Is there something wrong today? No sales all day so far

[vintagemelrose2009]

Hello - Did this happen to you?  No sales today.  That is unusual for us.  We at least sell one item but today nothing.  Not sure e-bay back to pushing off sellers -- we did get feedback and maybe even e-mail but no sale.  

Not sure if that is how the sales fell but we have been selling at least 2 or 3 if not 5 or more items per day.

Would love to hear from anyone who had the same experience today.  -- no sales -- zero sales.  We have been doing ok; nothing fabulous. Just selling here and there - snow and winter gear..  Cheers.

[baldwin-motion]

post holidays people are receiving the credit card statements, do the math no more money to spend

[odditiesandantiquities1]

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@vintagemelrose2009 wrote:

Hello - Did this happen to you?  No sales today.  That is unusual for us.  We at least sell one item but today nothing.  Not sure e-bay back to pushing off sellers -- we did get feedback and maybe even e-mail but no sale.  

Not sure if that is how the sales fell but we have been selling at least 2 or 3 if not 5 or more items per day.

Would love to hear from anyone who had the same experience today.  -- no sales -- zero sales.  We have been doing ok; nothing fabulous. Just selling here and there - snow and winter gear..  Cheers.

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I have hot days then into a slowdown for a few days. Just seems to be the way, but I do think their might be more to it. I only sel BIN's and sometimes I think it depends on what part of the month the items are at.  

[raceteam]

I'm happy that you're doing so well on ebay but I'll call your post beligerant gall since I'm one of the millions of members who can't get one sale a month in this dead and godless website.

[lindyslucky]

We are small sellers, averaging 3-5 sales a week.

Since Xmas, has been dead. Few sales, very low priced.

Dont know what's going on, have tried new items, tweaking listings, etc.

The cold? Heat costs. Constant Political strife?

Something with ebay itself? Ebay's day over? 

We have lowered our expectations to... Nothing.

That way we are happy...relieved for any sale.

But have for certain lost our entusiasm.

[jason_incognito]

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@rideitout wrote:

I'm happy that you're doing so well on ebay but I'll call your post beligerant gall since I'm one of the millions of members who can't get one sale a month in this dead and godless website.

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There are things that you can control and then there are things that you cannot control. Are you doing all that you can about the stuff you can control?

I knew a woman who years and years ago did a booming business in tabletop fountains and higher end parts and pieces to build them. She did a couple hundred thousand a year for a few years and then it dropped off.  She couldn't understand it. Why wasn't she selling like the last few years. Couldn't get through to her that was she sold had been trendy, but was now dropping out of favor.

Things change, markets change. Are you changing with the market?

If I came here selling like I did 15 years ago I'd be making no money. Things change. I changed. I changed what I buy to sell and lately am buying closeout pallets but I make sure that everything is easily and cheaply shippable. I moved away from pottery and glass since it's breakable. I only recently started liquidating a few things from my personal collection, with the idea that at least I'm getting something out of them. I can't imagine buying glass for resale, listing it and making a decent enough profit to make it worthwhile.

I adapted. I guess I could have stayed the same and blamed others? Where would that have gotten me?

Even my local antique mall has changed. It used to have rules about how old the stuff needed to be and almost everything sold to the collector market. That market is all but gone now, the mall has moved on and is now in the functional market. Everything sells for use, not collecting. Prices aren't as high, but stuff actually sells. adapt or wither.

[kathieskorner]

Well, it's flu season with record cold in many parts of the country resulting in kids unexpectedly being home from school, and travel impacted.  There were fires and then mudslides in parts of California.   Credit card bills coming in from holiday purchases - any number of reasons that you might go a whole day or more without a sale. 

[ripcityresell]

Just sold 13 to one buyer a little bit ago. January has been record sales so far.

Oh, sorry. You only want to hear from people who are having zero sales. My bad...

[ripcityresell]

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@rideitout wrote:

I'm happy that you're doing so well on ebay but I'll call your post beligerant gall since I'm one of the millions of members who can't get one sale a month in this dead and godless website.

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So anyone who posts good sales is wrong to do so? You have 21 items listed. You're lucky if your stuff is seen, let alone purchased. I don't know how your prices are compared to others, as I don't know your product.

I have 1000 listings on my other account and a tad over 800 on this one. I'm small potatoes compared to my competitors (they have 10K-100K listings) but I still sell fairly well. I've had maybe 5 days in the last year with 0 sales.

[goldrushfinds]

Well sure. Your prices are so low, that you could sell a hundred items and only make a little money. Sorry to be a downer, but just have to speak the truth. Not knocking what you are doing if it meets your needs.

[jobs-7]

Who needs profit anyways when you have great "sales"?

[vintagemelrose2009]

all in good time.  I try to be generous in my thinking -- yeah -- money runs out ---- so no sale.. right. makes sense.... 

let's just talk about sales and no sales.  it would be good if we keep to the topic.

[vintagemelrose2009]

i know the holiday / post holiday spending has to come to screech after a while for middle / lower middle poor people who buy our stuff.... 

rich folks with money -- they might be 1% of  our customers -- they always wait for the owner / seller to drop the price to next to nothing to buy.  seriously.

i hope january gets better than December..... we sell ski snowboard stuff and lots of winter jackets, hoodies, etc.    let's see what happens.... 

today -- repeat of yesterday -- nothing so far... i think our store is off the internet..... or e-bay server..

[vintagemelrose2009]

we sell winter and ski / snowboard gear so sometimes we always have better January than December.

high dollar items even if pre owned and owner price them just right to make a decent profit ---- buy for $20 and sell for $80-100 - not bad.  not always..  he really does well on snow board pants and jackets.

same for winter jackets.  he can source them under $25 and sell for at least $50-60 if not more on winter jackets.  if he finds a great snowboard brand like Bogner or Burton --- then he goes to town --- he can buy for $25 and sell for $150-200.  that is rare but happens in Jan- Feb for him.  He works hard all year to gather them.  Like now he is buying lots of surf shorts which he will sell for double or triple price come summer.

Sorry your sales are down.  It depends on what you sell and when.  We had dead august and again october --- was very slow before holiday finally started in december -- but we did same as last year or less than last year.  same as november -- no big pick up.  we hope to change that Jan and Feb.  but last two days might kills us back to August 2017

[vintagemelrose2009]

Now that holidays are over e-bay admin might be back to "system improvement" == which meant screwed up sales due to screwed up search results..... 

guarantee delivery did not change our sales dollars or volume --- we only guaranteed handling time -- no delivery time.  e-bay tried to push us to accept a return on a 'no return' listing last couple of days ago.  we said no -- buyer understood --- withdrew the return she opened --- on $25 ski pants with free shipping --- 6.30 to ship -- she wanted to return ---really.  what a world.