Have sales returned ?

[lasantino]

For several months, as reported by numerous regular posters, sales literally fell off a cliff.

I know that this issue gets reported all the time. But this past time, there were significantly more postings.

For those of you that noticed a complete halt of normal sales activity  in april, may , june ,july.

Have your sales picked up at all?  i don't see any postings lately. 

My own sales, which were significantly down  have somewhat resumed.  nothing like it was a couple years ago. but I'm not going a whole week without  a sale.    please respond with your observations

[domin-tomas]

All of a sudden I had a few sales in a day or 2 but, as expected all of a sudden dead zone.

[evry1nositswindy]

No improvement.  Still listing, sales are few and far between.

[natoman777]

For me the month of June was the slow month.  Things were pretty much ok in May, July was better and August is good so far.  Being on eBay for years I can say every summer my sales slow down compared to the rest of the year.  The economy is rough so until we hit September I won't know for sure if there is a real slowdown

[paraquip]

I am still north of the 70% down point.....sales have been sporadic at best.   I am averaging about $300/day down from the normal $1300.

What I am seeing is a day of ok sales....then a cliff the next day....then an up then a down.

Overnight I sold 6 items which is the single largest overnight quantity I have had in over a month.

Almost everything I am selling at the moment is at a loss to generate cashflow.   The timing here was pretty bad as I had a HUGE amount of inventory hit when the bottom fell out.

My sales trend is showing a changing metric that is indicating some type of a bottom coming up at around 65% down overall.

It is mind blowing that Ebay has not addressed this publicly that they screwed up and are offering some type of compensation.

As far as impressions and page views go they are still falling.....

Individual metric on items can be up as high as 130,000% (this is not a joke) or be receiving zero views.  It's all over the place

HK

[laststopgeneralstore]

Sales never stop... My sales have been steady since the beginning of the year. Way to much context is missing here like what do you sell, were you listing everyday, were your titles good, good photos, return policy, prices, were you using all of the tools that eBay provides you, promoted listings etc... Far to much information missing to warrant sales being "slow". Yes sales will slow down a little in the summer but it also depends on a plethora of other factors. I sell mens pre-owned clothing and I slowed down slightly in May & June but I was also restructuring my entire store so I blame it on that but regardless, sales have picked back up and I'm right on pace for what I want. Despite what the same 20 or so people on these boards say about slow sales, your sales never have to be slow if you are selling stuff that people want or stuff that is in demand for a good price & making sure your titles, keywords, photos, return policy etc... are optimized & making sure you are utilizing all of the tools that eBays gives us. If you're waiting on postings to say that "SALES ARE PICKING UP AGAIN, EBAY TURNED MY STORE BACK ON!" then you will always have slow sales because your spending more time worrying about what the same 20 people have to say about sales instead worrying about your own store. Good luck.

[aeparts1]

We had a very good April & May. June & July slowed, but not nearly as bad as others. Plus, I was off for a week in June, so no sales.

Past 31 days data shows sales $$ up 25%,  conversion rate up 1.6%,  quantity sold up 54%,  average item sale price $$ down 16%.

First 7 days of August 2022 equaled sales in all of August 2021.

I've been very busy with my other chores here at work, so I haven't had much time to spend working on the eBay stuff the past 70 days or so. Very few new listings.

The biggest problem affecting sales is sourcing product.  We've been out of items that sell well for weeks on end, if not longer. Some items, we don't know when they will be back in stock, it could be many months before we see them. Also, prices have increased an insane amount, sometimes 50% or more.

[johnrj1226]

Sales people  and the 5 o'clock news folks rarely say anything positive happen.  Sales people don't want to post hints as to  what is selling - you can view what they are  selling.  For the news broadcaster the say neg stuff - like who shot who sells  better than  happy dance stuff.

[gemsbygigi]

Haven't had a sale in 90 days.....

[yuzuha]

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@lasantino wrote:

um, with all due respect.   competitive market , low demand, incorrectly priced items do not all happen at once and suddenly start affecting a seller out of nowhere.

The halt in sales was dramatic and widespread .    lo demand, highly competitve market,incorrectly priced items didn't just out of nowhere start affecting sales.

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A competitive market and badly priced items can absolutely happen out of nowhere. All it takes is one or two competitors to move in and set a new bar with lower prices and then your stuff won't sell anymore when buyers can buy it from the other guy for significantly less.

[sakic92710]

Funny how the "high competitive market, low demand or incorrectly priced" excuses affected me in Mar, Apr, May & June but not July; then back again in Aug.

[zamo-zuan]

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@yuzuha wrote:

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@lasantino wrote:

um, with all due respect.   competitive market , low demand, incorrectly priced items do not all happen at once and suddenly start affecting a seller out of nowhere.

The halt in sales was dramatic and widespread .    lo demand, highly competitve market,incorrectly priced items didn't just out of nowhere start affecting sales.

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A competitive market and badly priced items can absolutely happen out of nowhere. All it takes is one or two competitors to move in and set a new bar with lower prices and then your stuff won't sell anymore when buyers can buy it from the other guy for significantly less.

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So you're presuming that the top competitors in a category:

• Aren't familiar with the other top sellers in their category
• Don't notice if a new competitor has moved in
• Don't regularly check to see which sellers are appearing on top of search
• Aren't able to notice the very few sellers that could actually compete with the lowest prices in the category
• Are pricing badly for their items and don't realize it, despite actually being a strong seller
• Aren't doing research on the demand for their items

That's a lot of mental gymnastics just to be able to blame "the competitive market".

And to be frank, is quite out of touch with reality. Because sellers are familiar about all of those things.

This is besides the fact that *somehow* these issues coincide with major eBay changes and have the site glitching all over the place. And *coincidentally* everything returns to normal once eBay irons out the issues.

But yeah... The problem is "the market" and has nothing to do with eBay... Even though eBay ADMITS to doing things that influence seller performance.

Okay then.

If you're interested in having an actual discussion, my question to you is: Why dismiss all that I've mentioned, and the evidence that has been shared, just to blame sellers for something that is in eBay's court to resolve?

[wemo_67]

Nope. 

[dentalsales4u]

My sales fell off a cliff in June, not much better in July.

My sales usually slow down in June and July, but this year was more than a slow down, my sales died!

August, it's like it's back to normal.

My traffic report is all green now instead of red lol

My listing impressions are up 122.5%

Page views are up 98.4%

Quantity sold is up 269.2%

I hope it stays this way for a while 

[yuzuha]

I would presume that the top competitors who are selling seriously as a business would be staying on top of those things, yes. I would not presume the Average Joe would be doing so.

But I know it can happen because I've had it happen to me-- I had a multi-quantity item listed for a price (which was the current market price), sold a few at that price, and then suddenly sales for that item died and it turned out it was because someone else had come in and started undercutting that price and selling the item for less.

[coolections]

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@lasantino wrote:

The halt in sales was dramatic and widespread .    lo demand, highly competitve market,incorrectly priced items didn't just out of nowhere start affecting sales.

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@lasantino  People have been saying a dramatic drop just about every month for years. I will concede that the Biden inflation did result is some of it though.