Sales

[laserpartshq]

Is it just me, or has EBAY sales been non-existing the past several weeks ? I'm making more with EBAY Bucks.

[wheredidiputthatremote]

---

@laserpartshq wrote:

Is it just me, or has EBAY sales been non-existing the past several weeks ? I'm making more with EBAY Bucks.

---

Agreed

[mypostingid15]

---

@laserpartshq wrote:

Is it just me, or has EBAY sales been non-existing the past several weeks ? I'm making more with EBAY Bucks.

---

Yes, it's just you, me, and many others.

[tunicaslot]

I'm actually 50% up from what I was last year - but I changed up what I sell - do free returns, mostly free shipping and 1% promotions for my items. The last few days of Dec were horrible - nary a sale and then things started hopping.

[dalo4242]

It seems to me your items probably aren't popular holiday items.

[baantiques]

I'm up over 400% from last month, but still down 30% from last year.  That's better than two months ago, when I was down 95% from the previous year.

In disgust, I downgraded my store in Sepatember and droppped from 1000 to 100 listings and took some time to rethink things.

Since the last week of November I've been feeding Ebay a steady stream of new listings, and not making anything good til canceled, so it ends after 30 days.  My idea was to keep them off until they fall off the unsold listings page then relist them with the idea that they will have fallen off Ebay's radar screen and Ebay will think of them as new listings.

That doesn't seem to be completely true as I now have 800+ listings that have fallen off the unsold page and I've been relisting those exclusively, and I don't seem to be getting the same sales boost that I do from brand new listings.  I'll have to go back to listings new items and revisit this in another 3 months.

But in all things are looking up, but I'm always mindful of the rug I'm standing on, because Ebay's hands are always on it, ready to start pulling.

[honestabe411]

This is the lowest week I’ve had in 5 years..3 blackout days this week. In the past I could go a whole year or 2 without 1 blackout day the ENTIRE TIME. 

OPT’d into 60 day returns, free returns, currently 40% off sale...and it’s completely dead. $86 for the week is pathetic...used to double or triple that a day, every day. 

[uncseniorsportsfan]

Just did my 4th quarter stats - total sales were flat with previous years with books and sports collectibles up while crafty things and other collectibles were down.  Usually November is my best month of the quarter, but this year December was even though I had no listings from Dec 15th to the evening of Dec 23rd.   I sold as much the last week of the month as I did the first two which is normal for what I sell. 

2019, howver, is not off to a strong start - no sales as yet. 

[gdiesel70]

Yep. Same here. 

If I do get a sale, it’s usually for one of the lower priced items in my store. First two weeks in December were very good. Then sales remained slow but steady for a week and declined around the 27th.

Last year I had half the amount of listings and my sales picked up Dec 25th and remained strong until mid-February. 

A few things I have noticed  is that watch counts on my older items are increasing, views are non-existent on newer listings and a two week 25% off markdown sale did not boost sales... just watchers. 

More remorse returns being opened as INAD’s (did not like, didn’t fit, it’s ugly).

More PITA questions “can you measure the diameter of polka dots on this blouse?” .. “will you take  $25  for this?”   ( $100 item with 20 watchers, is lowest price on eBay for its kind and will eventually sell at BIN price). 

More messages with ridiculous offers from high-maintenance type  customers—the kind that dole out   negatives like they’re Halloween candy to trick-o-treaters.