08-22-2018 01:31 PM
Hi all,
We have been sellers on Ebay for well over 15 years. We have a small business out of our home. We sold over $75,000 last year on Ebay and were on track to sell over $100,000 this year. Our average monthly sales are right around $6500 - $10,000 a month. That was until last month. (July 2018) Total sales - $2900. This month we are at $3100. I don't see us selling close to our average.
I was wanting to know if Ebay changed some things, are long time sellers seeing the same trend or is it just the summer slump?
Thanks
Paula
08-29-2018 04:54 PM
@nieceyskitchen wrote:Just wanted to add that our sales have been down as well. We had this store for over 6 years and sell mostly in the home and garden category. For us this has been trending for about 2 years but this past week was awful. At our peak we shipped about 30 items on Monday from weekend sales. This past Monday we shipped one. Wow, that's worse then when we first opened our store. We saw this downward trend once China really hit this platform. First it was small kitchen tools they would sell now China is offering larger and bulker items. Pricing is below what our store can ship the item for. We're looking to change our product type a bit and see if that helps. Good luck, it's really a changing market.
I've posted about this before regarding International sellers (as Ebay refers to them). They have warehouses all over the USA so it will appear that they're American sellers. I could tell they were not because I didn't recognize any of the brands they sell; they do not accept returns so they do not pay for return shipping like Ebay is asking others to do; and they do not answer any questions.
It doesn't look like they use Promoted Listings from their prices (so cheap). Yet they are near the top of the viewing lists, maybe because they have hundreds and sometimes thousand of items to sell. Who can compete with that? Seems like excellent feedback, the Top Rated Seller emblem, 30 day returns, and a seller paying for buyers to return items (for any reason) doesn't get sellers any closer to the top of the viewing lists.
No views = No sales
08-29-2018 08:33 PM
08-29-2018 09:38 PM
Yes, same thing here too (sales dropping) but on a smaller scale. I cancelled the store subscription on July 1st and sales dropped about 70% compared to previous months. I re-subscribed to a store in late July and within minutes I began receiving questions, offers and sales started rolling in the next few days. August started off okay but then it completely dropped off again last week. Time to say goodbye to the store again...
08-30-2018 07:43 AM
I am down 80%!!!! glitches that are not resolved and I do not see as many sponsored ads on facebok e.t.c.. Ive been complaining about 0 impressions in my store for months and was told it was a glitch that was fixed but I was overlooked! my point it, if I am paying for a store and for it to be seen!!! why do I get 0 views without a fix... if this is an example of things going wrong, items not being seen, no wonder business is down! traffic and inpressions are not being reported in real time as they once were! no idea where traffic is coming from to be able to plan business ads! ebay replaced a fabulous version of reporting with a useless primitive format! sad....
08-30-2018 08:05 AM
@army.90l0md9fSponsored ads only works for eBay, not anywere else. So your sponsored listing will only show (if they show at all) on eBay site, but NOT Facebook...etc
However talking about facebook, I've heard they are coming to the selling market soon, and when they do they will be a direct competition to eBay, which is good. May worth checking this out when it happens.
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08-30-2018 03:50 PM
Same here , down 70 %. 3 sales in 20 days, unbelivable .. at this point not bothering anymore with the markdown promotions. After the new promotion 15 days rule things went south for me ..exporting to my other platforms ..
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