@sakic92710 wrote:
I do not know what the answer is, also. I used to sell 15-20 items per week, on average. $400-800; sometimes more. Now? Less than double digits per month & lucky to get $200. This has been the norm for almost 2 years. If it was the random month here & there, I would chalk it up to ebbs & flows. This seems to be a permanent situation with no improvement in sight. I try to sell more using Marketplace. Although, I tried a yard sale, as well. A dismal failure. 3 people showed up & 2 bought. 1 lives in my same building. Sold $55. Last yard sale, in July, was worse. $20. Those I cannot blame on eBay. lol Best of luck to you. 🙂
Ok... Ok... First off having heaps (or not) of products in completely unrelated categories does not SPUR views. The internet has become far more focal than it was in third party venues. Just as being too vertical market does not spur views. Reaching people via Views spur's views.
If Gamestop only carried Xbox games and no others the only people going to shop there are Xbox fans and those who think, "Oh Gamestop, all games..." on a first visit until they learn. Just as "Department Store" giants like Walmart don't simple focus on video games. Have what people are looking for not simply what *I* would be looking for and use those views to spur more views via the listings.
Once upon a time PC games/software was very much so mainstream product and now not so much. I've buckets of the stuff, I hazard to even count how much. I'm sitting on rather vertical market merch that once was mainstream merch. Now I could go expend $$$ to get more mainstream merch to draw views and use those views to draw more interest in the vertical merch but that's not where *I* care be.
Now if I wanted sell women's clothes lot's of competition both onsite and in fact all over the place from retailers to third party sites, Goodwills and then some. I need an edge! That edge is selling other things women also love to buy and using it "All" to work towards upsell across everything. Profit on what's drawing big numbers of views and sales numbers might be quite minimal but the residuals across inventory MATTERS. Now that women's market can be further subdivided by young ladies, working mom's, middle aged or the elderly but point being, all focal. Want be like a funnel, top of the funnel is focal towards the target demographic and as they wind down through the funnel they are in as much as possible upsold on other merch.
Simple example... HTML template whereby space in the MOBILE FIRST template has space for a graphic that is hosted elsewhere to PROMOTE lets say a SALE across all Women's Costume Jewelry... Click it and wham, there is the eBay storefront, there is the category with a nice graphic displaying the sale.
IMHO eBay should have upsell capability cooked in already and I think once upon a time they did?
