Sales have hit a Wall

[ezy-mobiles]

I have been a regular seller on e-bay since 2000 (yep 13 years) and I have never seen sales so critically low. The lack of sales combined with the increase in e-bay fees / paypal fees etc looks like after all these years time to finish up with with ebay and back to selling at the local weekend markets.

[davewil1964]

Some of us lucky

[nonny_muss]

Dave, I've read here and there that your sales are doing well (long may it continue) but I must confess I wasn't paying enough attention to remember whether you have a store or not. 

I'm wondering whether stores are faring worse than 'non store' sellers? If so it could explain the weird search glitches that many sellers are noticing....

[2106greencat]

I don't think it makes a difference - Store or no store, just a real bad time at the moment, and it is not only eBay related.

My online store is not doing well at all, B&M stores are suffering, lets all hope after 30 June things start to pick up.

To Dave - 585 - seems I am to be continually 5 in arrears 😉

[*abella_couture*]

Well i agree, things are quiet out there, and im a seller, but im also a buyer, and the fact i currently have $2000 of bills at home right now should tell you, im not a buyer right now, so dare say everyone else is too.........

[gizmoclearance]

my seller account has experienced something differently this month. A bit quiet at the beginning then last week sales doubled or even tripled, then quiet again for the last couple days.

I started the store since last July and I have sold nearly 10000 items here. my daily sales are around 40-60 a day. Most of my products are in very niche market (mobile accessories), I  also run my own online store but because of the high keyword competition it's not possible make a profit out of Adwords, so I have to rely on eBay to sell those products. and from my experience, if you can't manage to keep a position on the 1st page, sales will dry out quickly and inventory will remain dusted. and sadly, 95% of the 1st page listing items are unbranded junk! buyers on eBay loves them! Most of the sellers there sell on near-zero margin in order to keep exposure.

I was a graphics designer before starting the store, so my listing design helps a bit over the competition. but there are always other sellers pick up my best selling items, copy my listing design, gallery picture and Title, then price-beat me down to very thin margin. I guess it's normal, even the big companies do that too. So it keeps me thinking, what is the sustainable business model in online shopping where price comparison is so easy?  

I don't complaint about sales drop. there is always the other way. most of the successful online businesses I know of live outside eBay. and it's worth doing some study on sites like kogan

[davewil1964]

To Dave - 585 - seems I am to be continually 5 in arrears 😉

7 atm. :^O

[ezy-mobiles]

Just sold 2 items last night!!! are things picking up or is just a sales "bubble"

[2106greencat]

:_|

June Sales - ZERO

My bubble burst last month

[summergirl71]

Ebay have just become plain stupid, manipulative and GREEDY. They offer 40 free listings now, but after that $1.50 per listing to $100 - it USED to be just 50 cents a listing.

International sellers get 50 free per month and then 30 cents a listing.

Basically ebay australia just ripping off australians - just like Ikea does.

My husband used to list 200 items a month, now he will ONLY list 40, so there is about 160 listings that ebay Now miss out on, as I said they are just stupid and greedy.

Also, the increase in selling fees of 25% - from 7.9% to 9.9%.  Probably against australian law to increase a fee that much in one hit, but given its Ebay, the australian government & ACCC will probably do nothing.

Ebay think they have a monopoly, but don't realise that monopolies will eventually disappear & fail, because the people that create the income for them will eventually go elsewhere.

And ALL this from a company that does NOT Employ 1 australian person..

[tdom1990]

It is unbelievably quiet 😞