on โ11-12-2018 11:37 AM
SHOULD be prime Christmas sale time right now BUT im down 60 % on sales from same period last year..... How are you all going now that we should be in the middle of Christmas mayhem??
on โ11-12-2018 12:17 PM
So sorry stylesilver that your sales are way down and others that are experiencing the same,my sales are going steady and as long as I'm making a profit beit a dollar or more I'm ok with it.
The good thing about my sales is that I've forgotten what my collectibles cost me way back when I acquired them so if I sell anything then that's a bonus lol.
on โ11-12-2018 12:21 PM
Well.................. I've got a bid lol
That is an improvement on most weeks
on โ11-12-2018 06:39 PM
Weโve done a lot better on another platform - maintained margins too which is even nicer ๐
One day, perhaps, someone at eBay will switch the lights on and SEE!!
Melina.
on โ11-12-2018 09:49 PM
Fine thanks. Volume is marginally down, but margins are up.
I suppose I have the things people are looking for.
on โ11-12-2018 10:35 PM
Ha Haa Ha ... I had what people were wanting too, until 5 weeks ago ... when my good sales just stopped. Right before my usual best sales period of the year by far ( for the past say 10 yrs, December has always been up about 300% on other months & Im usually flat out).. cant understand such a drop off EXCEPT to blame the start of Promoted listings (everyone else is laming it)... Anywhoo about to test out Promoted sales tonite... puuting some things into the promotion... Will be back Everyone!!! to see if it lifts things.
on โ11-12-2018 10:46 PM
Happy for you Crow! And thanks for the sympathetic ear feeling the need for it. at the moment..On the other hand, thinking it would be funny if it wasnt soo maddening. A drop off in sales BEFORE Christmas ... who have thunk it? Glad to hear others are doing well (gives you hope that this lull might not be permanent.) Any way Im off to the grindstone... listing new items & trying out the promotion listing thingy.
on โ11-12-2018 10:49 PM
Oh no ... has it been that bad for you too? just recently? There is something strange happening to some of our accounts for sure. Hope you get a big improvement soon... so strange
on โ11-12-2018 10:54 PM
Thats good for you (been following yr story about whats happening & big thumbs up)... but I aint going anywhere else... Ive made my bed here... Im gonna lie in it !!! (Which is about right too, cos no real need to get out of it atm Haa Haaaa.)
โ12-12-2018 02:06 PM - edited โ12-12-2018 02:07 PM
I was just having a quiet wee think, which always hurts .... lol, but there would literally be thousands of others, just like us, who list on one or more other platforms because things arenโt kosher here. Just in December so far weโve turned $2,400 elsewhere. Hehe!! Look , youโll find us. And, itโs far from over yet. Weโve turned next to nothing here, but that is not reason in itself that we have a couple of other venues. It just seems quie t here at the moment. Itโs not always that way for us.
So, thatโs money theyโll never earn commission on. Then, add. In the many thousands of others.
Consider too, we were about to open a store here (still might, but depends), but now weโve gone Luke warm, because of some really โsilly policyโ and rules that unfairly really put us out on a limb. Iโm not sure at our age we want to deal with the inevitability of the stress that will ensue, for certain. You canโt be lucky all the time!
So eBay misses out there too, and how many thousands of others have gone luke warm and then cold on the idea and not proceeded?
Honestly, weโd like to lock down here, just at the one venue, and I can only assume many thousands again, of others , would like to do the same. But, thereโs something stopping us all, isnโt there! How ironic that itโs eBay itself!!
Theyโve introduced all manner of rediculous, objectionable and โroad blockingโ policy and rules to protect their (sic) mighty dollar and opportunistic buyers at the dire expense of good sellers but still, after all this time, donโt understand that theyโve well and truly overcooked the golden goose. Parts of it escaped when the temperature rose from โsillyโ to โsuper sillyโ and flew off with scorched nether bits to repair and roost elsewhere completely, before the temperature rise to โdumb and dumber.โ Add these to the thousands and the thousands and the thousands. Now weโre talking millions arenโt we? Or, am I dreamin again? Boneydoon does look attractive though ๐.
Oh eBay!! All those dollars. Youโve saved one and lost one thousand, you silly silly thing!!
If eBay happens to ask any of you (like DUH!!) just tell them weโre doing nicely thanks, elsewhere. ๐๐
Melina.