eBay

majdonh · ‎09-01-2022

I am a long time eBay seller and my store has been very successful until the past few months. I am a top rated seller, 100% feedback, meet all the required metrics and have receive a lot of great emails from customers about how much they like my custom first aid and survival kits. My sales are down 75% in the last month. I have researched methods for improving sales, watched YouTube videos about that and have contacted eBay and the representative said he reset my store for whatever good that does. I have ended and relisted items - still no sales. I ended most of my listings to cut expenses and am thinking hard about closing my business and donating all my stock to charity for the tax write off. I have lots of ideas about new EDC, survival kits and medical/first aid kits, but I don't think it is worth the time to build these new kits and the several hours of work (researching content, photo setup, photo editing, costing out the kit, etc.) that it takes to get new kits listed. Is it really just the bad economy? What else I should be doing to restore my sales?

joseh1445 · ‎09-02-2022

Add more stuff or sale. My 2 cents. Good luck on your selling journey.

movieman630 · ‎09-02-2022

Give it a few more weeks. I think ebay just rolled out some kind of update and it mucked up the system. It happens 2 times a year. It will get better soon.

agudguy · ‎09-02-2022

First time on forum, for what it's worth and you probably tried all these things, use promoted listings, 'markdown sales' (5-10%) (10-30days), 'sponsored 2%', 'free shipping' , maybeGlobal Shipping Countries you're comfortable with. Adjust your price accordingly. Try using the tools eBay offers if it fits your business model if coupons make sense do that, ebay likes you using their tools and may bump you up in the searches. Check out competition. Have some friends check out some of your items on their phones or computers and see if you're on top or bottom of the listing or showing up on google. Anyways my 2 cents. GL

haute_desert_deals · ‎09-02-2022

You have 77 sales in the last 90 days with only 40 active listings. This is an excellent ratio considering the number of items you have listed. Another person replied yesterday that you had 86 sales in the last 90 days which tells me you had an influx of sales in June (9 in one day) and it has tapered off since then. It is quite possible the better stuff has already sold and what you have left is the stuff that isn't as desirable. Also, summer is coming to a close and much of what you sell is for outdoor activities, there is probably not as high of demand for these items as there was 90 days ago.

What I have found is people just love to blame ebay as the problem instead of looking deeper into what is going on. Just as Christmas stuff doesnt sell as well in March, chances are your outdoors items will not have the same demand until next spring. You may want to consider sourcing different items or just scale up your store to offset the slower sales. As a wise Youtuber once said "Flippin Aint Easy".

coolections · ‎09-02-2022

Two observations. You only have 40 items listed so one sell a month would seem about right. Secondly maybe there are just not as many people that think the world is coming to an end soon.

coolections · ‎09-02-2022

@futuremarine2011 wrote:
youve done evrything you can do. its not you, its ebay and all the changes. some cheerleaders will get on here and say something different but it is ebay.

Oh' pleeease .......