What I find fascinating is how these posts are always met with replies by people set on gaslighting the OP with their NUMBER of sales, suggesting they are selling about AS MANY items as ever. If you looked at my sales since mid-May you would probably find the same thing. I certainly feel like I'm doing just as much packing and label-printing as ever. But what you're not seeing is how much the seller's total sales DOLLARS have dropped, and that's because those of us who've been under this overnight throttle switch have been frantically dropping our prices, just to keep from starving.
We are not crazy, we are not misunderstanding what we are seeing. We saw our views going to nothing compared to what the same items would have drawn before the 'whatever' happened, but AFTER Ebay made the change about how view counts are shown. --I know for certain I already observed that (and was reading posts about it here) a good while before mid-May, weeks if not months before then. We also know people have less money to spend than they used to, but the 'collectors' type buyers couldn't have made the decision EN MASSE to put the brakes on buying new pieces, OVERNIGHT. Never mind the decision not to even look at listings!
Anyone trained in marketing will tell you, even in times of economic hardship, even broke people will window shop. But some of us have our windows at least partly obscured by something, we just don't know 'what.' Look, this OP said a buyer told him he cannot find his listings in search; he has to go to his store to view them.
Here's a question to the naysayers, what WOULD convince you?
Oneglassman, I believe you. My blow came on May 12th, and has not improved since.
