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?

[chapeau-noir]

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@reallynicestamps wrote:

How do your June/July 2024 sales compare with June/July 2023? 2022? 2019? (We usually skip the outlier 2020-21 years because of the pandemic surge in online buying.)

While a sudden drop is always a concern and a shock,  monthly and quarterly totals are more important.

BTW, it is also useful to compare total value as well as total sales.

Ten $10 sales make you less money than one $100 sale, when you include labour costs.

I think you guys also had a long weekend for some sort of national celebration last week?

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Heh - I was up in Canada for Canada Day!

July 4 here, at least up where I am, seemed like most people had gone to the mountains and beaches, with summer finally arriving and all. The rest were busy blowing themselves up with firecrackers and bottle rockets.

Now it's so hot that everything is sticky, and people are cranky and red faced. It was 99 yesterday, and I was out riding my bike in the evening and it was still 92. In a week or so we'll be back in the 70s. The weather is like sales, in a way - yeah, better to take the long view.

[movieman630]

Agreed.  It's a slump.  I'm already looking forward to September.

[meme6253]

What I would like from you is to STOP mentioning on this public forum, that YOU think my prices are to high, when you only compare a tiny few, & take no part of condition or anything else into your assessment, You spend entirely to much time STALKING my store & should worry about your own, You stated in another post that you have more than 900 items that you forgot about that you need to post, Quit spending your time trying to discredit me & worry about your own!

[onefootflippers]

This is aimed at no one in particular.

There is no condition difference between undamaged brand new items. There is nothing you can do to make your brand new undamaged item better than another brand new undamaged item.  Certainly nothing you can do to make it sell for 2 to 3 times as much.

[wilsonharborsales]

There are one or two users on here who will always criticize and degrade other eBayers in the hope that it wins them favor with the platform.  You are best to ignore these types.  You know your business better than anyone.  If there are others on here who have made it a full-time job to make you feel bad about your eBay experience, I would simply block them and move on.  I have looked at your store ... it is impressive and well-presented.  Please don't allow the toxicity in.

Cheers, Josh

[sakic92710]

I had the same issue with someone.  Finally, it looks like they were banned?  I have not seen this person making any comments for several months.  🙂   I submitted a complaint.

[onefootflippers]

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@wilsonharborsales wrote:

There are one or two users on here who will always criticize and degrade other eBayers in the hope that it wins them favor with the platform.  You are best to ignore these types.  You know your business better than anyone.  If there are others on here who have made it a full-time job to make you feel bad about your eBay experience, I would simply block them and move on.  I have looked at your store ... it is impressive and well-presented.  Please don't allow the toxicity in.

Cheers, Josh

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Yep, I am a horrible person for the unpaid time I have spent looking at the stores of people who constantly start threads complaining about no sales. Then daring to provide solid business reasoning and advice as to why they aren't getting any sales, only to have the same people insult me for my efforts.

I think I need to take another break from these forums, no one wants good advice, they just want to hear someone say that ebay sucks and their listings at triple market price would sell if only the platform wasn't personally against them in some way.

Here you go this is what you want to hear.

Ebay sucks and your listings at 3 times market value would sell if only the nameless ebay platform was not against you personally.

[therogue-trader]

Calling the advice presented in this thread 'toxic' is hyperbolic.

[chapeau-noir]

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@movieman630 wrote:

Agreed.  It's a slump.  I'm already looking forward to September.

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I'm ready for cool and drizzling NOW!

[adamcartwright]

I think it really depends on what you're selling and, of course, pricing.

I run about 150-175 items for sale at any one time, priced competitively, and sell about 1.5 items per day.

Of course, I have my ebbs and flows, but that's to be expected.

I would love to have 3-5 sales per day, but that means working down my dead pile, which isn't my strong suit.

[femmefan1946]

I looked at your Sold items list- if you have never noticed it, it's on the left of your Active Listings and scroll down.

I see the drought is now over.

But, I also see that you are slightly overestimating your "normal" number of sales.

That list tells you what you sold and when.

And it looks like you normally sell one or two items a day, occasionally more, and often have one or two days with no sales.

Do you go to the post office every day? I know when Monday rolls around I feel really busy because I take my whole weekend's worth of sales in at the same time.

Then Tuesday is a letdown every week.

[simply-the-best-for-you]

You're not alone, I haven't had a sale since Monday!  I'm writing this on Sunday night :-(, so basically a full week.  Normally I average 2 sales/day at least.  Summer always has a week or 2 like this, but what's concerning is that my offers that can be sent have not dropped off the face of the earth.  Just the actual sales 😠    

[chapeau-noir]

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@adamcartwright wrote:

I think it really depends on what you're selling and, of course, pricing.

I run about 150-175 items for sale at any one time, priced competitively, and sell about 1.5 items per day.

Of course, I have my ebbs and flows, but that's to be expected.

I would love to have 3-5 sales per day, but that means working down my dead pile, which isn't my strong suit.

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Agree. I'm one of these little 150-200 item sellers that does OK at an average of a sale a day and am still chugging along, but keep having to put my store on time away due to home renovations (that was a month) and now being out of town - family business this time. It really interrupts things and I have to gain traction again each time. I sell elsewhere, too, but also a very small operation.

I'm working my dead pile right now, though! A bunch of listings eBay dropped and a bunch of summer items I had pulled at the end of last season. The dead pile is easy as I have almost no back stock so not a lot of choice - I'd probably be giving it the side eye if I had other stuff to list, even though IMHO it's great stuff.

I've been severely pruning what I sell, too - some clothing genre are no longer worth carrying and so out they go. Very small sellers cannot afford to have a lot of dead listings clogging things up as they have a bigger impact on a smaller footprint.

[inhawaii]

If your items are not selling, that means nobody wants to buy them. It's that simple.

Hopefully this post gains me some brownie points with ebay.

[mydiskarte]

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.