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I was selling good....but now not

Hello! 

 

I am am looking for some input on my store please. I was selling everyday and it was great but there is a down turn. 

 

Ive looked at my competition and some are even away for several days yet. 

 

My listings are not showing up when I search except for further down....despite choosing to promote it at a higher rate than the average. 

 

I have ave all good reviews.

 

i can’t figure out how to fix the “no returns” ....I will accept returns. 

 

I’m just learning; help please! 

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@alichicha82,

 

  "i can’t figure out how to fix the “no returns” ....I will accept returns."

 

Hopefully you are using the Advanced listing tool. That shouldn't matter though on each listing page there is your business policies In that is the Return policy with view, and create buttons. Click on create and the will be a drop down list of choices. If you are going for  Top Rated Seller status select "30 days seller pays return shipping". Name the policy and make it your default. 

 

 "My listings are not showing up when I search except for further down....despite choosing to promote it at a higher rate than the average".

 

Because you are relatively new to selling and do not have TRS status, your listings will not show up on the first pages until they are close to ending.  The higher volume and TRS sellers get the best search visibility. I was facing that a few years ago when I listed few buy it now items. So instead of listing them as Good until Canceled or for 30 days, I listed them for 10 days so they would get on the first page more often. 

 

I notice in some of your listings you do not have the brand name as one of the first words in the title.  When I'm searching for listings that have several pages of results, my eye catches the Brand or product name am searching for, if it is the first word people see it sooner when scanning.  I also see one brand name you sell being spelled in partial caps. Either start with a capitol letter and use lower case for the rest, or use all caps.

 

There are many sellers who have complained about a prolonged slow down on sales recently. Whether ebay has made some behind the scenes changes, are throttling again, or they've driven away buyers by over promoting the chinese sellers is anybodies guess.

 

"THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FOOLPROOF, BECAUSE FOOLS ARE SO DARNED INGENIOUS!" (unknown)

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@alichicha82,

 

  "i can’t figure out how to fix the “no returns” ....I will accept returns."

 

Hopefully you are using the Advanced listing tool. That shouldn't matter though on each listing page there is your business policies In that is the Return policy with view, and create buttons. Click on create and the will be a drop down list of choices. If you are going for  Top Rated Seller status select "30 days seller pays return shipping". Name the policy and make it your default. 

 

 "My listings are not showing up when I search except for further down....despite choosing to promote it at a higher rate than the average".

 

Because you are relatively new to selling and do not have TRS status, your listings will not show up on the first pages until they are close to ending.  The higher volume and TRS sellers get the best search visibility. I was facing that a few years ago when I listed few buy it now items. So instead of listing them as Good until Canceled or for 30 days, I listed them for 10 days so they would get on the first page more often. 

 

I notice in some of your listings you do not have the brand name as one of the first words in the title.  When I'm searching for listings that have several pages of results, my eye catches the Brand or product name am searching for, if it is the first word people see it sooner when scanning.  I also see one brand name you sell being spelled in partial caps. Either start with a capitol letter and use lower case for the rest, or use all caps.

 

There are many sellers who have complained about a prolonged slow down on sales recently. Whether ebay has made some behind the scenes changes, are throttling again, or they've driven away buyers by over promoting the chinese sellers is anybodies guess.

 

"THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FOOLPROOF, BECAUSE FOOLS ARE SO DARNED INGENIOUS!" (unknown)
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Your store looks good.  Prices are pretty good too.  Sales have been kinda slow for everyone.  Best regards

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MyeBay - account - business policies - returns policy then edit it to 30 days buyer pays returns. International buyers only see one page of your listings out of 563 items. Consider sending overseas to some countries. Enrol in the global shipping program if you do overseas postage so you get postage rates for now. International buyers on the few listings they see show 'may not ship to Australia' for example. End some older listings and redo the titles. See who is in the top of the results for similar items and what title they have. Change categories on some if you can. Start a new line of products.

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There are 10's of thousands experiencing slow or no sales. TRS is now irrelevant. those who are making the most sales are shown above TRS now. Free returns and free shipping are almost irrelevant in best match now as well. If you are a small seller this is the new Ebay. 

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Awesome! Thanks so much I have been working on implementing these changes. Keeping my fingers crossed.
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I don’t know how global shipping works but I’m not sure how to profit at all if I do free shipping globally. Am I missing something? I have not problem shipping overseas; I just though it would cost too much for me.
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Wow, really? That’s terrible. I wonder how they choose “best match” anyway? Thanks for your info.
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Thanks! I wish it wasn’t slow for everyone, but at least I’m not alone.
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This has been a very disappointing 4th quarter for me so far. Since last may, sales tanked and haven't really recovered. I had a surge in sales last month, but now it is gone. I may just end up closing my store at the end of this year. 

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