No sales?

[love_of_cars]

No one has started a "my sales are dead" post for a few days so I thought I'd keep the tradition going.

Anyone else suffering from a run of "lights out" at the moment?  My website shop is also similarly dead.  Maybe it's the time of year or maybe it's just me.  How are you going?

[shoppingbag*]

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@collect247 wrote:

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I love newbie's who think they know it all.

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We usually have pleasant discussions on here and help each other. What I hate are people who post here with the intent of starting trouble.

[hobby_cds]

We have see about a 30% drop off in our two accounts this month...Which is ironic as our items listed has probably gone up 30% compared to last year. 

Does anyone else see the numbers dropped on a montly basis around the time your fees are due to be paid for about 48-72 hours? 

[davewil1964]

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@hobby_cds wrote:

We have see about a 30% drop off in our two accounts this month...Which is ironic as our items listed has probably gone up 30% compared to last year. 

Does anyone else see the numbers dropped on a montly basis around the time your fees are due to be paid for about 48-72 hours? 

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Have you considered that many millions of dollars of discretionary income (which would be the bulk of eBay sales) have been donated to bushfire appeals? Or that this time of the year is traditionally slow due to people paying off Christmas purchases and school costs rather than spending of fripperies?

[attie1981]

Geez Dave you should step outside your house a little bit more often. PLENTY of money exchanging hands in retail stores in Sydney daily. Bushfire appeal? Seriously? Christmas hangovers? You certainly have no idea about anything related to making money...Kudos to that!

[lyndal1838]

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@attie1981 wrote:

Geez Dave you should step outside your house a little bit more often. PLENTY of money exchanging hands in retail stores in Sydney daily. Bushfire appeal? Seriously? Christmas hangovers? You certainly have no idea about anything related to making money...Kudos to that!

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If you knew Dave as I do you would realise how stupid your remarks are.   You certainly picked the wrong poster to address those remark to.

[padi*0409]

The responses to feedback left are revealing.......................

[davewil1964]

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@attie1981 wrote:

Geez Dave you should step outside your house a little bit more often. PLENTY of money exchanging hands in retail stores in Sydney daily. Bushfire appeal? Seriously? Christmas hangovers? You certainly have no idea about anything related to making money...Kudos to that!

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I don't live in Sydney, nor do 83% of the population.

Are they exchanging money for fripperies, or necessities?

I have a rough idea about how to make money online. I've even had more than one transaction on this ID in the last year.

[brerrabbit585]

There are always people losing jobs and there are always businesses closing and there are always people doing it tough. There are also a lot of people who will always continue to spend money they don't have, others who will continue to spend money they do have.

January is usually my best month but it was down by about 20% this year - no surprise when we came close to having WW3, as well as all the other stuff happening.

Feb is usually a good month as well but it's down this year. It could be that people are spending less or it could be that ebay isn't giving me as much visibility - take your pick.

[heihachi_73]

One sale on the 10th, last one was on the 3rd.

[south.coffee]

January was dead which is usual with folks away and holiday pay exhausted.  Christmas credit card bills landing and consumer discretionary funds steered to bush fire appeals, not to mention the folks fighting fires and the ones who lost houses and possessions in south east Australia...

The up side of the fires will bring triple 'R' down the track.  Rebuilding - Replacement - Renewal courtesy of Government spending and insurance company payouts.

Come February though with return to work and first pay packets and our sales are back to normal.