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[ohsogifty4]

I believe now that Ebay divides up the USA into sections (maybe in half) for sellers getting sales. I have 2 ebay stores. When one does not gets sales for a day or 2, the other one does not get sales either.
Then it's like my stores get turned on suddenly, and both store will get sales at the same time.
Anyone else with 2 + stores notice this?
This is my posting ID. I am in Nevada.

[tamaralea]

I don't have 2 store, but I sit in the middle of the country.  For a few years, most of my sales came from CA and the west.  For the last year or two, I rarely sell to CA, but lost of sale from NY, VA, and FL.  

I would imagine you rarely sell to CA.  Is that true?

[deep-garnet-red]

I have two selling IDs, no stores. All my sales are random. There is no pattern.

[the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth]

I have a website. I have had 8 sales this week. Three of them were to buyers named Laura.

I see no purpose to cycling visibility just to cycle it.

[ohsogifty4]

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@tamaralea wrote:

I don't have 2 store, but I sit in the middle of the country.  For a few years, most of my sales came from CA and the west.  For the last year or two, I rarely sell to CA, but lost of sale from NY, VA, and FL.  

I would imagine you rarely sell to CA.  Is that true?

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I do sell to CA. & Utah. However,  I seem to sell more to NY, FL, NC, SC and in those regions. 

[ohsogifty4]

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@deep-garnet-red wrote:

I have two selling IDs, no stores. All my sales are random. There is no pattern.

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Do you see a pattern that both your selling ID's do not sell at the same time? then suddenly they both start selling?

[ohsogifty4]

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@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:

I have a website. I have had 8 sales this week. Three of them were to buyers named Laura.

I see no purpose to cycling visibility just to cycle it.

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Somewhere (I could not locate it) ebay has in its policy that they do not guarantee that your item or items will be shown 100% of the time. I do not know the exact wording.
I am sure someone will know where that policy is and post it. ?

[timemachine777]

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@ohsogifty4 wrote:

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@tamaralea wrote:

I don't have 2 store, but I sit in the middle of the country.  For a few years, most of my sales came from CA and the west.  For the last year or two, I rarely sell to CA, but lost of sale from NY, VA, and FL.  

I would imagine you rarely sell to CA.  Is that true?

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I do sell to CA. & Utah. However,  I seem to sell more to NY, FL, NC, SC and in those regions. 

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I'm in Maine, and all my eBay sales go to zones 7 and 8. eBay likes that beefy Shipping FVF that they get from us.

[timemachine777]

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@ohsogifty4 wrote:

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@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:

I have a website. I have had 8 sales this week. Three of them were to buyers named Laura.

I see no purpose to cycling visibility just to cycle it.

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Somewhere (I could not locate it) ebay has in its policy that they do not guarantee that your item or items will be shown 100% of the time. I do not know the exact wording.
I am sure someone will know where that policy is and post it. ?

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To drive a positive user experience, a listing may not appear in some search and browse results regardless of the sort order chosen by the buyer.

eBay drives traffic throughout the site.

User agreement, listing conditions.

[pantlandia]

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@ohsogifty4 wrote:

I believe now that Ebay divides up the USA into sections (maybe in half) for sellers getting sales. I have 2 ebay stores. When one does not gets sales for a day or 2, the other one does not get sales either.
Then it's like my stores get turned on suddenly, and both store will get sales at the same time.
Anyone else with 2 + stores notice this?
This is my posting ID. I am in Nevada.

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I have two stores and I'm on the west coast. I get sales every day on both. It's rare that I don't get a sale on one or the other. I almost always get at least 1 sale on either account. This year, I believe I've had 4 days with no sales on either.

My last 5 sales on this account: TX, FL, AZ, MI, KS.

My last 5 sales on my other account: VA, GA, KS, NJ, NC.

Just for the record, I get relatively few orders from WA or OR. But I attribute that more to population than anything else.

[southern*sweet*tea]

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@timemachine777 wrote:

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@ohsogifty4 wrote:

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@tamaralea wrote:

I don't have 2 store, but I sit in the middle of the country.  For a few years, most of my sales came from CA and the west.  For the last year or two, I rarely sell to CA, but lost of sale from NY, VA, and FL.  

I would imagine you rarely sell to CA.  Is that true?

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I do sell to CA. & Utah. However,  I seem to sell more to NY, FL, NC, SC and in those regions. 

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I'm in Maine, and all my eBay sales go to zones 7 and 8. eBay likes that beefy Shipping FVF that they get from us.

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I'm in MS and 75%+ of my sales go to the  zones 7 & 8 West Coast (CA, OR WA), or zones 5 & 6  NY, NJ, PA and NC. Very few of my listings are calculated shipping. The FVF is the same no matter where my stuff goes. Could it be that  most of those states have hefty populations?

Naaaah, that makes too much sense.

[timemachine777]

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@southern*sweet*tea wrote:

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@timemachine777 wrote:

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@ohsogifty4 wrote:

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@tamaralea wrote:

I don't have 2 store, but I sit in the middle of the country.  For a few years, most of my sales came from CA and the west.  For the last year or two, I rarely sell to CA, but lost of sale from NY, VA, and FL.  

I would imagine you rarely sell to CA.  Is that true?

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I do sell to CA. & Utah. However,  I seem to sell more to NY, FL, NC, SC and in those regions. 

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I'm in Maine, and all my eBay sales go to zones 7 and 8. eBay likes that beefy Shipping FVF that they get from us.

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I'm in MS and 75%+ of my sales go to the  zones 7 & 8 West Coast (CA, OR WA), or zones 5 & 6  NY, NJ, PA and NC. Very few of my listings are calculated shipping. The FVF is the same no matter where my stuff goes. Could it be that  most of those states have hefty populations?

Naaaah, that makes too much sense.

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My family was in the mail order business going back into the 50's and I've been shipping myself for 30+ years. eBay is the only source of transactions that I have that don't spread out to all the states. You factor in the pop. of states. I wasn't getting any sales in the state of Mass, plus weak sales in the NY area until I kept questioning eBay about it. Then last year I finally started to see more sales from zones 1 and 2. Now if I could only get sales in all the zones via eBay.

[geotouloupos]

For over a year i sell in USA and yes i can see also some kind of strange behavior in visibility.

Half of the month sales are more centralized to some areas and rest half to other areas.

Dates of selling are almost the same each month and 4-8 "dead" days are always same period.

This happens every month to the only one account i own and it seems like a repeating circle.

Another strange behavior is that i noticed that ebay trust me enough to sell to US but not over an amount of money.  It is like keeping into some limits.

This is why i am sceptical opening a store since i have quantities of items but it seems that i cannot sell 

over an amount of money monthly and i don't mean the limits every seller can see in his account front page.  

[southern*sweet*tea]

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@timemachine777 wrote:

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@southern*sweet*tea wrote:

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@timemachine777 wrote:

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@ohsogifty4 wrote:

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@tamaralea wrote:

I don't have 2 store, but I sit in the middle of the country.  For a few years, most of my sales came from CA and the west.  For the last year or two, I rarely sell to CA, but lost of sale from NY, VA, and FL.  

I would imagine you rarely sell to CA.  Is that true?

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I do sell to CA. & Utah. However,  I seem to sell more to NY, FL, NC, SC and in those regions. 

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I'm in Maine, and all my eBay sales go to zones 7 and 8. eBay likes that beefy Shipping FVF that they get from us.

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I'm in MS and 75%+ of my sales go to the  zones 7 & 8 West Coast (CA, OR WA), or zones 5 & 6  NY, NJ, PA and NC. Very few of my listings are calculated shipping. The FVF is the same no matter where my stuff goes. Could it be that  most of those states have hefty populations?

Naaaah, that makes too much sense.

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My family was in the mail order business going back into the 50's and I've been shipping myself for 30+ years. eBay is the only source of transactions that I have that don't spread out to all the states. You factor in the pop. of states. I wasn't getting any sales in the state of Mass, plus weak sales in the NY area until I kept questioning eBay about it. Then last year I finally started to see more sales from zones 1 and 2. Now if I could only get sales in all the zones via eBay.

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While my family was not in mail order, I've been selling since the early 1980s, both offline and by mail order (yes, I was one of those people who ran ads in the back of magazines lol) . The vast majority of my sales have always been from the more populated states. Since I've been here,  I can count literally on one hand the number of times I've sold to my own state, but I've sold hundreds of items to CA, NY, PA and NJ. It was the same on Amazon, it was the same on Etsy, It was the same when I had my own website. I'd like to say it was the same on Bonanza but I never sold anything there lol

[drinkwine1204]

I have been selling on here 10+ years (had another ID 13 years ago). Used to see CA sales 2 - 4 times a week, now can't remember when I had one. Heavily populated state but I sell 90% free shipping so no boost in shipping fees for the E to show my items out there. Coincidence??