Yes, it is not by accident. Once again I am watching 30+ items roll off tonight with 4 views each (everyone of them my own views). Other store is doing the same. Items rolling off unsold with no views other than my own.
It's crystal clear to me that I am not longer relevant to eBay and they are freezing me out. I spoke at length with them on the phone numerous times. They admit my stores are compromised. They claim to not know why. Supposedly my eBay store accounts and ID's were sent to technical to see what is wrong.
That was several weeks ago. It's still the royal mess it has been. List and they sit dead in the water. I am watching auctions roll off right now with starting bids of .99-$2.00 on items they usually fight over. No bids, no views, no watchers, it is 100% on eBay as they told me my listings were good, my photos were good, my prices, all was excellent. They even have this account as a power seller, they opened me up to Alaska, Puerto Rico, etc., as soon as I hit Top Rated Plus and gee, shipments were hitting late to Alaska even though they were sent out a day earlier than my time frame. SO they yanked my Top rated. Told me I needed to sell a bunch of stuff fast to get the numbers back.
So I put a ton of items up. Nothing sold. Put them down to below wholesale and sold some items, not enough to change things around. It's like eBay knows I am trying to regain top seller with the wholesale prices, so once again my items died out, no new views. How does this benefit a buyer who would have LOVED to find the killer deals I had running? It doesn't. Screws over buyer and seller.
Such a con. The entire thing. I did auctions this last time with their free promotion as they seem to be getting more exposure right now than BIN and make some sales. Not this time, all rolling off no bids, no views, no watchers. New items. Items that used to sell well. Items that are selling well elsewhere.
It's not me, it's not you. It's eBay. And I no longer care. After fighting this losing battle for months, I am moving my main stores elsewhere where they do treat me like I am a valuable part of their business. Where I do sell my items. To people who like them and leave great feedback and buy more.
eBay is now my overflow, as of today. Tired of the constant games here, the glitches, the customer service reps who talk out of both sides of their mouths and seem to have NO CLUE what is going on with the very company they work for.
Sad thing is, I know this is what eBay wants. To move smaller sellers like me off the platform by the 10's of thousands to free up room for their big sellers and overseas sellers who bring them their main money.
Even sadder, I did everything here eBay asked of me and more. It just wasn't good enough for this site to keep me alive. Each month I tell myself it has to get better. It doesn't. It isn't summer either as I am selling fine elsewhere. It's EBAY. I cannot figure out how to get seen and sell and they have zero intention of ever telling me if that is even possible. Why? I am nothing to them. Just one of a million ants they want out of their new house.
Don't spray me with bug spray eBay, enough damage has already been done to my bank account, my peace of mind and my security. A little part of my soul has been taken as I chased this out of control train to the end of the line trying to stop it and get back on again. It threw me back off.
The train has gone off the rails for so many sellers, and I see no resolution in sight. I don't think there is one for small sellers in certain arenas, it's over.
What blows my mind is they keep sending free promos to put up auctions when they no longer want them.
When they push us to resist items that didn't sell, with the lower the price by $1 attached, like they even have a clue anymore themselves.
Sending more and more freebies to the very sellers they wish would get off the platform. Why don't they starve us out with no promotions?
I wouldn't have bothered to list anything last week except they threw me a 100 free listings in each of my stores. I wasted a lot of time listing things that once again, are dead in the water with no views, no action, nothing. I should have spent that time listing elsewhere where the items sell. From today on, eBay is my last place to list. It has finally broken me down. I cried last night watching big sale Sunday be a big DUD for me.
I won't let the door hit me in the %&^% on the way out, you've done that to me over and over again eBay with your inane phone reps and constant lies, nondisclosures and lack of search engine exposure. I don't need a sore &^*^% too!
OH- AND BTW, my stores keep resetting back to ZERO views, I thought that was fixed? I can't even stay on Classic view, they switch me back to the new one, I hate it, I switch back. They ask me to tell them why I switched back to classic. I've filled that idiotic form out 20 times, and they switch me right back to their new pages in one page change.
Seriously? If you want us on these new pages, stop letting us switch back to classic when you refuse to keep us in classic? You are wasting so much of my time, it is starting to feel intentional. Maybe it is, eBay is making me paranoid, geez.
Off to list on another site that LIKES ME and LOVES my items. Sad, as I loved eBay, it was home. Guess they want me to move out. OK. I'm going. I'll stop by to use your freebies and do my laundry though.
