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Extremly Poor Sales & Worseing why?

garfieldau — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 05:54:25 GMT

What is go Try sell vey good condition Cd's & Extremly Good Condition Dvd's At Low prices But Getting Less & Less wathchers & Very low amount buyers

I do say I will combine postage as low as possible & I have postage Feedback of 438 (Should be well above 700 if all left feedback)

Are Dvd & Cd's just dont sell anymore?

I feel just as well through them in bin and give it away

I am lucky sell couple items month. goes from 10 down about 2 now in month

Re: Extremly Poor Sales & Worseing why?

carly2579 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 05:58:19 GMT

blu rsay has replaced dvds im selling alot of my dvds on ebay now because i have them on blu ray basically it sa bit like VHS technology has moved on

Re: Extremly Poor Sales & Worseing why?

*sparklz* — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:19:52 GMT

540 Feedback left

You have only left 540 feedback so why should yours be 700+?

Any purchases from the same buyer in a 7 days period will only show as 1 feedback on the total even if they leave 7 from purchases made in 1 week.

FB is voluntary anyway so do not worry about that..

It is not just ebay sales that have dropped real shops are struggling as well.

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phorum_junkie* — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:57:22 GMT

As more and more people start watching films by downloading them sales of hard copies will get less and less, Soon the B&M stores will be selling off ordinary DVDs at knock down prices and the market for second hand will disappear.........for a while then once the shops have pretty well sold out of old stock those who like a hard copy will come back to ebay.

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jfmgray — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:12:47 GMT

I have looked at your CDs and noticed two things. Firstly your postage seems excessive for a single CD compared to your competition (although your combined postage is a good deal), and secondly the titles you are selling are not ones (from my experience) that will sell for much, if at all. CD sales have generally declined over the last few years and these days you need to know what will sell and what will not.

My local Cash Converters are now selling DVDs for $2 and they are flooded with them. Not sure there is any market left.

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carly2579 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:14:53 GMT

most people buy music online now rather nthen cds i buy all my music from itunes or stream it on spotify

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the_hawk* — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:58:39 GMT

CDs are old most use MP3 players now so much smaller and hold so much more, going to a party just load it on a $2 USB stick and no damaged / lost CDs and no big deal if you lose a $2 usb stick

DVDs many are now using Tbox or similar for movies now.

Re: Extremly Poor Sales & Worseing why?

vxholden01 — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 20:45:52 GMT

I think you'll find a lot of people have just stopped using eBay.

Other are offering other reasons with some have a small degree of validity in respect to markey trends & technology, but by and large eBay just doesn't bring in the Buyers anymore.

A couple of years agou you'd list an item and get 100 plus views and 30-40 watching on any given item being listed on a 99 cent auction. The end result being a sale for a reasonable price and usually 20 plus bids.

I find now I may get 20 views, mabye 5 watchers and just a couple of bids.

Sure I listed a few items that were very collectable that attracted much higher interest, but as a general rule eBay is completely dead (or getting very close at least).

All the "eBay Optimists" who seem to post here endlessly offer a host of excuses, however none are ever critical of eBay & Paypal's cost structures, the 10 zillion rules & reulations, nor the way in which Australia Post has allowed itself to be hyjacked by eBay.

Once eBay was a bit of fun and not a bad way to move some unwanted items on relatively cheap and make a few dollars, no it's become a corporate cancer that's actually eating away at itself (but are just too blind to see it).

Re: Extremly Poor Sales & Worseing why?

putney32 — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 21:25:06 GMT

CDs and DVDs are on their way out.... yes.

I work in an Op Shop, we get 100s of CDs donated every week and dozens of DVDs too....

as mentioned above, consumers are using newer technology for their music and films now....

maybe time for you to look for a different product to sell on eBay

Re: Extremly Poor Sales & Worseing why?

gec2002 — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 23:49:36 GMT

CD and DVDs may be on their way out but still have a life. Look at the FB of the big sellers and remember that these days you only receive fb from 20% - 40%. Within those sales DVDs are still high, due to price and not every one having a BLR player. (In B&M check out JB Hifi seems every second customer is buying a CD, DVD or BLR). It is estimated that BLR will be around until around 2025. Current problem with streaming is the bandwidth which is 1 - 5 mbps, BLR is 36 mbps (DVD 4 -8) so they may call it HD but its not close to BLR. Plus high costs or speed restrictions if you exceed your gigabyte threshold don't help. Go NBN.

So perhaps move into BLRs

Re: Extremly Poor Sales & Worseing why?

diecastcarsvicki — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 00:02:24 GMT

the truth is even though nobody will say it outloud is the glory days of selling & buying on here is over.

ebay up there fv fees to 9.9% and listing fees add up very quickly hench most sellers only use there free listings and stop after them.

aussie post cost have risen so much over the past few years on top of that paypal takes there % on total which gets paid into your account which includes a % of postage cost. so for a seller to sell there item and cover all the cost involved we have to start auctions at a much higher price hench bargins are few & far between. these times there is facebook that most places have now buy , swap & sell sections where you can get great buys and able to pick up so no postage cost.gumtree is an other so fact is why would a buyer pay nearly retail price for a listing here the add postage and the hassel of transactions that sadly sometimes go wrong. for sellers to again have a chance of selling fees need to be dropped example if fv fees stay at 9.9% then scrap the listing fees and give sellers a chance. many will not agree with this but you cant hide the facts that ebay just got to greedy and is killing off what was a great thing online buying & selling to what its now becoming to hard for sellers and with out sellers there will be no buyers.

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hairkidsbeauty — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 00:31:25 GMT

Totally agree

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gec2002 — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 02:13:52 GMT

While I agree that eBay fees and particularly postage hikes don't help we are talking about DVDs and CDs which come under media and if you have a store BIN listing fees after freebies are used are only 5c not 20c and can generally be posted at letter rate either $1.20 or $1.80. unrepentantly Auspost will increase these shortly but at the moment they are OK. eBay don't want auctions and their pricing reflects that, so you may need to consider a store.

Many of the regulars keep talking about the death of DVD and BLR but like TV which never actually caused the death of cinema and while CDs mostly replaced Vinyl they still has a strong niche market and are making a come back, so it may be quite a while before streaming replaces DVDs/BLRs. People still like things that are tangible that they can hold and play. Also for audiophiles BLR has lossless audio with many movies in 7.1 audio, something that streaming services don't yet offer.

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petrebecca — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:18:53 GMT

I think I agree with you. I sell things occasionally on ebay but they never really sell for much. I think part of the issue is pricing - the reality is that some things are just so much cheaper from Asia. I am definitely a buyer who always looks for a bargain and if I see something that I want for less than half the price from Hong Kong for example, i will happily wait the shipping time. I sometimes wonder how Australian Ebay businesses are surviving. The other thing that I notice is the number of people selling items labelled 'vintage' and 'antique', without really knowing what that means. I have been buying a lot more things from Etsy these days and sell any items I want to sell via gumtree.

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springyzone — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:37:59 GMT

I do buy some things from ebay, but it sure doesn't feel like the old days when there seemed to be a lot more home sellers around.

What I have noticed though is the absolute explosion of other businesses onto the internet and that I would guess is what is cutting into ebay sales.

Eg Where in the past, I often used to look at clothes on ebay, some brands now have their own online clearances. I was looking at a couple just the other day, then had a look at ebay and really, the ebay offerings looked a bit tired in comparison.

Then you have your daily deal sites which send out emails every day with ads, and often a cap put on postage costs.

There's gumtree which is free-works on big items, not so well on small.

Just about everything I have bought on ebay in the last year has been from sellers who are obviously running small businesses and they have mostly all been excellent. It's just that buyers have a lot more choice of sales sites now.

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x3n0m — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 22:29:06 GMT

In ebays rush to reward their favourite sellers and punish the rest (by hiding their adverts in best match) they have inadvertently created a website that is stale .. so when a newbie ebayer or inexperienced internet user is confronted with almost the exact same webpage search result time after time after time, then after two or three days of this insanity they get bored and go elsewhere (possibly back to B&M but definitely looking elsewhere) .. congratulations ebay, you will never know how much money you are ignoring by stiffling sales in your enthusiastic rush to promote cronnies and insiders in best match and stampling on and destroying others sellers/businesses who attempt to affiliate themselves with your website .. .. overall best match is a slap dash fly by night operation which is well past its use by date and a very shoddy, dark and IMHO criminal operation which benefits scam artists (they can stay on now that best match has sorted them out - right?) business insiders, ebay insiders, sycophants (ebay convention brown nosers) and other assorted rogues and narssisists who enjoy the power of theft and pulling the wool over gullible suckers eyes ..

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fourandsixpants — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 03:21:01 GMT

statistics 2014 2013 trends people are saving not spending:

http://www.retailresearch.org/retailforecast.php

http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/business/T019-S000-kiplinger-s-economic-outlooks/

Re: Extremly Poor Sales & Worseing why?

fourandsixpants — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 03:39:44 GMT

and further ref. typical Australian spending:

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Main+Features30July+2013

Re: Extremly Poor Sales & Worseing why?

gemmababe2001 — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:50:03 GMT

What percentage were fees before they went up to the current rate please?

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thecatspjs — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 12:46:42 GMT

@diecastmodels2014 wrote:
the truth is even though nobody will say it outloud is the glory days of selling & buying on here is over.
ebay up there fv fees to 9.9% and listing fees add up very quickly hench most sellers only use there free listings and stop after them.
aussie post cost have risen so much over the past few years on top of that paypal takes there % on total which gets paid into your account which includes a % of postage cost. so for a seller to sell there item and cover all the cost involved we have to start auctions at a much higher price hench bargins are few & far between. these times there is facebook that most places have now buy , swap & sell sections where you can get great buys and able to pick up so no postage cost.gumtree is an other so fact is why would a buyer pay nearly retail price for a listing here the add postage and the hassel of transactions that sadly sometimes go wrong. for sellers to again have a chance of selling fees need to be dropped example if fv fees stay at 9.9% then scrap the listing fees and give sellers a chance. many will not agree with this but you cant hide the facts that ebay just got to greedy and is killing off what was a great thing online buying & selling to what its now becoming to hard for sellers and with out sellers there will be no buyers.

I agree that eBay got WAY too greedy with fees.

I also think killing off low cost auctions, cut off a signficant stream of newbies (in my markets anyway) attracted to auctions and scoring a bargain and/or trying ebay or internet buying for the first time without a lot of dollars at stake. I know thats how I started, and many of my buyers historys also used to tell this tale too.

I would also add that eBay seem to forget when they changed the price structure last year that sellers are buyers too, and I know myself that my eBay spending is now a meer trickle of $$ compared to the significant funds I spent on eBay purchases. I have actively sought out other suppliers and other retailers where I am not treated like carp as a seller and a buyer.