Ebay must invent something quickly. The sales are going down and down and we will crash everybody

[priorityservice]

This month I have until now 0 sales the last month only one. This is a disaster !!.

What is going to do Ebay in order to stop a collective crash and in consequence the similar destiny for the Company in general?. WITHOUT SELLERS EBAY WILL BE OUT !!

[bronxboy2]

I have no Idea what Is happening. Since I was forced Into seller hub, my total sales for the collectible autographs category for the last 3 months has only been 58 dollars. Before changes I was averaging almost 2 thousand a month. Something Is going wrong, I have reduced prices but even that's not working. Does e-bay read these posts? I have sent them Inquiries with no response

[richardwillardcollection]

I also find it strange that I can buy just fine on eBay but sales are almost nothing. I find it hard to believe that eBay is not somehow "hiding" my listings from the general public. This sounds crazy like some conspiracy theory but it is hard to believe with 170 items listed at bin with best offer, that I dont get at least an offer once in a while, I had a sale the other day, big deal. eBay might consider changing it's name if people are really avoiding the selling platform this much. Every one in the whole world, billions of people and sales and offers are none, I smell a rat.

[richardwillardcollection]

eBay must be listening, I just sold a 140 dollar item to a buyer with a score of 1, thanks eBay for getting me the sale, I don't know how they do it, just in the nick of time!

[johnrj1226]

If there are no buyers, there are no sellers.  In other words,  you  gotta' sell what the dogs are eating today, not what they ate yesterday.  I was in sales  41 years I contiually had to find ways to create new sales - couldn't rely on what worked in the past.

Your stuff  seems to be directed to a  limited market.  This time of year people  are spending their funds  on gifts for their family & friends and travel.  In other words those that buying your  stuff put buying your stuff on the back burner as they are  tapped out or  cc maxed out.

[johnrj1226]

Your  items are collectible  photos  from a specific time period, WW II, and some  items seem  to say these are  photo reproductions made from the  original photo.  It would  seem  to me this stuff has  a limited market.  Most of the  WWII vets are no longer  with us  approx  620K of 16 million  vets (or ~2%) are alive and are leaving us at the rate of 372/day.  Have no clue  as to  WWII collector  market size is but, I would think they would want real /original stuff.

You  might  want to try another  site to sell this stuff on or open your own site.

Just  my opinion.

The  key  to selling is to find out what the market  wants and find prodcuts that fit that  need adn when they  stop buying fidn something  new to sell taht satifies buyers needs.  This is the sellers job not eBays.

[dirk12955]

Regarding Oregon and collectible pics.

I'm not sure a limited market audience would explain how a seller can go from $2,000.00 per month gross sales to $58.00 so suddenly,

Without a logical explanation.

If I were selling $2,000.00 per month in October and only did $58.00 in November, I wouldn't simply assume that all my customers suddenly switched hobbies.

[laurabeardsley]

I agree that sales have plumetted for many sellers including myself. I realize that things change but not this quickly and this drastic. I just wish we could get some answers to point us in some direction that would help.

[grayirongolf]

St Nick is the ruler of time. 

[dirk12955]

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@laurabeardsley wrote:

I agree that sales have plumetted for many sellers including myself. I realize that things change but not this quickly and this drastic. I just wish we could get some answers to point us in some direction that would help.

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My sales tanked in July,    I went from Up 55% in June from 2017   to down 16% in July from 2017,  down 6% in August,   down 23% in September,

down 15% in October   down 20%  in November

I know I'm better off than some sellers.     But I was seeing steady growth with an average of 62% increase per month for the first 6 months of the year.    Then suddenly a 16% average drop per month?    

Makes no sense.    Nothing changed.    I didn't go from Above standard to below standard in June.   I didn't cut back my number of listings.      In fact,   I increased my number of listings from 400 to 720.   

The only changes apparent to me are the changes ebay has made.   

[silly-shoes]

People aren't spending as much on themselves as they are buying gifts for others. Unless your selling something that would make a good gift, then your probably going to see sales crash every year at this time.

[designforyou]

I believe that EBAY is pushing NEW items in the searches more than used collectible items.  My vintage market is super slow selling the last few months, however NEW Christmas ornaments and some used have been selling steadily.  Also some NEW toys have sold this month.  Could just be the season, however if you watch EBAYS commercials this seaon it's all about "THE NEW THING WITH FAST FREE SHIPPING".

Antiques, vintage, used collectibles don't seem to get into the searches, and in front of the eyeballs of the buyers.  Searches are not returning everything, as they once did.  Will watch to see if this turns around onc the holiday season is over.

[iart]

Of course ebay is 'hiding' your items. It's not a theory. But it isn't personal either.

Other sellers often call me out for trying to explain this. But what you call 'hiding' ebay calls 'Best Match'. Different way of looking at the same thing. If your item shows up in search on page 12, that's pretty much the same as hiding it.

The real question isn't IF they're hiding your items, it's WHY. Are you offering free shipping? Adequate returns? Paying your ebay bill on time? Treating your customers right? Are you offering bribes through promoted listings?

There's probably another couple dozen metrics. And, btw, our sales aren't all that great either. Worst holiday season ever.

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@richardwillardcollection wrote:
I also find it strange that I can buy just fine on eBay but sales are almost nothing. I find it hard to believe that eBay is not somehow "hiding" my listings from the general public. This sounds crazy like some conspiracy theory but...

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[theteamsetguy]

I have noticed that eBay tend to put items that recently sold near the top of best match searches. This would make sense since eBay gets a cut of everything that sells on their platform ands things that recently are more likely to sell. I do searches on my own items all of the time to monitor my competitors and make changes accordingly. 

[usmediamass]

@iart,

I understand what you are saying about playing the game ebay wants or they will not show your items to anyone.

I have found errors in the way ebay does best match though.  Earlier this year I added free returns to hundreds of items and they did not show up in the free returns search.  Items that I listed from sell similar from those listings did not show up either.  Those listings were comtanimated someway and ebay could not explain why.  ebay did tell me repeatedly that they were not working on it and did not know when it would be fixed.  In the mean time I was forced to spend thousands of dollars to relist hundreds of items, the new listings showed up in the searches, and my traffic increased.