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[pls-consignments]

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

 

[tobaccocardyahoo]

Your inventory has some similarity to mine.

It is slow sell through, it is by no means a necessity and sales are usually volatile.

Bringing it up seems appropriate to me.

Month to date at this time of the month is too soon to conclude there is a problem. There could be.

I can see signs of negative trends. More disturbed by my drop in average sale than I am in number of sales. Drop in average sale means Ebay and USPS take a larger percentage of my revenues. It also means that things are unlikely to be improve without an improvement in the economy.

Many small business people know that the numbers the government provides no longer tell us the health of working families and small businesses.

[baantiques]

I had my best sales day in 7 years on Sunday.

[laststopgeneralstore]

Attack? How exactly did I attack you?

All I did was point out the fact that the items your trying to sell have a very slow sell thru, low average sell price & are NOT in crazy demand.

Do you have an issue with other criticizing you? Because I don't and regardless of expectation, I prefer when people that are doing better than me criticize me/my store so that way I have another angle to look at, without getting upset or angry, and can get better in the long run. Yes every seller has different expectations but that doesn't mean we can't try and help you by criticizing you and pointing out possible issues with your store that could be leading to slower sales. I'm sorry if you can't take criticism but it's not a bad thing and is nothing that you should get upset or angry about. Take it, look at it and maybe sometimes the person that is criticizing you is right and you may benefit from what they said. Getting upset and angry about it is just plain childish.

Not to mention you left out a key component to why your traffic went down in the first place which was using the "time away" feature.

I don't know why your getting upset when you even said yourself that "Yet, I average 3-5 sales every single day, which is all I expect to do with what I have." So you're expecting more when you go on vacation/time away and cannot fulfill orders as you normally would? The amount of time you've been selling things on a website has nothing to do with anything, just because you've been on eBay since 1998 doesn't mean or say anything. It's like saying, "I've been cleaning floors with a mop and bucket for 25 years and have way more experience than you".

Good Luck, Have a good day friend.

[pls-consignments]

Whoa....easy big fella!  Who said anything about attacking ME?  I certainly didn't.  If you did, the tone of my response would have been different. I said you "attacked my store items".  I was hoping that you would address the elephant in the room than look for an opportunity to critique my store. Whether I'm selling Gucci bags or sidewalk gum, the traffic chart would still look the same.    

[kh-gary]

Hi everyone,

This discussion has gotten a bit heated and off topic. Please remember that, while it is fine to disagree with others, discussion should always remain friendly and respectful as required by the Community Guidelines.

Please bring the discussion back to the subject established in the OP.

Thank you for your cooperation.

[robbie31415]

This thread just feels like I should put my store on Time Away and continue to post here claiming I've been shadow banned.

Misleading, and intentional withholding of crucial information to paint a false narrative.

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

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@pls-consignments wrote:

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 😉

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@pls-consignments 

I recently did the same thing on ca for 5 days. Left the option to purchase ship on return. During those 5 days there was basically zippo for traffic.

-Lotz

[whattheactualfox]

Nope because sales fluctuate all the time

[theteamsetguy]

@pls-consignments ,

Just like I suspected.

[anjofak]

I wonder how much it would cost to hire a flash mob to stand around ebay watching through the windows...hmm

[safan80]

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What did you sell on Sunday? Which Sunday was it? @baantiques 

@baantiques wrote:

I had my best sales day in 7 years on Sunday.

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[herway]

🤣🤣🤣

that would be fun to watch...

[baantiques]

September 3rd.  I had a run on vintage 1930s replacement headlight lenses.  I probably didn't ask enough but I asked plenty and sold them and that's what matters.

[jwsa-45]

It's mid Sept and this has been my absolute worst selling month so far.  I've been selling for a year now and have many more listings and have an eBay store now but suddenly mid Aug and even more in September, my sales have just stopped.  I went from selling 25-30 items per week to only 2-3 items.  I've been adding lol stings but rarely have offers to send or offers sent to me , much less actually buying.  My inventory is actually better than ever and I price super competitively so I've no idea what the problem all of a sudden is.  Im

[jarrot]

This place  is dead  in the water  no sales  fees  and more fees  and is more we have you money  is you need it faster is a noder  1.5 %