CHANGES caused the LOST SALES, and that they would NEVER do it again like that.  Many of you remember just the site wide sign in change causing lost sales for weeks, i could go on and on about when they mess with the site, it causes lost sales, just think about the massive changes that have gone on for the last 3 years.  There disgusting lies that we asked for these changes

 

Ebay went into a china PARTNERSHIP in December 2015

 

https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-agreement-with-northern-chinese-city-is-a-welcome-boost-fo...

 

Ebay anticipating this PARTNERSHIP coming started opening there own wharehouses across the USA and international to house THERE jointly owned china products.  Now, you tell me, does this sound like a country just selling on ebay?  Lol.  Umm, no.  Why all the favortism? Special tools for them, NO BETA TESTING ON THEM,  Why is ebay selling out of Cali, Penn, Jersey, etc wharehouses for china?  

 

https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-china-warehousing-deal-benefits-all/

 

These annoucements you will notice is coming out of EBAYS newsletters. 

Now not only does ebay want to push its own products over ours with there china agreement, you got web designers that are trying to figure how how to crush our sales and raise theres, but keep us paying for stores ect while they transformed this site.  There is a reason for everything here.  Now they have a delimma, President Trump is ending the USA paying for chinas shipping, and ebay needs to stock there wharehouses to the hilt for the next year, since they get a one years notice, but that is another story.

How many of you lost all or most of there exporting sales?  Did you know they hid our listings in 2015 to international buyers?  But not chinas.  There is another story connected to that. 

Those of you who say i don't sell anything close to chinese goods, well the web designers still had to figure out a way for buyers to forget about what your selling, and guide them to what ebay wants them to buy.  Certainly not from you.

So when great sellers lost there business a few years ago, and the fake regulars were in line to tell them it was the "economy", or there items, after the web designers destroyed there selling account, they had to take in a huge new group to test on.  The rotation begins.  As long as you keep paying for a store, this place has a income to push they adgenda.   Do you remember a few years ago the huge push to get everyone locked into a store?  They lowered free listings, there was a big reason for this. 

There is a group of people who have gotten very very rich with the china connection, and i cannot spell it out, but research who is the biggest china connection here. 

So if your still asking why about the constant testing, site changes using great sellers to destroy as guinea pigs, they had to figure out how to do the massive switch from selling collectibles or used to new china goods, and really they just don't care who they destroy along the way, the web designers have card blanche to do whatever they want, and it is really sad they be allowed to ruin lives for many, there is nothing normal about this site any longer.  The master plan is not working, things are starting to fall apart.   There is so many back door problems and there hiding the truth.  I don't believe this site will ever be normal again.  There only going to care about there handshake sellers.  Everyone else is disposable. 

We need a new site.  One like the old ebay.  Goodbye to new, back to used.

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I agree

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