Sales

[tyrberg-0]

This year has been good to me im up 4k so far in sales but had some really good products this year high dollar item. But this is usually the best time of the year and the last two months have been brutal. Anyone else having this issue? I mean this last week was good I think I sold 5 or 6 product. I only had 230 items online ( idk if that's good or bad). I guess I'm just feeling the community out. How you guys doing anyone else feeling a slow down the last month and a half when this is supposed to be the good times? Maybe I don't have the best of products. I'm trying to get to 2k items online but feeling that reselling is getting super hard lately.  Idk I was looking at the amount of sellers on ebay witch is 18million. But there buyers have tanked to 132million. I also looked all the way back from 2010 and I believe in 2016 they had 179million buyers active. That was before 2020! But at one point they had 24million sellers. So sellers have dropped of a good sizeable amount. Maybe I need to be more active and post everyday. I just feel like stuff sold faster last year. 

[janet9988]

Sellers have all kinds of different experiences. Probably depends on the items for sale.

[slippinjimmy]

I skimmed through a couple of pages of your listings, I don't see much that is especially "gift-able"? I sell completely different stuff but not really the type of items people buy for gifts very often. From mid November to Christmas is usually a slow time for me. The first few weeks after Christmas are usually quite good and then the cc bills start coming in and things decline until February/March.

[12345jamesstamps]

Those who promote the highest get the most exposure of their items on eBay.

Usually the bigger sellers can promote very high or they do some auctions which will bring some watchers who buy it now while watching their auctions.

It has been like a roller coaster of highs and lows of sold items. Just like algorithms.

The less I sell...the less eBay makes off of me.

eBay giving exposure due to massive promoting but the items being shown are probably not going to sell

while those who don't promote much and their similar items would sell if they got the same exposure.

One would think eBay wants items to be sold to make profits...buy they don't see it that way.

eBay kinda hurt itself doing this 'promoted' thing.

[tyrberg-0]

Im thinking the same thing I promote at 5 percent. Not to bad I think by the end of it all im paying 18 percent with discounts and making alittle on shipping. I refuse to go over anything more then that idk these people who promote at 11 to 14 percent are even getting any profit. Idk how many seller promote but I read it was under 1million sellers. And acually I had alot of items sell not using the promoting options I would sale about half this month witch I thought was really weird. I agree I just started selling again back in 2021 did it alittlee In 2010. But it seems like ebay might price them selves out of the market with this promoting crap going on. 

[slippinjimmy]

No amount of promotions will make things sell that have no/low demand. At this time of year especially buying habits change a lot given how many people are shopping for others rather than for themselves.

ebay might price them selves out of the market with this promoting crap going on.

The "promoting crap" is ubiquitous, not sure there is a single major Marketplace that doesn't have a similar type of program. It's nothing new really, paying for shelf space / end caps / counter displays has been common at B&M retail for decades especially in the grocery business.

[dbfolks166mt]

     By volume I am running about on track with last year with regards to eBay sales but on other venues and platforms I am well ahead of where I was last year. I only have about 2 weeks remaining before I shutdown for the rest of the calendar year and the holiday break and I don't expect any huge spike in my eBay sales. 

     I believe there are two major things impacting eBay sales at the moment one is the ever increasing cost of shipping and the other is competition with the later being the bigger of the two. One of the effects of the post pandemic era was the explosion in the number of ecommerce platforms and venues. At one point eBay accounted for about 90% of my sales by volume, That percentage is now down to around 20% by volume. 

[yuzuha]

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@slippinjimmy wrote:

ebay might price them selves out of the market with this promoting crap going on.

The "promoting crap" is ubiquitous, not sure there is a single major Marketplace that doesn't have a similar type of program. It's nothing new really, paying for shelf space / end caps / counter displays has been common at B&M retail for decades especially in the grocery business.

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Indeed. I work retail and it's not at all uncommon for brands to pay to set up a special display for their items in the store.