Thanks Purple, I had checked the traffic/listing impressions a few weeks back, and yes, they were definitely down - around 40% if memory serves me correctly.

As to whether things have improved since I posted originally, I guess it's a bit debatable. Sales are still down, but they are coming in. The weird thing is that my international sales have stopped altogether - however, ONLY in the cushion cover category. I still sell stickers and crafting items to international buyers, so I know that for those categories at least, I am visible.

I would say that if my international sales would start up again like before, then I would actually be close to where I was before things went pear shaped with the store subscription change.

Another alternative for me would be to change things around a little and intead of just having my Ausssie shop which ships to the US and the UK, to also open up new accounts in order to list DIRECTLY into those market places and increase my visibility that way.

40%? That's pretty significant.

Wait, you only ship to the UK and USA? Personally, I just have all of europe turned on, but you could try temporarily changing what countries you ship to and see if that helps. maybe changing the setting will fix a glitch.

If you can add just the nordic countries I reccomend it. They are my 3rd biggest customer after UK and USA and they have been reliable.

Thanks Purple - I do ship to Canada and most of Northern Europe (I refuse to do Southern Europe), but I find that other than Germany, the orders from those countries are pretty minimal.

I would say my 3 biggest markets are the US, the UK and then Germany.

Since I have nothing to lose at this point, I might actually turn off international postage altogether for a day or two and then turn it back on. Maybe there is some kind of glitch which can hopefully be rectified. Fingers crossed....