It seems that performance is down across the board at the moment.
Our sales have been depressed about 60% in the past few weeks.
When our BM ranking is down then our sales are down and vice-versa.
When our rankings are down what we see is a whole bunch of products located in China are above us. We believe this is what does the damage to us. IMHO the default search should be products located in Australia since this is eBay Australia, not eBay China. Then if buyers wish to change that default they can to include the world. But don't hold ya breath waiting for eBay to make that change!
Our DSR's are very high on both our stores. Mostly 5.0's. Couple of 4.9's.
Our NEG's are only 1 in more than 1,000 and 1,700.
So I don't beieve it's our performance as a seller that drags our BM rankings down.
We are unsure why BM rankings vary so much but for sure it is directly linked to sales volume.
Seems if for whatever reason your sales drop then your BM rankings drop as well. Then to get back up again you have to get more sales. But how do you do that when you are already on the bottom. What seems to happen is that a couple of returning customers will come back and buy and that seems to be the catalyst that kicks it along once again.
It's hard to make a living selling on here, so we are currently developing our own web site to try and hedge against this kinda thing happening.
