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Sales fell off a cliff

comicbooksonline — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 11:27:58 GMT

Anyone else just experienced a commplete fall off in sales from about 5 Days ago. Did Ebay make change?

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

jellybirddesigns — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 11:50:47 GMT

I had my slowest week in 4 years recently, which was the week before last.

It has picked up a bit, but I have noticed that sales have been lower by about 35% compared to last year.

On the other hand, another platform I sell on is up by almost 200%.

It's also end of financial year which might account for some of the drop.

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

davewil1964 — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 13:12:41 GMT

Mine have picked up since I've edited almost all 1500 of them to comply with eBay's new book and COMIC categories.

Might be worth a try.

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jjba6541 — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 21:26:23 GMT

Mine have come to a complete standstill..I have not sold a thing on one user name for 2 months and on another for 5 weeks.This year has been slow anyway but it looks like Ebay are cutting out the small time sellers now,..They say they aren't. but they are

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chameleon54 — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 22:55:05 GMT

Sales have been reasonably steady over the last week. They did slow for me around two weeks before the election and havnt really got back to the same level as before. Down around 25% on long term trend. This coincides with the fact I have not been putting the effort into ebay over the last few months due to other commitments.

I have been trying to get sheep through the breaking of the drought. Once it rains any dry feed is spoiled and it takes time for new feed to grow and bulk up. Combined with the onset of cold weather it is a difficult time for drought affected sheep. Fortunately the rains have come and the feed has grown enough now, the dams are starting to fill and the sheep are putting weight back on extremely quickly.

I have a bit of time now so will get some new listings up and try to restart things on ebay. It will be interesting to see if it works as well as it has in the past.

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

heihachi_73 — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 02:28:33 GMT

I had the lights come on over the weekend, shock horror. Regional windowing seems to be happening though, as five out of the last six sales have all been to WA (including one person with 0 feedback who bidded early, won with their single bid, and then didn't pay or even respond to the unpaid item case). Rest assured though, I will most likely be waiting another week or ten days for my next sale once the lights go back off!

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

comicbooksonline — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 08:21:20 GMT

Thanks starting to do that now

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

comicbooksonline — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 08:31:13 GMT

I keep wondering if small sellers are supposed to move to Gum Tree

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padraicpaul91 — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:13:55 GMT

If just talking about yours and my general category : Memorabilia, pop art and the like, I find times have been up and but mostly down for the past couple of years, particularly March to September. My direct competitors seem to be in the same boat.

We are after the discretionary purchase,after all, and people are tight. I also find the seasonal fluctuations have grown ever larger. This applies to my physical shop and to ebay.

So I am currently using every free ebay tool to get attention (through higher search listings and, hopefully,ebay generated emails to viewers and watchers) and hopefully make a sale or many. I relist regularly, starting an extended sale and sending offers when practical. If I can survive the winter I should be fine.

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

comicbooksonline — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:41:08 GMT

Thanks for the reply and insights

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

lilnosk-0 — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 03:49:54 GMT

Yes sales have died. I usually sell double or triple during school holidays but instead I am selling half waht I normally doing. Agree totally with the regional profiling. Happens all the time where I sell more than 50% of my items to one state on a regular basis

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

porcelain_dolls_by_me — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 09:07:24 GMT

Maybe time to take a well earned vacation and visit the Philippines for a little R&R.

At the same time locate and befriend one of the lovewly ladies that work for EBay in their support centre and try and get a bit of inside info on how their listing algorithms are progammed.

Just a thought, but the process has little downside!

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

heihachi_73 — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 22:33:31 GMT

And just like clockwork, not a single sale since my post on Tuesday, while Ms. Zero did not pay for her $2.50 item either and I received a fee credit.

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

pigletflew — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 22:41:46 GMT

I've started concentrating more on gumtree and facebook market place and getting good results. On ebay it seems I have to drop prices to sell as other sellers are dropping prices to get sales. Seems the economy is down atm

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

springyzone — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 23:18:22 GMT

What sort of things are you selling?

I've tried both those sites and sometimes I get a rush, other times hardly a view (on gumtree in particular). I feel like GTree is a ghost town.

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

dontmissthese — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 06:43:39 GMT

The RBA doesn't drop interest rates as a bonus to all of us for being good citizens.

Tax cuts likewise.

Things ARE slowing down.

Best thing to do is spend if you can.

When the spending tanks for too long the wheels will fall off.

The new wheels will be born from the losses sustained by

many thousands of people.

Market Correction is a euphemism for a situation where
thousands of minor financial catastophies occur.

Cheer up.

If you or your financial institution are not leveraged out the

wazoo then you should be just fine.

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

dazzledayz — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 03:47:22 GMT

Perhaps having 5.5 millon adults on low incomes has a bit to do with it:

Our population is 25.5 million (ABS figures)

Our working age population is 12.5 million (ABS figures)

Of which:

1.5 million are Unemployed

1.0 million are UnderEmployed

1.0 million are on disability or parenting payments

So that leaves 9 million potential spenders out of 25 million or 36%

Of that 36%, most are suffering the effects of wage stagnation and rising service and utilities prices.

In other words their budgets are, on average, tight.

Don't expect the 2 million age pensioners to pick up much slack; they don't earn much.

Best guess is maybe 29% or 30%, less than a third, of the people you see in the street can afford to buy from you.

Even though our esteemed govt likes to tell us the economy is in great shape, I think the numbers above may explain why sales are a bit anaemic ATM.

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

brad_and_el_auctions — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 04:01:08 GMT

I've been trying to buy a bunch of stuff since yesterday but checkout isn't working for me at all. So that may be contributing if others are having issues too.

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

dazzledayz — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 04:10:45 GMT

I wasn't even attempting to factor in eBay's nonsense but I'm sure that would knock a few out too.

When you find yourself competing in a contracting market it makes sense to ensure minimum friction occurs in the sale process.

That's a notion eBay have never paid much attention to.

Re: Sales fell off a cliff

heihachi_73 — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 05:43:33 GMT

I bought some stamps yesterday, didn't have any issues paying. One had instant payment enabled, another I had to click on Commit to Buy.