... You sell within an entire different market than I, but if it's any consolation my sales have been dramatically down all year, and I haven't seen as erratic of buying patterns as with this year for reason unknown ...
... if it's any help, I went thru the current specific listing Categories for my goods and scouted out the completed listings, just to see if any of my competition was eatin' me up and Thankfully they're in a slump too ... that may sound terrible yet it was a Relief for me ... lol ...
... as a suggestion, maybe try to go thru completed listings as it applies to Your specific categories and do the same ... then do a search by item title alone for a particular item You sell and compare the completed results with that seperate search ... what we wanna do is see if any other Sellers are moving Goods similar to Yours, and if so, click onto the completed listing and check out the exact Cat that they had used ... also check out item titles of the sold goods in the completed listings
... by doing this, we're covering the completed listings no matter if the Buying is thru "shop by Categorey" as well as if a Buyer is using only a search by item title thru the search bar ...
... I've been selling the same type of items since 2005 and quite Honestly this is by far the slowest I've seen ... I thought last year was slow, but this one is even slower and way more erratic ... some days up then a bunch of days down ...
... Hope this helps ... Good Luck and Hang in There ... You aren't alone ...
