Dropping Sales

[majdonh]

Based on other comments in the EBay forums about drastic drops in sales, the consensus is that eBay is trying to force small US business off of eBay in favor of the large Chinese. Many comments are about how eBay modified their sales algorithm about 6 months ago and it killed sales. I'm a top rated seller with 100% positive feedback and my sales are down around 90% and repeated communication with eBay has not helped. 

Adding higher fees to most categories certainly fits in that scenario.

[redlinear]

That's not correct.  You must be seen in order to sell.  And, you/we/me are just not being seen using the old tried and true business methods of years gone by.
If you had 10,000 items listed, same price as Chinese seller with 10k listings (same items/same prices/same titles/same specifics info/same promotion rate/same same same).   
You would probably sell more because you are closer to US customers.
However, both of you would show up pretty much equally in a best match search.

The issue is, you have a few items.  There's a lot of Chinese sellers with thousands of items.  You have a grain of sand trying to be seen on a beach. 
It's almost impossible to stand out in that crowd.  Unless your buyer "sorts/refines" their search 20 times.  And not many buyers are going to do that.   
Although, if you promote yourself out of business, eBay will let you be seen.

[richard1rst]

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@bauble-babes wrote:

@richard1rst  "Learn how to implement useful html coding into your listings so as to get your listing to appear on Google. Half of my page views come from Google, not eBay searches."

I plead ignorance here, not tech savvy. Would you tell us how to do this (pretty please with sugar on top)?

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I did a rather long write up on in back in November, The following link will open the discussion again. Look for my posts as numbers 8 (a demonstration of the results)) , 14 (the most information), and 25 (a follow up caution)

Hope this helps.

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Are-you-stuck-in-trying-to-get-sales-and-increase-your-brand/t...