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Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

ezimedia — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 04:41:37 GMT

HI All

I am a long-term ebay member and have started selling on ebay again about 2 years ago and now have 1900+ active listing and I normally sell around 10 items per day and even more on the weekend... but for the past 48 hours there have been no sales... making me think ebay may have issues or something else going on...

Anyone super super slow with their sales.. or is it just me

Thx

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 04:45:35 GMT

Ebay are having huge amounts of issues, it would not surprise me if that has/is having an impact on many sales/sellers

Mine have been dead in the water for a long time, so I can't really comment from personal experience

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

*sparklz* — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 04:47:55 GMT

ebay turn the lights off to some stores at times as this is a frequent occurrence where lots of sales will happen over some time and then it is like items are not visible for a few days before they start selling again.

Of course ebay will never admit there is a problem but it happens so much.

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

ezimedia — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 04:51:52 GMT

That is what I was thinking too... like they just turn the store off whenever they like and turn it back on... so frustrating tho.

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

casbit33 — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 06:38:03 GMT

It's very hard to have sales when I can't list anything.

ebay is still trying to charge me $1.65 for my FREE listings.

It has been going on for over 2 weeks, and I am so sick of it.

I just don't know what to do.

I have contacted ebay several times, but it makes no difference.

I don't have enough confidence to list and try and get a refund for fees, as others are still waiting for their refunds.

It is really stressful as I rely on ebay for part of my income.

I also sell for other people who are desperately short of money.

I can't help them if ebay don't fix the problem soon.

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

twyngwyn — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 07:17:33 GMT

try listing this way: do everything as normal, but instead of 'listing now' click on 'save for later'.....wait a couple of minutes....go to 'complete draft'.....and it should be fee free with 3 x relists

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

pancaket52 — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 07:23:55 GMT

Or - another workaround is to open your saved Draft and if it is still trying to charge you a listing fee - go to the top right of your listing to Quick List ( or something like that) - this gave me the fee free listing + the extra 3 x free relists.

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

egglesdtp — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 10:51:20 GMT

I don't have a store, but I am experiencing the same thing - no sales at all this weekend. Normally weekends are my busiest times. My most recent sale was a single one last Thursday, another single last Wednesday and 9 sales last weekend.

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

transport-posters — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 22:05:46 GMT

Nothing happening here for almost a week. I have just about given up on eBay.

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

transport-posters — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 22:26:18 GMT

According to eBay's weekly email, the items people are most looking at recently include:

Pizza ovens

Gym equipment

Phone protection accessories

Floor sofas

And... Socks which say F*** OFF (true! And not censored in their email!)

Perhaps a subtle message to us small sellers who are failing here...

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

egglesdtp — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 22:36:42 GMT

Well no wonder I haven't sold anything.

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

chameleon54 — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 22:54:19 GMT

Like most stores, I have been moved over to the new seller hub thingy. One of the " features" is that it shows my performance as compared to the market average for my most used catagories. I dont know how reliable or accurate the graph is, but when comparing the length of my graph bar with ebays overall sales result it is consistently showing ebay sales are DOWN AROUND 45% compared to 12 months ago in my most used catagories.

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

clarry100 — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 00:26:55 GMT

Our category is traditionally slower on weekends.

But this weekend was about average (the new average we have to bear).

If we compare to the same week last year we were sending out 20-25 orders each day.

This year about 5 each day.

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

mbselections00 — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 07:16:10 GMT

Like a ghost town here also and as chameleon mentioned, if one can believe the new Seller Hub stats, sales down around 60% on same time last year - but who knows what you can believe here these days, although unfortunately it seems about right

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

simonn30 — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:37:05 GMT

Same here.

Sales down almost 50%. They just stopped for the weekend but have been slow since the new seller hub was rolled out.

As least I can upload photos again to list items again. Just cant sell anything

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

chameleon54 — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:29:09 GMT

My sales have been a bit on the slow side for the last two weeks. This follows on from around four weeks of excellent sales, so typical ebay.....swings and roundabouts.

I still had a reasonable number of parcels to pack after the weekend, but had plenty of time to take the wife out somewhere nice for brunch and also got the newspaper read, so slow sales can have its benefits.

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

performance_parts_clearance_centre — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 01:44:11 GMT

Our eBay store had a really good first two weeks, then just died on the 14th - 46 items sold from the 1st to the 13th, five items since. According to Seller Hub, down 12.6% over the last 31 days, down 24.9% on this time last year.

I don't understand the logic in eBay turning the lights out on stores - they get a 10% Final Value Fee on each sale; restricting sales is costing them money, not to mention the ill-will it generates from disgruntled sellers!

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

jjba6541 — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 23:37:59 GMT

I havent had a sale for almost 5 weeks.This is the first time with all my years with Ebay this has happened.I think there is something wrong somewhere.Ever since I started listing more the sales I have less sales..I have done all the things that Ebay gave suggested ,I spent ages listing identifiers and doing the 30 day return **bleep**.Free posting ect.still no luck.

Ebay is truly dead..I was having 10 or so sales a month regulary.But no more.

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

chameleon54 — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 08:27:22 GMT

JJba6541....

I,m getting some serious glitches when I try to search your items for sale. Three different attempts using different methods came up with error messages. Fourth attempt was succesful with 160+ listings. Fifth attempt also a failure.. Your feedback stars are showing zero stars and zero percent for item as described, but very good stars for the other catagories. Obviously that is not right.

Wether these glitches are just happening now or are constant I dont know, but could explain why you have not been able to sell anything for weeks.

Re: Anyone Else Having a Bad Weekend With No Sales

jjba6541 — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:05:09 GMT

So what should I do

I have another account with the same problem.bjlcr

Should I contact Ebay.

Thanks for checkeing this out