topic Re: Sales Stopped in Selling

Sales Stopped

rakem2011 — Mon, 24 May 2021 22:43:35 GMT

Just wondering if other sellers are finding that Sales have just stopped, it's like everything has been turned off, just seems strange or is it the time of year things seem to stop ??

Re: Sales Stopped

chameleon54 — Mon, 24 May 2021 23:15:06 GMT

Yes. I have three selling accounts and they all went to sleep on the 7th of May with terrible sales for the next week to ten days. I checked a couple of my competitors and they where having similar issues. Things are starting to improve now, but still not back to normal. I suspect one of the programmers at ebay pressed the wrong button when doing one of the constant changes to the site and broke the search system or something similar.

Re: Sales Stopped

jellybirddesigns — Mon, 24 May 2021 23:57:36 GMT

I had this happen recently. It literally went dead for 6-7 days.

It also happened earlier this year around March/April - sales dropped right down for about 3 weeks.

My international sales are absolutely non-existent, even though I'm getting them regularly on another site I sell on.

Re: Sales Stopped

twyngwyn — Tue, 25 May 2021 03:01:29 GMT

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2021/5/1621818847.html

Re: Sales Stopped

eol-products — Tue, 25 May 2021 03:32:40 GMT

Going by the lack of replies my guess it is only a few are down as I heard mention on the news recently retail spending was up. I just can't remember if it was both online and bricks & mortar or just one.

Re: Sales Stopped

south.coffee — Tue, 25 May 2021 09:55:29 GMT

a) Same here very quiet bordering on deathly... thinking of taking 2 weeks holiday. Everyone else has gone north, so might as well join them.

b) We switch to 'Mangled Payments' tomorrow and that brings anecdotal slow sales as many buyers have reported.

Re: Sales Stopped

davewil1964 — Tue, 25 May 2021 10:51:23 GMT

My numbers are down, but my profit is average. As is typical of eBay.

Re: Sales Stopped

eol-products — Tue, 25 May 2021 22:32:40 GMT

The only thing that slowed my sales on one account when it switched was I only had 8 listings otherwise there is no difference from what I have experienced. When I have bought something I have not noticed any listings appearing different to others that it would stop me buying from some sellers.

The only thing that may be different if ebay had a promo code recently that ended which I find slows sales as everyone bought sooner than later.

Re: Sales Stopped

eol-products — Tue, 25 May 2021 22:33:39 GMT

I notice week to week numbers change but not so much month to month unless i have increased my listings.

Re: Sales Stopped

lm-entertainment — Wed, 26 May 2021 07:56:12 GMT

i thought maybe it had something to do with the change / addition of new categories and all of my items being lumped into the wrong category automatically by ebay. i changed these items to the correct category - but because everyone else selling the same items was still in the category ebay had dumped them in, they were appearing better in search results.

maybe just coincidence - but i found my sales died around the time that happened. ended up changing my items back to the incorrect category (where all the sellers of similar items had their listings) and found things picked up again slightly.

Re: Sales Stopped

heihachi_73 — Wed, 26 May 2021 08:41:03 GMT

Sounds like eBay silently throttling sales as usual. Some sellers call it "lights on, lights off" syndrome, where you make a killing in sales, and all of a sudden nothing whatsoever for three weeks, and then go back to selling heaps of the exact same things that were listed the entire time as though your account found its way into a black hole in the space/time continuum.

Re: Sales Stopped

chameleon54 — Mon, 31 May 2021 21:48:42 GMT

@heihachi_73 wrote:
Sounds like eBay silently throttling sales as usual. Some sellers call it "lights on, lights off" syndrome, where you make a killing in sales, and all of a sudden nothing whatsoever for three weeks, and then go back to selling heaps of the exact same things that were listed the entire time as though your account found its way into a black hole in the space/time continuum.

Could be. The throttling thing used to be as clear as day with combined monthly store sales regularly the same, almost to the dollar, but that no longer seems to be the case. Sales do still seem to stop though for a period after a particularly good day.

Currently sales are back 30% on normal, but I have not done any listing for a month or so. That also seems to make a big difference.

Re: Sales Stopped

annieoakley2000 — Mon, 31 May 2021 22:08:43 GMT

My sales have never set the world on fire, but in the good old days I used to sometimes have to go to the post office twice a day, with buyers in the USA my biggest customers.

These days I hardly have any buyers, let alone overseas buyers and can hardly remember where the post office is located 😃😃😃😃

Re: Sales Stopped

annieoakley2000 — Mon, 31 May 2021 22:10:27 GMT

P.S will be removing the rest of my listings by June 18........

Re: Sales Stopped

umpteenbooks — Mon, 31 May 2021 22:53:13 GMT

Yep, May looked a little bit hopeful in the middle, then full stop since the 24th. It's like someone is playing psychological warfare with us....come here, come here......no get away, get away...... 😕