The one good thing about slow summer sales......

[sakic92710]

.........is I won't notice a GD change!!!  lol  Most of 2022 has been awful.  12 sales in June.  11 in May.  Almost each month has been depressing & disappointing.  I've added about 30 new listings this week & it has not increased sales over when I have posted none.   Averaging about 3 a week no matter what I do.  Even dropped some prices by a large %.  Nothing happened for 5 days then I had 3 sales in less than....20 hours?  Waiting to see if ANYTHING happens over the Canada & US birthdays.  Happy Whatever!   lol

[goldxxxsilver]

Cooperate Greed 

Since 2015 most small sellers don't stand a Chance Here 

Use to be Fun Before That...

But I do understand they have stock/shareholders 

Sorry it is ending this way for many!! 

Wishing them Well when I Depart since 2004..

Good Luck to All..🍀

[baantiques]

I've had $900 in sales since mid June. That's 1/4 of what I normally do in this part of the summer.  Last July I sold $8000. We'll see if I get close to that.

I've started selling things I get at thrift stores on Etsy, along with moving my non parts memorabilia over to my Etsy store.  They sell well, and doing this will make room for other stuff within my hidden selling limit.   Gotta do whatcha gotta do.

[lakefor94]

My usually steady sales have fallen of since April.   Real slow like I have not seen in the last 5 years.

Normally,  month in, month out they were steady.   Not anymore. 

[m60driver]

My sales are just humming along just fine.  Total number of sales are once again a tad up over last month but with gross revenue down a tad as I have lowered most of my prices.

[chapeau-noir]

I'm chugging along still - don't expect much as I sell clothing and it's summer, plus my inventory is really low.  But it's not bad.  I knocked it down to three platforms from my former five as I tend to pull back in summer.

[cobblestone-glass-and-porcelain]

How are you selling anything you don't have any inventory

[soh.maryl]

What makes you think that @m60driver doesn't have any inventory?

He has 639 current listings.  

[ghost-star]

Same here. Summer of '22 has been about 50% worse than the previous summer. But I believe there are clear reasons: 

1) Inflation (and the incessant reporting of it) has consumers second guessing their unnecessary purchases. 

2) At the moment, people are traveling like it's the end of the world. 

3) This is a personal reason. My summer clothes inventory is considerably lower than last year since my entire stock of warm-weather suits sold out last year in a blaze of sales--which also adds to the reason why this year's summer sales pale in comparison to last year's.