eBay

monstertoybox · ‎11-08-2019

Well, my main problem, as I keep mentioning, is that my sales are in the dumper. They are down by 60% and it is the holiday shopping season, will we be getting our sales rush this year? It is looking more and more like this won't be happening.

Does Ebay want to keep us here, or do they not care? I'm a good seller, don't they want good quality sellers to make their site a great place to shop? How many other sellers are having slow to no sales this season? I see the board full of them. Would love to hear from other sellers about their experiences. If you’re doing well, please share your secrets. If you’re doing poorly please add your voice to this discussion. It does help when you know you aren't alone.

I’m following all their suggestions and more, constantly tweaking and updating, trying to chase down what works here. It is very difficult, when things keep changing. We’re trying to stay at Ebay because we believe this is a great place to sell. We just would love for it to work properly.

I am trying to get my sales kick started by taking some of the great suggestion that a few of the posters have given for Ebay and ended some items, waited a few days and then relisted them using sell similar. I did do the promoted listings again, which I don’t like at all, but I’m afraid that this is a necessary evil after reading what others have said. I listed a bunch of Christmas ornaments and I’ve added more free shipping to more of my listings. Maybe I'll try to list some more stuff today. So hopefully these things will help, whenever the site starts working properly again, that is. Still waiting …

It is hard to stay motivated, when you try everything and nothing seems to help.

I did start selling on another site (and actually got a sale today, yay), but of course I'm new and don't have a seller reputation like I do here on Ebay. I would much rather stick with where I have all my history and with what I am familiar with. It would be great if Ebay would please stop changing things and concentrate on fixing things instead, so we can get back to selling. We just want to love you again Ebay. No hate here, just frustration, major frustration. I would much rather be packing up boxes then writing on this board, believe me.

hioctane62 · ‎11-20-2019

Sadly, eBay's idea of a "quality seller" these days is the sellers that pay them the most.

zamo-zuan · ‎11-20-2019

@hioctane62 wrote:
Sadly, eBay's idea of a "quality seller" these days is the sellers that pay them the most.

Absolutely 100% agree.

Quality sellers & quality control is one of the biggest problems of eBay the last couple years.

I mean, from all friends and associates I met outside of work, the #1 complaint they have always had with eBay is the horror stories of poor quality items or SNAD.

I can not wrap my head around why they would have updated their system to have such a decline in quality control.

It's a bad thing for sellers, as there's no way for "good sellers" to improve by doing a good job anymore. All you get for taking care of your customers is losses.

It's a bad thing for eBay and it's buyers, as those bad experiences are the worst part of eBay.

And it effectively got rid of "healthy competition". There's no way for a seller to stand out if they aren't rewarded for doing a stellar job with keeping their customers happy. Especially if they're taking losses for their customer, and receiving nothing in return.

Those sellers who do take care of customers and are a good example of "how an eBay seller should act", should be rewarded for making eBay a better place. At the moment, they'll be doing worse off than sellers who don't care; as the negative metrics for not being able to keep TRS/good feedback/etc don't hurt sellers in search anymore, and they aren't taking any additional losses for their customers. Meaning they'll still show up nicely in search and have a better margin than those doing their job properly.

They not only stopped punishing sellers for not being able to have good statistics, but they also stopped rewarding for those who do. This is a very bad combination.

Now all they recognize is SNAD's, which is foolish as the amount of SNAD you get is in no way indicative of how good a seller takes care of their customers.

nuclearomen · ‎11-20-2019

@zamo-zuan @hioctane62

I agree, just have no energy to type more on ebay's faults...I'd be here all day 😉

The great truth is there isn't one
And it only gets worse since that conclusion...
...There is something about the rigid posture of a proper, authentic blind
As if extended arms reached to pass his blindness onto others.

a-ipower · ‎11-20-2019

There're many reason to be frustrated with eBay's recent changes in the system, but slow sales aren't one. That is beyond ebay or any platform's control and many people here didn't realize that.

Just a quick reminder for new/old sellers who complain about slow ebay sales. eCommerce markplace like Amazon & ebay are an open eCommerce space that welcome 3rd party sellers from anywhere with any background. No platform will give you the guarantee to sell tons whatever you put on. (maybe on a could cho cho land)

3rd party eCommerce space only works for those who constantly evolve and grow, if you don't price right, unaware the demand of product itself, don't have attracting pictures and written content, sales season, and most importantly outclass your competition or listing copier, no one nor any platform can help you. We all know eBay is slower than Amazon, but our data still shows it on par(but declining) with Walmart & Sams.

monstertoybox · ‎11-20-2019

Ebay controls every aspect of this site, including sales, through their algorithms and AI. So it is definitely not beyond their control. We get sales when they want us to get sales.

Their current glitch bonanza has caused many sellers sales to plummet, so slow sales are definitely a reason to be frustrated.

Congrats if you haven’t been effected negatively, but many sellers (which you can read in this thread), that have been here for years, are feeling the pain of slow / no sales. Especially during the holidays, when sales are supposed to be great.

No one is asking for a guarantee, we all work very hard on our businesses (doing everything you mentioned). We pay our fees and would just like a working website to sell our stuff.

frank213 · ‎11-20-2019

No sales since 10/20/19 - 20 years on this site - why am I still here?

monstertoybox · ‎11-20-2019

@frank213 wrote:
No sales since 10/20/19 - 20 years on this site - why am I still here?

Because we love Ebay and know it can work. It's really hard to give up on something you have spent so much time nurturing. The many hours taking care of customers, listing, taking pictures, gathering merchandise, pricing, tweaking, etc, it's hard to give up when you've done all of that, especially when you know it worked in the past.

This will be our last Christmas here. It is very sad, but it's just not worth the frustration. It's just too late this year to get involved with another site, unfortunately.

zamo-zuan · ‎11-20-2019

@a-ipower wrote:
There're many reason to be frustrated with eBay's recent changes in the system, but slow sales aren't one. That is beyond ebay or any platform's control and many people here didn't realize that.

Just a quick reminder for new/old sellers who complain about slow ebay sales. eCommerce markplace like Amazon & ebay are an open eCommerce space that welcome 3rd party sellers from anywhere with any background. No platform will give you the guarantee to sell tons whatever you put on. (maybe on a could cho cho land)

3rd party eCommerce space only works for those who constantly evolve and grow, if you don't price right, unaware the demand of product itself, don't have attracting pictures and written content, sales season, and most importantly outclass your competition or listing copier, no one nor any platform can help you. We all know eBay is slower than Amazon, but our data still shows it on par(but declining) with Walmart & Sams.

I disagree, for a number of reasons.

I assume your perspective is eBay can't control how many sales they do or do not get.

Let me explain my reasoning:

1) Traditionally, the biggest advantage eBay had over other marketplaces was price. It all came down to price. EBay was the cheapest compared to the other major competitors. Nowadays, Sponsored Listings are almost a must, and even with Sponsored Listings, your sales are not what they used to be, for free. Also, sellers typically base their profit margins off of their costs. Sponsored listings bring up costs, therefore bringing up total prices on eBay.

If you check nowadays, eBay is no longer the cheapest. Even the highlighted sales on the front page are typically equivalent to what you could find on competitors. Sponsored listings, as well as Free Returns, are the primary contributors to this.

Effectively, these policies have made eBay LESS competitive against other marketplaces.

2) Much of the issue is not with the overall sales (many markets are up on eBay). But it's the sales distribution that is the problem.

Doing some research in to this, and you will find that "newer sellers" are being given more sales than they have in the past.

Likewise, you will find the "Top Seller Market Share" has plummeted from 40% to ~25%, and is still dropping in many categories.

This means the maximum level of success has been lowered, to in turn, spread the wealth to new sellers.

3) It's not just "new sellers" reaping the benefits. It's also sellers with poor metrics, non-TRS, and/or China-based sellers.

Due to other changes in eBay's system, quality control has declined. Feedback is no longer taken in to consideration in search. Search also used to heavily favor TRS, and now you will often see non-TRS sellers on top of the search results.

This means that sellers whose metrics are so poor they can't keep TRS, who have 70% feedback or less, and who constantly ship to buyers and have issues, are able to appear on top of search.

This is very different from how it worked in the past.

4) Taking good care of your customers has became a liability.

It used to be that the #1 contributor to search placement was "Sales History" and "Repeat Customers". If you had a good sales history, if you took care of your customers, and you were able to keep TRS metrics strong, you used to be given improved search placement.

Basically, you could focus on simply taking care of your customers, and happy customers = more repeat customers = better sales history, which improved your search placement, and in effect sales.

Nowdays, sales history makes very little difference in search. Your feedback doesn't matter, and TRS doesn't matter as much as it used to. And since traffic is the biggest driver of visibility, sellers who are selling "knock-offs" will get a lot of traffic and appear on top of search, regardless of how poorly they take care of their customers.

5) Sellers have much less control over their search placement than they used to. I know people constantly say things like "Price right" and so on. But that's still going with standard economics, marketing theories, and "supply and demand".

I can not stress this enough; traditional marketing principles/supply and demand no longer apply on eBay! Think about it: If they did, how would Sponsored Listings even work, since they're not the cheapest price? Meanwhile, in our testing, 20-50% of our sales per day are usually Sponsored Listing sales.

Sponsored listings, by design, are a clear indicator of how much of an effect visibility has on sales. It's *not* about prices on eBay in 2019. It's about visibility.

6) This is a hotly debated one, but any seller who sells a large bulk daily can see this in their graphs; Your stores have an "Expected" amount of sales when algorithm updates happen, and if you go below this point sales will speed up, if you go ahead of it they will slow down.

I know many people will pass this off as a conspiracy theory, but it most certainly is not.

Every day at the end of the night, we're ending at ~0% change from last month. Weekends, of course, slow down as our market is slow. But as soon as the new week comes, our sales are GREATLY ACCELERATED until we reach 0%. At which it hits a wall.

This will be consistent until the next time eBay does an update to their site. Coinciding with the date of this update, we might see some changes that move us up or down. Let's say it improves for us; we'll see improvement for a week or two, and end up 10% up from last month. Let's say that brings us to X sales over the last month. X will now be our average amount of sales until the next eBay update.

We have the market data for our category and we know the most sales come Thursdays. We can confirm this with Terapeak as well for the category.

Yet this does not show in our charts at all. It's the same, consistent pattern.

And I've networked with other large sellers. This is not exclusive to us, this is something seen across different categories.

I recommend that, before you pass this off as a conspiracy theory, network with some large sellers. It's best not to believe me, but to test and experience for yourself first hand. If possible, see if they'll share some graphs with the number values omitted. You can seriously see it in the charts.

---------

When you combine all these things, you can clearly see the problems and why things are how they are nowadays.

Being a good seller isn't rewarding anymore, and means you'll have less profit than those who don't. Feedback and seller metrics don't matter for search, the only matter for potential penalties you might receive from eBay, which will just lower your margins more but NOT reduce visibility.

The only way to get visibility at the level you had before would be to pay sponsorship $$$, and even if you do, it can be mathematically proven that you still won't have the amount of visibility you had before, for free.

And even if you happen to do well in all these areas, it doesn't matter much, because the reduced Top Seller Market Share means you can't possibly do as well as you did in the past, period.

I hope this explanation makes sense. But I just want to say in conclusion, that slow sales are certainly in eBay's control, and it's a direct result of the changes they made, and the policies sellers were forced in to.

iboughtit · ‎11-20-2019

I took an 8 month hiatus from selling. Came back and seems everything has slowed down. Sales down, prices down. Plus am getting slower or not paying at all buyers. Am doing mostly auctions, and if not sold, some become BIN. Things do seem like 2007-08 recession. A sort of indifference, with low offers. It could be the sheer volume of stuff that's online (ebay, etc), that's keeping sales low. Anyway, good luck.

Sharing your pain in Pa,

rschissler · ‎11-20-2019

@monstertoybox wrote:
Ebay controls every aspect of this site, including sales, through their algorithms and AI. So it is definitely not beyond their control. We get sales when they want us to get sales.

If you keep hanging on to that, you will never be successful.

nuclearomen · ‎11-20-2019

@zamo-zuan wrote:
@a-ipower wrote:
There're many reason to be frustrated with eBay's recent changes in the system, but slow sales aren't one. That is beyond ebay or any platform's control and many people here didn't realize that.

Just a quick reminder for new/old sellers who complain about slow ebay sales. eCommerce markplace like Amazon & ebay are an open eCommerce space that welcome 3rd party sellers from anywhere with any background. No platform will give you the guarantee to sell tons whatever you put on. (maybe on a could cho cho land)

3rd party eCommerce space only works for those who constantly evolve and grow, if you don't price right, unaware the demand of product itself, don't have attracting pictures and written content, sales season, and most importantly outclass your competition or listing copier, no one nor any platform can help you. We all know eBay is slower than Amazon, but our data still shows it on par(but declining) with Walmart & Sams.

I disagree, for a number of reasons.

I assume your perspective is eBay can't control how many sales they do or do not get.

Let me explain my reasoning:

1) Traditionally, the biggest advantage eBay had over other marketplaces was price. It all came down to price. EBay was the cheapest compared to the other major competitors. Nowadays, Sponsored Listings are almost a must, and even with Sponsored Listings, your sales are not what they used to be, for free. Also, sellers typically base their profit margins off of their costs. Sponsored listings bring up costs, therefore bringing up total prices on eBay.

If you check nowadays, eBay is no longer the cheapest. Even the highlighted sales on the front page are typically equivalent to what you could find on competitors. Sponsored listings, as well as Free Returns, are the primary contributors to this.

Effectively, these policies have made eBay LESS competitive against other marketplaces.

2) Much of the issue is not with the overall sales (many markets are up on eBay). But it's the sales distribution that is the problem.

Doing some research in to this, and you will find that "newer sellers" are being given more sales than they have in the past.

Likewise, you will find the "Top Seller Market Share" has plummeted from 40% to ~25%, and is still dropping in many categories.

This means the maximum level of success has been lowered, to in turn, spread the wealth to new sellers.

3) It's not just "new sellers" reaping the benefits. It's also sellers with poor metrics, non-TRS, and/or China-based sellers.

Due to other changes in eBay's system, quality control has declined. Feedback is no longer taken in to consideration in search. Search also used to heavily favor TRS, and now you will often see non-TRS sellers on top of the search results.

This means that sellers whose metrics are so poor they can't keep TRS, who have 70% feedback or less, and who constantly ship to buyers and have issues, are able to appear on top of search.

This is very different from how it worked in the past.

4) Taking good care of your customers has became a liability.

It used to be that the #1 contributor to search placement was "Sales History" and "Repeat Customers". If you had a good sales history, if you took care of your customers, and you were able to keep TRS metrics strong, you used to be given improved search placement.

Basically, you could focus on simply taking care of your customers, and happy customers = more repeat customers = better sales history, which improved your search placement, and in effect sales.

Nowdays, sales history makes very little difference in search. Your feedback doesn't matter, and TRS doesn't matter as much as it used to. And since traffic is the biggest driver of visibility, sellers who are selling "knock-offs" will get a lot of traffic and appear on top of search, regardless of how poorly they take care of their customers.

5) Sellers have much less control over their search placement than they used to. I know people constantly say things like "Price right" and so on. But that's still going with standard economics, marketing theories, and "supply and demand".

I can not stress this enough; traditional marketing principles/supply and demand no longer apply on eBay! Think about it: If they did, how would Sponsored Listings even work, since they're not the cheapest price? Meanwhile, in our testing, 20-50% of our sales per day are usually Sponsored Listing sales.

Sponsored listings, by design, are a clear indicator of how much of an effect visibility has on sales. It's *not* about prices on eBay in 2019. It's about visibility.

6) This is a hotly debated one, but any seller who sells a large bulk daily can see this in their graphs; Your stores have an "Expected" amount of sales when algorithm updates happen, and if you go below this point sales will speed up, if you go ahead of it they will slow down.

I know many people will pass this off as a conspiracy theory, but it most certainly is not.

Every day at the end of the night, we're ending at ~0% change from last month. Weekends, of course, slow down as our market is slow. But as soon as the new week comes, our sales are GREATLY ACCELERATED until we reach 0%. At which it hits a wall.

This will be consistent until the next time eBay does an update to their site. Coinciding with the date of this update, we might see some changes that move us up or down. Let's say it improves for us; we'll see improvement for a week or two, and end up 10% up from last month. Let's say that brings us to X sales over the last month. X will now be our average amount of sales until the next eBay update.

We have the market data for our category and we know the most sales come Thursdays. We can confirm this with Terapeak as well for the category.

Yet this does not show in our charts at all. It's the same, consistent pattern.

And I've networked with other large sellers. This is not exclusive to us, this is something seen across different categories.

I recommend that, before you pass this off as a conspiracy theory, network with some large sellers. It's best not to believe me, but to test and experience for yourself first hand. If possible, see if they'll share some graphs with the number values omitted. You can seriously see it in the charts.

---------

When you combine all these things, you can clearly see the problems and why things are how they are nowadays.

Being a good seller isn't rewarding anymore, and means you'll have less profit than those who don't. Feedback and seller metrics don't matter for search, the only matter for potential penalties you might receive from eBay, which will just lower your margins more but NOT reduce visibility.

The only way to get visibility at the level you had before would be to pay sponsorship $$$, and even if you do, it can be mathematically proven that you still won't have the amount of visibility you had before, for free.

And even if you happen to do well in all these areas, it doesn't matter much, because the reduced Top Seller Market Share means you can't possibly do as well as you did in the past, period.

I hope this explanation makes sense. But I just want to say in conclusion, that slow sales are certainly in eBay's control, and it's a direct result of the changes they made, and the policies sellers were forced in to.

...I'll add #7 for you:
on the mention of the OP to ecommerce sites like Ebay, Amazon, Walmart - Ebay is the only site that anyone can just jump onto and sell and what ever they wish. Amazon you cannot, in order to sell on Amazon in specific category that category has to be open and accepting new sellers... which they are not all open. Some categories you can't sell in cause they are closed, some you can, some you can't simply jump on and sell if it's FBA category. and some of those are also closed to new sellers. Some you can't sell unless your invited seller, which is basically longtime sellers on that platform or large companies Amazon invites. Walmart is also not available to just jump on and sell, there is an application process to sell on Walmart, you have to accepted to sell on their platform. Again - Ebay is the only platform out of the ones mention someone can just jump on and sell from day one, no checks, no application, no references, no proof of business or re-sellers license...and they can jump off any time they feel like it or rack up a ton of negative feedback and returns and claims and abuses and just sign up with another account and do it all over again with no consequences...so no Ebay is not like other eCommerce platforms in the least. Maybe the newer small ones which I don't and never will use but not the top 3 major players (Ebay, Amazon, Walmart).

The great truth is there isn't one
And it only gets worse since that conclusion...
...There is something about the rigid posture of a proper, authentic blind
As if extended arms reached to pass his blindness onto others.

flyingmvp · ‎11-20-2019

@nuclearomen wrote:
@zamo-zuan wrote:
@a-ipower wrote:
There're many reason to be frustrated with eBay's recent changes in the system, but slow sales aren't one. That is beyond ebay or any platform's control and many people here didn't realize that.

Just a quick reminder for new/old sellers who complain about slow ebay sales. eCommerce markplace like Amazon & ebay are an open eCommerce space that welcome 3rd party sellers from anywhere with any background. No platform will give you the guarantee to sell tons whatever you put on. (maybe on a could cho cho land)

3rd party eCommerce space only works for those who constantly evolve and grow, if you don't price right, unaware the demand of product itself, don't have attracting pictures and written content, sales season, and most importantly outclass your competition or listing copier, no one nor any platform can help you. We all know eBay is slower than Amazon, but our data still shows it on par(but declining) with Walmart & Sams.

I disagree, for a number of reasons.

I assume your perspective is eBay can't control how many sales they do or do not get.

Let me explain my reasoning:

1) Traditionally, the biggest advantage eBay had over other marketplaces was price. It all came down to price. EBay was the cheapest compared to the other major competitors. Nowadays, Sponsored Listings are almost a must, and even with Sponsored Listings, your sales are not what they used to be, for free. Also, sellers typically base their profit margins off of their costs. Sponsored listings bring up costs, therefore bringing up total prices on eBay.

If you check nowadays, eBay is no longer the cheapest. Even the highlighted sales on the front page are typically equivalent to what you could find on competitors. Sponsored listings, as well as Free Returns, are the primary contributors to this.

Effectively, these policies have made eBay LESS competitive against other marketplaces.

2) Much of the issue is not with the overall sales (many markets are up on eBay). But it's the sales distribution that is the problem.

Doing some research in to this, and you will find that "newer sellers" are being given more sales than they have in the past.

Likewise, you will find the "Top Seller Market Share" has plummeted from 40% to ~25%, and is still dropping in many categories.

This means the maximum level of success has been lowered, to in turn, spread the wealth to new sellers.

3) It's not just "new sellers" reaping the benefits. It's also sellers with poor metrics, non-TRS, and/or China-based sellers.

Due to other changes in eBay's system, quality control has declined. Feedback is no longer taken in to consideration in search. Search also used to heavily favor TRS, and now you will often see non-TRS sellers on top of the search results.

This means that sellers whose metrics are so poor they can't keep TRS, who have 70% feedback or less, and who constantly ship to buyers and have issues, are able to appear on top of search.

This is very different from how it worked in the past.

4) Taking good care of your customers has became a liability.

It used to be that the #1 contributor to search placement was "Sales History" and "Repeat Customers". If you had a good sales history, if you took care of your customers, and you were able to keep TRS metrics strong, you used to be given improved search placement.

Basically, you could focus on simply taking care of your customers, and happy customers = more repeat customers = better sales history, which improved your search placement, and in effect sales.

Nowdays, sales history makes very little difference in search. Your feedback doesn't matter, and TRS doesn't matter as much as it used to. And since traffic is the biggest driver of visibility, sellers who are selling "knock-offs" will get a lot of traffic and appear on top of search, regardless of how poorly they take care of their customers.

5) Sellers have much less control over their search placement than they used to. I know people constantly say things like "Price right" and so on. But that's still going with standard economics, marketing theories, and "supply and demand".

I can not stress this enough; traditional marketing principles/supply and demand no longer apply on eBay! Think about it: If they did, how would Sponsored Listings even work, since they're not the cheapest price? Meanwhile, in our testing, 20-50% of our sales per day are usually Sponsored Listing sales.

Sponsored listings, by design, are a clear indicator of how much of an effect visibility has on sales. It's *not* about prices on eBay in 2019. It's about visibility.

6) This is a hotly debated one, but any seller who sells a large bulk daily can see this in their graphs; Your stores have an "Expected" amount of sales when algorithm updates happen, and if you go below this point sales will speed up, if you go ahead of it they will slow down.

I know many people will pass this off as a conspiracy theory, but it most certainly is not.

Every day at the end of the night, we're ending at ~0% change from last month. Weekends, of course, slow down as our market is slow. But as soon as the new week comes, our sales are GREATLY ACCELERATED until we reach 0%. At which it hits a wall.

This will be consistent until the next time eBay does an update to their site. Coinciding with the date of this update, we might see some changes that move us up or down. Let's say it improves for us; we'll see improvement for a week or two, and end up 10% up from last month. Let's say that brings us to X sales over the last month. X will now be our average amount of sales until the next eBay update.

We have the market data for our category and we know the most sales come Thursdays. We can confirm this with Terapeak as well for the category.

Yet this does not show in our charts at all. It's the same, consistent pattern.

And I've networked with other large sellers. This is not exclusive to us, this is something seen across different categories.

I recommend that, before you pass this off as a conspiracy theory, network with some large sellers. It's best not to believe me, but to test and experience for yourself first hand. If possible, see if they'll share some graphs with the number values omitted. You can seriously see it in the charts.

---------

When you combine all these things, you can clearly see the problems and why things are how they are nowadays.

Being a good seller isn't rewarding anymore, and means you'll have less profit than those who don't. Feedback and seller metrics don't matter for search, the only matter for potential penalties you might receive from eBay, which will just lower your margins more but NOT reduce visibility.

The only way to get visibility at the level you had before would be to pay sponsorship $$$, and even if you do, it can be mathematically proven that you still won't have the amount of visibility you had before, for free.

And even if you happen to do well in all these areas, it doesn't matter much, because the reduced Top Seller Market Share means you can't possibly do as well as you did in the past, period.

I hope this explanation makes sense. But I just want to say in conclusion, that slow sales are certainly in eBay's control, and it's a direct result of the changes they made, and the policies sellers were forced in to.
...I'll add #7 for you:
on the mention of the OP to ecommerce sites like Ebay, Amazon, Walmart - Ebay is the only site that anyone can just jump onto and sell and what ever they wish. Amazon you cannot, in order to sell on Amazon in specific category that category has to be open and accepting new sellers... which they are not all open. Some categories you can't sell in cause they are closed, some you can, some you can't simply jump on and sell if it's FBA category. and some of those are also closed to new sellers. Some you can't sell unless your invited seller, which is basically longtime sellers on that platform or large companies Amazon invites. Walmart is also not available to just jump on and sell, there is an application process to sell on Walmart, you have to accepted to sell on their platform. Again - Ebay is the only platform out of the ones mention someone can just jump on and sell from day one, no checks, no application, no references, no proof of business or re-sellers license...and they can jump off any time they feel like it or rack up a ton of negative feedback and returns and claims and abuses and just sign up with another account and do it all over again with no consequences...so no Ebay is not like other eCommerce platforms in the least. Maybe the newer small ones which I don't and never will use but not the top 3 major players (Ebay, Amazon, Walmart).

Ok so unlike Amazon, Walmart and etc' , Ebay gave you the opportunity to start selling, no special invites or exclusive applications were required, in the past it worked beautifully and your success was directly correlated with hard work, good prices, good communication and solid costumer service, solid business ethics and other factors mentioned above by Zamo-zuan, you were given the opportunity to gain the trust and reputation which led to success.

Again, no checks, no application, no references, no proof of business or re-sellers license, so what? if you sucked as a seller you failed, but if you were good, it was worth a while and very profitable.

That's no longer the case, 1-6 in z-z comments clarify very clearly why, there are so many more factors that led to the demise of this venue.

Anyways, have another look at the newer "smaller" venues which you think you will never use,

There is a very positive and refreshing atmosphere in some of them and they keep expanding and adding new categories.

Good luck with UPS.

monstertoybox · ‎11-20-2019

@rschissler wrote:
@monstertoybox wrote:
Ebay controls every aspect of this site, including sales, through their algorithms and AI. So it is definitely not beyond their control. We get sales when they want us to get sales.

If you keep hanging on to that, you will never be successful.

What do you mean if I keep hanging on to that? Are you saying it's not true? Please see Zamo's post and explanation. Me "hanging on" to the truth is not what is preventing me from being successful, Ebay is preventing me from being successful.

monstertoybox · ‎11-20-2019

@zamo-zuan

Such a great explanation, as always!

coolections · ‎11-21-2019

@zamo-zuan

So from you last post what you would like Ebay to do is keep you always on top of best match and never allow anyone else to take that spot. You do realize if they did that all other sellers would just leave. Instead a just a few complainers of low sales, the board would be swamped with thousands of complaints of low sales. Remember your complaint only involves best match. Anyone can see EVERYTHING you have listed ANYTIME they do a search, just not on the front page of best match.