01-25-2019 01:25 PM
My sales have totally started to drop over the last few months. I have tried Free Shipping, low starting prices etc. and just gets worse!! I am currently at the point I can't even pay fees most of the time!! At one point I was doing $800.00 to $1200.00 a week in auction sales now lucky if I clear $100.00 a week. Any thoughts?
01-27-2019 06:39 AM
Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes autographs say otherwise. Yeh we dont have any...stinks...
Best wishes to all - DONT FORGET TO BE NICE, SET GOOD EXAMPLES
03-22-2019 11:07 AM
Same here. I used to have a steady sales, but now...
03-22-2019 11:10 AM
How do you know? Are you some kind of expert on everyone's products or are you just an eBay cheerleader?
Interesting how numerous sellers are getting less views and less sales, almost overnight, yet it's the fault of all of us unsophisticated sellers.
06-27-2019 12:51 PM
So let's have a one way chat about the "new" eBay. This message is for EVERYONE to read, buyers, sellers, and eBay people. Before we get into the chaos of the present 6/19/19 eBay, let's just review the 4 levels of the "pyramid" eBay is founded on. The Base of eBay (the MOST important part) is "stuff for sale" this brings in "usual" income, which is 10% of the sale for eBay. The next (most important in eBay working pyramid) is the Sellers, or the origins of the items up for sale. This can typically bring in extra income for eBay if the Seller has a store and pays fees or sponsors items (get to that in a second). Next important is the Buyer, who makes the sale happen, giving eBay 10% from the seller on their sold item. Then at the top of the pyramid is eBay, who digitally houses, services data, protects and insures items for buyers and sellers.
Clearly sometime over the past 7 months or so some serious changes occurred in HOW eBay functions from the perspective of the Buyer. Yes, Sellers it changed quite a bit for you as well. Rapidly many long term mega sellers started noticing huge drops in their sales. Small sellers with less than 50 items started noticing huge drops in sales. This caused much of the eBay community to panic, and start "sponsoring" their items up for sale giving eBay a larger cut. This did lead to eBay having a great first quarter but it was at the expense of the "middle of the pyramid". It was not higher sales generating cash, it was desperate sellers, the origins of the BASE of eBay's business pyramid. This boost in capital will be short lived, simply because it erodes the very BASE the company is founded on. Back to the Buyers, the main generators of the capital for eBay.
The buying "experience" has been GREATLY altered by these changes made upon the desperate sellers. Simply put "SPONSORED" items are nothing more than items constantly REPEATED in the thread of the category of items you are looking at. For most buyers, the first time they scroll past an item, aka "turn the item down" it really means they do not want that item. Constantly making it come up over and over does not necessarily make it sell, or sell faster. However, constantly making the same item come up as a buyer scrolls through the item feed makes fatigue happen. So if there "were" 500 items in the "buyers" search, in the old eBay maybe a few would repeat. Now, new eBay that same search with 500 individual items has a search scroll with 1,000 - 2,500 items, clearly with a ton of item repetition or "sponsored" items. The Buyer ends up having repetition fatigue, and does not complete looking through all of the 500 "individual" items in the search. This is WHY sales have decreased.
With decreased sales comes less MOTIVATION for Sellers to list items up for sale on eBay. The items for sale are the Base of eBay as a company. Sellers are getting hit with hurdles and increased payments to sell their items. These actions are unfortunately ERODING the Base of eBay as a functioning company. It is also leading to an increase in the size and amount of items for sale on other sites like Poshmark and a bunch more.
Personally, I USED to sell about $1,000-$2,000 per month on eBay. Before the changes. I would then spend ALL of it BUYING stuff ON eBay. So eBay "used" to get $100-$200 a month from my sales. Then eBay would get another $100-$200 a month from the sellers of the items I bought with my eBay sales money. So, that "used" to be $200-$400 a MONTH in cash sent to eBay. NOW in the chaos of eBay 6/19/19 I'm selling about $250 a month. This brings eBay's income from me down from up to $400 per month, to a measly $50 per month. So, in 2019 the new changes to eBay have cost eBay's cash flow from me to DECREASE up to 87.5% EVERY month compared to "before the change".
06-27-2019 12:53 PM
This message is for EVERYONE to read, buyers, sellers, and eBay people. Before we get into the chaos of the present 6/19/19 eBay, let's just review the 4 levels of the "pyramid" eBay is founded on. The Base of eBay (the MOST important part) is "stuff for sale" this brings in "usual" income, which is 10% of the sale for eBay. The next (most important in eBay working pyramid) is the Sellers, or the origins of the items up for sale. This can typically bring in extra income for eBay if the Seller has a store and pays fees or sponsors items (get to that in a second). Next important is the Buyer, who makes the sale happen, giving eBay 10% from the seller on their sold item. Then at the top of the pyramid is eBay, who digitally houses, services data, protects and insures items for buyers and sellers.
Clearly sometime over the past 7 months or so some serious changes occurred in HOW eBay functions from the perspective of the Buyer. Yes, Sellers it changed quite a bit for you as well. Rapidly many long term mega sellers started noticing huge drops in their sales. Small sellers with less than 50 items started noticing huge drops in sales. This caused much of the eBay community to panic, and start "sponsoring" their items up for sale giving eBay a larger cut. This did lead to eBay having a great first quarter but it was at the expense of the "middle of the pyramid". It was not higher sales generating cash, it was desperate sellers, the origins of the BASE of eBay's business pyramid. This boost in capital will be short lived, simply because it erodes the very BASE the company is founded on. Back to the Buyers, the main generators of the capital for eBay.
The buying "experience" has been GREATLY altered by these changes made upon the desperate sellers. Simply put "SPONSORED" items are nothing more than items constantly REPEATED in the thread of the category of items you are looking at. For most buyers, the first time they scroll past an item, aka "turn the item down" it really means they do not want that item. Constantly making it come up over and over does not necessarily make it sell, or sell faster. However, constantly making the same item come up as a buyer scrolls through the item feed makes fatigue happen. So if there "were" 500 items in the "buyers" search, in the old eBay maybe a few would repeat. Now, new eBay that same search with 500 individual items has a search scroll with 1,000 - 2,500 items, clearly with a ton of item repetition or "sponsored" items. The Buyer ends up having repetition fatigue, and does not complete looking through all of the 500 "individual" items in the search. This is WHY sales have decreased.
With decreased sales comes less MOTIVATION for Sellers to list items up for sale on eBay. The items for sale are the Base of eBay as a company. Sellers are getting hit with hurdles and increased payments to sell their items. These actions are unfortunately ERODING the Base of eBay as a functioning company. It is also leading to an increase in the size and amount of items for sale on other sites like Poshmark and a bunch more.
Personally, I USED to sell about $1,000-$2,000 per month on eBay. Before the changes. I would then spend ALL of it BUYING stuff ON eBay. So eBay "used" to get $100-$200 a month from my sales. Then eBay would get another $100-$200 a month from the sellers of the items I bought with my eBay sales money. So, that "used" to be $200-$400 a MONTH in cash sent to eBay. NOW in the chaos of eBay 6/19/19 I'm selling about $250 a month. This brings eBay's income from me down from up to $400 per month, to a measly $50 per month. So, in 2019 the new changes to eBay have cost eBay's cash flow from me to DECREASE up to 87.5% EVERY month compared to "before the change".
06-27-2019 12:53 PM
For EVERYONE to read, buyers, sellers, and eBay people. Before we get into the chaos of the present 6/19/19 eBay, let's just review the 4 levels of the "pyramid" eBay is founded on. The Base of eBay (the MOST important part) is "stuff for sale" this brings in "usual" income, which is 10% of the sale for eBay. The next (most important in eBay working pyramid) is the Sellers, or the origins of the items up for sale. This can typically bring in extra income for eBay if the Seller has a store and pays fees or sponsors items (get to that in a second). Next important is the Buyer, who makes the sale happen, giving eBay 10% from the seller on their sold item. Then at the top of the pyramid is eBay, who digitally houses, services data, protects and insures items for buyers and sellers.
Clearly sometime over the past 7 months or so some serious changes occurred in HOW eBay functions from the perspective of the Buyer. Yes, Sellers it changed quite a bit for you as well. Rapidly many long term mega sellers started noticing huge drops in their sales. Small sellers with less than 50 items started noticing huge drops in sales. This caused much of the eBay community to panic, and start "sponsoring" their items up for sale giving eBay a larger cut. This did lead to eBay having a great first quarter but it was at the expense of the "middle of the pyramid". It was not higher sales generating cash, it was desperate sellers, the origins of the BASE of eBay's business pyramid. This boost in capital will be short lived, simply because it erodes the very BASE the company is founded on. Back to the Buyers, the main generators of the capital for eBay.
The buying "experience" has been GREATLY altered by these changes made upon the desperate sellers. Simply put "SPONSORED" items are nothing more than items constantly REPEATED in the thread of the category of items you are looking at. For most buyers, the first time they scroll past an item, aka "turn the item down" it really means they do not want that item. Constantly making it come up over and over does not necessarily make it sell, or sell faster. However, constantly making the same item come up as a buyer scrolls through the item feed makes fatigue happen. So if there "were" 500 items in the "buyers" search, in the old eBay maybe a few would repeat. Now, new eBay that same search with 500 individual items has a search scroll with 1,000 - 2,500 items, clearly with a ton of item repetition or "sponsored" items. The Buyer ends up having repetition fatigue, and does not complete looking through all of the 500 "individual" items in the search. This is WHY sales have decreased.
With decreased sales comes less MOTIVATION for Sellers to list items up for sale on eBay. The items for sale are the Base of eBay as a company. Sellers are getting hit with hurdles and increased payments to sell their items. These actions are unfortunately ERODING the Base of eBay as a functioning company. It is also leading to an increase in the size and amount of items for sale on other sites like Poshmark and a bunch more.
Personally, I USED to sell about $1,000-$2,000 per month on eBay. Before the changes. I would then spend ALL of it BUYING stuff ON eBay. So eBay "used" to get $100-$200 a month from my sales. Then eBay would get another $100-$200 a month from the sellers of the items I bought with my eBay sales money. So, that "used" to be $200-$400 a MONTH in cash sent to eBay. NOW in the chaos of eBay 6/19/19 I'm selling about $250 a month. This brings eBay's income from me down from up to $400 per month, to a measly $50 per month. So, in 2019 the new changes to eBay have cost eBay's cash flow from me to DECREASE up to 87.5% EVERY month compared to "before the change".
06-27-2019 01:05 PM
Hi - so are you saying that by promoting the items rather than attracting more customers we are really giving the same customers more views of the same item and causing the buyer fatigue? I wondered about that. I found that in promoting an item the views were doubling or more but sales were not increasing and actually decreasing by half or more.
06-27-2019 02:20 PM
@alyjoeto wrote:My sales have totally started to drop over the last few months. I have tried Free Shipping, low starting prices etc. and just gets worse!! I am currently at the point I can't even pay fees most of the time!! At one point I was doing $800.00 to $1200.00 a week in auction sales now lucky if I clear $100.00 a week. Any thoughts?
I've started putting my inventory in lots that will fit in a MFR box and starting them at 9.99. I've sold a bunch but I think that's juiced my other listings. I am currently up over 100% from last month and 66% over last year. Still down 33% from 2017, but I'm definitely making money.
Of course, I'm expecting that to change aster Ebay figures out that I've figured out how to game their system again, and closes that particular loophole
08-03-2019 01:10 PM
I have noticed this as well. Almost have to list items for next to nothing to get any hits on my items. Slow down started about 10 months ago for me. Doesn't seem worth the effort anymore. It's like having a garage sale and people are offering you a dollar for $100 worth of stuff. I'm sitting it out for now and will check back in around Thanksgiving.
08-03-2019 01:41 PM
How many sellers here are buying from eBay even when your sales are bad? I don't buy if I don't sell
No $$ in no $$ out!
I am not sure if that impacts sales, but at one time I was buying off eBay almost as much as I sold..NO more
08-04-2019 12:24 AM
08-04-2019 07:02 AM - edited 08-04-2019 07:03 AM
08-04-2019 07:06 AM
08-04-2019 07:14 AM
I can only give advice to help you. Life is sometimes difficult and so is the sales job, but if we constantly try to make sure the good will come to us. I wish success will come to you sooner.
08-13-2019 07:14 AM
@baantiques wrote:
@alyjoeto wrote:My sales have totally started to drop over the last few months. I have tried Free Shipping, low starting prices etc. and just gets worse!! I am currently at the point I can't even pay fees most of the time!! At one point I was doing $800.00 to $1200.00 a week in auction sales now lucky if I clear $100.00 a week. Any thoughts?
I've started putting my inventory in lots that will fit in a MFR box and starting them at 9.99. I've sold a bunch but I think that's juiced my other listings. I am currently up over 100% from last month and 66% over last year. Still down 33% from 2017, but I'm definitely making money.
Of course, I'm expecting that to change aster Ebay figures out that I've figured out how to game their system again, and closes that particular loophole
Aaaaaaaaaaand just as predicted, after having my best month in two years, Ebay flatlined me. No sales in a week - I'm now down 50% from last month with no end in sight. Also. continuing my auctions, but instead of 50-60 per listing with multiple bidders and bids, they are now selling for the 9.99 opening big, with few views and one bidder.
Not sure how Ebay makes money by repeatedly shutting down success like that.