Sales fell off a cliff

[comicbooksonline]

Anyone else just experienced a commplete fall off in sales from about 5 Days ago. Did Ebay make change?

[chameleon54]

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@chameleon54 wrote:

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@chameleon54 wrote:

Sales have been reasonably steady over the last week. They did slow for me around two weeks before the election and havnt really got back to the same level as before. Down around 25% on long term trend. This coincides with the fact I have not been putting the effort into ebay over the last few months due to other commitments.

 I have been trying to get sheep through the breaking of the drought. Once it rains any dry feed is spoiled and it takes time for new feed to grow and bulk up. Combined with the onset of cold weather it is a difficult time for drought affected sheep. Fortunately the rains have come and the feed has grown enough now, the dams are starting to fill and the sheep are putting weight back on extremely quickly.

I have a bit of time now so will get some new listings up and try to restart things on ebay. It will be interesting to see if it works as well as it has in the past.

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I followed through with putting some time and effort into ebay last week. I spent most of the time on my main account which had just been a bit stagnent lately. Revised a few listings and put up a number of new listings. As well as doing perhaps 12-15 new listings most days, I also trickle fed one or two listings at other times, so that there was a constant stream of new listings throughout the week. A lot of the items where pretty rare and while valuable, would only be of interest to a few highly specialised collectors. ( maybe only a half a dozen in Australia )

And the results are in. ............Just had my best week in a very long time. Around 50% of sales where to international clients who where picking the cherries at high prices. Theres still buyers out there for unique items, but if things are slow in Australia, maybe it is worth considering selling internationally if you have the rare stuff that is not commonly available.

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Still putting quite a bit of time ( several full days per week ) into ebay as my dickie knee is playing up, so cant do much on the farm. Sales are ticking along very nicely after the quiet period when I wasnt putting the effort into ebay. It shows if sellers put the time into ebay and have stuff buyers want it can still be a great place to sell. Like everything, you only get out what you are prepared to put in.

[yeoldecoinco]

"Still putting quite a bit of time ( several full days per week ) into ebay as my dickie knee is playing up, so cant do much on the farm. Sales are ticking along very nicely after the quiet period when I wasnt putting the effort into ebay. It shows if sellers put the time into ebay and have stuff buyers want it can still be a great place to sell. Like everything, you only get out what you are prepared to put in."

Never were more true words typed.

You have got to put in continual effort to eBay and find things that people want to buy at a price they want to pay, whilst still making a quid for yourself.

That is not easy, never has been and has got harder over the last 7-8 years, mostly because of vastly increased competition.

I still pine for the period 2003 to 2011, that was great...

But, it is still possible. eBay has been quite steady for me this year, marginally up on the same five months (March to July) of last year.

I listed 100s of new items a month or so back and they are moving on.

Haven't listed a lot lately, so will have to find the motivation to pucker up and just DO it..