What happened February 9?

[partfinds]

Only me or everyone sees plunging in promotedlistings without any changes?

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

I'm not seeing it

[laughingjester]

not seeing what you are seeing. 

[simply-the-best-for-you]

I had a rather significant dip on 2/8 for no apparent reason.   It won't let me post my screen shot.  But here's the numbers from the PL bar.   Not something I would have noticed had I not looked for this post. 

2/6    144,872

2/7    120,290

2/8      58,196

2/9    103,049

2/10   114,618

2/11    114,524

[ittybitnot]

Only me or everyone sees plunging

@partfinds 

I can only give you a suggestion for more study.  Over the past few months here, and in other ecommerce forums, similar graphs show about a 'steep' drop off similar to what your display illustrates.   I cannot link you to those discussions, nor did I pay particular attention as to what exact displays were included other than the topics featured "promoted listings"/impressions or views and they all showed a point in time when all the desirable effects suggested by the stats and paying for promotions seem to disappear at a sharp rate. 

My take on this (correct or not)  was that when a listing is promoted, or a campaign begins, there is a marked increase in activity that holds true for a time, until the decline sets in.   This has been shown over and over again, but I do not recall the "number of days" until the decline hits.  

So depending on how may days your listings have been promoted, when they were started,  it may be related to that duration rather than Feb.9 -10 where some other unsavory event occurred.  

Do you have previous stats/charts (for other campaigns perhaps) that you can compare to see if results are the same or similar  "over time"?  

Let us know, of course, because the topic is interesting and as always:  knowledge is power!  

[simply-the-best-for-you]

I lied.  Please disregard my post #4, it's too late for me to edit it.   I totally forgot that I ended my campaign on the 8th & started a new one on the 9th & that explains my drop off.    

So, no, I do not see any anomalies.   My apologies for my confusion. 

[gweb_80]

My sales of fallen off a cliff. I dropped prices too. The offers have been showing up way less

[athleticavenue]

This is happening with me too.  Sales have gone down significantly and now my views are going down as well. Not sure what the problem is, but probably a lack of buyers or demand for the item you sell. 

[katzrul15]

Based on ours, it is similar - looks as though it also correlates to 2/9 (ish)

[samanthasb0utique]

Mine significantly dropped on Feb 5/6th. So strange.

[katzrul15]

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@samanthasb0utique wrote:

Mine significantly dropped on Feb 5/6th. So strange.

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No clue either....only looked as the OP posted.  Lol

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

@katzrul15 

Yours looks like a major ventricular cardiac arrhythmia just before he flatlined. 

I see your feeling better, that's great news!

[richard1rst]

I am constantly amazed at the number of posts similar to this that seem to think it is eBay’s doing, alone, that sales suddenly tanked or rose.

eBay does not exist in a vacuum. It may be an identifiable corporation but the buyers and sellers are real people living in a real world. Their buying and selling decisions are influenced by what happens “OUT THERE”.

Their individual decisions are based on whether or not there is the potential for a Russian invasion of Ukraine, or a shortage of goods due to the supply chain, or the threat of an overreaction by the government to a truckers strike, or the loss of a job due to a mask mandate, or being jailed for giving the school board a hard time, or a thousand times thousand other individual events.

All of the above and then some controls Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand

There is no identifiable reason (and a pointless quest to seek one out) when a large portion of 7 1/2 Billion people suddenly turn 1 degree “this” way instead of 1 degree “that” way.

You will have as much luck getting an answer to that as asking yourself “why did the guy 6 cars ahead of me suddenly change lanes?” It is an unanswerable question.

[slippinjimmy]

One simple explanation for this effect is that other sellers started promoting at a higher rate and eBay is using their available PL slots for those listings instead of yours.

Another would be that your PL listings that were generating a large portion of your impressions have sold out and are no longer being promoted.

My own sales have been dead dead dead for the last week but impressions are holding, I can accept the fact that this week buyers just don't want what I've got and not because of some nefarious action by eBay.

[partfinds]

I thought that drop was due to seller updates. My sales are OK although impressions and views got hit. 

i don’t understand what you wrote here „ Another would be that your PL listings that were generating a large portion of your impressions have sold out and are no longer being promoted.” If you could explain in plain language.