on 24-11-2020 07:58 AM
Does anyone on eBay have problems with their sales down and if so what have they done to fix this
on 24-11-2020 09:31 AM
I doubt anything will help right now aside from making your listings "ebay plus" compliant .. many can't do that as live in country areas and would expose their star rating for delivery times and lose seller privaleges .. ebay selling for many aussies is now entering the "no win" phase .. lots of other factors going on too like the covid supplement being wound back and ebay buyers with afterpay bills to pay now ..and ebay is placing many items that are not ebay plus compliant into a category they are terming "irrelevant items" and basically hiding those items from buyers who are resorting their search results from "best match defraud" to "lowest price" etc .. good luck with it ..
on 24-11-2020 10:24 AM
24-11-2020 02:29 PM - edited 24-11-2020 02:32 PM
"just use free listings as a free tickets and hope a buyer comes along who is looking for one of your items."
yep that is all many of us can do with it .. ..
.. I should mention that item specifics have recently significantly grown in importance too so as not to land in that "irrelevant items" zone .. so irritating having to revise old listings .. grrr .. .. but the OP seems to have comprehensive item specifics for his/her listings so doubt that is the problem .. maybe "ebay plus" compliance on a few listings is worth a try .. ..
me I am all outa energy and couldn't give a rats and want to spend as little time on ebay listing/revising items as humanly possible these days .. ebay has broken me into not giving a stuff whether my items sell or not .. and also into selling my stuff elsewhere whenever possible .. hopefully the ebay accountant is happy with the ebay marketing departments handiwork ..
and while I am on the subject of ebay plus I got so sick of ebay spamming me with ebay plus marketing offers via email that I unsubscribed to ebay promotional emails .. all in all in a real world business this type of thing would probably be regarded as a clusterF but when a business has unfair market advantage they get away with this type of rubbish without a murmur .. am wondering how much money ebay has really lost because of their obsession with ebay plus .. for people like myself ebays carry on with ebay plus is so on the nose (it stinks!!) and now that ebay plus is making it harder for me to sell if I am not compliant I have just about reached the end of my patience with ebay selling overall .. so there is a customer retention issue not even being looked at ..
I am questioning the judgement of ebay management in a big way and wonder if they realise they are damaging their brand by changing the selling rules so often .. aussies expect a fair go on a level playfield too, IMHO we haven't seen that for a long time here ..
on 24-11-2020 02:30 PM
on 24-11-2020 02:55 PM
With some of the "huge" sales on at the moment we will have to ride it out.
We can't compete with 80% discount for Black Friday etc....so we will all suffer till it is all over I think.
on 24-11-2020 06:20 PM
24-11-2020 08:07 PM - edited 24-11-2020 08:08 PM
We're a month from Christmas, and money is starting to dry up a little.
People are buying, but they're buying with those two things in mind. (In other words, traditional gift items would be where a lot of the money is going right now).
You don't need "Plus" or other gimmicks (sometimes they help, sometimes they don't, but you can't rely on these to turn things around), IMO you just need good items with good listings & descriptions - the more, the better.
on 24-11-2020 08:33 PM
You need to research your items better. Many of them I can find a (much) cheaper one with only a few seconds of searching. The rest are overpriced op shop items that may possibly have a chance at having collector value (I don't know) but they'd be extremely long tail items in any case.
on 07-12-2020 08:05 PM
Yes we are down and it has been since the EBAY Plus bully boys have decided it's their way or the highway.
Our sales were going really well th the point where we were up by 900% from the previous year but since the EBAY Plus push it has been all down hill
What they don't seem to realise is that not every seller is geared up to ship in 0-1 day I can't understand why they would want to loose fees from someone selling well and then punishing them and killing their previously good listings because they can't comply.