Ebay algorithms and new store subscriptions

[bingodot3]

Not sure if this is happening to a lot of people but we did notice this.  We ended our store subscription last October for 30 days.  On November 1st we bought the lowest priced store subscription, from November 8th until January 8th we had unbelievable sales through the roof.  Sent our sales to 500% higher than last year, then nada, nothing not one sale since the 8th. 

It would seem new store purchasers are placed high on eBay search algorithm then exactly 2 months to the date of our last item listed on November 8th all sales stopped.

I did a quick search after logging out of my wife's ebay page into my US eBay page and did some searching for some of the clothing Items she has for sale with free shipping at extremely low prices.  And her Item did not appear in the first 1,800 listings.  I got tired of looking for the Item after that point and there was like tens of hundreds more pages to go.  Of courser if I use the exact title it comes right up, but doa general search for it she is not even listed high enough to be seen

Ebay algorithm's control the search of stores it would seem, letting those with new stores get a priority slot for 60 days to get you hooked that Bay is a way to go for a successful sales.  After that who knows where you will fall. 

I may be wrong but many of us are questioning why sales drop off so drastically even though adding new Items monthly.  We still have hundreds of Items to list but I don't want to pay for a larger store to give Ebay 10% plus relisting fees and then pay paypal 4% (paypal and ebay are owned by the same group even though they split it up into two entities now) for collecting the money.  I guess it is the price we pay for the only real successful sales program out there outside Amazon, Pintrest nope doesn't work.

Anyone else notice this?

[audioarchive]

I assume you used Best Match as the search filter. Try filtering by low-to-high price like most buyers use. If you find them, then there is no issue.

[brestradingpost]

I believe Ebay is triggering lower sales so that we, the sellers will be forced into using higher Promotional trend rates. I noticed I was doing that a lot when my sales would start dropping. I quit because my monthly bill is too way overloaded. I will probably switch from Ebay to something else, just haven't found what works for me yet. Ebay's reputation of being dishonest and scamming sellers is getting worse. And when Ebay invites Russian investors...well, that kind of says it all...

[slippinjimmy]

Let me think about this.......in the two months that traditionally represent 30 - 50% of annual sales you had great sales and in the 2 weeks of January which are traditionally the worst period of the entire year (especially for clothing) your sales have dramatically declined.

Sounds like you are experiencing the same thing that virtually every clothing seller online or offline does...........

FYI - eBay and PayPal split 3 1/2 years ago, while many shareholders retained shares in both companies there is no longer any corporate connection and most of those shareholders probably have positions in Amazon, WalMart, Google & Apple etc. Even if there was, PayPal perform a completely separate service from eBay and they are not a charity, if you require a payment processor which you do to sell online you will have to pay someone to provide that service.

[second-chance-sa1es]

this is something I have seen eBay accused of many times. I wont comment on it because I didnt get that far. I got amazing sales when I upgraded my store and then I got knocked over by lying CS agents and competition who decided I was in their way.

That said I wouldnt put it past them.