We have two eBay stores both selling in the baby headbands & accessories area. As of about 17th Sept we noticed a huge reduction in activity & sales. Estimate we are down about 45% in sales volume in the past 2-weeks. And at that stage we had not changed anything about our listings. All of our BIN listings are now 100% compliant with the new TRS+ requirements but still we are not getting visibility. We used to get 10 or so listings in the top 100 of best match now we are seeing our first listing down around 300+. 

What we are finding in our category is that there are a huge number of Chinese sellers swamping the top 100 listings. And they mostly do not comply with TRS+. So changing our listings seems to have been pointless. We are getting ZERO benefits.

Many emails to/from eBay in the past week about this have resulted in nothing but rhetoric (??) and saying we have to improve our listings in comparison to our competition.

This is supposed to be eBay Australia so I think they should change the default search filter to Australia ONLY to remove these O/S sellers from the results and give us Aussie sellers the preference. After all, our profits stay in Australia and not O/S.

We are now studying other online selling options including setting up our own website and using the enormous fees (abbout 19% of sales overall between ebay/PayPal) to place ads on Google Advertising.

So we will dump eBay as soon as we can get other options working well enuff.

Any thoughts on all this ppl?