@gratescape wrote:
My store traffic was down over 50% last month and another 14% this month. This seems to be a recent thing happening in the last few months. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone know what the cause is? Is there a setting I need to change in my store or is it because I have a custom design? I know summer sales are slower and am aware of search issues, I am specifically looking to why this very recent thing is happening. Could it be related to the active content change?
You have not given us much to go on. You say your traffic is down ... how are your sales?
Traffic and sales can be affected by a many things - price, demand, supply, competition, fashion, best match placement, buyer perception of the seller, stale inventory, listing volume, etc.
When I look at seller listings in repsonse to posts like there, it usually comes down to demand or competition.
Examples:
Your original UK pressing Adverts LP is VG+ and $120 ... but there are 8 on offer right now, and the other 7 are dramatically less than yours. 6 of them are less than 50% of your price, and the one that is 75% of your price is listed as MINT. And a quick search of completed shows that no one has paid more than $60 in the last three months.
Your original T Texas Tyler is VG and $150, which could be a good price (there are sealed reissues for $10, sealed originals for $250) but the point may be moot because no copies have sold here - reissue or otherwise - for three months at least.
Your Bettye Swann is $99. In the last three months, the only two copies that have sold went for $30 or less.
Your Siouxsie & Banshees Once Upon a Time is $90. I see that 25 have sold in the last three months, but all 25 sold for less than $30.
Is it possible that your competitively-price merchandise is pretty much sold out, and you are now left with the stuff that is not really competitive?
