WHY HAVE EBAY SALES CRASHED

With  nothing having changed on my end, I don't understand why my ebay sales have crashed ... down to about 15% of what they were before ... profit on my sales now barely cover my monthly ebay anchor store costs ... I'm now earning LESS than $1 per hour !

HELP! HELP! HELP!

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I have sold four items since the 1/7/15. It seems to be a pattern which occurs every month, known to the selling community as throttling: sellers get decent sales for a while, then absolutely nothing for a week or two.
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Thank you for joining in ... even without my huge "ON SALE" discounts that I only offer on ebay, my sales outside ebay are going gang-busters ... my ebay sales have been heading downhill for about 3 months now. 

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Hey all you buyers out there can you please help out my friend pinnacle and buy something.

 

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Even I can not predict the future and don't know what I would have sold since 1/7/15??

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Hey, that is so nice of you ... I was just expecting other sellers to tell me where I might be going wrong!

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Like you and many other sellers on these boards over the past couple of months our ebay sales are also down by about 85% or so.

We are trying to build our off-ebay sales now but its early days for us.

 

If your off-ebay sales are going gangbusters then you at least have that to fall back on. That is our plan now for the future. Good onya for forward planning and not putting all your eggs in one basket as we have erroneously done up until now.

 

If we can get our off-ebay sales to go gangbusters like yours we will likely drop ebay selling altogether. Its just far too stressful for the meagre returns.

 

My personal theory is that buyers are deserting ebay as a place to buy in droves. The site is full of glitches and is very difficult for a buyer to navigate. We have lots of buyers making errors when trying to buy especially the newbies. We are often asked for advice on how to do this or that when buying.

 

So why would they persist when they can often find the same items on other web sites with far less buying hassles. And as often as not cheaper too.

 

Google is your friend for product searches not Cassini these days.

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What a pity if ebay were to go down!

I enjoy the interaction with ebayers who are, in the main, great to deal with.

The problem seems to be that ebay no longer has a point of difference and they just down have the "traffic" to support sellers who are in business to sell product, not just a "garage sale" event. I have seen shopping malls suffer the same fate as they age.

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The traffic is there but alot of sellers are complaining about the throttling that's happening and not too mention the fees,placement,this and that and so on and so on arh time for a cuppa lol

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I must agree that the ebay systems have become too complicated and even the ebay help desk staff aften dont have a clue.

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