Views down, regular features acting 'weird'...what's eBay doing?

[vintage_buy_sell]

So is it me or every time eBay rolls out a change to promotions (i.e. 'sliding scale' Promoted Listing feature) the regular features of eBay seem to get messed up.

For example, my listing views are WAY down over the last 2 weeks, I will put out a batch of listings and it will be days before I even get 1 view on them. Also after I process shipping labels, for about 20-30 mins, eBay is still telling me I have items to ship, then they all finally move to 'Paid & Ship'. Lastly, when I send a batch of offers, eBay still tells me I have offers to send, when I go into the screen to send them, they show me the listings I have just sent offers on, but there's no option to send offers. Then for giggles, I log out and go into eBay w/o signing in and try to do some specific search on keywords I know are in my listings and I get weird results for 'beanies' from China or things not even close to what I entered! Their search is a mess!!

I just feel like something is not acting as normal.

I will not even mentions my sales (or lack of) over the last couple weeks as well. 

Just wondering if I am alone in this 'bizzarro' eBay land....

[aldelbertmatthew]

The site's been glitchy and buggy for a while now. While the economy is a factor in lower sales, it doesn't explain why eBay went from the top site for revenue for me last year to nosediving this year. I cross-list my items on other selling apps and they sell in under a month to a few weeks but will sit for ages on eBay.

I know some sellers that have 1000+ items posted or more that go DAYS with out sales on here.  That's not normal at all, even during the 2008-09 recession.

[chris13]

I will just share an experience I had working for a global eCommerce site. 

We adjusted the format for page names and moved our image servers to Akamai. 

This invalidated the Google cache for 1.8 million pages indexed in both organic and paid search. Traffic was abnormal for several weeks. I would imagine that with 1.7 BILLION pages any changes run a risk of ripples through many different worldwide traffic sources. Or it could be something completely different 😉

Best wishes

[the-hook-and-the-loop]

Everything you mention sounds right on par for eBay. eBay has been perfecting every which way to cost themselves money, and everyone who relies on their platform. The world needs a re-boot or ReBay.

[wheredidiputthatremote]

@chris13 

What are you suggesting?  Did ebay move their image servers?

I was rolling along for the past year and the last several weeks have been feast or famine.  The past two weeks in particular of the famine sort.

I'm just keeping busy living, but have definitely noticed some querks this past month.

[chris13]

@wheredidiputthatremote 

I was only suggesting that many different things, some undocumented, can cause a google cached page to require it to be reindexed. Google is notorious for not explaining how their internals work.

When there are many updates there is naturally a greater chance that traffic patterns may change. No one tries to reduce traffic but it does happen. When our sales decrease, eBay's revenues also decrease.

[wheredidiputthatremote]

@chris13 

Thanks for the breakdown. I'm a little thick in the head at times.

Seems like the game is changing. My old sourcing spots are doubling prices on stuff I would have passed on 10 years ago. I guess things are tough all over.