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@knewdoors wrote:

you must be the only one selling...the lights have been switched off majorly for us bigtime this month....compared to last year..things are getting worse and not from want of trying or listing stuff that usually sold without a problem..there's a clear pattern we sell exactly or close to the same each month this year..but those sales are half or 60 to 70% of what we used to sell..something just isnt right.. now thats really crazy....

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Perhaps just one of the few who frequents the forums, and/or is (occasionally) prepared to admit to selling ok when there's so many who are feeling the pain of flailing sales. Truth be told, I don't often feel its appropriate to mention I'm fairly happy with the way things are currently going for me, and would much prefer I had something of greater value to help sellers whose sales are declining. If I knew exactly what it was that allowed my sales to be not only relatively steady (on average) but generally increase as well, I would share the info with great detail in a heartbeat, but I really don't know - not in real terms. 

Plus, while I feel I'm doing ok, I still don't consider myself a high volume seller or anything, and I do find the consistent reports of sudden and dramatic decreases in sales that others experience to be quite concerning (for other sellers, and for myself, in all honesty, because it indicates the unpredictable turn that can affect anyone at any time - that's true in all retail, but on eBay it seems like it's more sudden with no prior indication of declining trends etc ).