topic Re: dismal sales again in Selling

dismal sales again

lmckec2009 — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 23:24:00 GMT

2014 mid October-November sales 61

2015 mid October-November sales 45

2016 mid October-November sales 19 and have stopped

I have just joined sellers hub we will see

Happy christmas to all the helpful people on the discussion board X

Re: dismal sales again

knewdoors — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 05:21:55 GMT

agreed it's never been so bad..E-Bay is becoming No-Bay..meaning zero sales..sellers hub is more like a desert outpost..with the lights turned off..in a word ..woeful

Re: dismal sales again

phorum_junkie* — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 05:42:37 GMT

Have to agree unfortunately. It usually takes a couple of weeks for my sales to pick up after re starting to sell but this year after a promising few days sales just dried up completely. It is the first time in countless years I have sold nothing for 4 days on any of my ids.

Re: dismal sales again

stylesilver — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 05:44:19 GMT

Sorry to hear that it's still bad sales for you (pretty much same here). I would be very interested to hear what your impression rate is showing (It will say down a certain % percentage). Could you tell us how down that percentage is Imckek? But in all honesty I think you should then get out of sellers hub! I still think that was the start of my trouble. Anyone else of that opinion?- that sales dropped significantly when sellers hub appeared on their site/ store?

Re: dismal sales again

stylesilver — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 05:46:09 GMT

Are you using the Seller's Hub or did you change back?

Re: dismal sales again

chameleon54 — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:07:22 GMT

After months and months of stable sales, mine are trending lower too. I have to admit I havnt added any new listings for around 6 weeks, but even so it looks like a lean christmas period.

I have just had some auctions finish in the last few minutes on the non store account. Around ten out of thirty listings sold, but the competition and prices achieved where pretty dissapointing. This was for very good selling items that normally recieve animated bidding.

I suspect the problem is actually a lack of buyers in the market at the moment rather than technical problems with ebay, although those people switching to the new seller hub may be correct that the system is not working as it should. I havnt switched any accounts to the seller hub at this stage. I,m waiting for ebay to sort the glitches.

My guess is people are doing a lot of christmas shopping through alternate systems to ebay. With the uncertianty in the US elections and high utility costs, people are just being very careful with their money at the moment. I put a couple of low bids on rare collectable books a few days ago. They should have been worth $500 - $600 each. One sold for $120, the other $170. Way under value and a reflection of how cautious buyers are at the moment.

Re: dismal sales again

*tippy*toes* — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:03:52 GMT

Even my sales are slow and I normally still get sales when everyone else is off. It's OK though because I have a few things going on at the moment.

Re: dismal sales again

lmckec2009 — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 06:38:53 GMT

Hi again sellers hub down 55% X

Re: dismal sales again

phorum_junkie* — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 07:29:01 GMT

Not touched the seller's hub thingie yet, I got a last minute reprieve on my 4th dry day, somebody bought something after I went off to bed...............whoopie dooooooo, after everything comes off I probably made at least 3 bucks lol.

Re: dismal sales again

*tippy*toes* — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 11:46:37 GMT

3 bucks, woot! You can retire on that amount. Must be your shout!

Re: dismal sales again

stylesilver — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 23:54:27 GMT

Yes as we've been talking about before - mine totally stopped (I'm talking nooo sales !!) with sellers hub on! But since I've switched back to Seller Manager Pro (& not gone back at all to check it) still bad sales for this time of year BUT the sales are starting to come thru as a trickle, like 1 a day averaging maybe. But it's coming in like 2or 3 one day, then nothing for 2 days... BUT at least they are coming thru. Looks like NOV will still be at under half what they were last year! Talking to a retail shop yesterday & unusually slow for them too but she says its because this week is a busy week for lots of families... school exams, schoolies, recitals, She expects a pick up between now & Xmas still.. lets see if she's right! But if I were you I'd get out & stay out of sellers hub

Re: dismal sales again

phorum_junkie* — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:18:05 GMT

Lol Tippy, that is very close to the truth, the retiring bit.

I must post on the boards more often about not selling anything, got up to 3 sales this morning. Unfortunately one is a postage address nightmare, you know the ones. Put the state capital as the suburb and the suburb in above so you have to change it round. Well this one is even better, no suburb and there are 4 covered buy the same postcode, according to both AP and google maps the street address does not exist.(please insert one of Tippy's relevant smilies here)

Re: dismal sales again

performance_parts_clearance_centre — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 01:27:45 GMT

So far this year:

January (when we effectively started selling) - 10 items. $572

February - 76 items. $1602

March - 97 items. $1407

April - 103 items. $1996

May - 102 items. $1957

June - 90 items. $2159

July - 77 items. $1739

August - 183 items. $4553

September - 127 items. $2198

October - 128 items. $3058

November - 63 items. $1407

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