topic Re: Sales drop in Selling

Sales drop

dinosaurman00 — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 04:01:43 GMT

Have been selling items consistently until last week. Some days 5 or more sales and even more on weekends. Now im lucky if ive sold 5 items in a week. Has anyone noticed a drop in their sales in the last week?

Re: Sales drop

sugar249 — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 04:49:51 GMT

I can see you have sold 12 in the last week, Are you just trying to get more views via this post

Re: Sales drop

davewil1964 — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 10:11:58 GMT

Mine spiked over the weekend, on the back of my volume discounts.

I will be punished in the short term as my sales tend to average out in the long run. Which a week certainly isn't.

Re: Sales drop

whoisbiggles — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:17:20 GMT

three weeks leading up to last weekend with 1 sale then a busy weekend.

Dunno why - no changes made to listings. Maybe "Lofty" from Channel 9 News is having an impact with his xmas supply issues stories.

I just smile and drop the parcels off at the post office.

Re: Sales drop

p9games — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 01:30:41 GMT

how can you tell the number of sales a seller has had?

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sandypebbles — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 01:35:28 GMT

Under a seller's 'completed listings' the ones where the price is in green means they have sold those items

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padi*0409 — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 01:40:08 GMT

Sandy, for some reason the details for "completed listings" are not always available at the moment for some sellers.

............another eBay glitch...............

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south.coffee — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 03:26:05 GMT

Same here last two weeks since Sydney and Melbourne came out of lock down. People are sick and tired of looking at screens and now out and about doing in person shopping.

Spoke with postie today and said his run had quietened down, but Contractors delivered in Victoria on the Melbourne Cup Public Holiday and parcel volumes have fallen and not so crazy. A lot of Victorians take the Monday off as well and make a four day long weekend. Plenty of caravans on the highway.

Re: Sales drop

repentatleisure1952 — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 06:03:05 GMT

Keyword Spamming might have something to do with a drop in sales.

Re: Sales drop

lupercal — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 08:14:12 GMT

I'm a little reluctant to draw any conclusions yet; it's only been about a week, but so far my sales have cratered this month. They went ballistic around last May when lockdowns started, and never looked back. Til this week, when sales have been about a fifth of usual. But I've had quiet weeks before, and they turned out to be blips. This is very quiet, though.

Re: Sales drop

jellybirddesigns — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 08:31:23 GMT

I'm currently down 90% from this time last year. Yes, you're reading that right.

It's gotten worse as the year has progressed.

No explaining it, but I know that on the other platform I sell on, my sales are consistently decent month on month and often around 5% above the same time last year, so this is a uniquely Ebay issue.

Re: Sales drop

twyngwyn — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:22:27 GMT

eBay Sales Down 10% in Third Quarter, Revenue Rises 11% - EcommerceBytes

Re: Sales drop

hobby_cds — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:46:38 GMT

Our sales are down about 25% in both our accounts over the past 6 weeks. Whilst this is common year on year over the same period for the past 10 - 12 years it's a little alarming heading into the Christmas rush. Especially when we have twice as many items listed this year vs previous years. Interesting times ahead!

Re: Sales drop

roaminghigh — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 01:37:00 GMT

Keyword Spamming by whom, could you explain what you mean please?

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dontmissthese — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 07:55:04 GMT

'Fresh' is best. Once an item gets relisted it's a race to the bottom of search.

Re: Sales drop

lupercal — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 05:39:02 GMT

@lupercal wrote:
I'm a little reluctant to draw any conclusions yet; it's only been about a week, but so far my sales have cratered this month

As I anticipated, as soon as I wrote this, things went back to normal.