January is always a little unpredictable. Our experience the last two years has been that it "sawtooths" - up one week and down the next. Last week was a strong week. This continued into February the last few years.

There's the obvious things such as holidays etc but there are nearly always a few other things in January - the last few years we've seen major floods, fires and cyclones for example.

We use January as an opportunity to do a bit of "renovating and refurbishment" of our listings - review layouts, introduce new items, get rid of some items etc. About half way through that right now.