@debvor
Doesn't that seem odd?????
Not really.
I worked in retail for decades. And I've been on eBay since 1998.
Sales go in waves.
When a customer needed an estimate on an installation or for an estate*, I usually tried to set up the appointment for 2pm on Tuesday, because that is in my experience the slowest time of day and the slowest day of the week, consistently over many kinds of retail.
I find at this time on eBay, my sales are Friday to Sunday. I take a pile of stuff to the mailbox on Mondays, but only one or two a day the rest of the week.
Compare like to like.
And don't look at the short term.
Look at your sales for March 2023/ March 2022/ March 2019/March 2018. (We skip the pandemic surge years because they are outliers.) How have they changed over the years?
And if you find that you get fewer sales after the date of your subscription payment, perhaps that is a good time to update inventory, or source new product, or plant tomatoes.
BTW- A Canadian seller has been experimenting with PL vs discounts. Annoyingly, he finds the PL works better, at a lower cost, than customer discounts.
https://community.ebay.ca/t5/Seller-Central/experiment-with-almost-give-away-listing-pondering-probl...
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It's really annoying, because eBay is our landlord and everyone hates giving more money to the landlord, but it seems that sellers do better using Promoted Listings, even at lower rates than eBay suggests, than by offering Viewers or Watchers much steeper discounts.
I guess, that a Viewer or Watcher has seen the item already and has not bought it, so his interest is not that great.
* I sold everything from woodstoves to postage stamps. The only similarity was that we always had terrible sales in December.
