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No Sales on ebay

shed_clean_up — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 03:09:13 GMT

whats going on with sale on ebay there droping ever day i'm down to 3-4 sales a day now was 15 -20 a day this time last year
??

Is anyone else having the same problems Is getting really really frustrating I noticed eBay are giving more deals to the big Boys discount there items 40% to 50% percent

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stylesilver — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 03:31:54 GMT

Same Here- sales have quartered, for me. I have increased the no. of items I'm selling by approx.1/3 - soon as I did that my sales dropped by 3/4s. This time last year people were starting to Xmas shop. But NO sign of that happening. Any others finding this?

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stylesilver — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 03:49:03 GMT

ALSO - Does ANYONE know what's happened to "RELIST UP TO 3 TIMES FOR FREE" - I'm not getting offered that anymore. That has made my monthly shop costs skyrocket. Anyone still getting the offer? Thanks

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shed_clean_up — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 03:49:08 GMT

hey is been going down all year it may be time to start spending the same about as the ebay fee's on SEO if this keeps up

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annies_fancy_dress — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 03:50:02 GMT

Xmas shopping shouldn't start until after Halloween (31st Oct)
Just like they shouldn't put easter decorations out so early.

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clarry100 — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 03:50:51 GMT

Yes we are down about 50% compared to the same time last year.

But B&M stores are feeling this too. I think people are nervous about spending.

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*tippy*toes* — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 04:00:58 GMT

@annies_fancy_dress wrote:
Xmas shopping shouldn't start until after Halloween (31st Oct)
Just like they shouldn't put easter decorations out so early.

The last few years Easter eggs and hot cross buns have been available here from Boxing Day onwards. It's ridiculous. You can't even get over one event before the next one is shoved in your face. Some people do like to start very early for Christmas. There are houses all over the place here that have had their Christmas lights on since mid September. Some of those places have big front windows and the Christmas tree is right in the middle of the window, complete with wrapped presents stacked high under it. There are other places that do all the Christmas light thing and they start decorating from early September, but they don't actually turn them on until Dec 1. It takes them that long to get everything set up and ready.

My sales have been up and down. I had a couple of weeks where it was quite wishy washy and the last 2 weeks has picked up again. Still nothing to rave about, but enough to keep me going. I don't depend on this income though, eBay is just money to cover the bills so that more of my regular job earnings can stay in my pocket. I always seem to do better after the 100 free listing promotions. I also always seem to do better if I have over 100 active listings. Once it drops below 100 things die off. I have no idea why that is, but it's always been that way for me. I run auctions that also have a BIN option, so not even like I depend on best match rankings. People looking for auctions generally search by time ending soonest.

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twyngwyn — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 05:04:34 GMT

I'm still getting it...but you don't if you run a 'business'

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twyngwyn — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 05:57:53 GMT

There are no insertion or advanced listing upgrade fees for automatically relisting this item. This relisting won't count against monthly free-insertion-fee limits. Final value fees still apply. Selling Manager automation rules take precedence if used to relist and applicable selling fees for each relist will apply.

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stylesilver — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 01:26:27 GMT

Thanks Twyngwyn for posting that - Could you please tell me where that appears . I dont get that anywhere when I'm listing something (or relisting) 😞

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homeopathmichele57 — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 06:01:39 GMT

Disasterous all year.

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knewdoors — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 07:13:21 GMT

keep saying.. same here..the ebay experience is drudgery compared to previous years..sales down by 65% to 70% compared to last year..yet ebay's fees increase & for what??. site..and everything else haven't changed in years..the "alta vista" or "myspace" of auction sites..ebay satchels are another "racket"..posted an item to a customer early this week to sydney metro address and get told by Australia post it wont be there till early next week..insult to injury..ebay takes a slice from that postage cost..whatever happened to putting things in the post box prior to 6pm and having it delivered the next day??? ebay is no fun anymore

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justcruising49 — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 07:19:03 GMT

Once you hit a certain amount of sales you automatically loose the relist free feature -I have never had it at all

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davewil1964 — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:28:41 GMT

@knewdoors wrote:
keep saying.. same here..the ebay experience is drudgery compared to previous years..sales down by 65% to 70% compared to last year..yet ebay's fees increase & for what??. site..and everything else haven't changed in years..the "alta vista" or "myspace" of auction sites..ebay satchels are another "racket"..posted an item to a customer early this week to sydney metro address and get told by Australia post it wont be there till early next week..insult to injury..ebay takes a slice from that postage cost..whatever happened to putting things in the post box prior to 6pm and having it delivered the next day??? ebay is no fun anymore

You would have to ask eBay that.

eBay have a lot to answer for, but Australia Post delivery times isn't one of them.

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fairlaneltd — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:47:50 GMT

Been doing ebay for a while now, sales are up and down, I also have my own web site, and sell through gumtree and face book, l know one thing is Ebay and paypal is tearing me a new **bleep** with there fees

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x3n0m — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 22:06:00 GMT

If you were around here 10 years ago you would easily see that the rot of diminished sales is a direct result of ebay deleting thousands of logical sub categories and replacing them with item specifics so as to launch their incredibly dodgy and in my opinion criminal "best match default" system .. they called it "disruptive innovation" and your average seller has seen diminishing returns for effort ever since .. no surprise that sales are going from bad to worse as that has been the trend year in year out for at least 9 years .. basically buyers simply have trouble locating your items unless they specifically search for it via the heavily spammed and near dysfunctional keyword search tool whilst ebay insiders and those who know how to game the system are at the top of every page of search results which spew forth from the near satanic ebay cassinni ssrver like a delusional madman's breakfast ..

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*tippy*toes* — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 13:04:02 GMT

I think the only way to succeed these days is to live in China. Some of the things I sell are also available from China and their auctions will end 10 times higher than mine do. Given that the Chinese are always at the top of the search results, for pretty much every category, it makes sense theirs are going to sell for a much higher price.

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padi*0409 — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 01:28:56 GMT

Yes and eBay's still messing with search parameters, I have one of my "followed seaches" as "hibachi" and up until recently it showed mostly Japanese Hibachies, then a week or so ago nothing in there for their hibachies at all.

The only way I can see their listings is to search for "Japanese Hibachi" which then knocks out the ones that aren't Japanese.....grrrrr.

I'm now wondering how many more of my saved searches have been similarly butchered by yet another eBay "improvement"...........

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briansoldstuff — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 05:27:30 GMT

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clarry100 — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 06:17:14 GMT

@*tippy*toes* wrote:
I think the only way to succeed these days is to live in China. Some of the things I sell are also available from China and their auctions will end 10 times higher than mine do. Given that the Chinese are always at the top of the search results, for pretty much every category, it makes sense theirs are going to sell for a much higher price.

Tippy,

My wife is Chinese and she will be going over to China before Xmas. We are seriously considering opening a Chinese registered selling ID in China and then list & sell thru ebay.AU as we do now. Of course our products will all be located here and shipped form here. Prices will reflect AU prices not Chinese prices but we would have them beaten hands-down on postage time. LOL.

We have wondered if because the ID would be registered in China we might get up higher in the search results just because of that alone.

Gotta be worth the experiment methinks.

Wonder if we can get away with blue murder and break every policy in the book too as they seem to?