Yes extremely disheartening.
Over the past week we also have experienced an enormous drop in sales.
Down to around 10-15% of what it is in the good times for us.
We have heard on other forums that sellers selling on other avenues are not seeing this same huge drop, so from that it does appear to be ebay specific. To us it means that buyers are deserting ebay in their droves and looking elsewhere. With sellers leaving here and fees driving up prices there is not the range and price advantage to be had here any more. Not to mention the flood of cheap Chinese junk you have to compete with. In time ebay will become the place to go when you want to buy cheap Chinese rubbish. Those buyers will be welcome to it, in the meantime we will establish ourselves in the quality items marketplaces, they are out there.
So we are also now actively exploring other selling avenues including the launching of our own web site. Early signs are positive.
Once we can get these up to a level we are happy with we intend to scale back our selling on here dramatically or perhaps altogether.
It's just not worth the hassle for us these days.
With all their policy changes over this past year ebay have encouraged a very bad clientele of buyers who seem to be out to rip off sellers at every possible turn and we don't feel like being exposed to all this activity. Too nerve wracking. The dwindling returns we are getting are just not worth it.
