@nobody*s_perfect wrote:
Huh? I've been selling on eBay for 20 years, plus I'm single, but I've never heard of singles day.
Yeah I just heard of it today. I guess 11 November being 11/11 was chosen to be "Singles day" as a kind of anti-valentines day. Which, according to all the hype on the news, is said to now be the biggest online shopping day of the year. But I think its predominantly in China/Asia, and that North American retailers are just trying to ride that gravy train into the western hemisphere to kick off Christmas shopping a couple weeks early.
Even so, I didnt notice any signs of life coming back to Ebay. In all honesty, I'm very concerned. My sales right now are down 20% over the previous month, which were down 10% over the month before. That's a horrifying situation! Its snowballing!
Not only that, but considering that since last year at this time I have aggressively expanded the number of items I sell, the categories I sell in, and have lowered prices a solid 20% from what they were a year ago... my overall sales are LOWER and my selling fees have almost DOUBLED.
Really hate to say it but I think all the rollouts Ebay tried to jam through this year were done on top of old, weakened & fragile code and it just couldnt handle it. I am nearly convinced that Ebay cannot survive in it's current form. It will have to either go down for an extended period for a MASSIVE structural overhaul, or have a solid mirror site built in parallel and have to migrate everything over. Or it's going to fail completely and probably sell off or eliminate a lot of aspects/functions/categories, or just simply be knocked out of the #2 marketplace pedestal. Whichever you slice it, it's not good
