@vintagemet wrote:
Hello
I dont know if i am in the right place but i have a problem that is bothering me for the last two months. My sales have droped insanely, from 40-45 sales in 60 days, down to 6. I havent sold a thing in more then 20 days now. Sales down 92% comparing with the same period last year. What's going on?
Am i missing something? I know that there are slow periods but this is insane, 92% down!!!! Please somebody help me, i am desperate.
There are a lot of sales and a lot of buyers here on eBay. Our challenge is that there are two kinds of shoppers who purchase from China direct. There's those who are genuinely not intellectually aware enough to understand the impacts. Then there's those who are so obtuse and have so much audacity that they will post about China direct purchases in the same thread as a small American business owner who is screaming from a hill top that they've lost their home and their ability to feed themselves and their families as a direct result of search manipulation and funneling of USD out of the hands of Main Street Americans. I am overwhelmingly offended by those posters who have this, "I'm worried about me and not you" attitude, and the, "I only have X dollars so it makes sense I would shop there" to justify their disrespect and egocentric behavior.
Look around you, there's not a single eBay seller who isn't aware of the utter devastation going on, yet look at all of the posters (sellers, boardies and buyers alike) who have the nerve to come here saying, "I bought X product from China".
I remember when eBay first announced the invitation of Chinese manufacturers. Those of us who understood the significance were in utter panic. We tried to fight it because we understood the significance, unfortunately, we were out numbered by sellers who refused to acknowledge the impending threats to our survival which are now our reality, the majority of which are no longer still in business because they refused to heed the warnings.
I look forward to the day when our apathetic, LAZY culture finally gets it that in order to invoke change, you must do it by gathering in front of the Reflecting Pond and refusing to vacate until our demands for change is made... Unfortunately, cultural complacency is equally as dangerous to our survivability as the greedy politicians who made and refuse to revoke the laws, and don't think for one moment that they aren't cheering at the apathy, complacency and lack of voice, because they depend on it.
If asked to march in D.C., I would go in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, one voice doesn't have much of an impact without any influence.
If you knew people would be gathering in protest, would you join in the fight or would you sit passively behind your computer and post about your woes?
