Sales are Horrible.............anyone else experience this?

[memphiskansasgirl123]

Sales are Horrible.............anyone else experience this?

[kim_y_buran]

No, so far this year has been great.

[namtrag1]

eBay must have the FLU.

[hyperrush]

one sale  since start this year

[mr_lincoln]

@timemachine777  The two IDs that are stores are the ones I compare.  They sell similar things but one has a lower FB count.  That one lags behind the other and this month it is lagging a little more than the previous couple of months.  I will however say the Feb-Mar-Apr have been the slowest selling months for any of the accounts so I take some of this with a grain of salt.  Anyway, on both IDs at the end of Feb I put every FP listing up on a Promoted Listing Campaign ... which was succesful last fall when I did it.  it seems to drive more traffic and sales were good.  Anyway, the more active ID has just about eclipse the two previous Febs and we are not yet at the middle of the month.  The slower account is behind the pace by 1/2.   Weekends are when most sales occur here so I will know more come Monday ... things can turn around here very quickly.

[providence-house]

10 accounts or 1

ebay is crashing and will burn out in the next year or so

according to wallstreet journal

[lookng2015]

Is this where I mention I've had 50 sales (across all IDs) so far this month and am on track to make the same money in March as I did in Jan & Feb?

[timemachine777]

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@coolectionswrote:

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@timemachine777wrote:

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@mr_lincolnwrote:

@memphiskansasgirl123

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@memphiskansasgirl123wrote:

Sales are Horrible.............anyone else experience this?

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3 accounts here ... No, Yes, Yes 

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As you get sales on your 2 new accounts, keep track of whether or not your sales on your first account drop by roughly the amount you gained on the other two accounts. I noticed this on mine. They are all linked together by eBay. 

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I like that one. A new twist. Very funny.

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This past fall sales on my 4 accounts , before my sales completely stopped here

Nov    18  20  4 0 = 42 

Oct    13  19    1 8  = 41 
Sept  13  25   3 2 = 43 

I would show you Dec, Jan, Feb and Mar, but there's nothing to show but a few sales overall. You gotta love how eBay interferes with our business on this site.

[lakotak]

I was doing pretty well for the last 3 1/2 to 4 years, but I have only had 1 sale since the 25th of February, My vies have not changed in the last 3 days.

[coolections]

@timemachine777

Looks normal for what you sale and your prices. Nothing to see here at all but speculation.

[timemachine777]

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@coolectionswrote:

@timemachine777

Looks normal for what you sale and your prices. Nothing to see here at all but speculation.

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If that were the case, then why so many sales for Sept, Oct, and Nov? Also, I didn't really finish my point as I had to deal with something else earlier, and just posted what I had.

The point was that those monthly totals, mirrored the monthly totals I had when I was just running one account vs all four. Even though the inventory grew, the sales numbers stayed the same.

[kathieskorner]

There is risk in any business - more so when selling online.    It is one thing to take small steps to grow a business limiting risk - quite another to double inventory (your words) and hire personnel no matter how big an ebay footprint one has.    There is no gaurantee that what has been selling very well for a period of time will continue to do so - especially in a very competitive and changing ecommerce environment. 

I don't happen to believe that ebay has the technological ability to pick and choose individual sellers to throttle sales and limit velocity.   It is far more likely that as the number of ebay sellers and the ebay inventory pie grow also increasing the choices for buyers  - the slice of the pie for any one seller may not.  

I never expected my ebay business to grow above or even remain at 2000-2006 levels - competition increased and then a recession occurred.    What may have been "rare" or in demand one year often doesn't remain so. 

[rschissler]

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@jpcustomsonlinewrote:

gamble? He was a very big seller with a very big ebay foot print and his sales were doing great, which justified the investment of inventory, and staff to do the inventory. SURE, blame the seller, for ebay throttling his sales and limitting his velocity. That makes perfect sense.  He had no reason to believe that in any normal business enviroment, buying very well selling inventory, would mean that his sales will remain at almost the exact same point as before he bought the inventory.  Stay on that ebay band wagon tho.  To call selling on ebay, like going to a casino. Wow. Why even bother selling on here, if that's how you feel?

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Yet, you can't come up with any valid reason that makes any bit of sense as to why eBay would put him out of business?  You can't just say: well,  that's what eBay does, because eBay likes  to throttle big sellers into oblivion.  And then you or others to come on here and also say that eBay likes to throttle small sellers into oblivion as well.  The "spreading it around" theory doesn't work here.

[hosedaki]

I think that eBay is always doing things to the website right or wrong and I think they run into issues that may not be on purpose but they have caused major issues for some. Just My opinion but I think they have big trouble for people who use the IPad for their business. I noticed that this started right after Valentines Day and users of the IPad which I am one started with the best offer box not working and then pages not loading right or the views were not working so some issues are still not resolved and the majority of people are not on these message boards just say let’s go do something different and we lose out. Again just an opinion but wish I could back up with facts. Thank you 

[debbie3369]

Yeah I also noticed items with no views that have been out a few days. Makes no sense to me how that can be.

[jpcustomsonline]

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@rschisslerwrote:

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@jpcustomsonlinewrote:

gamble? He was a very big seller with a very big ebay foot print and his sales were doing great, which justified the investment of inventory, and staff to do the inventory. SURE, blame the seller, for ebay throttling his sales and limitting his velocity. That makes perfect sense.  He had no reason to believe that in any normal business enviroment, buying very well selling inventory, would mean that his sales will remain at almost the exact same point as before he bought the inventory.  Stay on that ebay band wagon tho.  To call selling on ebay, like going to a casino. Wow. Why even bother selling on here, if that's how you feel?

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Yet, you can't come up with any valid reason that makes any bit of sense as to why eBay would put him out of business?  You can't just say: well,  that's what eBay does, because eBay likes  to throttle big sellers into oblivion.  And then you or others to come on here and also say that eBay likes to throttle small sellers into oblivion as well.  The "spreading it around" theory doesn't work here.

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I've given you plenty of valid reasons. Not my fault that you close your ears and eyes when I say them, and pretend they don't exist. Stop talking to me.