eBay

uzumakey · ‎08-22-2019

I go for fairly long stretches (often 2 weeks at a time) selling absolutely nothing across four different selling apps, then one day someone will buy something - it's usually eBay or one another popular app. Then over the course of the next couple days, I have several other sales come in across other platforms. Rinse, repeat.

Has anyone noticed this selling online and on eBay? It's weird because they are all completely different selling platforms, and this is pretty much the only way I get sales now that eBay's slowed down so much.

mcdougle4248 · ‎08-22-2019

@uzumakey

Maybe your sales are coinciding with paydays?

luckythewinner · ‎08-22-2019

@uzumakey wrote:
I go for fairly long stretches (often 2 weeks at a time) selling absolutely nothing across four different selling apps, then one day someone will buy something - it's usually eBay or one another popular app. Then over the course of the next couple days, I have several other sales come in across other platforms. Rinse, repeat.

Has anyone noticed this selling online and on eBay? It's weird because they are all completely different selling platforms, and this is pretty much the only way I get sales now that eBay's slowed down so much.

I have no idea, but I'm sure someone will come along soon and blame eBay for manipulating sales on other websites too 🙂

kataggr-44 · ‎08-22-2019

So other venues are no different than ebay which may put to rest all the conspiracy theories here that ebay's algorithms are out to get sellers.

richard1rst · ‎08-22-2019

It is nothing more than Adam Smith's Invisible Hand waving randomly in the wind.

"Laissez-faire capitalism (AKA The Great Material Continuum) is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships." ~ Ayn Rand

pburn · ‎08-22-2019

Hence the expression, "Feast or famine."

reallynicestamps · ‎08-22-2019

It seems on eBay, and perhaps on other platforms, making a sale improves your placement in Search.

Which might lead to more sales.

the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth · ‎08-22-2019

I have been saying the same thing about sales on my website. Sometimes are gangbusters and sometimes crickets. I sold 4K in July and practically nothing the first week in August. It happens all year around. eBay has no control over my search ranking.

joesoucie22012 · ‎08-22-2019

Many companies including eBay rent/lease some or all of there servers. These servers are owned by.......The River! Who knows what the river is doing but I can tell you that my sales come in waves on 4 different sites and then nothing or very little for awhile afterwards. Servers are very expensive, some of them running into millions of dollars. About six years ago on another A bookselling site, the main server went down and the whole site was wrecked. It took months to get a new server and by that time many good sellers were gone. It took years to get it back to somewhat of what it was.

fuzzface50 · ‎08-22-2019

I mentioned about how things tend to come in streaks for me too on another thread a few days ago. I even used the term feast and famine in that thread too. You just never know.

I always thought it had to do with something else but the assortment of items I have I cannot come up with anything but it being a coincidence that things sell in groups and then you get the dry spell and you get ready to throw the towel in and get a job then it turns around and you have the next few months worth of bills paid in advanced.