We have generally had a 5% ad rate until last month. The economy is
tanking and we are having to fight for every sale. We are currently
running a 16% ad rate just to compensate for the drop. We can barely
keep our sales holding steady. We dropped alm...
This affects part sellers more than any other seller. Our buyers
typically look at the photo and buy it without knowing if the part is
compatible with their appliance. This causes really high return rates.
If I were to report these, it would be a ful...
Our sales dipped 45% from last month. We made no change whatsoever in
our approach to cause such a drop. Worst we have seen in years. We had
to drop our employees down to 1-2 days a week which hurt our hearts.
These are good, small town people who do...
This is typical for us as well. We too sell used appliance parts and get
about a 3% theft rate. We have never won a case and we actually factor
that into our accounting as "theft" , or if broken "shrinkage". We
accept this as a cost of doing business...
We have some months that we explode in sales for multiple months in a
row with no returns and are capping $4-$6k / week. Then we have a month
like May this year where we dropped 45% in sales overnight without
warning for seemingly no rhyme or reason....