Falling Sales on Ebay!!!

[mpcac]

My sales started to drop in August 2018 and continued thru the end of the year. So far this year my sales are off 70%. I realize that maybe the market for what I sell could be changing, but this has been a very sharp decline and I would expect a more gradual decline with the loss of interest. I was wondering if my sales on Ebay are off because I'm not participating in the  " Promote Listing " option? 

[clu3]

@johnrj1226

CT to CA was $18 with Fedex Smartpost for 3lb 10 oz, 13 x 12 x 4 package (ebay shipping calculator).

USPS priority was $19+ large flat rate box, over $22 self packaged.

I use calculated shipping on my listings, so those are the rates the buyer would see. 

[johnrj1226]

@miascloset56 

1.  I sold for 41  years in the real world  of tete-a-tete selling.  Been retired since 2007.

2.  No I am not looking to  do "big time work" to make a  few extra shekels.  That is what I did before I hung up my  spurs in late 2007.    Met with customers any time they were available - 2:30 am or 9:00+ PM.  Once met a customer ( the owner) in the waiting room of a hospital at 9:30 PM.  he was having surgery the  next  morning (nothing serious).  needed to get  the order and finance paper signed t o he could take  delivery shortly after he got out of the  hospital.   Dinner  that night was a  big mac & fries eaten by the  windshield on my way home at 55 mph+.

3.  I'm glad you are happy with eBay but I do  have my point of view as I have clearly stated.  never  said i couldn't find stuff on eBay but what I said - when you search what you are looking for  is most often "hidden" amongst other semi or non related  stuff to what I want.   FYI have bought 140  items since 2008 on the eBay website & that amount plus more on  another website  - most of which  have been within the  last three years. 

4. What I am also saying is if potential  buyers for my ebay selling stuff have to sift through  other semi or non related offerings to  find my stuff then I  can see why our  sales took a big SE curve nose dive after 2013.  See  prior to 2013 Google was the primary search engine for eBay and  sales were  very good - and most folks never  heard of Cassini.  When eBay switch over it was a a rough ride for a long while and on top of that there was a big eBay security breach  mixed in - everybody had to  switch passwords.

5.  The  greatest thing about the US is we  all have a lot of choices and we  are happy with the ones that trips our trigger. - for right now.

Ciao! & Fini!