Ebay is SINKING Fast due to the horrible policies "TIME TO WAKE UP EBAY"

[claude-collectibles]

My sales are down at least 50% since they implemented those bogus policies in 2019, Now instead of having over 1,000 listings per my store subscription I only keep about 900 so not to go over and be hit with those TRICKY fees. How does that help either of us. Just the other day over 200 listings got relisted under this head scratching policy when I stepped out for a bit so I had to end and relist them to get a new start date so that = 400 listings WOW ! (Who wants an old start date ~ looks like it has been around forever) Now I am out of my 1,000 listings and can't list any more without paying extra listing fees. (SO TIRED OF HAVING TO MONITOR MY LISTINGS THIS WAY)

I guess I will put all the new ones on a different site how unprofessional !!! (They loose out not me)

What a Blessing that this is not the only selling platform out there !!!!

Good Luck to all & Happy New Year

"They will Not keep us from Making Money just Making them Money"

[claude-collectibles]

Pushed the wrong button and cut myself off before finishing my statement about the new game that I see them doing is when you end a listing early and relist it you don't get the full 30 days you get 29 apparently to Punish us.

WOW !!! just another slap on the face to all sellers.

"They will Not keep us from Making Money just Making them Money"

[axiombody]

I understand and agree.  I in fact list on another site and am thinking of listing on another but it is very time consuming to list twice let alone three times.  I sell clothing and have seen a big drop in sales but items sell quick and keeping track would be impossible with the large amount of items I list.  On the other site I list only the best items and usually get about twice what I would get on Ebay.  That's because Ebay has way more competition. 

  I don't know how other sites command their searches for buyers but if any of them had the kind of amount of items Ebay has it would be hard to find too.  I know that since I started selling on that other site about 6 months ago my sales have fallen in half of what they were when I began, probably because everyone on Ebay is joining over there so more competition.  Ebay is a good place to find a deal but is a hard place any longer to sell something at a premium price like other sites where yours may be the only one.  I pay ebay just like everyone else and I can't expect to have priority more than someone else just because.

I do know that when I search for items and get towards the bottom I start to wonder if there is something wrong with the item even if the price is better I might not even look at it if other thing listed higher are near the same price.

[bluemoose19542012]

no matter what **bleep** management ebay hire to run the show.... you can never change to SMELL.

DO NOT INVEST IN THIS THING, PERIOD.

[bighossthetoyboss]

I feel that,spot on

[slippinjimmy]

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@sextons-sweet-deals wrote:
when I end my listings early and then relist, they will show at the top of newly listed along with those wish to use "sponsored" listing and pay extra.

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In my Category if you sort by Newly Listed it only takes a few minutes for that item to be pushed down to page 20. If it stays on the first page for any length of time it's only because the search words only return a small number of matches. In that case Newly-Listed really doesn't mean anything.

Next to Best Match (the default) I'd guess that Price is the most popular search sort, Newly-Listed isn't much use for the majority of buyers, Ending soonest would probably the next most popular over Price, If you are ending listings a day before they are scheduled to roll-over you definitely won't show up in Ending Soonest.

[pburn]

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@claude-collectibles wrote:

Pushed the wrong button and cut myself off before finishing my statement about the new game that I see them doing is when you end a listing early and relist it you don't get the full 30 days you get 29 apparently to Punish us.

WOW !!! just another slap on the face to all sellers.

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That's because February has only 29 days. Some months you get 30 days, some 31, and, this month, you get 29. If it were not a leap year, you'd get only 28. It all works out within a year's time.

If you want to blame someone for getting only 29 days this month, blame the Gregorians.

[mr_lincoln]

@claude-collectibles   Yes, unfortunately they killed off a 2nd ID here within 6 weeks of the GTC mandate on March 18th of last year.  After building the account up with proven selling methods and proven products it was on a slow growth path (which is my preference) and in the low 5 figures.  In May it was down to 1-2 sales per week which continued through June and July ... downsized it one store level and in August and loaded it up with virtually all new items, sales shot up that month then died again in September.  October saw no improvement so it was downsized again to the Every Day Rate plan ... and the Promos came flooding in ... sorry, too little too late.  November saw ZERO sales ... from December through early January I emptied out completely ...

[the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth]

I search newly listed all the time. If a good item comes up in my cat with a bin it can be gone in minutes. The only other way I search is ending soonest. Best match and price searches are useless for me. There is too much useless stuff that comes up in my search. There is no good way to find good stuff in the middle.

[the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth]

As calculated earlier by nobody’s business you get five or six extra days rolling over by month (365) vs 360 for the same price at 30 day rollovers.

[pburn]

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@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:

As calculated earlier by nobody’s business you get five or six extra days rolling over by month (365) vs 360 for the same price at 30 day rollovers.

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So, there you go! I think @claude-collectibles will find that quite interesting.

So, @claude-collectibles, you're getting five more days with this schedule than with the previous one. Isn't that great?

[chapeau-noir]

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@yuzuha wrote:

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@sextons-sweet-deals wrote:
when I end my listings early and then relist, they will show at the top of newly listed along with those wish to use "sponsored" listing and pay extra.

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And that's exactly what buyers hate.  It's not new.  We don't want to see it again.  There was a reason we didn't buy it the first time we saw it.

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I understand what you're saying, but I think that problem has been mitigated a lot by the 30 day/GTC format.  Unless one is in a very tight niche, in general, there are  people coming through eBay all the time, new people, people who haven't been here for a while, people who just started looking for that item, etc.  With a 30-day listing period elongating the time frame from the little short durations, I think the problem of repeated listings is a lot less apparent (unless, again, you're in a very tight niche).

I've had more than a few people purchase something from me and they say "I've been looking for this forever!"  I may have had it running for nearly 90 days (the limit of what I will let things remain on GTC) with three relists, but they just started looking so it's new to them.  Some of these items are very tight niches (sourel pants, a particular vintage Lip Service piece, a particular type of keyboard, etc.)

[chapeau-noir]

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@pburn wrote:

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@claude-collectibles wrote:

Pushed the wrong button and cut myself off before finishing my statement about the new game that I see them doing is when you end a listing early and relist it you don't get the full 30 days you get 29 apparently to Punish us.

WOW !!! just another slap on the face to all sellers.

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That's because February has only 29 days. Some months you get 30 days, some 31, and, this month, you get 29. If it were not a leap year, you'd get only 28. It all works out within a year's time.

If you want to blame someone for getting only 29 days this month, blame the Gregorians.

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LOL, or you can blame that old meddler Julius Caesar - he came up with that idea to begin with, or rather the Alexandrian astronomers did and he took the credit.  

[pburn]

So, you're saying the Gregorians stole it from the Julians?

Well, the Gregorians have better chants, so . . .

[chapeau-noir]

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@pburn wrote:
So, you're saying the Gregorians stole it from the Julians?

Well, the Gregorians have better chants, so . . .

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Pope Gregory did an update in the mid-16th century (I think), but then there was another reset of the English calendar in around 1750 when they matched it to the continental calendar - the two were 11 days apart.  So what happened is that the Brits lost 11 days. *Poof* - can you imagine if eBay sellers had been around then?