Lack of Sales

[valuabledeals4u]

Since August 9th, my sales have decreased by 52% from the previous month. I have called ebay and told they see no reason my sales should be down. I keep up on my tracking numbers, have 100% positive feedback, list new items almost every day and delete items that are not selling. I'm at a total loss for what to do to start getting sales again. I just started July 1st and if this is normal for ebay algorithm to change my account this much, I'm not sure I can continue to sell on ebay. 

If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate any tips or advice.  It's very obvious something happened with my account on Aug. 9th, I'm just not sure what or why something changed. 

thank you. 

[little.font.lord.leroy]

It depends on what you're selling. But generally in August sales are miserable for everyone (vacations, back to school, etc)

When I had a brick and mortar selling antiques and vintage, I had a 2 for 1 sale (after clearing out the good stuff) even on stuff that was marked down 75% off, for the first two weeks of August. That paid the rent and gave me a well deserved vacation as I closed the shop for the last two weeks in Aug. "See you in September". I did basically the same thing in the last two weeks of January (the first couple of weeks there's holiday money).

So, yeah. Self employed, and I got 4 weeks vacation a year , But not really as I took that time to do spring cleaning, inventory, etc. It never ends, or I suppose it does but I don't want to think about that!

[orangehound]

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@valuabledeals4u wrote:

Since August 9th, my sales have decreased by 52% from the previous month.

If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate any tips or advice.  It's very obvious something happened with my account on Aug. 9th, I'm just not sure what or why something changed. 

thank you. 

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You are a drop-shipper ... there is strong evidence that eBay is actively attempting to eliminate drop-shipping from their platform (or at least penalize it so much that it becomes an ineffective business model on their platform).  Following this assumption, if your account gets identified as a drop-shipper, then you will be put low in search results.

The only way that drop shippers have been successful at regaining sales is to artificially elevate their listings by using promoted listings.  This will likely be a short term solution, because as more and more products go to the new interface, then only the lowest prices will be shown to buyers ...

[ebbyisme]

This is one of the dangers of drop shipping..... if it is a source millions of sellers have access to you either have to lower prices so low there is little to no profit or you have low sales.

I checked ten of your items, you were no longer lowest price on any of them (if you ever were), most had multiple sellers with a lower price.... and in comparison your prices were way too high. 

Ozark Trail 14' x 12' your price is $224+

Lowest price competitor = $153 or $70 less

number of competitors with a lower price for the exact same item 20

Now at $152 (lowering your price so as to be least expensive) with free returns is it even profitable? If someone files a SNAD and rips you off for $150 and a free tent.... how long at such low profit margins will it take you to recover that loss? Even if they are an honest customer and just want to return it because they don't like it, with free returns how long to recover the loss of shipping both ways?

Your sales will be weak if you have 20 competitors selling the exact same item for much less....

[coolections]

You've sold over 50 items just in the last two weeks. Nothing to complain about.