How about sales have dropped in the past week or day?
Too short a period for comps.
You would have to compare to the same week last year. Or better the same month and in 2019 before the pandemic surge in online shopping.
The surge ended abruptly in January 2022.
And the stockmarket reports for online businesses inQ1 and Q2 show that. It's across the industry, not just eBay.
What about all the other sellers drop shipping out of warehouses? Wanna make a better their sales would plummet if buyers knew they didn't actually possess the item?
If you mean the seller owns the product, but ships from a different location, there is no reason for the buyer to care.
Many Chinese sellers were warehousing in the USA. The advantage to the buyer was that any import fees had already been paid and shipping was US -standard, whether the seller used USPS or a courier like UPS.
The problem is dropshipping, where the seller has no control over pictures, description, packaging, or shipping. If the supplier runs out of the product, the seller doesn't know that until the order goes unfilled.
EBay does require sellers to state the location of the product (because import fees and shipping time) not his own, but I agree, many sellers either misunderstand or lie about this.
