Never worse, in my experience. It's baffling, except when you play forensic sales slump expert as if you were a police detective. Start by figuring out what the slump isn't a result of to eliminate suspects, and eventually, through differential diagnosis, you will discover what it is. This need not be time-consuming. First suspect in a murder of anyone married is their spouse. Police always default to making the spouse their top suspect -- er, perpetrator -- er, person of interest ( what is this world coming to, when a killer is a person of interest?). In our case, default answer to immediate top suspect is ebay, Motive? Ah, yes, that is not immediately apparent in this analogy. Ebay has no motive to drive down sales, which drives down the outrageous sums they and their conspirators at PayPall [sic] charge, which are enough to make a loan shark blush. But that's assuming ebay has a smart business plan. With their epic star chamber-politburo of secret rule by the commissars of the least transparent business, let alone online commerce business, that somehow manages to operate like the old Soviet Kremlin with total secrecy and attempted totalitarian rule using the oldest trick in the fascist/communist/thugocracy book -- control the flow of information, control the people, control the state, and maintain absolute power -- they are simply unaware of how bad their new user interface is for sellers and buyers alike, and haven't fixed jack squat. It sucks as much as a deal of the day flash sale vacuum cleaner, but like any groupthink necessary to maintain the fiction of the successful vanguard of the proles, they are all likely back-slapping each other with congratulatory high-fives as one look at any seller hub new feature -- outlook, or perspective, or egads, or whatever the heck they branded it with so vapidly I cant remember the name but I'll never forget that it shows anywhere from 52-68 percent of "selling fees" (ebay fees, pay enemy fees, label fees, but not your own overhead, inventory cost, time, taxes, and such, so it's likely a lot worse, like Cuba under Castro or Stalin when he was killing millions, or any country in present-day Europe). Occam's Razor: the most obvious answer is almost always the right one. Ebay is the reason, their profile of stupid business decisions and long rap sheet of pretending to protect sellers against con artist buyers grifting online to get something free, sayit never arrived, and know full well they will always be treated as the wronged party, getting a full refund plus your listing item(s) for FREE, while, you, honest seller with a 20-year history of superb customer service and a 100 percent 20,000 FB score, will have the money sucked out of your paypal account (which is a violation of federal interstate commerce law, btw, and thus a felony, but no one seems to care with $10 deals) before the ebay thugocrats even give you until the deadline they imposed to prove yourself innocent against someone with a negative feedback score whose items that never arrived are now being sold on craig's cyst or deal scam or etsy or whatever. Ebay is stooped like that. Look at how well they've told everyone about the collections function going down the memory hole forever and will never cop to deleting every kb of data on your collections and everyone else's for one simple reason: when someone is browsing collections, they're not buying. End of story. Sales suck because your;re on ebay, I'm on ebay, and we're on this forum trying to figure out why when the reason is so obvious we need to accept it and move on or log out. Good luck.
disneyshopper
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