mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
No, not a thing.
What is more likely the issue is that Federal Tax returns are due in about a week. People tend to spend less coming up on that date until their figure out the impact on their finances.
I've had many things that will sell like hotcakes for months and then suddenly drop to zero. Most times it picks up some time later, but not always. This kind of stuff for me tends to happen when the book is hot on Social Media for one reason or another, then people are out there looking for it. Then when the the Social excitement around it wears off, so do my sales.
@baantiques wrote:In my experience, ending and relisting does nothing.
Relisting is not likely the best option unless you have watchers and you want them to get notified that you relisted something.
You might want to try Sell Similar. Different function, little different outcome. But be VERY careful and watch your quantity as it will default to whatever the original listing quantity was.
@bamorris wrote:I don't really buy into the "end and relist" thing to boost sales. Some say it works, but it's an abuse of the eBay system to fake a "new listing" when in fact your listing is not new. And I really don't think it works.
Lower your prices and see if it sells. Maybe your market is saturated?
Your numbers seem pretty good for only having 5 items listed for sale. If you're selling one or two per day over a week, those are great numbers for the number of listings. I'd say your "sell through" rate is extremely high.
Things seem to slow down for Easter. And markets are cyclical. So holidays, beginning of the week, etc seem to slow things down.
I use the Bulk editor and change something in my listings using that. Quick, easy and only takes a couple minutes literally. All my listings will Re-index in the next 24-48 hours. I do usually see an increase in sales after this. Then in a few weeks I'll do it again.
Another thing that is easy is to run a sale using the Mark Down Manager. That will also cause your listing to re-index and likely to increase your sales.
Not a thing. Let's choose one of my listings at random.... 604 already sold, and just sold 3 more today.
I also do not, and have never, 'ended and relisted'. Do I make regular edits? Sure, but mostly just legitimately changing the available quantity for regular restocking.
@rosszonebricks wrote:Not a thing. Let's choose one of my listings at random.... 604 already sold, and just sold 3 more today.
I also do not, and have never, 'ended and relisted'. Do I make regular edits? Sure, but mostly just legitimately changing the available quantity for regular restocking.
The 604 would be over the life of the listing. That could be 30 days or 10 years or more.
Ending a listing, changing it and relisting it or using sell similar is also a Legitimate way to change a listing. There are multiple ways in which to update listings in the hopes that it will boost sales. It is a normal thing for sellers to do with stale listings.
