This month so far I have  sold 254 items on eBay.

Today has been quiet, no sales at all as at 4.30pm and last Saturday week I did not make one sale all day, which is unusual.

Is this a throttling conspiracy? Not for me, I don't believe, just the normal ebb and flow of business that most shops experience. Yesterday was a good day, today, no one buying.

However, overall, August has not been too bad, although it has tailed off in the last week or so.

This is normal, the last week of August and the first couple of weeks of September are usually the worst time of the year for my eBay selling.

A good time to take a break.

The Royal shows are on in most capital cities, this takes a large amount of discrentionary spending money out of people's pockets.

Also, the weather is better and people get out more after a cold winter and don't sepnd as much time indoors.

I have been doing this nearly 20 years now and can set my watch by it.

Because I know this time of the year is dead for my type of retail, it is not a worry.

Middle of January until end of February and end August until mid September are just dead for my type of eBay store, probably for a lot of others as well.