Worst Month in 10+ years!!

[germancargarage]

Been on eBay since 1998, been selling with multiple accounts and this has been the absoulte WORST April in the past 17 years. Sell usually 20-30 items per day, have had only THREE normal selling day since April 1st!!! So basically no sale in 26 days and calling eBay every single day but nope they say everything is just peachy, sell your products under your cost with free shipping and give the customers the best return policy. Really eBay?? Been chatting with a lot big sellers (100k feedbacks+) and every single one of them told me the same exact thing: sick of fees and more fees, sick of the sales going down month after month, sick of the buyers abusing the system and sellers being left in the cold. Sellers are the ones paying for their CEO and his lifestyle while he is destroying  eBay 1 seller at a the time. Most people who've been here long enough are SICK and TIRED of eBay and their **bleep** policies and rolling black out, it's really time to leave this dump and move on to bigger and better things.

Thanks for reading my rant for the day!

[coolections]

10 sold in April so far

5 sold in March

3 sold in Feb

On this account this is your best month so far.

[tunicaslot]

And your point is???? OP has said that he has multiple accounts and that the total amount sold is way down - he's not talking about just 1 acct but several as a whole.

[amfbestdeals]

Hope things pick up for you an everyone else!!! 

[oceanviewengineer2015]

It probably does not help that people are making youtube videos showing their hauls, what they sell, what to be on the look out for (bolo) and advising their subscribers to list 100s of items a week. 

There just arent that many buyers.

[tonycea]

eBay is not responding..........

That is the message I have got all morning, so if they can't serve a web page to someone who is here 16 hours a day, what is happening to millions of customers who have left for good due to eBay not being able to serve a web page ??

[z50com]

10 years?

Not with that ID

This is the BEST April I've had in 10 years. . .Been here for 19 years!  (17 years with this ID, 19 years with VW)

[oceanviewengineer2015]

Another thought- bad omen when the #1 watched item of the week was Ebay branded shipping supplies (tissue paper).

Seriously, they are all iver youtube telling their subscribers they can quit their day job and make 100k a year selling **bleep** sourced at Goodwill and alibaba.

[tonycea]

LOL, eBay can't even get the basics right, first you have to be able to serve a web page and have a shopping cart that works, if you can't do that you are not in the ecommerce business.

[ebbyisme]

There is probably a current weakness in sales. I can only comment on the listing from this ID. The three items I checked had many competitors priced lower, and not just a little, you were anywhere from 12% - 30% higher. You did not show on best match very well, I think only one was on the first page of best match and one on first page search by lowest price (and that is because only about 50 showed up on search).

I am sure there is more going on but with week sales this only makes things worse. There may be more competitors then in the past also. I bought my first car part off ebay recently (nothing like what you are selling), I usually want the part as soon as I can get it but this wasn't a part I needed yesterday so I could wait (took two days). This particular part, the last one I needed I bought from the salvage yard. Salvage yards (used) it was $38, new would have been $95, on ebay it was $12 with free shipping. but there was a huge number to choose from. Sellers had them priced anywhere from 12-20 used and 20-30 new.

[poppyswag]

Serious log in problems this morning. Gray ghost circling and circling, then nothing happens. The few who want to shop here can't log in. My new plan is to sell out wholesale locally to the new ebayers before they catch on.

[gooddriftwood]

I'm in a similar situation. Down 60% YoY.  In addition to what others have said, I think eBay's quest to remove active content is having an impact on listing impressions.  I've removed all active content and traffic is still in the tank.  eBay's search algorithm may be penalizing those who have used active content.  Amazon is also having an impact across all of retail.  I'm wondering if eBay is losing buyers and sellers to Amazon.  I'm certainly considering adding Amazon as a sales channel. Good luck to all.

[coolections]

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@tunicaslot wrote:

And your point is????

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@tunicaslot

Not sure why but I will explain since you're having a hard time understanding. The OP posted with an I.D. that has done better this month then the whole year so far. If he is doing so bad he should post with the I.D. that is giving him problems so we can help fix the problem.

10 sold in April so far
5 sold in March
3 sold in Feb
 
On this account this is your best month so far.

[z50com]

FAKE NEWS is the rage of 2017

Here we have FAKE POSTS

I only believe 1/2 of what I read on this forum, the other 1/2 is total cow poo

[tonycea]

It's all lies Z, eBay servers are fine and the shopping carts function at 100% efficiency at all times !!!