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Sales are non-existent on eBay, it's been almost two weeks since I sold an item.  Before this quiet period they were selling at a more steadier rate.  My guess is the local AU inflation problems and rate hike combined with rising AUD against USD (my #1 market).

I have also experienced a dramatic drop in sales in 2026. I have 620 listings currently and the only thing I have changed is to declare that I will not despatch to USA. The reason for that is that I will not get involved in the stupidity gnerated by that country's imposition of duties. However, I do not think that can affect my sales overall. In Australia there are some cost of living challenges but not of a magnitude that would stop people from buying on ebay. It feels like ebay has made a policy change or amended the visibility of listings but I have no specific indications of anything like that. Ebay's income must also have dropped so I hope they are on the case and can find a solution.

I have for the last 6 months it's gone dead and at the same time you're talking about I noticed if I look at an item some have an ability to send me an offer without me even watching the item which I find intrusive, so I think some sellers are definately getting unfair advantage or preference. I'm looking at other options especially with fees being charged on postage which is not provided by them, I deal directly with Aus Post, and can't be legal. You can't charge for something you're not providing.

I figured it possibly had something to do with the new promoted listings 2.0 thingy. All my items are promoted at 2% but yeah my sales are down heaps too. 

The auction item mentioned in previous posts ended up with over 100 views and 14 watchers. It sold with two bids for around $160 so bidding did not reflect interest. All up I have had my best week for many months but it is related to buying a lot of high quality stock at garage sales over the long weekend and doing around 70 new listings for the week. Sales have still been very strong over the last couple of days but i,m constantly listing new stuff. 16 new listings today.

It seems there are still buyers out there for the rare stuff, but i,m working it fairly hard to keep the sales ticking over. My listing numbers are rising rapidly to sit around 25% higher than normal. ( Currently  2500 listings compared to 1800 - 2000 normally ) A sign not everything is selling.

Eldon Trusk?

This past 7 days been absolutely dead and nothing happening on ebay at all. I just don't get it. 

my sales have plummeted especially in the last two weeks. I list 5 to 10 items every day and used to get at least 2 or 3 sales a day. im now only getting 1 or 2 sales a week!  I thought it was just me and that i was doing something wrong. 

Sales have been a bit soft for a few weeks for me. I suspect Trump has got the whole globe spooked. Couple that with Albo dithering over the election date and the Cyclone affecting the eastern seaboard and its not surprising things are quiet.

My Post office reports the same thing as others have mentioned. Mail throughput has slowed quite dramatically since January, so not just an ebay problem.

I did pick up a rare collectable at the garage sales yesterday. Listed it for auction around an hour ago for $150. ( cost me a couple of dollars ) Its had 8 looks and 3 watchers which is pretty good when compared to the other 40 auctions I have listed this weekend. ( only one bid so far on the other auctions ). Shows there are still a few people interested in the rare stuff and something must be working on ebay.

'Something weird going on'...

Yeah, this is getting ridiculous now - apart from everything else, since yesterday, numerous storefronts (including my own) are having trouble loading. It seems to be across the whole platform, on all devices, and the glitches could be reason why listing views and sales have been way down for weeks, with reports of people having trouble with search engines, etc. So the normal traffic just isn't happening.

Typically, eBay have said bugger all about it - just the usual 'we'll elevate the issue to the relevant team'.

Quite a few other people have come to this board asking the same or similar thing, so it must be affecting a lot of sellers, I would think. 

yes, exactly the same happening here. This week no sales, only a couple of sales each week for the last few weeks. wonder if Amazon is taking over all the customers or eBay is not doing enough promotions/marketing.

Yes, January was a solid month of activity, but views and sales have declined rapidly, especially from overseas, since early Feb. This past week has been the worst in memory.

Back to school, cost-of-living, upcoming elections always are a factor, but I think you can pin-point it to the day to when Trump and Musk started up the chainsaws, and there's a very good chance tarriffs will be added at some point this year to sales to the US. With such doubt and uncertainty, people close their wallets. 

The local post office is also reporting the same thing - overall packages have declined each and every week, both incoming and outgoing, since early Feb.

Sadly, this feels like the new normal for quite some time.

Year to date (Jan to current) our Ebay sales are up 27% on last year.   sales conversion up 0.5%.  Hard to get YoY figures for views and impressions.  but overall Ebay appears healthy from my POV

Yes I’ve experienced exactly the same thing! I even phone eBay help yesterday to check everything was ok on my account. I was told other sellers had enquired about the same. It just seems very weird as sales have been very high during January and dropped off a cliff about 10 days ago. I usually sell at least, and I’m lucky to sell even 1, several days in last couple of weeks have sold none at all. Something that hasn’t happened in probably years. Also the number of watchers is right down as well. So far I’ve not been able to find out any reason why this is the case.