SELLING

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WHATS WRONG WITH EBAYS SELLING PLATFORM. MY STORE OF ALMOST 10 YEARS IS DEAD, 

[inhawaii]

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@chariot_badges wrote:

There's an election tomorrow that has a lot to do with it.

"I was going to buy something on ebay, but the election  is tomorrow so I decided not to."

Highly unlikely.

[carbideliquidator]

 sales just don't stop, because nobody wants to buy my stuff......that's 100% impossible....again the economy, buyers, and sales just don't turn off like a light switch....it may slowly decrease over time (if nobody wants your stuff) but it's not turning off like a light switch !

[onefootflipper1]

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@carbideliquidator wrote:

 sales just don't stop, because nobody wants to buy my stuff......that's 100% impossible....again the economy, buyers, and sales just don't turn off like a light switch....it may slowly decrease over time (if nobody wants your stuff) but it's not turning off like a light switch !

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You seem to have an extremely specialized store. If one of your competitors went through and undercut you on everything you have or increased their promotion rates then yes indeed your sales could shut off overnight.

[annadryl]

Bass is 45 years old and nothing mentioned about it's condition besides "used"? If you really think it's valuable take it to a guitar show, ebay isn't the place with only a copy/paste listing. Well, not if you're asking a nice-car price for it...

I suggest taking much better close-up pics in good lighting, add every detail possible as to condition, list at five grand and accept offers. Be realistic here, there is nothing wrong with the platform with pipe-dream listings like that not selling.

[carbideliquidator]

again 100% impossible, I've been doing this on ebay for over 20 years. I know my store, sales history, and market....machine shops, manufacturing just don't stop buying on a dime....even in 1930's depression, manufactures still had to buying tooling to produce products....what I sell is not a consumer retail product, that people can or can not live with.

[maxine*j]

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@carbideliquidator wrote:

 sales just don't stop, because nobody wants to buy my stuff......that's 100% impossible....again the economy, buyers, and sales just don't turn off like a light switch....it may slowly decrease over time (if nobody wants your stuff) but it's not turning off like a light switch !

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I don't know how long your sales have been "turned off" but I can tell you this:  We ran brick-and-mortar stores from the late 1970s to the late 1990s.  Every once in awhile -- for no reason we could ever discern -- we would have a few absolutely dead days. 

No customers.  Not even even window shoppers.  The only people on the street were other merchants standing outside their shops looking up and down the sidewalks looking for any carbon-based lifeforms.  It was as though the world had ended and no one bothered to tell us.  This was in a city with a population well in excess of a million people in 1995 (and more than double that for the whole metropolitan area). 

Twilight Zone stuff.  And anyone who has ever run a b&m has experienced the same.

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[carbideliquidator]

I've ran a brick and mortar store/warehouse.....and no, it's never dropped from $1,000's of dollars a month to $70.00.....and neither has ebay in the past.....my sales have went from Thousands per month, to last 30 days of $70.00 (in my business that's impossible)

[onefootflipper1]

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@maxine*j wrote:

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@carbideliquidator wrote:

 sales just don't stop, because nobody wants to buy my stuff......that's 100% impossible....again the economy, buyers, and sales just don't turn off like a light switch....it may slowly decrease over time (if nobody wants your stuff) but it's not turning off like a light switch !

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I don't know how long your sales have been "turned off" but I can tell you this:  We ran brick-and-mortar stores from the late 1970s to the late 1990s.  Every once in awhile -- for no reason we could ever discern -- we would have a few absolutely dead days. 

No customers.  Not even even window shoppers.  The only people on the street were other merchants standing outside their shops looking up and down the sidewalks looking for any carbon-based lifeforms.  It was as though the world had ended and no one bothered to tell us.  This was in a city with a population well in excess of a million people in 1995 (and more than double that for the whole metropolitan area). 

Twilight Zone stuff.  And anyone who has ever run a b&m has experienced the same.

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Yep, I remember there was one random day at my old employer that we didn't get a single internet order (average was 50 a day back then) and only did $20 in the store. Then the next day it went right back to normal. We had our own website, so it wasn't like ebay had anything to do with it.

[inhawaii]

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@carbideliquidator wrote:

 sales just don't stop, because nobody wants to buy my stuff......that's 100% impossible....again the economy, buyers, and sales just don't turn off like a light switch....it may slowly decrease over time (if nobody wants your stuff) but it's not turning off like a light switch !

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Yes, sales do "just stop".

No, it is not impossible.

It happens to sellers here all the time.

Have you ever worked in a store?

It cam be busy one day and dead the next.

My how sales recently just stopped.

You know why?

Because nobody wants to buy what I am selling.

If they did, my sales wouldn't have stopped.

But I wont argue with you.

Your sales must have stopped for some OTHER reason.

[carbideliquidator]

NO they don't just stop.....it's not a light switch

[yuzuha]

I work B&M retail and we can have a $12,000 day followed by a $1,000 day for no rhyme or reason, and I work for a chain department store.

[reallynicestamps]

Working in retail, many different products , stamps, woodstoves, patio furniture, I found that the best time for contract discussion appointments was 2pm weekdays, specifically Tuesday at 2pm.

The store would be absolutely dead.

On eBay I get good Sunday , Wednesday and Thursday sales, fair Tuesday and Saturday sales, no Monday  or Friday sales.

Again, consistent across three very different product lines on different selling accounts.

[farmalljr]

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@carbideliquidator wrote:

again 100% impossible, I've been doing this on ebay for over 20 years. I know my store, sales history, and market....machine shops, manufacturing just don't stop buying on a dime....even in 1930's depression, manufactures still had to buying tooling to produce products....what I sell is not a consumer retail product, that people can or can not live with.

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And as a seller on eBay you are not a supplier. McMaster Carr and Grainger are examples of that. If you are supplying small home based shops, it could very well be they are buying elsewhere or have went out of business from all that has happened in the last few years. If you offer an in demand product at a low price with good customer service, your items sell. Your formula is off. One or more of them are not working for you. 

As much as sellers want to blame eBay for everything, it's not always the case. 

[carbideliquidator]

People, you are not comparing apples to apples......comparing what sales are at Brick and Mortar stores and even here on Ebay on a daily basis to sales over 30 days is not a fair comparison.......sure sales can be good one day and bad the next....or even good one week and bad the next....but they don't just turn off completely for 30 days or more.....I've been in sales since 1978, a sales manager, and business owner.  even the worst businesses prone to fail, may it be wholesale, retail, restaurant, furniture, car, appliances or whatever, once established don't just lose all their sales one day for the next 30 days or more......they slowly bleed off where the don't become profitable and close.......name one business where you went to and sales person said "you're the first person we have had in 30 days"........it's not a light switch ! 

[chapeau-noir]

I think there's going to be a bigger tendency for these kinds of sales drop-outs online than in RL. We're all at the mercy of whatever search is being used by the marketplace we're selling on.

It hasn't happened to me here, but once on Etsy, where I had regular sales, I had a drop-out of 11 days, sales came back, then a drop-out of 14 days, then sales came back again and continued. I've never figured out what happened, only theories.