July 2019 Sales Terrible!!

[playitagaincpap]

Wow! Such horribleslow sales lately 2019 July, down 40%!

Anybody else experiencing terrible sales??

[brerrabbit585]

Ebay lobby the federal govt to stop cheap Chinese imports?  That's the funniest thing I've heard in ages!

[knewdoors]

did the promo campaign earlier in May sales went through the roof....now it's back to normal = DEAD...

[gumardee_coins_and_banknotes]

My sales have gone up since may, before that they were dead. But they are slowing once again. 

As for the Tax, if you owe Hecs, or any other typpe of tax, I hear the $1080 is going to that, and if they get it it is going to pay off debt. So do not expect the tax reduction to booste the economy, because it will not.

[waddingtonfirstaid]

This is definitely not a laughing matter. If eBay doesn't do something, such as lobby the federal government, they will see their sales further decline because more and more will go to off-shore retailers. Do you really believe that only a small proportion of online retailers in Australia are based in Australia? Same goes for eBay sellers. If the foundation crumbles, which is the very foundation full of Australian based sellers, then so will eBay's bottom-line because further sales will be driven away via overseas entities, Facebook and Amazon to name only a few of the big players who will be selling your items tomorrow at under the cost of the delivery you pay within Australia. There will be no way at all to compete, unless you want to get in your car and deliver your sales yourself.

[dazzledayz]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

This is what a real level playing field is all about without any competative advantage which currently exists in favour of China.

UPU. There is nothing the Australian (or any Goverment, except the Chinese one) can do about it.

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Not quite Dave.

Australia, NZ and Canada all reserved the right to oppose subsidised foreign postage by way of additional delivery levies.

Not that they've ever looked like exercising that right.

You and I get flogged by Royal Mail in just this way though RM can claim that their service is not subsidised, just well managed.

If AP wanted to, they could get into the high volume international game too but we have bankers running the show here, not logisticians.

[woodduck*2012]

China based sellers and Chinese Australia based sellers have quadrupled over the last two years, Plus our own government is totally pro China, as long as Australian sellers pay parcel post at $8.95 and Chinese post from China is paid for by the Australian Government, how can the average Aussie compete with that..

A beach towel from sydney from an ellustriouse OZ SELLER with as much negative feedback as the average China based seller, the towel is $8.45 free post, parcel post is $8.95.this item has to be drop shipped out of China with Australian taxes paying for the postage, by saying its sydney stock also gets ride of any GST.

Australia post is paid letter value by the Gov for every parcel delivered from China, millions of parcels, millions in Au Post revenue lost, so up goes the postage for everyday Aussies and thats straight from the horses mouth.

Ebay Au along with Ebay Uk, Ebay US, PayPal are China owed, plus Australia having a guttless, paper tiger of a government clearly does not help Australians.

[woodduck*2012]

Rudd and Gillard blew the huge surplus the Howard Government left us, on boat people, detetion centres and poor decision after poor decision, millions in foriegn aid, Rudd should be hung draw and quatered, gillard should be made to eat whats left.

Thats just my opinion.

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@collect247 wrote:

Labor are the best bring back Kevin lol.

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[heihachi_73]

Budget surplus doesn't mean anything if our money isn't worth the plastic it's printed on, which is precisely where the Liberals are heading. Not the first time either, it was under the Howard government that the AUD tanked to 48 US cents and gained the name the Pacific Peso. The main difference is that we actually had things to export back then. Have fun buying everything overseas in the next 10-20 years when we have nothing left to export and the dollar follows Zimbabwe down the toilet.

[davewil1964]

Not to mention that the returns from the mining boom were frittered away by Howard and Costello on middle-class welfare.

And that we were one of the few countries to escape a recession due to Rudd and Swan's 'profligacy'.

Our current government will give us a surplus, though. Regardless of the consequences.

A surplus, by definition, is spending less than you earn. Even after the current upper-class welfare. Says everything, really.

[chameleon54]

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@heihachi_73 wrote:
Budget surplus doesn't mean anything if our money isn't worth the plastic it's printed on, which is precisely where the Liberals are heading. Not the first time either, it was under the Howard government that the AUD tanked to 48 US cents and gained the name the Pacific Peso. The main difference is that we actually had things to export back then. Have fun buying everything overseas in the next 10-20 years when we have nothing left to export and the dollar follows Zimbabwe down the toilet.

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The scenario you have described could possibly come true and you have highlighted one of Australia's biggest weakness. We have very few products left to export. One answer is for private citizens and small business to become much more export orientated to take advantage of the low dollar and protect their own personal financial security, rather than just sitting back and waiting for some-one else to do everything . 

It might sound difficult, but I am just a single person operator with two main small businesses, both of which derive substantial income from direct exports. The first is the sheep grazing business. Over 50% of Australian lamb is exported with this percentage increasing rapidly each year. The wool I produce is marketed through the main auction centres, so it goes direct from my farm to a warehouse where it is tested and then auctioned directly to international buyers. They then pack it straight into their containers for export. I organise all of this myself, classing my own wool to international standard, ( did the course to gain accreditation and continue to maintain internationally recognised classing and bale registrations ) pressing it into international standard bales myself, organising transport to the central warehouses and booking it into the international auctions through a selling agent.

My other business is selling on ebay ( same as many other forum posters. ) I open most of my items up to international sales without any restrictions on countries sold to. As the dollar has fallen, international sales have climbed from a steady base of 20% to now make up around 30 % of sales by volume and closer to 40% by value as international clients often buy the best, most expensive items. All up around 65% of my total income, comes from both direct and indirect export to international clients.