Dealing with a bad sales week

[sophisto81]

How often do you just have a bad week? Or is it usually for a reason you have yet to discover?
I haven't had a sale ALL WEEK! I'm by no means a large volume seller but don't recall the last time I went 5 days without a sale. I've just up graded to a store last week but in the same week of doing so sales were great, just this week they suck. So many dramas with ebay lately too; non payers, cancelled auctions, ebay glitches causing items to come up as free postage, potential buyers engaging in haggling wars over $3... Sometimes it just feels too hard!

I think this post is more of a vent than anything else. Thanks for listening.

[2106greencat]

I have a lot of bad weeks, months, years....

and I am not even selling anything

[amber-eyed-girl]

Greencat...

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[helenm777]

I have 1 sale over 3 sites one being a Store.  When checking Views there are hardly any even on Designer Brand name items.  I also offer BIN Best Offer

I would also like to state that on listing items Ebay automatically lists that the item has been viewed by 2 people !!!! I have listed hundred of items and after listing i immediately check the listing and there is always 2 views..even though I know there could not have been viewed within thei time frame.

Therefore, many of my items have not been viewed at all!

Last year I was selling at least 20 - 40 items per month.. now I am lucky to sell 10 over the 3 ID's

Very dissapoiting given I many spend hours every day uploading items and trying to revise listings to see if there is a reason the items are not being viewed

[dylan11235813]

I find that usually at the start of a month I have lower sales and at the end higher. Someone posting on the forums had a theory about ebay limiting sales once a seller had reached a level. I usually have really good weeks and then really bad and very rarely consistant.

The last couple of weeks I have noticed a slowdown in sales. Also when I have an overly large number of unique vistors to listings sales will drop over the following couple of days. Which I think is basically the best match system at work. Increased visitors generally means more sales, but not when there is a spike in views.

Feedback has been lower than normal as well, the number of feedback I was recieving plumetted over about 3 months then pick up over the last month and then has slowed again.

[putney32]

all retail in australia is hurting at present , none moreso that clothing.

many retails stores are springing 50% off sales for 24 hr or the weekend or Wednesday or whatever just to generate some cashflow,

ebay is no different

aussies are scared to spend money at present given the way the govt. is