What I did notice in the past was that I seemed to get an increase in sales in the few days after the monthly invoice came out. Never really nailed it down as a definite, but it appeared that way.
I,m not sure what others think, but it appears to me that all of that heavy handed, visibility manipulation and swales throttling ended around 12 - 18 months ago. My combined store monthly sales used to regularly be within 1 - 2 % variation every month without fail. Sell an expensive item and things went quite for a few days etc. Doesn't happen now. My sales seem to be relatively free from visibility manipulation.
The only thing that still seems to apply is that the more you sell, the higher your visibility and the more you sell, the less you sell, the lower your visibility and sales continue to fall ( eventually into an ebay death spiral. ). And secondly if one item sells, other similar items listed get a boost in visibility for a short while. So it is possible to sell two or three similar but different items in perhaps a 48 hour period.
I suspect these days ebay is under a lot of pressure and genuinely trying to generate as many sales as it possibly can. Some of the practices of the past have probably been retired in order to just keep stock moving and sales - any sales happening. It also seems some of the antagonistic ebay policy pressures sellers where under and constant changes have been toned down a bit in the last 12 months.
All up that makes ebay a better place for traders who have the goods buyers still want.
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