So where are the rest?

[baxterbog]

Just for the heck of it, we decided to add a bunch of listings over the past 30 days.  We went from roughly 250 listings in early November to roughly 820 listings in early December.  Now I'm no math wizard, but isn't that increase around 250%?  So why does my handy Seller Hub indicate that active listings have increased by 98.1% in the last 31 days?  Does that mean that we added 320 inactive listings?  Or does it take 15-30 days for many of them to index into the system?  

[coffeebean832]

eBay's reporting is always behind. Look at your seller newsletter e-mails where they give a snapshot of active listings and feedback - it's always on a delay. Look at e-mails saying items are in buyers carts lower the price to make the sale - half of the items I've sold already. I've come to expect that all of these eBay messages that involve numbers are going to be based on slightly older information.

[myjunqueyourtreasure]

Added to which they seem unable to calculate their way out of a wet paper bag.

What other company thinks sales figures should include shipping AND has no way to show a calendar month total anyway?

[baxterbog]

Thank you for the wonderful replies.  I do recall many an ebay contact with bad information within the contents.  I did just come up with another theory, however.  

I've been using the 'promoted listings' feature each time I create a new listing.  Been adding 20-30 listings per day over that past 30 days.  My theory is that each time that I add a listing to one of my campaigns, the entire campaign then has to reindex.  Thus a bunch of inactive/invisible listings.  Just a theory.  But if that is the case, that could explain some of the sluggish sales being reported.