Regards,
@axiombody wrote:Income 22,000 last June and have 9,500 this June. Guird up, usually it's not a short season when sales slip that much. Good luck and find ways in this time to improve your business when you have more time than money. Clothing has more and more competition always and expect that won't change. I get better at getting items and how I sell but nothing beats supply which has always increased here and with increasing sites doing the same thing eBay does.
@axiombody That's a big drop ... last year I saw growth during the middle of the year May - June - July - August - September - October. All of those months hit new sales highs. This year its been a roller coaster flipping back and forth between good months and bad months. May and June this year were bad months and July has started close to 60% behind, not sure if it will recover, there are a lot of days left in the month AND it covers 5 weekends which are typically my higher selling times. We'll see.
@deosil111 wrote:Not sure why eBay is flat lining, the other venues I use are not. That means it’s ebay and not the time of year, economy, inflation or whatever else people try to blame it on.
@deosil111 Agreed ... if it were any or all of those reasons I would be making a killing on acquiring inventory in the categories I sell in ... but I am not ... and actually it got more competitive this year ...
Mr. L
@vintagecraze50 wrote:I have worried a lot since this inflation began. I heavily invested in inventory and have been adding and adding listings. The cricket sound on here is very disturbing right now, I can only hope that after the summer time expenditures or gas for vacation etc etc this stuff is going to ramp up again. If not I have to COMPLETELY STOP investing in inventory.
@vintagecraze50 It may depend on categories ... I've been intentional in stating that the ones I sell in I can't get ahead of the curve on acquiring inventory ... meaning people are still spending what I call "stupid" money paying OVER average retail on many things. I have acquired inventory from:
PA
MD
DE
IN
IL
VA
So its not just local stuff ... some of the online auctions I participate in sell one item at a time via a Webcast, you can see the auctioneer AND the City & State of each bidder on a running bid screen ... they are from all over the country. Some of those bidders "may" even be customers of mine because I have shipped to ALL 50 States over the years ...
Last week I shifted 1/3 of my items off eBay to another venue. I was only going to do 10-15% but wound up doing more. This year the plan is that items get "so long" to sell on eBay and then they get moved. I still give eBay first shot at selling the vast majority of what I acquire ... in time I will not have many long tail items.
I guess that's the nature of selling on the internet ...
@kathieskorner wrote: "Something is radically wrong with the current search algorithms if these new view counts are to be believed."
It started late last year after the category shuffle ... then there is the change you mentioned and some others. I know PLS Stand Campaigns have NOT performed as well since they launched the Pay per click PLS Advanced program ... I saw Impressions drop by just over 80% earlier this year for no reason ... That's just not normal so I agree with you 110% ...
Natural sales on GTC listings have taken the hardest hit ... I had a period earlier this year where Auction listing sales outpaced GTC sales by a wide margin and part of the period was during a poorly performing PLS Standard Campaign.
So more recently I have had to boost sales by using the Send offer feature and a lot of other sales have been from Repeat Buyers ... without those two sales types I would be nearly flat lined ...
If you remember the GTC mandate that rolled out in late 2018 then you will understand this story ... I had spent 12 months building up a 2nd ID to the low 5 figures. I would switch listings back and forth between the main ID and the 2nd one ... for some parts of listing it was twice the work but with Templates it went pretty quick PLUS I could copy and paste Conditions and Descriptions to a Word doc to use on both IDs ...
I was careful NOT to have an item Active on both IDs at the same time (although I am sure some Sellers have tried that). So along comes the GTC Mandate and within 3 months the 2nd ID had pretty much tanked ... in month 6 after that roll out the 2nd ID sold 1 item ... yep 1 Item all month ... I stopped using it.
