A year ago USPS was sending a separate truck out for my pickups every morning. Same items, same categories, but after 9/21, sales dropped off suddenly, then in 4/22 they all but stopped completely.
views after 4/22 are almost nil, but the drop off began last Sept.
Items that were getting 150 views and many bidders suddenly had zero.
I understand that trends change but not over night like this.
The economy is bad but it don't explain the low view counts and lack of bidders.
Something that concerned me is that I've had several messages from sellers who bought regularly in the past who suddenly want to know why I quit listing.
While on vacation a few weeks ago I tried to search using a borrowed computer, I tried searching exact titles of a few of my ads and got nothing, like they didn't exist, then searched items by user, and got nothing. I had to search either by item number or scroll through the entire category to find my one ad, they when I clicked on 'other items' I was able to find my other items. If I couldn't find them by typing the full title into the search box, or any of the major key words then how would anyone else?
I searched for one, which was a bicycle part, and kept getting two pages of Chinese items completely unrelated to my item. If I had been a buyer, I'd likely have just looked at the first page, and left.
Sales are dead, I'm seeing almost no views, no watchers, and only four or five buyers all year. Something definitely changed, I can't believe that people all of a sudden lost complete interest in bicycles and fishing tackle all at the same time.
