eBay

briawashingto-1 · ‎10-24-2019

Just checking in. I'm down 44% over the last 30 days. And down 53% compared to the last year. Are those numbers about the same for everyone else?

Or is everyone just crushing it?

briawashingto-1 · ‎10-25-2019

Great distinction for the community by @wellingtonclassics1

Sales aside...Are your watchers, questions, and offers submitted (not sent by you) increased, decreased or about the same?

wellingtonclassics1 · ‎10-25-2019

Everything has decreased. We sell high priced stuff so we always get questions from buyers wanting more details. I have not even had a question in a week. Sometimes I think maybe our store is not working. We usually pay ebay around $1000 a month in seller fees. As of today we owe them about $50. With no sales we won't have that large seller fee bill, that is one good thing!

iart · ‎10-25-2019

We were down a lot the first half of the month. Then the last week things have picked up. Now only down 5% and 4%.

It would be nice if the numbers turned positive. As they should during the holiday buying season.

mvls1 · ‎10-25-2019

Brian, you need to sell higher priced items to increase your daily sales.

sweetdollarbills · ‎10-25-2019

This month (Today is 25th) I have sold 28 items. I normally sell between 60 to 90 items a month. Ebay has done something to the site. I am in the process of moving my items to Mercari. I have listed about 30 items over there within the last few days and have 3 sales and way more views over there then here.

vonandron · ‎10-25-2019

In steady decline. Was selling an item a day - then GTC happened and my sales dropped 25% - they're still falling. Now I'm down to about two sales a week so now I'm down about 60%. It's forcing me and other small sellers to use other venues. Due to this, I'm also buying less on eBay. It's a viscious cycle thanks to eBay's constantly changing policies and their preference for huge, Chinese junk sellers. I miss the days when eBay was a great place for small sellers and buyers. In my opinion, they're slowly killing the golden goose.

briawashingto-1 · ‎10-25-2019

You know. I’ve considered as much. I started out on eBay literally listing stuff I found on the streets of Los Angeles. It was so successful I’ve increased my store size 2 times and now pay for the service. 3 years later and now no one buys used magazines or electronics. Doubtful. Everything sales that’s one of the most interesting things about eBay.

doodledog8 · ‎10-25-2019

My sales this month are much better than they have been for the past several months… that said, I am no where near the amount of sales that I was last year and the year before. I know this sounds weird, but I have to wonder if the economy is going much better, the wages are coming up, and people are working now more than they were a few years ago, if maybe they felt that we were that ebay was a super discount store and they want to shop retail in a brick and mortar ? I'm probably way off base, but it seemed to work for me ;}

Also, I have noticed A LOT of sellers in the categories that I sell in, really selling their items cheap, maybe these things are not the quality mine are or maybe they're going for volume, what ever it is, I see sales for these cheaper items where as mine are still sitting on the shelf. I'm thinking handbags now - I think that the, for me it's hard to sell a handbag that originally cost hundreds of dollars going for $30, it really cheapens that handbag's worth. Of course I've seen this happening in all of the categories I sell in , so ……

Good Luck all, I'm trying to get ready for the Christmas holidays, one thing that would be nice if eBay did a marketing campaign in both magazines and TV like they did a year or so ago, I think that helped my sales.