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a massive decline in sales on Ebay

daintreejudi — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 02:26:58 GMT

Is anyone else experiencing a decline in sales? I cannot believe how bad it has got, my sales have been reduced by more than half for same time last year, having problems keeping up with relisting fees, only ones making any money is Ebay

Re: a massive decline in sales on Ebay

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 02:33:05 GMT

Tis' pretty **bleep**ola, for sure

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*tippy*toes* — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 02:50:30 GMT

No problems here. I do have to ask though, why are you paying relisting fees? Only crazy people do that. I use the 40 free a month for non store and take advantage of free listing promotions when they pop up. Never paid a listing fee in my life. If my items don't sell, I don't pay a cent. I refuse to give eBay any more than what they already get.

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typhoon4u — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 02:57:57 GMT

May, June were really bad. I saw a slight spike after the election but now back to 50%.

Monday morning I'm usually packing and posting from the weekend. This Monday...... nothing.

SMP and paypal graphs show the damage!

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kopenhagen5 — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 04:03:46 GMT

I am only an occasional seller but it's the quietest I have known in 8 years.

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6508.froggy — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 09:30:26 GMT

Hi Daintree

Thinks have been a little quite however my sales appear to be chugging along. I sell similar items to yourself and find "Buy it Now" is the better option for me. No longer do any auctions.

Feel with collectables if I set a reasonable price and someone wants that item they are more likely to buy it now immediately than wait for an auction to finish.

Might be worth thinking about.

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maxbelltrading — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:16:53 GMT

Its the new Google and they are killing the web. It is not just eBay but many other ecommerce websites. It just gets worse and worse every month. This place has become a ghost town!.. i used to have 5-10 sales each day. I am lucky to have one per week nowdays. Dead as dead can be!

I'm a website developer and SEO specialist.

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davewil1964 — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:49:41 GMT

I have 1-2 sales per day. Last year I had 1-2 sales per day. The year before probably 1-1 sales per day.

My last financial year profits from eBay were 10% above the previous, which was lineball with the one before. Admittedly, I used my non-store accounts to pre-list and made about 100 sales which I may or may not have sold if I'd put them in my store.

it seems to revolve around what people are selling and their strategies. There are certainly sellers who feel they have to be the lowest price. I don't. I sell, when the same items offered for less are still there. It could be my 100% feedback, it more likely is the fact that I provide a synopsis of the book I am selling. Not for the synopsis, but more for the fact that I obviously take a bit of time and effort in my listings.

Who knows? Not me, but I am quite happy with my sales; less so with eBay's defect system.

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davidc4430 — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 11:07:11 GMT

this subject gets a run about once a week.

the problem as i see it is competition, ebay today has masive competition from the ever increasing internet shopping world.

ebay began as a buy/swap/sell type site then became a buy or sell site.

then all the fees began building up, so lots of sellers are moving on to creating their own sites.

as a buyer you can google what you want and most of the time ebay isnt the top site that comes up.

as much as i buy on ebay i find better prices on a lot of things outside ebay. i guess i'm not alone there.

as a seller i do ok but i'm a niche seller, that helps.

Re: a massive decline in sales on Ebay

aandnb — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 23:23:10 GMT

@davidc4430 wrote:
this subject gets a run about once a week....

as a buyer you can google what you want and most of the time ebay isnt the top site that comes up.

Thats the problem realy. Ebay are no longer a google favourite. I'll be surprised if ebay now gets even half the amount of shoppers traffic it used to get from google. This plus a bad economy gives the perfect storm.

I wish everyone would stop using google for searches. Google are simply destroying the web.

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x3n0m — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 04:29:52 GMT

ebay is a great place to buy cheap stuff from china as auspost subsidises their postage and no way an aussie can compete .. ebay and the American chamber of commerce thrive on that lopsided play-field and exploit our traitorous governments custom made subsidised guaranteed money reaper at every turn .. the Australian Government is completely onboard and adds fuel to the fire by making the aussie marketplace attractive for offshore businesses to exploit us (they call it investing) whilst making aussie businesses uncompetitive and vulnerable to anti competitive exploitation (monoploy practices) they remove tarrifs which were trade barriers to slave made goods from third world coutries and sent virtually all our manufacturing industry overseas and then blather on about how they are creating jops .. the whole thing is a disgusting traiterous fraud agaisnt the humble aussie even bothering to try and elevate their position unless they are prepared to resort to criminal activities and fraudulent accountancy practices or move offshore so they can run a successful business ripping aussies a new one.. I used to run a business once too .. its the new economy (its in the Cayman Islands; a tropical island paradise for and by the British Elite) .. enough said ..

Re: a massive decline in sales on Ebay

collect247 — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 04:37:01 GMT

Really stop using google please,google is the main stream so I can't see everyone stop using it lol.

There are plenty of other sites out there to sell on and way more cheaper.

There you go ebay that's from all the sellers hands you bit that once fed you haha

Re: a massive decline in sales on Ebay

imastawka — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 05:14:54 GMT

I wish everyone would stop using google for searches. Google are simply destroying the web

How do you do that? Use Bing instead?

Please tell me how to search for stuff without using google.

Re: a massive decline in sales on Ebay

dazzledayz — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:59:35 GMT

Pick one of these:

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imastawka — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 10:20:03 GMT

Re: a massive decline in sales on Ebay

maxbelltrading — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 09:25:41 GMT

Check this pro webmaster discussion following a recent google upheaval. Most of those webmasters are running ecommerce online stores. It will give you an idea of whats going on with Google recently.

https://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4811319.htm

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lurehouse — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 18:22:14 GMT

I am down 80% in the last month, I used to send out 5 parcels per day now it is like 5 parcels per week, in 11 yeasrs selling on ebay i have never seen this before...........................................

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jjba6541 — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 22:11:52 GMT

I have a lot of watches and no buyers.When Ebay first started I had around 50 sales a month.I stopped selling for a number of years and started back about 3 years ago.I was getting around 7-8 sales a week then but it has dwindled to about 4-7 a month.Hardly worth the time listing.Glad I dont have to pay the listing fees on the ones I list

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masterstroke.eng — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 22:56:28 GMT

Agree 100% with your comment majority of my sales are dvds which are shipped internationally i dont even bother now with most second hand gear just not worth the hassle Ihave better results on FaceBook BSS Fees are a killer and the fear ebay"s return policy .I recently got hit up for return shipping ($150) on an large item cause the buyer said it was faulty ,only to find it worked perfectly

Re: a massive decline in sales on Ebay

celtic_vintage — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 00:28:19 GMT

Mine has been going better than a year ago.The secret is to have uncommon stuff at reasonable prices,offer free postage and have several ids.