no sales in almost 3 days, 1000 items with best offer

[kevincal20]

what a joke, seems something is going on here... i made some nice sales friday from auctions i had, and zip since. almost 3 days and no sales, no best offers. NOTHING. Nice... I guess its true, have heard people say that ebay sometimes hides or turns off peoples listings or something like that. who knows.

PS - I hate amazon. i hate apple too.

[charity_scents]

So far this month I've had one sale under $20. Highly unusual. I've not been listing new things so far this month, but have been revising existing listings. 
At least I've gotten a contract on my house that is for sale!!  

[luckythewinner]

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@kevincal20 wrote:

 I guess its true, have heard people say that ebay sometimes hides or turns off peoples listings or something like that. who knows.

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Or it could simply be that your listings are not competitive.

The first listing of yours I saw was your used, worn empty Whitman liberty head nickel folder 9007.

A search for liberty head nickel 9007 shows 38 results, and sorted by price your total cost ($18.29) was the most expensive one. There are sellers with brand new copies for $6.59 with shipping included. Evewith your 5% off sale, your price is is 177% higher than a new one.

If the sold listings for liberty head nickel 9007 one can seen that not single one has sold in your price range in at least three months.

[kevincal20]

when you have 1000 or more listings, prices get moved around over the months and some prices become out of whack. you cant use 1 of my 1000 listings and say ALL my listings are overpriced. 😉 also, I do have the best offer option available.

but ya, I do a lot of raising and lowering prices and I have no employees so trying to manage 1000 or more listings and have everything perfect and no mistakes and no prices too high is impossible.

most of my prices are very fair, or else I would never sell anything. like I said in my original post, the last 3 days sales have dropped to zero, does not mean im not a successful seller month to month because im very successful overall.

[luckythewinner]

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@kevincal20 wrote:

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you cant use 1 of my 1000 listings and say ALL my listings are overpriced

I did not say all of your listings are overpriced. I simply stated that your listings could be uncompetitive and gave you example of one that seemed vastly overpriced.

most of my prices are very fair, or else I would never sell anything

I did not say most of your prices are not fair or that you had not sold anything. I simply pointed out that the first item I checked seemed vastly overpriced. 

the last 3 days sales have dropped to zero, does not mean im not a successful seller month to month

I did not say you were not a successful seller month to month. I simply pointed out that the first item I checked seemed vastly overpriced.

Did you post here looking for help, or did you just come here for reassurance that  eBay must be "doing something" to you?

[zamo-zuan]

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@luckythewinner wrote:

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@kevincal20 wrote:

 I guess its true, have heard people say that ebay sometimes hides or turns off peoples listings or something like that. who knows.

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Or it could simply be that your listings are not competitive.

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Of course competitive listings have a place in eCommerce.

But in the current design of eBay's system, I don't think this is a legitimate reason or excuse for a sudden drop.

Why? Because if it were down to simple competition, then eBay would not be making any money on their Sponsored Listings feature.

Sponsored listings are more expensive than listings that don't pay that fee. Sellers have to put up the sale price in order to pay the sponsorship fee. 

So the only possibilities as a result of this are:

1) EBay is not making any money on the sponsorship feature because it's making listings less competitive.

or

2) EBay is guiding buyers to listings that are NOT the most competitive in order to make those sponsorship bucks. 

Judging by the amount of sponsorship fees on our invoices, it's clear what's going on.

We might be able to argue over what might be causing these drops. But one thing that is certain and not arguable, is that guiding sellers to listings that are more expensive throws a wrench in any sort of design that uses traditional marketing or economic sense. 

We can't apply standard marketing and economic principles of competitiveness here here. Because eBay's design does not support those principles. 

[ed8108]

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@kevincal20 wrote:

does not mean im not a successful seller month to month because im very successful overall.

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Since selling on eBay is financially rewarding, basically you are in good shape.

Sometimes greater financial rewards result from increased time & effort devoted to selling.

Wishing you continued selling success.

[luckythewinner]

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@zamo-zuan wrote:
Sponsored listings are more expensive than listings that don't pay that fee. Sellers have to put up the sale price in order to pay the sponsorship fee. 

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If I sell 100 items at $5 profit I make $500.

If I sell 400 items at $3 profit ([paying $2 per item in promotion fees), I make $1200.

You are entirely dismissing the idea that a seller might keep his prices the same in exchange for sales volume.

I think that is an unrealistic assumption.

[goldrushfinds]

@kevincal20 wrote:
I guess its true, have heard people say that ebay sometimes hides or turns off peoples listings or something like that. who knows.

Or it could simply be that your listings are not competitive.



The first listing of yours I saw was your used, worn empty Whitman liberty head nickel folder 9007.



A search for liberty head nickel 9007 shows 38 results, and sorted by price your total cost ($18.29) was the most expensive one. There are sellers with brand new copies for $6.59 with shipping included. Evewith your 5% off sale, your price is is 177% higher than a new one.



If the sold listings for liberty head nickel 9007 one can seen that not single one has sold in your price range in at least three months.


Oh come on. The guy has got over 1,000 diverse listings. I don't care if the wording on some of the listings are optimal or not. When you have that many listings you should be getting at least a few sales each day, just based on sheer numbers. If not, than the site your selling on stinks.

[m60driver]

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@goldrushfinds wrote:
Oh come on. The guy has got over 1,000 diverse listings. I don't care if the wording on some of the listings are optimal or not. When you have that many listings you should be getting at least a few sales each day, just based on sheer numbers. If not, than the site your selling on stinks.

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Or perhaps it is just the season that stinks, the middle of the summer when the maximum number of people are on vacation.

[tunicaslot]

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@luckythewinner wrote:

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@zamo-zuan wrote:
Sponsored listings are more expensive than listings that don't pay that fee. Sellers have to put up the sale price in order to pay the sponsorship fee. 

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If I sell 100 items at $5 profit I make $500.

If I sell 400 items at $3 profit ([paying $2 per item in promotion fees), I make $1200.

You are entirely dismissing the idea that a seller might keep his prices the same in exchange for sales volume.

I think that is an unrealistic assumption.

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Lucky you're missing the point - most sellers incorporate free shipping, promoted listings ect into the sale price - thus upping it over a competitors. Many can't afford to go the route of sales volume like the overseas sellers especially with higher ship costs and employees to pay.

[gracieallen01]

Or, perhaps everybody was waiting for Prime Day.  The cashier at the thrift store I went to this morning was heard to say, "Oh, that's right, isn't today Prime Day?"

[kathieskorner]

I agree something unusual has been going on here.  While I don't use best offer, I have listed 80 items on each of my four accounts over the past four days and have not made one sale despite having a total of over 500 listings.  Of those items just listed - only my crafts and supplies account has received much in the way of traffic which in itself is unusual.

Last July was my best month of 2018 - this July I've sold a total of 6 items - only one of which was over a weekend - also highly unusual.   

I do believe that not paying extra fees by using sponsored listings is part of the reason my sales are almost non-existent, but I refuse to give eBay any more in the way of fees especially with so many technical issues plaguing the site.   Every day I get an error message just for trying to login - and a couple more when listing items.   I just can't condone extracting additional fees from sellers desparate for sales.    Those paying those fees are just encouraging eBay to come up with more ways to squeeze sellers.  

[kathieskorner]

I don't believe slow eBay sales have anything to do with the 4th of July or Amazon Prime Day - both occurred in previous years.

[gracieallen01]

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@kathieskorner wrote:

I don't believe slow eBay sales have anything to do with the 4th of July or Amazon Prime Day - both occurred in previous years.

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Then, I would think that, perhaps, ebay's Crash Day sales event may have gone unnoticed by some buyers.  But, it is still early.