@coolections wrote:
@gingincorporated wrote:
My store and another long time Ebay seller are experiencing large sales drops in the last two months. I contacted Ebay but they say all is fine.
You've sold 41 items today alone. No sales slump at all and Ebay is correct, all is fine. Many sellers would sell there child to have a 41 items sold day.
@coolections wrote:Most sellers are doing just fine. They do not come here to the boards. It's the ones who come here who seem to have problems. The OP is doing better than most but yet starts threads like this so people can pile on and blame Ebay and start unfounded throttling hype.
First comment, you can't say that. How could you say no slump if you don't know that stores average amount per day?
We used to have 100-120 per day consistently. During these issues with eBay, we were down to 40-60. Even now, things are starting to go back to normal, but we're at about 80.
About your second comment, most sellers are doing fine? Have you heard of Terapeak? It's a website that is now owned by eBay that gives research data. If you check my topic I made around a month back, I provide evidence from Terapeak. A year ago the market share of top sellers was 40%, this year market share of top sellers was 32%. This means top sellers lost nearly 25% of their share in our category! Only one seller of the top sellers is actually seeing a solid increase, and majority of the others are dropping.
If top sellers, the ones who make it their career to work on eBay, are no longer able to make it on eBay, tell me then.... WHO can?
I provided loads of evidence in the same topic, as well. In the topic, a blue even indicates that eBay CS did not treat us well either. This was after we got the run around for 3 months, with a few people at eBay RECOGNIZING there is an issue and TELLING US that they believe there is an issue. One representative regularly called me BECAUSE he believes there's an issue, as he looked over our account and could not find any reason for a 50% drop in a couple months.
At the same time, I believe I've found a clear indicator of a bug in eBay's system that is related to this huge drop, that I am going to make a post on soon.
But to be clear, it's not right that you are telling people they are "fine". Some people are having legit issues on eBay, and while most staff won't admit it, some eBay staff has admit it.
The limiting of visibility may be a bug, and not intentional, but at the end of the day, it IS there. We were affected by it, and still may be partially affected by it.
This is in ADDITION to the fact that TODAY there's a major issue going on with search. Look for the topic I made on the top of the front page right now. Items are not appearing on search and this is happening to MANY sellers.
