11-17-2017 11:29 AM - edited 11-17-2017 11:32 AM
Just wondering if any other sellers are having slower sales then usual?
This time last year, I had great sales. Heard that Ebay has so many more
vendors and sellers than we have buyers. I don't know about the promoted listings?
Haven't clue what that means? I've have more returns lately than ever before.
2 of my sellers wore my item and damaged the pristine designer shoes. I lost money
with free shipping coming and going. Couldn't relist my shoes, but the disonest
buyer got to wear them for special event and returned damaged and got full refund.
I Sold designer pair sunglasses and after 10 days the buyer emailed: oh I thought they
were different style? I provided 12 photos. She sent them back wrapped in newspaper.
OF COURSE, THEY ARRIVED DAMAGED...She got full refund! Needed to vent about buyers that abuse our merchandise. This is how I make my living. Time for real job :))) that pays better
11-18-2017 07:34 AM
11-18-2017 09:02 AM
I am down 90% from last year, only a couple of sales all year, I did nothing diff. I dont think items are being seen as I do not relist new items but relist the older ones. costs me 90 a month and I cant do it anymore. am stuck with thousands of new merchandise
11-18-2017 11:25 AM
Many like to blame the River but here is what their sellers are reporting on their discussion boards:
"Our sales are down 60%. YOY."
"In spite of having 2.5 times the SKU selection and double the inventory - my sales at this time in 2017 are less than 1/2 of the sales in 2016."
"Same. Last year about 700 products up and had $1000 day last year. This year 1350 products up and I might hit $600 a day and it's been like this for a while."
"After leaving Ebay and Et*y last year - we will be opening those accounts."
"My sales are half of what they were last year."
"Last year at this time we were so busy with sales I was going crazy. This year is slow."
"I sell fashion jewelry and it's been terrible since June."
So while you may think the river is going gangbusters - their 3rd party sellers are doing anything but. It's much easier to place blame than accept reality that people are holding on to their money. Around here craft show sales are dead - they were always packed to the hilt. The malls should be bustling - they've hired extra staff who are just standing around - midweek - I haven't ventured out ot them on the weekend. Over 5000 B&M stores closed in 2017. There are alot of alternatives for those that still have money to spend.
11-18-2017 11:55 AM
@inkydynk wrote:THATS EBAY FOR YOU EVERTHING IS ABOUT THE BUYER
As a buyer, I disagree. Attempting to buy here is gaining in frustration level on attempting to sell here quite rapidly. I used to buy exclusively on eBay. The ridiculous changes to Search and the cat and mouse games trained me to go elsewhere for my common items and only bother looking here for things I can only get here. As a buyer, I feel that eBay cares way more about eBay and the online games they seem to love to play rather than a good buying experience.
My sellers always provided me great buying experiences in the past. The more eBay jumps in and gets involved, the more frustrating and unsatisfactory it becomes shopping here.
They should fix the site glitches, go back to a straight keyword search, and STOP INTERFERING with the commerce taking place between trading partners. Leave "field guidance" to Kim Jong Un and stop trying to jump in the middle of things you haven't the first clue about.
11-18-2017 12:11 PM
@tunicaslot wrote:Many like to blame the River but here is what their sellers are reporting on their discussion boards:
"Our sales are down 60%. YOY."
"In spite of having 2.5 times the SKU selection and double the inventory - my sales at this time in 2017 are less than 1/2 of the sales in 2016."
"Same. Last year about 700 products up and had $1000 day last year. This year 1350 products up and I might hit $600 a day and it's been like this for a while."
"After leaving Ebay and Et*y last year - we will be opening those accounts."
"My sales are half of what they were last year."
"Last year at this time we were so busy with sales I was going crazy. This year is slow."
"I sell fashion jewelry and it's been terrible since June."
So while you may think the river is going gangbusters - their 3rd party sellers are doing anything but. It's much easier to place blame than accept reality that people are holding on to their money. Around here craft show sales are dead - they were always packed to the hilt. The malls should be bustling - they've hired extra staff who are just standing around - midweek - I haven't ventured out ot them on the weekend. Over 5000 B&M stores closed in 2017. There are alot of alternatives for those that still have money to spend.
I agree with this, but MY point had strictly to do with site function and intuitiveness alone. eBay is too arrogantly incompetent to see that all their supposed "bells and whistles" are just added layers and clicks while "industry standard" is going in the exact opposite direction. They are in their ivory tower immune to the "noise" of what's actually going on.
eBay's like a weather forecaster who never bothers to look out the window to see what the weather is REALLY doing.
11-18-2017 12:29 PM
11-18-2017 12:31 PM
Worst month in 6-1/2 years -- barely 1 sale a day, and I just barely paid my monthly fees yesterday.
In 2012 (a year after I had first started selling on eBay), I was averaging $1000.00 a month; and, by February 2014, I was close to $1500.00 a month, at which point eBay urged me to open an Anchor Store. While that seemed to be a great idea at the time, my eBay sales began tanking in the months that followed -- March 2014 I was down nearly 30%, and each month afterward was even worse. By the time my year was up as an Anchor Store, I was barely breaking even, and I went back to being a Premium Store.
But my pre-March 2014 sales have NEVER rebounded, and eBay's suicidal format changes have been of no help whatsoever, and have actually only served to be a hindrance. Overall, my sales are down between 70-80% since February 2014.
So, yeah, it would be REALLY nice for eBay to DUMP all the ROTTEN changes that they've put in place since March 2014, so that we can ALL start making some REAL money again, and stop wasting time on this losing platform. It doesn't take an Economics MBA to comprehend that if eBay SELLERS make more money, then EBAY will make more money.
11-18-2017 12:38 PM
I was responding to picker deals and his opinion that everyone is shopping Amazon. There is no question that all sites have glitches - their favorites - as a matter of fact on Amazon - sellers are extremely irrated about the algorithm which tends to place bigger sellers over small sellers so that their items aren't seen.
These boards provide a lot of information but - sellers must also educate themselves by reading the latest business articles and checking out other sites forums before making blanket statements and just repeating what others say on here when it comes to problems and lack of sales. There's a big world outside of Ebay - and it's suffering too.
11-18-2017 01:34 PM
Sales for us are non existent last 3 days, how can sales be good one day and then no sales or looks for three days, then a good day and repeat, ebay doing this? frustrating for sure.
11-18-2017 01:47 PM
Zero sales. Absolutely nothing. Not even a watcher.
We used to sell $1000 per month on here.
A-z sales are up 50%
I wonder what the problem is.
hmmm?
Maybe... it’s ebay?!
11-18-2017 02:08 PM
@gramophone-georg wrote:
@tunicaslot wrote:Many like to blame the River but here is what their sellers are reporting on their discussion boards:
"Our sales are down 60%. YOY."
"In spite of having 2.5 times the SKU selection and double the inventory - my sales at this time in 2017 are less than 1/2 of the sales in 2016."
"Same. Last year about 700 products up and had $1000 day last year. This year 1350 products up and I might hit $600 a day and it's been like this for a while."
"After leaving Ebay and Et*y last year - we will be opening those accounts."
"My sales are half of what they were last year."
"Last year at this time we were so busy with sales I was going crazy. This year is slow."
"I sell fashion jewelry and it's been terrible since June."
So while you may think the river is going gangbusters - their 3rd party sellers are doing anything but. It's much easier to place blame than accept reality that people are holding on to their money. Around here craft show sales are dead - they were always packed to the hilt. The malls should be bustling - they've hired extra staff who are just standing around - midweek - I haven't ventured out ot them on the weekend. Over 5000 B&M stores closed in 2017. There are alot of alternatives for those that still have money to spend.
I agree with this, but MY point had strictly to do with site function and intuitiveness alone. eBay is too arrogantly incompetent to see that all their supposed "bells and whistles" are just added layers and clicks while "industry standard" is going in the exact opposite direction. They are in their ivory tower immune to the "noise" of what's actually going on.
eBay's like a weather forecaster who never bothers to look out the window to see what the weather is REALLY doing.
i don't know what you sell.
ebay works fine as far i am concerned.
you can't blame Ebay for the ever changing market.
i don't even believe it is because people are holding on to their $.
i am convinced that if 1 has the right product, 1 will always do good on ebay.
i can only speak for my categories.
it would be like me, blaming ebay because;
the McCoy, the Fenton, the Haeger, the Hull, even most Hummels, Roseville etc...
NO longer sells.
my friend starting selling on ebay again about 1 year ago.
her first sale was a McCoy green grapes Wall Pocket.
went for well over $100.
probably 1 of the last desirable McCoy piece.
a year later they barely sell for $50 to $70.
i do average on this user name.
but all the better items i list sell as expected.
they don't always fetch high $ but they sell.
ebay works fine.
too much supply is the reason for low sales.
you can't blame ebay for that.
i also am skeptical when 1 says;
i went from 70 sales to few (just an example) in a short period of time.
there has to be more to the story.
Tuniscalot is right.
B&M stores are also closing left and right in my area.
vendors are also moving out of them left and right.
guess who the vendors blame?
the owners and the customers.
the store is badly run, they don't advertise, the customers are cheap.....
sounds familiar?
same at the fleamarket.
vendors don't know me but complain out loud they have not made their $20 entrance fee back.
my friend does very well for the bit she does on ebay.
she lists a pair of designer shoes, she gets $200.
she sold another pair (same designer) a few months ago; well over $200.
2 rare pyrex bowls; $400.
some (unknown to me) handmade adorable animals from Germany;
$20 a pop and higher. she sold well over 20 of them (and she bought hundreds from 1 person).
an old beer can; $95.
wallace silverplate ornaments; up to $300 each.
SAS shoes, 1 pair sold after the other one... $30 to $90 per pair...
and i could go on and on...
but why do i bother?
sellers don't want to hear that.
so to each his own.
what matters is that it gives me hope.
11-18-2017 04:29 PM
my sales are just awful and i dont care for the new sell item page either
11-18-2017 05:10 PM
11-18-2017 05:14 PM
My sales dropped from $3,000 per month last year to less then $400 in a quarter. I am barely making enough to pay Ebay. I closed my store and now just trying to maintain until I find something else. Does anyone have any ideas.
11-18-2017 06:22 PM
its called the new age of lazy people. nobody wants a real job anymore thats why so many people are selling on ebay moreso then ever before and why jobs like uber, doordash etc are thriving because nobody wants to have a real job anymore.. the only way ebay will ever recover is if over 60% of people that are selling on ebay quit selling .. there are far too many sellers of the same products that no one can compete anymore. that is the brutal reality . until a lot of peope give up and stop selling everyone will suffer.