Sales dropped 80% since Saturday. Anyone else? Or is there a problem with my ebay....

[phaz0rz]

Originally Posted by Payelectronica

I noticed that when i would log in on some accts to do admin work, answer a few questions, it seemed to generate more traffic and sales to the page while im logged in. Didnt take long but, i began to realize that being logged in helped with my sales too.

It's always been my belief that logging and doing some account management each day makes a big difference.

Honestly I think it's eBay's way of safeguarding themselves against sellers who randomly disappear, get arrested, die, etc, etc.. They start slowing down your sales as soon as you log off because they don't really know if you're coming back, and they don't want you to rack up thousands of unfulfilled orders if you die in a car wreck on your way to the post office one afternoon.

If I take the weekend off and don't login to any accounts on Saturday or Sunday, I always regret it on Monday because I'll only get about half as many sales as if I had logged in both days. Some of that is due to accepting best offers on a lot of listings. But even on accounts that don't accept best offer there's a noticeable difference taking the weekend off vs. not taking the weekend off.

[Sunspot144]

Buyer habits honestly. Tend to see the same descending staircase sales pattern from sun to fri, and sat can drop way off sometimes, not always. Tend to see higher sales at the beginning/end of each month, possibly because those on payroll have figured out how much funny money they have after bills and rent/mortgage. It's all predictable based on buyer behavior, just like how sales begin to slow down Q2 and pick back up Q4.

Can't vouch for logging in.. never observed that, nothing out of the ordinary comes of it.

If there was a velocity limit on an account, adding more listings woudn't create more sales each month. Would believe there's a buyer demand soft cap that the account is able to tap into a portion of. Creating a duplicate listing branded/listed in a different way should tap into a larger portion of the demand for it.

[Payelectronica]

More times than not Ebay will treat you the way you treat it.

[Sunspot144]

If there's a screenshot of listings ranked vastly different from different IPs I'll believe it... Even then I don't think search results can be fully understood given listings are ever-changing and reindexing.