What's wrong with this picture?

[pls-consignments]

So, this is how my Sept is going so far. Should I be concerned?

 

[dbfolks166mt]

     We are only 5 days into September so what would be your concern? Only you can answer your own question based on you extensive experience selling on eBay. Every seller has their own gauge. I seldom look at any of the metrics my only focus is actual sales and as you should know by now those go up and down all the time. 

[pls-consignments]

Are we looking at the same thing??

[dryophelia]

What's wrong with this picture?

Is it the font, @pls-consignments 

[yuzuha]

I'm not seeing what there is to be concerned about. Most people spend Labor Day weekend having one last hurrah before the summer ends, not sitting around inside shopping online.

[theteamsetguy]

@pls-consignments ,

No, it looks like someone went on vacation and came back late yesterday. Store must have been put on time away mode before they left and turned back on last night. 

Looks good to me.

[johnrj1226]

Do what this guy does (did) -

[laststopgeneralstore]

It's off center in my honest opinion.

In all seriousness though, you need to source/sell better items.

The stuff your trying to sell is not good, slow sell thru, low asp etc...

Focus on sourcing better quality items that people want & that sell for a better asp.

[tsme35]

Looks like my sales, down 60% for September, I usually do good on holidays

[isaiah53-57]

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@pls-consignments wrote:

So, this is how my Sept is going so far. Should I be concerned?

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Looks like its your turn...

[m60driver]

Never look at short term data.  Focus on, at a minimum, 60-day sales data and ignore views and impressions.  I have many sales of items that have few views, sometimes no views before they sell.   I do track my monthly average net profit margin.  

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

1. I'm guessing you ended a PLS campaign before going into the Holiday weekend?

2. Only you know whether you should be concerned or not. Personally, I would not be. For my store, I would expect impressions to plummet without PLS, and views and sales might decline as well. Labor Day weekend is usually not a "big" weekend for my kind of stuff, because people are enjoying the weekend, not shopping online so much. Which is why I ran a markdown sale and PLS over the weekend, and did manage to get a few sales. But basically, the combination of ending PLS and holiday weekend? I would expect that to put a drag on things.

3. I don't consider a few days to be a very reliable indicator of anything, since its the bigger picture that matters, not whether the first couple days of the month were bad or great. And that is especially true when dealing with long tail, single quantity listings, many of them very far out at the end of the long tail (as many of mine are).

[pls-consignments]

Yes, here is what I did. I placed my store on "Time Away" on Aug 31st.  HOWEVER, I allowed sales throughout the term. When saw the impressions disappear (along with my sales), I immediately ended Time Away. I did this 2-days ago and have not seen much activity yet.  

I have used "Time Away" multiple times with allowed sales, and every time I did, I always got a few sales daily. This time, it appears that the "Allow Sales" function failed. I contacted eBay and the rep agreed this needed a ticket. I'll let you know how it goes 😉

[pls-consignments]

"In all seriousness though, you need to source/sell better items.

The stuff your trying to sell is not good, slow sell thru, low asp etc...

Focus on sourcing better quality items that people want & that sell for a better asp."

I expected that there would at least be one person who would advantageously attack my store items instead focusing on the anomaly. I've been doing this since 1998 and have sold over 25K collectible items....even things YOU would think have no sellable value. Yet, I average 3-5 sales every single day, which is all I expect to do with what I have. Personally, I will not criticize someone else's inventory since each seller has their own expectations. 

Have a great day 😉

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@pls-consignments  It would have been helpful if you had shared this context with us when you posted, as it is clearly a significant factor, without which, you simply turned this into a pointless guessing game.

WITH that context, yes, it sounds like there might have been a problem with Time Away's proper functioning.