@vintagequeennyc wrote:
Like many of us, I’ve suffered through these dreaded issues but over the past year they’ve gotten worse and worse. Since the GTC change, it has become PAINFULLY obvious.
Not only have my sales plummeted 40-50% but now when I do make sales, they literally all happen at once. Then I now go days without a sale. No offers. No new item views. Nothing. Rinse and repeat.
Yesterday, I had over $400 in sales within a 3-4 hour time period. This same pattern keeps happening. Literally 90% of all my sales now happen only on 1 or 2 days of the week in a very small window of time. Then, the other days of the week, it’s basically crickets. I don’t believe for one second that ALL these buyers suddenly jumped on eBay at the same time to buy my stuff. It’s happened too many countless times now to be any kind of ‘coincidence.’
Of course this is now the price small sellers pay on eBay. I’ve been selling for over 13 years here and am very confident in the inventory I am offering as well as my price points. Unfortunately, it seems no matter what I do, eBay has me stuck in this revolving black hole of throttling and rotation and my business is stagnant and rapidly declining.
It makes me sad how the current management has run this place into the ground.
RIP to the days when you could actually list something and buyers could actually see it and purchase. Unless you’re a China or big box seller, the road ahead here is looking like a wasteland.
I think the majority of us smaller sellers are experiences the same thing and Ebay does not care. They say it's our problem that sales are down, which is upsetting, when they are in control of every aspect of this site. There is no way we are all shown 24/7 to all states, or our sales would be better. When they can steer buyers to new sellers to give them a "honeymoon" period, then they have the ability to steer buyers away from established sellers. I get that they have to spread the sales, but when some of us have built our business and made it part of our income only to have it slowly ripped away, it's scary and very depressing.
I look at the "other site" and my same items that are being sold by others are selling for 3-4 times as much, yet on here they are dormant. No views.
There are definite patterns. I would wake up to one $20-24 sale in the morning and then nothing else all day. If I sell a big item, I know now that I won't sell anything else for at least 48 hours. If I'm lucky and I get a cluster of sales they will all come from the same state.
When you have $50K listed (over 700 items) and you don't sell anything for 2 days, and you see others selling the same item for higher prices and with less then perfect feedback, it's upsetting. Even more upsetting is that you can do absolutely nothing about it, we just have to sit here and take it.
