@petalpinkboutique_jw wrote:Hello. I have not been selling on eBay very long. I was selling pretty regularly (small time seller) and would have lots of activity. For the past month I’ve been noticing that my listings are not being viewed and very low activity. I’m not able to identify a reason why. My pricing is good. Descriptions and pics good. Not sure what happened. Any thoughts?
If you are using GTC (Good Till Cancelled) fixed price listings, check how long they have been running and/or how long since the last sale from that listing. As listings age, they slowly sink in the Search results. Sink enough and you fall off the first page. Fall off the first page and it's hard to be seen and hard to make a sale.
Use good titles, keyword heavy. Provide good pictures. Have good written descriptions. Include as many Item Specifics are you can, and avoid the "n/a" or "does not apply" filling of Item Specifics that don't apply. And keep an eye on age - when you get to 90 days or there-abouts, sales get harder. Having new listings can help - that's why people will recommend to list consistently, daily. But even that has a limited effect as a listing gets older. eBay wants 'fresh'. Buyers want 'fresh'. So end your old listings and relist them as new listings (I think that's called Sell Similar on the eBay site - I use a 3rd party desktop app and haven't posted from the eBay page in well over 2 decades). Re-posting as a new listing severs the connection between the old listing (and it's days and days and days of no sales/no views) and the newly re-posted listing. This is desirable because new listings get a wee bump for a few days... sometimes just enough to get them in front of the right buyer.
At my job, I manage some 5000 SKUs on eBay. Not everything is listed all the time. And there are still a few that were listing years ago and just haven't been 'recycled' yet. SixBit helps me do this, but this is not my only responsibility, so I don't make as much daily/weekly progress as I would like. But I continue this practice because I consistently see up to 20% of the listings 'recycled' make sales within a week of their re-posting.
And I'm good with that -- it's much much faster to recycle than to create new, so just an hour a day can make decent progress. And for whatever reason, I also see sales from listings I won't get to recycle for a long while (I work from oldest to newest) -- they haven't changed or been updated in a long time (by eBay standards) but yet they make a sale. Sometimes I can see the connection to other listing(s) that were recycled recently, other times I haven't got a clue.
Take a long and see if maybe a bit of 'refreshing' of those oldest listings might not help. It's also a good time to review your price point ... average selling price may have gone up or down, or overall sales may have slowed, or stopped. Maybe it's just time to donate and move on.
-Bob.
@earthdreamer wrote:Edit timed out…
Meant to add:
I don’t think it’s so much as eBay giving the new seller a boost, but rather more to do with algorithms.
In the beginning, the new seller has no long-tail items, and if they sell a couple of items right off the mark, the relative projected turnover rate of the total inventory is very high, and in turn this boosts your placements.
Not sure if I am expressing this correctly, but I know what I mean.
Yes - sellers who are making sales get a bump in Search. Listings with current sales get a bump in Search. When eBay releases new 'features', listings that use those features appear to get a bump in Search (mostly so eBay can generate amazing effect statistics -- "80% of listings using XYZ sold within a day" stuff).
-Bob.
