topic Re: No Sales ... in Selling

No Sales ...

ms_aussie — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 01:38:28 GMT

I have recorded no sales since the 25th September. Is anyone else experiencing low sales volume?

Last weekend sales were great this weekend ... dead 😞

Re: No Sales ...

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 01:44:00 GMT

yep its been terrible...

just for comparison
September 20-25 = 30 sales
September 26-29 = 6 sales

small sample size i know but i have gone from 5 sales a day to a tick over 1 a day

not sure what they have done but somethings changed

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diecastcode3 — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 01:47:02 GMT

same here one sale last thursday.

but on my other site Q/S ive had 19 sales in 4 days.

so my listings end here in 24 hours im moving all my items there. no fees no hassles.

ebay is no longer the selling platform as people are sick of the site crashing & monthly changes that effect sellers to a point its no longer worth the effort to sit and list items.

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Anonymous — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 01:53:10 GMT

QS really? you are the first person i have heard thats actually doing ok over there

im thinking about it myself

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diecastcode3 — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 02:02:24 GMT

yes Q/S has suprised me over the past month or so.

ive been selling there for over 5 years with sales approx 50 per year but the last month or so ive hd 19 sales with every sale paid for and hassle free. i only sell one line of prouducts, but cant complain of increase of sales there.

Re: No Sales ...

ms_aussie — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 02:19:59 GMT

And they've been saying QS has no traffic! Many will follow 🙂

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ms_aussie — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 02:23:05 GMT

Many conspiracy rumours here. Just might be a element of truth in some of them 🙂

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billexploited — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 02:40:13 GMT

I'm moving there QS as well I've started since 2012.The Autumn and Spring Seller Releases have put me off. Everyone should jump ship.

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ms_aussie — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 02:57:56 GMT

Many believe that's what they want us (small sellers) to do. Ebay are more interested in high volume sellers with BIG stores. But with the new refund policy coming in soon there are sure to be high volume refunds coming across from Chinese sellers 🙂

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billexploited — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 03:19:03 GMT

And there is a lot of **bleep** that's made in china hopefully when the dollar crashes it may create some much needed manufacturing jobs in Australia

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i-love-my-sheep — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 03:24:41 GMT

@ms_aussie wrote:
And they've been saying QS has no traffic! Many will follow 🙂

We just need to convince the buyers to follow!

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ms_aussie — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 03:38:12 GMT

Perhaps they will when they see all the 'stores for rent' notices 🙂

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ms_aussie — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 03:44:21 GMT

Yes. It is the 'bleep' from China that I was referring to. With the new policies in place come November, and the heightened protection for buyers, perhaps buyers on this side of the world may not be so eager to keep the 'bleep' but will choose the money back option. Can't wait to see the circus ... just quietly 🙂

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onekiwi0 — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:56:37 GMT

no sales here either...but qs has been so quiet I'd forgotten I had items listed....if I were to sell anywhere else I'd suggest gumtree first.

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clarry100 — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 05:21:18 GMT

We have had a few of our items listed on QS for 3-months now and not a single sale.

Plenty of views but no conversions.

Prices are reduced for the same item here on our ebay store.

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redneck2013au — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 05:32:34 GMT

we seem to be doing pretty good compared to most..only small sales but we have been averaging approx 100-150 a month for several months..we actually had to shut down till the 12/oct to deal with a family crisis but have had numerous msgs from customers saying they were looking forward to our return.

looking forward to getting back into it.

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ms_aussie — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 06:43:26 GMT

Ebay also own Guntree 😞

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chezzy — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 07:25:42 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
yep its been terrible...

just for comparison
September 20-25 = 30 sales
September 26-29 = 6 sales

small sample size i know but i have gone from 5 sales a day to a tick over 1 a day

not sure what they have done but somethings changed

I sometimes wonder if school holidays have anything to do with it - people away/holiday mode, spending time/money on other things? It is Vic school hols at the moment, not sure about other States...

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onekiwi0 — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:11:37 GMT

yeh thought they owned Gtree. but you don't pay to list only to edit after 24 hrs or 12.

its a little more hit and miss though.

yes definaly school hols has something to do with it, people being away or busy looking after kids. but it was real slow even before then.

Re: No Sales ...

rachelle011273 — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:02:55 GMT

I have listings on QS myself and out of the blue tonight I finally get an enquiry ... maybe the tides are turning which would be good however I still find QS to be an affordable solution opposed to setting up a webpage including shopcart and paying domain fees, just means I have drive traffic to my store but that would be the same with having my own website so I find it an easy solution