What in the World! Help! 4 days 18 hours and not one view........

[extraordinarilyyou]

I am simply at a loss this morning. I look at my 171 auctions and I have half ranging from 2 days 18 hours to 4 days 18 hours without one page view. Many more with only one or two views. Is eBay that dead? Did they really run off all of the LP buyers? Between the fees, the cost of LP Mailers and inserts, the hours of creating the listings. The cost of the LP's themselves. I lose money at 2 dollars. I just don't get it. The last auction run I did for 48 lp's, the same thing. The choicest LP's sold for literally nothing and rest went unsold. With few exceptions most of these LP's the vinyl is freaking EX by any other sellers grading. I am so disheartened.....

[tamaralea]

Hopefully you'll get more views towards the end of the auctions.

[defeated247 · Accepted solution]

I you are a small seller, You can not compete on Ebay anymore. I believe Ebay has a way to make it where you think your items are visible but they are not. That is why no views. This is just my thoughts on Ebays drastic slowdown. I have many many items with not a single view also. 

[southern*sweet*tea]

Views mean nothing. I truly believe the view counter is never, ever correct. I sell items that have zero views - shouldn't they at least have one?  I will sometimes list an item and it will immediately have three or four views.

I don't pay one bit of attention to the view counter, ever.

[mcdougle4248]

I have no way of knowing if this is factual or not, I have just read this before on the boards, the first view is a bot checking your listing or indexing it.  Lately, it has taken 3-4 days before my listings get the first view.

If you are concerned about the number of views, use the share buttons located under the word "Search" in the upper right hand corner of the listing page to share your listings on social media, if you have pages set up for your business.  If you do not have pages set up yet for your business, I would recommend giving it a try.  

[helloandgoodmorning]

Have you researched your category to see if most sales come from fixed price or auction listings? In many categories auctions are all but dead. I can see the value when listing a large bundle, but most of your listings are for single albums so you should be able to determine the average selling price easily. My advice is to run some listings as fixed price and see what happens. @extraordinarilyyou 

[extrememobility]

your right about that I think? I have seen items sell immediately without any views" then there is and issue with getting incorrect counts on views one item have a dozen or more but the count at the top of the page states only 3-5, I guess Ebay can`t count

[extraordinarilyyou]

That is a fair statement. But I will add to that that I only have about 15 lp's being watched and 3 bids on a 171 lp's. The first day views for each grouping were non-existent. 3 bids and next to no watches says this category is dead on eBay.

I've run fixed price. That is where my feedback came from. I have about a 80% or so feedback rate. I really need to get these sold. I am starting to think eBay is a waste of time and money.

I am so at a loss on this. I called eBay yesterday and they said there were no issues with my account and i was on their "Preferred Small & Medium Size Business" list. Well.... if there is such a thing, I am not feeling very preferred. What the heck is a preferred SM business list anyway?

I will tell you this, if I do not have decent bidding going on by Sunday or Monday, I will cancel them all and eat the fees for the LP's that have bids. Cheaper to haul them down to the record store and sell them for cash money.

[castlemagicmemories]

I will tell you this, if I do not have decent bidding going on by Sunday or Monday, I will cancel them all and eat the fees for the LP's that have bids. Cheaper to haul them down to the record store and sell them for cash money.

Now that's a solution.

[mcdougle4248]

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@extraordinarilyyou wrote:
That is a fair statement. But I will add to that that I only have about 15 lp's being watched and 3 bids on a 171 lp's. The first day views for each grouping were non-existent. 3 bids and next to no watches says this category is dead on eBay.

I've run fixed price. That is where my feedback came from. I have about a 80% or so feedback rate. I really need to get these sold. I am starting to think eBay is a waste of time and money.

I am so at a loss on this. I called eBay yesterday and they said there were no issues with my account and i was on their "Preferred Small & Medium Size Business" list. Well.... if there is such a thing, I am not feeling very preferred. What the heck is a preferred SM business list anyway?

I will tell you this, if I do not have decent bidding going on by Sunday or Monday, I will cancel them all and eat the fees for the LP's that have bids. Cheaper to haul them down to the record store and sell them for cash money.

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Hmm... I'm sure you have your reasons, but I am just curious, why would you cancel the the LP's that have bids? 

If you have a record store that will buy your LP's for an amount that is acceptable to you that is great.  It is always a good idea not to put all of  you eggs in one basket.

[b3llaf1na]

Idk if this will help but I have been watching a lot of Suzanne A. Wells youtube videos and she worked and still works for Ebay and she does a study guide. ( you can call her as well.. not sure if that is for a fee..) but the videos are free and it's a lot of watching and learning, not too mention jumping back and forth between different types of listings and comparing.. but once I got he hang of it i'm getting views. Not as many as some but they are coming.. hope that helps.

[johnrj1226]

I my opinion - view, watchers  mean very little to me - number of  items sold and total  sales $  (including the S/H charge) received is everything.  I might  change my  mind if there was a way to  turn  the number view & watchers into $ - eBay thinks you should  lower  your price because  there are eyeballs on your listing and you MIGHT get a sale.  In business .50 they  teach you your price is right ....... go sell it.

[blingrescue]

My sales, views,  and watchers have slowed to nothing,  I am a small seller that shipped 5 to 10 items a day , nothing for the past week. I was listing new items every day this week,  which,  I feel usually boosts my sales. as long as I am listing I am selling.  Listing new items seemed to boost sales in stale items. Nothing works anymore.  

[turquoisetulips]

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@blingrescue wrote:

My sales, views,  and watchers have slowed to nothing,  I am a small seller that shipped 5 to 10 items a day , nothing for the past week. I was listing new items every day this week,  which,  I feel usually boosts my sales. as long as I am listing I am selling.  Listing new items seemed to boost sales in stale items. Nothing works anymore.  

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 You're right ,, nothing is working . I've also been listing new stuff every day at very low prices  but I've only made one small sale in a week . This is very unusual . If sales stay at the current rate for another week  I may decide  selling here just isn't worth it  any longer . Between e bay fee's , Pay Pal fee's , promotional fees  and the cost of shipping supplies  I'm quickly going broke .  Tulips 

[mcdougle4248]

@turquoisetulips 

I am sorry that your sales are in a slump.  I hope your sales pick up real soon.  Your jewelry is so awesome and unique. 

January and February were good months for me.  March started out very slow, but is finally starting to pick up and I finally went into the green yesterday (compared to last year). 

Now that GTC is mandatory, do you have the OOS feature turned on?  If you are able to closely reproduce (at least the same style and theme) a sold item, then just take new photos and restock the listing.   I have seen a huge jump in search for the items that I have sold with GTC and the OOS feature turned on when I restock the listing.  Plus, there is the "Last One" that shows on the listing which may give buyers that sense of urgency.

Good Luck!