Re: Anyway to fight against throttling? Quote:
Originally Posted by rsot Could also be a shift of the market? Buyers going on to something else? Not as popular as before? |
Not at all. I don't know who twists the system at eBay, but that group of people are as dumb as it could ever get and let me elaborate why. The category where I sell has been dramatically shaken up in the last few weeks, it literally looks like all listings were in a jar and that jar had been shaken up so hard that all items are now sorted out in a weird way.
They brought up listings that are not selling very well even though they're placed on top of search results. On the other side, the listings that were doing excellent in terms of items sold were sent back way down the road.
So in essence here is what they've done:
1. They made space for listings that never showed up before. These listings are ****ty as f and very little sales are being made off them.
2. They picked up top-performing sellers in the category and sent them 20+ pages back in search pages.
I don't know if they are aware of the fact that such policies could literally close down businesses. I am all about giving space for new sellers, but doing that by suppressing top-performing sellers is not the way to go!
One of my competitors used to have 300-500 sales a day and now he has like 30 something!
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