No Sales...What is happening?

[hexenkat11]

I have sold on Ebay for a few years now & this week has been the worst.  Has everybody gone to Mars? 

Not a single sale in 3 days...  I have never seen anything like it.

Anyone else experiencing the same situation?

[collect247]

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@south.coffee wrote:

Was at my Coles today and overheard a manager saying their sales were down 14% this week.  That's big numbers for them, so maybe this weeks slow down is across a lot of the AU economy.

Throw in all the bushfire appeals, and there's a chunk of money removed from 'consumer discretionary' spending.

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That's because Aldi has taken that 14%

[brerrabbit585]

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@south.coffee wrote:

Was at my Coles today and overheard a manager saying their sales were down 14% this week.  That's big numbers for them, so maybe this weeks slow down is across a lot of the AU economy.

Throw in all the bushfire appeals, and there's a chunk of money removed from 'consumer discretionary' spending.

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Didn't Woolies donate all of last week's profits to bushfire appeals?  I can't remember the details of when it was, but if it was last week a lot of people may have shopped there in preference to Coles so I wouldn't take a lot of notice of those figures.

[davewil1964]

One week in one store does not a trend make.

[javacentric]

Is this true???

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@davewil1964 wrote:

If a buyer cancels after paying, Paypal don't refund the fees, so you're behind the 8-ball either way.

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I just looked it up:

"If you refund (partially or fully) a transaction to a buyer or a donation to a donor, there are no fees to make the refund, but the fees you originally paid as the seller will not be returned to you."

I had no idea! I thought they refunded it, like eBay does... 

[davewil1964]

They used to. They no longer do.

[eol-products]

Kaufland is pulling out of Australia so may give an indication what may lay ahead for some retail sectors.

[love_of_cars]

I saw some depressing stuff on the news tonight about the current state of savings accounts with Australian banks.  Basically we get 5 cents a year on every $100 we have in the account from what they were saying.

[eol-products]

Don't forget some charge $6 a month account keeping fees. We can't forget it cost money to pay executive salaries and a bonus each year.

[chameleon54]

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@love_of_cars wrote:

I saw some depressing stuff on the news tonight about the current state of savings accounts with Australian banks.  Basically we get 5 cents a year on every $100 we have in the account from what they were saying.

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Another example of how the global economy has absolutely tanked. These record low interest rates for so long are unprecedented. Frankly its pretty scary. If the whole thing goes BOOM its going to be fairly spectacular and a lot of people are going to get hurt. 

Spoiler

Ebay shopping for needless stuff anyone ?

[collect247]

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@chameleon54 wrote:

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@love_of_cars wrote:

I saw some depressing stuff on the news tonight about the current state of savings accounts with Australian banks.  Basically we get 5 cents a year on every $100 we have in the account from what they were saying.

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Another example of how the global economy has absolutely tanked. These record low interest rates for so long are unprecedented. Frankly its pretty scary. If the whole thing goes BOOM its going to be fairly spectacular and a lot of people are going to get hurt. 

Spoiler

Ebay shopping for needless stuff anyone ?

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It's not scary at all for people whom have home loans though.

I remember back in the Bob Hawke days it was fantastic for people with money in the bank I used to live on the interest each week but it was bad for those with a mortgage