@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.
