@deverydayresale wrote:
Very slow week where all the buyers go hoping for better weekend
There is only one definitive, reason for the dead stop/slow down of sales: ebay changing over the entire Buy it Now landscape to good to cancelled.
Every seller you talk to who used to run short term Buy It Now listings? has the exact same story: Sales fell off a cliff since this started. From the moment it started.
Now the common story is all the same: I am getting "watchers" instead of buyers. My items are just sitting there and not moving. This isn't working for me. My sales have tanked. Etc, Etc, Etc. Read the posts, they are ALL saying the same thing.
That is very telling of a huge problem here ebay has created.
Even sellers who used good till cancelled before routinely? Are feeling the ripple effects of this too. But make no mistake? This change is the culprit, 1000%.
There's no secret, theres no surprise, theres no magical "mystery" here. ebay did this to all of us, and to itself.
I predicted immediately that this change would destroy my and many businesses. And not surprisingly? It is doing just that so far.
This change also definitely came on the heels of some other bad circumstances, absolutely. But I would say had it not been for this crazy change?
All sellers would have weathered these other rather transient, not so serious problems in the countries economy without a problem.
No matter what is going on? You would never see this kind of universal down turn of sales on a selling platform like this, it's almost impossible on a site this size.
The only thing that causes something like this?
Is a massive, completely disruptive, destructive, ludacris, sweeping change to the entire landscape of the platform.
And that is what we are all witnessing, and trying to cope with here.
I will venture to say that until this colossal blunder is corrected? Things are not going to improve.
They are only going to get worse.
The only problem is that all the sellers who are being devastated by this? Are going to probably be wiped out before ebay feels it on their bottom line, and changes things back in some way as a result.
But by then? It will most likely be too late for a lot of people.
This is a very, very serious problem which needs to be addressed immediately.
ebay can apparently afford to experiment with destroying their platform in this way. It's sellers who depend on this platform however? Will not survive this kind of mass experiment with their incomes and livelihoods. '
The proof is in the pudding people.
Stop drinking the kool aid and blaming this on everything from the way the dog farted yesterday, to the position of the moon, to the words your alpha bits spelled out this morning in your cereal.
The stars haven't aligned against us, trump didn't destroy the country with his tax reform, and trust me? Consumers are still buying things online.
The excuses I am hearing on here are exactly the excuses ebay wants all of you to be making.
Instead of understanding that "The Emperor Has No Clothes".
ebay is going to blame this on anything it can, except admit that they have torpedoed their own ship here.
Don't help them, and feed into their pride and arrogance, and unwillingness to admit they have made a terrible, huge mistake here.
The only way this will get fixed? Is if they are forced to acknowledge this. And the sooner the better for everyone.
The country did not suddenly fall into an economic depression on March 18th 2019.
Something else happened, and we all know what it was.
If you can connect the dots in coloring book with a crayon? You can easily figure this out..
If you are experiencing what everyone else is? Slow or non existent sales since the change over to Good Till Cancelled site wide?
Get on the phone with ebay, ask for a supervisor, and lodge a formal complaint. Explain why this is not working and voice all your concerns.
Once they get another hundred thousand more calls than they have already gotten?
Maybe something will be done to fix this..
That's all we can hope for.
