eBay

leosfenders · ‎05-28-2019

This is absurd. They have to be screwing me over for some reason.

fuzzface50 · ‎05-28-2019

You are selling in a saturated category. there are over 11.2 million listings for baseball cards, I am surprised you got that many views.

Just think about it, when you search on ebay for something, how many listings do you look at before pulling the plug? I bet you don't look at all of them.

Good chance your view will go up at the auction end where quite a few sort that way(ending soonest).

femmefan1946 · ‎05-28-2019

With fewer than 50 listings, you are not paying any listing fees.

You have only a 98.6% postive FB.

I suspect you got a Defect for that failed transaction with the neg (relisted before UID or cancellation).

While your average sale provides eBay with reasonable fees, you don't make many sales.

Why should eBay promote you over someone with no negs, paying for a Store, no defects, and more sales?

Well you asked for reasons.

More likely there are over a billion listings on any given day on eBay. They can't all be top of the Search.

twnpopcards · ‎05-29-2019

@leosfenders wrote:
This is absurd. They have to be screwing me over for some reason.

Unfortunately things have changed on Ebay as their search engine is not the greatest by a long shot anymore. Also more and more buyers in our category are starting to leave Ebay as Sellers are tired of the abuses that Ebay allows and have been moving their items to other sites and many of the buyers have followed. The listings that you currently have are not exactly highend items in the least and many buyers are refusing to buy an item when you charge $4 for shipping. I understand that the cost has gone up, but many of the items you are selling are available for the same price but being shipped in a PWE so they save dramatically on shipping costs.

I currently have taken down all my listings as I rethink my strategy as the market is very tough right now unless you have the hot player (Wander Franco) or the established players. Its just the way things are right now and there is a lot of product on the market for sale at similar prices to yours that are from higher end products. Buyers are also struggling from what I have been reading in my FB groups as money is starting to get tighter and tighter for them. As that happens they will be spending less and less on cards and when they do buy they will be looking for much more bang for their buck than Topps Big League or Bowman Paper Autos (which I also have a couple of as that is all the retail product has usually).

I wish you the best but you really might want to look at what items are selling for and just how many auctions are now closing with no bids as more sellers change to them due to the GTC requirement for Fixed Listings.