evry1nositswindy • seller since 2013
I posted a thread last month on some great customer service I received from eBay and my sales greatly improved. I was up from the last 30 days and was WAY up over last year. Then I posted a thread this week on getting charged insertion fees plus being charged store listings with no help from eBay. After that, my sale took a turn for the worst. Now my arrows are red instead of green, sales are down. Ghost town here with very little activity. Correlation or coincidence? Has anybody has this same experience? Just in case it's true...I love selling on eBay but my old knees are getting sore from jumping through all the hoops.
I'm going with coincidence, too, but I donned my tin foil hat when I got up this morning, so my reception might be off. 
The true test will be towards the middle of the month when I am 'turned on' in California. Those are my best selling days, but are the only days that I get sales in Cali. NOT coincidence. I need some good karma right now. I just went to an auction and have some great things to list, so I am excited!
@evry1nositswindy wrote:The true test will be towards the middle of the month when I am 'turned on' in California. Those are my best selling days, but are the only days that I get sales in Cali. NOT coincidence. I need some good karma right now. I just went to an auction and have some great things to list, so I am excited!
As a practicing Buddhist, I feel it's my responsibility to inform you it's a little late to try to accumulate good karma if you need it by the middle of this month. You should've started long before this . . . 
@evry1nositswindy wrote:I posted a thread last month on some great customer service I received from eBay and my sales greatly improved. I was up from the last 30 days and was WAY up over last year. Then I posted a thread this week on getting charged insertion fees plus being charged store listings with no help from eBay. After that, my sale took a turn for the worst. Now my arrows are red instead of green, sales are down. Ghost town here with very little activity. Correlation or coincidence? Has anybody has this same experience? Just in case it's true...I love selling on eBay but my old knees are getting sore from jumping through all the hoops.
You were in the boat with quite a few other sellers that had an issue with the way some GTC listings renewed in July. There was a problem that Ebay has now fixed which allowed GTC listings that were originally created on July 1st to renew on July 31st. That should not have happen. They should have renewed on August 1st, but they did that too.
So it was the July 31st renewal that was incorrect. If you were charged any listings fees on your account for any of these listings, Ebay will be issuing you a credit in the next couple of weeks.
See Post # 2
Speaking for myself, August is typically the slowest month of the year for sales. End of summer, people on vaca, getting ready for back to school, etc. Just busy with the good things in life I guess.
