Tips for Boosting Sales

[glory_treasures]

Hello everyone,

I am at a loss for how to boost my sales. I haven’t made any in the last few days and I’m down overall. I make sure to have informative titles and descriptions with keywords, competitive pricing, I list and relist regularly (currently have about 850 items), and think I have pretty decent pictures. I watch other resellers on YouTube for tips and feel that I have implemented their strategies but nothing.

What am I missing here?

[wastingtime101]

There are some suggestions here you may find useful:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Boosting-Q4-sales-share-your-tips/td-p/35327962

[bonanza125]

You need to do research and check to see if your items are priced correctly. If you are overpriced the item will not sell. If there is no demand for the item or lack of demand the item would take much longer to sell than say others. To find out check other listings to see what the going market cost is. Then check items sold and see what the item sold for and how many sold. If there are very little sold but more items like the one you are selling is on the market then chances are lack of interest. Next make sure you constantly list items for sale. You need to be an active as far as listing items. Another thing is to have a return policy of 30 days w/seller pays for shipping. Buyers like it when you have a strong return policy. 

[meme6253]

Just keep doing everything you are doing & persevere!

[12345jamesstamps]

 I adjusted my items sale price and put 'Free Shipping' in the titles of new items not promoted.

As a one-kid operation I have more items sold than I can handle from last week currently.

Maybe the algorithms changed or something but sales are high since October 28th.

I wonder if anyone else is experiencing this.

[susanb1872]

Remember that there is a government shutdown and many businesses laying off workers which makes for lots of unemployed people. These people have to cut back spending with so much financial uncertainty. 

[broto_64]

---

@susanb1872 wrote:

Remember that there is a government shutdown and many businesses laying off workers which makes for lots of unemployed people. These people have to cut back spending with so much financial uncertainty. 

---

Then there are those of us who are unaffected directly but are also cutting back simply because what affects such a large portion eventually affects us all.

[relicpeddler]

Send offers, run a sale event. send coupons to buyers before you ship their order and offer a percentage off more items that can be combined with their order to save even more with combined shipping.

[american-photography]

It’s not how many items you have up for sale that counts but what you are selling that matters and whether there is a market for them.

If there is no demand for your items and/or the market is saturated, then you will have a hard time selling no matter what tinkering you do to your listings or exposure they receive.

The older generation who bought antiques years ago are passing away, that market is decreasing and the younger generation is not into antiques and collectibles of which you sell.  Used clothing is over saturated.

Seasonality, inflation, and the economy can also affect your selling ability.  If people are spending all their money on rent, food, utilities, etc., they will have very little discretionary income to spend on items such as yours.