No Sales

[preich69]

I have not had any sales five days now.  I have over 1,200 items listed on Ebay and have been a seller here for over 20 years.  Normally I sell an average of 3-5 items per day.  What in the heck is going on?  I work on my store day daily and nothing is happening?  I've sent out offers and answered buyer's questions daily, and still nothing.  I'm really starting to get nervous.  Anyone else running into this issue?

[onefootflippers]

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@mydiskarte wrote:

are you running ads? i can't imagine getting any sales if i wasn't running ads and my account is frequently on restricted mode. even i get a lot of sales but i don't make much cause eBay bans me before i can even make an actual living. so difficult. only have like 8 items.

but yeah if you're running ads, tweak your settings. 

if you're not running ads, start. 

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If ads could make things sell at 3 times the price of the competition then we could all triple our prices, run ads and be rich.

[lynx_illuminations]

I have a very hard time finding things with the search algorithm. If I search a specific auto part like a mirror made by one maker I get hundreds of listings of completely different makes, different years and random items like steering wheels. I have to go to google to narrow down my search, google links to the e-Bay listing that I wasn't able to find.

[meme6253]

Thank You Very Much, I Appreciate Your Comment, It is sometimes hard to avoid the Toxicity when they are relentless!

[jbbowers12012]

Having worked in the retail field for MANY years in many different venues - I can say that there is an ebb & flow that you often just cannot pin-point.  Trying to figure things out will only make you go Cu-koo.  Just go with the flow - things will get better.  Good Luck1  (J.B.)

[toomuchstuffagain35]

Way to many sellers here in saturated areas are dumping their stuff at ridiculously low prices which cheapens the actual value of an item,

But that also makes it a good time to snap up bargains to sell later, no?

[yuzuha]

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@toomuchstuffagain35 wrote:

Way to many sellers here in saturated areas are dumping their stuff at ridiculously low prices which cheapens the actual value of an item,

But that also makes it a good time to snap up bargains to sell later, no?

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And here's the thing: if the stuff was actually selling at the higher prices, then there would be no need to lower the price to try to get it to sell. If sellers have to lower the price on something in order to make it sell, that means that either supply vastly outstrips demand OR there just isn't that much demand in the first place.

[pls-consignments]

I'm a little late to the discussion (a lively one at that), so I apologize if someone already asked this. But, I was wondering if you comp "solds" or "listed"?

Also, you might try testing your titles by copying and pasting in search, and then count how many return. My approach is... "the more returned in search, the bigger the buyer pool. If none return in your query, don't assume that it's rare. Google it to see whether it's worth the effort to list.

Hope this helps

[gametimeheat]

My July sales are usually my best month over the last 5 years.  I sell football products so generally most seasons are starting very soon and thus need equipment.  I would say my July so far this year is down over 70% to same time last year.  Year to date was okay until this month.  I'm listing about the same number of new products daily.  Just weird.  Like last weekend I sold 5 items.  All of those 5 items were one brand(UA).  UA makes up about .5% of my inventory which is dominated by Nike.  I sell full time so I always wonder what more I can do, but also what is happening behind the scenes to help us as sellers?  It's hard not to think sometimes our stores just get thrown to the back for days/weeks.  Ebay has allowed me to do something I absolutely love so not dogging it at all, just hard to figure out the algorithms sometimes.  I'll try touching up some auctions and see what happens.   Good luck to all!

[adamcartwright]

My sales are in waves lately -- 5 sales one day, then 3 days with no sales at all.

My friends are experiencing the same thing.

Just ride it out.

[sfau]

You had a sale on the 6th and then 10th - where are the five days of no sales?  It was a long holiday weekend with decent weather for most....

[isaiah53-57]

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@preich69 wrote:

I have not had any sales five days now.  I have over 1,200 items listed on Ebay and have been a seller here for over 20 years.  Normally I sell an average of 3-5 items per day.  What in the heck is going on?  I work on my store day daily and nothing is happening?  I've sent out offers and answered buyer's questions daily, and still nothing.  I'm really starting to get nervous.  Anyone else running into this issue?

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My guess is this is the sites way of telling you its time to start promoting if you aren't using promoted listings, or to increase your promotion rate if you are already promoting...

You know kinda like the "Godfather" movie quote, "we're gonna make'a you an offa you cannot refuse".

[luckythewinner]

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@preich69 wrote:

 Anyone else running into this issue?

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It has been very slow for me during the two-week heatwave here in the northeast. But I made a couple dozen "offers to interested buyers' at 10% off on Saturday and got 8 sales from them by Monday.

[natoman777]

July is typically the slowest sales time of the year...August isn't much better.  Hang in there, it should pick up. I suggest offering a coupon.  That has helped me a bunch

[chariot_badges]

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@jbbowers12012 wrote:

Having worked in the retail field for MANY years in many different venues - I can say that there is an ebb & flow that you often just cannot pin-point.  Trying to figure things out will only make you go Cu-koo.  Just go with the flow - things will get better.  Good Luck1  (J.B.)

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Exactly.

When going through Hell ... don't stop.

[chariot_badges]

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@yuzuha wrote:

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@toomuchstuffagain35 wrote:

Way to many sellers here in saturated areas are dumping their stuff at ridiculously low prices which cheapens the actual value of an item,

But that also makes it a good time to snap up bargains to sell later, no?

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And here's the thing: if the stuff was actually selling at the higher prices, then there would be no need to lower the price to try to get it to sell. If sellers have to lower the price on something in order to make it sell, that means that either supply vastly outstrips demand OR there just isn't that much demand in the first place.

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I love it when you talk like that.  It warms the economist heart in me.

And, like a good Economist, I can see many sides to the same problem.

Prices will go down for a bit, that is deflation.  A cruel step-sister to inflation.

Wifey picked up a real nice roast the other day.  It was on sale for about $5 a lb off.

Yea, big discount.  

Butcher said, "Yea, you probably wont see any more pieces of meat like this.  Nobody can afford to buy them at the price we have to sell them at, and we can't keep losing money on cuts like this."
So, the price went down .. good, right?   

If this continues, we won't find a cut like that at ANY price.

This macro-economy is just beginning to develop.  

There will be a point where the rubber band breaks, and it will happen with no apparent warning, and things will go fast once it snaps.

Since I sell durable goods, (not roasts) I am buying inventory whenever I can steal it.

When this whole thing sorts out I'll have a lot of very inexpensive inventory (even with storage costs).

I've done this before with web based businesses ... now is the perfect time.