How is 2018?

[clubesquire]

Hi all,

It's fairly quiet here since just before Xmas.

Is this the norm, of perhaps just a trend with our type of product at this particular time?

No concerns. Just still learning and understanding it all.

In any event, best wishes for a great year for you all.

Melina.

[go-tazz]

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@enigmabear wrote:

100% dead for me

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Same here across two accounts,(5 listings)

[transport-posters]

Sales are non-existent for me.  Been this way since before Xmas.

I don't know why I keep trying to sell stuff on eBay, but the alternative sites are even worse.

[clubesquire]

Many are doing really well and that's fantastic.

I could be totally wrong here, but I did have a wee look about and it seems the more expensive items have slowed somewhat and ours are not $10 items.

I'm sure it's a seasonal thing with certain items, but not having been here for a Xmas before, i just wasn't sure.

best wishes to you all.

Melina.

[clubesquire]

You know TP, we've had a good close look at one that has just opened in Oz. It didn't take long for me to go very cold on it though. All sorts of reasons - a bit messy and subjective for here.

But, while ever eBay has the monopoly it has it will continue to be exactly the way it is now.

We sell elsewhere and thoroughly enjoy it. It's a real pleasure. Policy and culture is entirely different and I hope any future changes are for the better. The downside though, is that it's not as well known as eBay and traffic in comparison would be considered light - hence it can be some time between Cha-Chings!

 I just know this. When we were selling here say 10-12 years ago, we thoroughly enjoyed it then. Sadly, not now. I always feel like I'm tippy toing about, like an unwanted guest in someone else's bathroom.

oh well!!

Melina.

[drouin4]

100% dead here also with 600+ items spread over 4 accounts.

Nothing has sold in over a week.

I did sell a few things before and after xmas. 

[chameleon54]

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@clubesquire wrote:

Many are doing really well and that's fantastic.

I could be totally wrong here, but I did have a wee look about and it seems the more expensive items have slowed somewhat and ours are not $10 items.

I'm sure it's a seasonal thing with certain items, but not having been here for a Xmas before, i just wasn't sure.

best wishes to you all.

Melina.

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We sell items across a wide range of prices, starting at $6.95 and going into several hundred dollars. In our case it is the more expensive, rarer items that are selling well with one $250 item a couple of days ago, along with several at around $100 and another $125 item selling today, along with a few cheaper ones.

As mentioned before, we hold back and offer a range of specialist items in January that are targeted specifically at our business customers WHILE THEY ARE ON HOLIDAYS, working on their prize car or motorcycle projects in the home workshop. They buy from us now while on holidays and come back later for slightly different items targetting their business when they return to work.

Its a very effective strategy that not only carries us through the quiet January period, but builds our longer term business customer base.

[chameleon54]

Thought this one was worth a photo. To be honest I have never had a figure like this before and I suspect some people think I make this stuff up.   All up I havnt got any complaints about 2018 so far.

[clubesquire]

Oh,  dream of something like, especially if we were turning big numbers to start with.

Congrats. It's nice to see people doing well 🙂

Melina.

[chameleon54]

Thanks melina, that photo came from our smaller store tonight. This one still turns over a four figure sum each month, both 12 months ago and now so its not like I sold two things twelve months ago and four this month.  It is a genuine increase.

Call me suspicous, but I do wonder if things on ebay are generally slow and so the company may have reduced the restrictions it places on some stores just to try to generate some sales. If this is the case the stores may be operating in more of a open market at the moment. The flip side of this is that if things improve on ebay next month, the sales could become more regulated again and I could be back to my " normal ' numbers.

[davewil1964]

My store is up over 100% on 'this time last year' and has been for over a week. I think it peaked at around 139%. My sales have reduced to more normal levels this week, so I expect that figure to drop fairly quickly, fairly soon.

But, like you, the market is showing as >10% under. You could be right about sellers being away.