topic Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped? in Selling

Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

key_mart_au — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 23:17:19 GMT

The last 2 weeks have been the worst ever for sales for me. I just checked my traffic report, and at the same time last month I was averaging 10-15 visits per day. All of a sudden traffic has dropped to virtually zero for about 7 days running. I hadnt had even 1 zero day last month.

Dropping prices to less than cost hasnt helped. What is going on? Please help - another week like this and its no longer worth it. Sell off any remaining stock and leave Ebay after 10 years.

😞

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

saarzi — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:31:27 GMT

The same thing happening to me.
Past two/three weeks I have sold almost nothing, with no traffic.
I put everything on 20% sale for five days and didnt sell even one item!
I am currently refreshing everything /new title, description etc... no difference.

I suspect Ebay is throttling again to get rid of another batch of small sellers.

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

dotm2004 — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:41:37 GMT

I just came in to put up the very same message !!

My balance dropped to the lowest EVER in years yesterday and hardly a sale coming up .... I was thinking of emailing my regulars to see what I'm doing wrong, but it seems to be the case with everyone ....

What to do ??

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

saffire41 — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 01:32:53 GMT

I have regular buyers, and they seem to have stopped buying too ... My sales are the lowest EVER ... I have tried everything .... I suppose I'll just hang in there for now?.

I sell clothing, and maybe get onto the winter items ? Although my friends in Queensland say they're sweltering !!

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

clarry100 — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 01:33:58 GMT

On the other hand we have been cruising pretty solidly this past week.

Sales are up but not up to pre-Xmas levels. But that is to be expected.

Better than this time last year.

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

helenm777 — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 02:09:12 GMT

Yep same here very slow

but sold 1 today to USA with the exchange rate you would think international sales would be increasing

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

dotm2004 — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 02:23:31 GMT

It's been really puzzling for me.

I don't do BIN and usually have a lot of sales 'down the track'. Then yesterday, everything which had previous bids sold, but then there's hardly anything for the next 10 days ?

Hopefully, it will pick up soon .... and it's good to see that at least one of us (clarry) is going okay .... gives me hope 🙂

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

moonia99 — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 02:28:45 GMT

As a buyer and a seller I have to tell you that my selling accounts that have buy it now are absolutely dead,not a sale.

But my auctions are going through the roof so it seems buyers are buying mainly through auctions well in my case anyway.

But here is the crazy thing,the auction prices are selling higher than the BIN so I'm glad for this but buyers need to sometimes realise that all the thrills they get from bidding in auctions, they would but not always, get a better price if they just paid for BIN.

This is what I have noticed anyway.

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

dotm2004 — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:02:31 GMT

Well, I only sell via auction, and I though maybe change to Buy It Now ..... well, now I don't know.

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

joethenuts — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:12:40 GMT

in 40 years experence in retail you should always change things stock mix buy-now and auctions give the customer a range give great service and you will get your price give buyers pick up options , there are a lot of cases were postage are more than the object you will find buyers will travel to pick up [ you can onnly try]

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

billexploited — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:26:20 GMT

Actually for the first time in a long time my sales went up. I gave up quicksales (I had no traffic there) and advertising on gumtree which suprisingly increased my sales on ebay! And we did have a market stall on a sunday which we made a very small profit.

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

2*much*cute*stuff — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:47:31 GMT

Well I just had one of my regular buyers tell me she couldn't find my items for a few weeks, when I've been listing every. single. week. So if she couldn't find them - how could anybody else? Seems Ebay's playing with people's listings again!!

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

dotm2004 — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 04:04:57 GMT

Hmmmmmm .... that makes me wonder ..... I have about 6 regulars, and there are always a couple of them with quite a few bids on .... At present, there is not one. I might do about of chasing up to find out.

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

expanded_perceptions — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 06:22:07 GMT

@key_mart_au wrote:
The last 2 weeks have been the worst ever for sales for me. I just checked my traffic report, and at the same time last month I was averaging 10-15 visits per day. All of a sudden traffic has dropped to virtually zero for about 7 days running. I hadnt had even 1 zero day last month.

Dropping prices to less than cost hasnt helped. What is going on? Please help - another week like this and its no longer worth it. Sell off any remaining stock and leave Ebay after 10 years.

😞

Last months sales for me were 50% down on my average, then suddenly this month I had a surge at the beginning of the month and have already surpassed last month, still about 40% off my average and should reach my average again. But I certainly agree, very quiet in terms of watchers, views, and enquiries. I honestly feel like the there are weeks that I am on the 'dark side' of the moon?

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

i-love-my-sheep — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 06:24:51 GMT

This is my quietest week since well before Christmas. I'm not worried though as it gives me time to catch up on a few things. I've got 4 items with bids at the moment and someone hit a BIN last night.

All my listings are auctions, with the BIN option. I get a mix of both. Some just hit the BIN button, others are happy to wait for the auction to run its course. I had one buyer a couple of weeks ago hit the BIN button with less than 2 minutes to go on the auction. Not sure what happened there. She was a low feedback buyer, so may have hit the wrong one. She was very excited about getting it, said it was a gift for her sister. She gave me the loveliest feedback, so she must have been happy.

I did sell one thing last week that has been relisting over and over and over for nearly 12 months. Someone bid and I thought yay, I'm finally going to get rid of it! Then someone else bid. Then someone else bid!! I was shocked that it sat there for so long, week in, week out, then suddenly 3 people wanted it.

Hang in there everyone. Winter is coming and people don't want to venture out when it's cold. I'm sure it will pick up for everyone soon.

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

lane-ends — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:00:37 GMT

For about a month now sales have been about 30% of last years. It started dropping once they had the 10,000 free listings etc promotions.

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

dotm2004 — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:07:55 GMT

Pardon my ignorance, but how do you check your 'traffic report' ??

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

lizzy6107 — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:17:19 GMT

I am pleased to see that it's not just me (- not pleased that everyone is having poor sales)..

I average 80-120 sales every month for the last 18months.. This month, past half way, have sold just 10 things.

Very strange, but like I said, if its happening to everyone, at least I know ebay aren't punishing me for something or other!

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

key_mart_au — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:20:53 GMT

Traffic report is an option under marketing tools for me.

A couple of sales today but margins are so slim hardly worth it...

Re: Why has my traffic and Sales Stopped?

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:49:09 GMT

i tested something out and was not surprised at the result

i had 600 active listings.. around half of them ended and i didnt relist them straight away as i was going away for a week

i did put my shop in holiday mode but not "hide listings"

i sold about the same amount with 300 active listings as i was when i had 600 listings

i have since relisted most of them and am back to about 550 active. Still no increase.. sales about the same

proved that us sellers are definitely "silently throttled" no matter how many we list.. but i digress..

As for the last week.. was decent saleswise until 2 days ago.. almost stopped to a screaming halt

This year is definitely down on last year for me but not by much