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low sales

quiltsandcrystals — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:34:15 GMT

Hi I guess I am sending an age old complaint, but here goes, I need to do this. I sell a great quality product and I moniter and fine tune my site. I have really good reviews from customers in terms of quality of fabric and postage times. I post ASAP and sometimes the same day if the fabric sale comes in early.

I am a private seller and do my utmost to develop repeat clients. BUUUTTT! my items are not given front and center by ebay. I pay my fees as a small seller and give excellent service and am so disapointed that this seems to have little value in placing my items on the site.

Maybe ebay should set up a small seller site because I cant compete with the big shops in getting my fabric noticed. The big shops have all the first pages on any fabric sales.

Do the big stores add their sales from their other online businesses? How do they get such sales as often they are selling at a higher price than I am?

Any Advice???

Re: low sales

digital*ghost — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 09:59:08 GMT

I wish there was a definitive answer, but these days I think sales are erratic for most lower to mid-volume sellers, and methods or ideas to help are hit and miss, even for the same seller on different days. The only thing I can really suggest is perhaps diversifying your range a little, including some other things your customers might be looking for (books, patterns, thread, scissors ?) so that they can cross-promote each other.

Some of the things I do when sales are in a bit of a slump are start a sale (I see you have some stuff on sale now), revise listings with better photos, change the title a little, and end older listings that haven't shifted for a while. Usually those with fewer views and watchers, although I ended a listing the other day that had collected 15 watchers in the last few months yet not sold. I relisted it a week ago and have now sold two, so refreshing the listings does seem to help. The larger stores probably have enough stock range and turnover not to worry about a few things that don't get any attention for a while.

Re: low sales

quiltsandcrystals — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 10:04:10 GMT

thanks for the advice I will take that on board and try to diversify with a couple of other elements.

Re: low sales

ambamb40 — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 08:44:43 GMT

I have extreme poor sales at ebay since last wk, and have 240 listings with 99.99 score.......contacted ebay supports for the reason ...but no any information given for this low sales.....it I s almost nil sales , this is very disappointing as I have my main business at ebay and this wk no money from sales......any one please can help the reason ...or any other seller effected similar problem in last days.....

Re: low sales

thendreamer — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:06:44 GMT

Re: low sales

thendreamer — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:24:11 GMT

@ambamb40 wrote:
I have extreme poor sales at ebay since last wk, and have 240 listings with 99.99 score.......contacted ebay supports for the reason ...but no any information given for this low sales.....it I s almost nil sales , this is very disappointing as I have my main business at ebay and this wk no money from sales......any one please can help the reason ...or any other seller effected similar problem in last days.....

have you tryied added your shipping costs in to your listings and offering free postage on some items ? offering an express post option can also help if you can get the handling time to 1 working day.