My sales are right down!

[sugarlaces]

do phone them or speak to them in live support to complain.
if enough people do they may revert to an old or add the missing parts upon saying so.

like everything else they make it buyer friendly not seller friendly,

[FlavioLHP]

September for me is always the slowest

[golden_monkey]

Originally Posted by stanislav

I find this amusing but also very true. I read the exact same sorry excuses here too.

you feel like doing anything else besides b*tching?

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<--- this isn't going to help anything.

[golden_monkey]

Originally Posted by unclejohnny

did research on one seller recently where last year July he did over 4,000 sells. This year 469......

groundbreaking.........glad you have a looking glass as to why that other seller has slowed down. must be because the ebay sky is falling......

way to go detective...................

[unclejohnny]

Originally Posted by golden_monkey

groundbreaking.........glad you have a looking glass as to why that other seller has slowed down. must be because the ebay sky is falling......

way to go detective...................

Your welcome. .........

[Rambo3]

Not gonna lie.. just read this whole thread and the only thing i can think of right now is..
"What the *&%^ are you guys selling?"

[cookiecutter101]

could be seasonal items, could be non-essential, i.e. things funded by disposable income and people's Wants rather than needs.

When the economy is struggling, buyers look at their priorities more seriously

Holiday season is coming. Some have already bought presents, others are saving up for them.

There are too many factors to consider, but as a whole, it feels like eBay has been slowing down.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by Rambo3

Not gonna lie.. just read this whole thread and the only thing i can think of right now is..
"What the *&%^ are you guys selling?"

To each his own whatever makes profit

[GreenBean]

Originally Posted by Rambo3

Not gonna lie.. just read this whole thread and the only thing i can think of right now is..
"What the *&%^ are you guys selling?"

I wondered what was being smoked

[mercurial333]

Originally Posted by SaiJin

Well, some of your getting the $100-$200 a day in August should feel fortunate, since I've not been getting enough funds for bills since July. 2nd week of Sept has gotten a tiny bit better, but not by much.

That's relative to their spending and/or monthly bills as well.
5k a month might barely make it for some.


I know two years ago before the Holidays Ebay did some heavy advertising ( possibly on a global scale ). I was getting a huge amount of newly registered buyers. Inventory was moving quickly and at very good prices too.
I'm not sure if they still did or do that heavy advertising since then, but a lot less of those newly registered buyers nowadays.

[rsot]

Global scale advertising - very nice - so many new ways to advertise these days

[stanislav]

Just recently I have seen eBay advertisement on Russian TV. I wish they would do the same in North America.

[MM78]

I wish they would block Chinese sellers from selling on Ebay.com

[stanislav]

Finally you are agreeing with me. I said it numerous times before and no one has ever chimed in.

[MM78]

Originally Posted by stanislav

Finally you are agreeing with me. I said it numerous times before and no one has ever chimed in.

Trust me I have! lol.

[SaiJin]

Chinese sellers always kill the market for that specific item. We all agree that Chinese sellers should be allowed to flood the market with 1 penny garbage.

But that's beside the point right now and a different topic than this thread.

[stanislav]

I think Chinese sellers are BIG part of the problem.

Like I said before.

1. Slow Economy
2. Chinese sellers
3. eBay is switching on and off search results according to geographical location etc ..
4. Too many Sellers in general.

[vogeltron]

I have been selling on eBay starting since 2003. There are less sellers than in the past. Especially the small ones when it was like a huge garage sale. Competition in the categories I list in have fallen 50-70% no Asian sellers.

Suppose to be a "inelastic" part of the economy. Also I do not sell products that compete directly with Amazon. Economy sucks, the cost of shipping internationally has dramatically increased. At-least in most parts of Europe and America people are broke. I remember 2005-08 I use to send items to Spain, Greece all the time. Now all younger generation is flat broke lucky if they have a job waiting tables.
Cost of shipping at-least in USD has skyrocketed and people are struggling to get by and in a large part of the western world you have a beginning to see a lost generation

. The Tech generation at-least in the US is largely graduating college with over 100k in loans, a worthless Arts Degree and no job prospects. It now takes a College Degree to work at Starbucks in the U.S.

[cookiecutter101]

Originally Posted by stanislav

Just recently I have seen eBay advertisement on Russian TV. I wish they would do the same in North America.

There is good reason for that.
They literally JUST opened ebay Russia, and Paypal is now allowing Roubles as a currency (that was also news 2 days ago), new market new opportunity, of course ebay will advertise.

It's great and all, but eBay should realise that's a new market, it will take time to iron out the kinks in the system.
They should focus on upgrading/fixing the current sites, markets, etc. who will bring huge paychecks from the already established sellers for the holiday season.

I'm sure some of there accountants have done the math, or maybe their projections for Russia are just that massive, but either way they need to do something, otherwise even more sellers will just die off. (not saying that ebay actually care)

[vogeltron]

With Mark Carney blowing a bigger property bubble than he left in Canada and George Osborne and his help to buy "ponzi" scheme. Buy something now then flip in the next 6 months when phase two sets in and before the bubble crashes.

[rsot]

USD to Roubles exchange rate...oh PP, you are going to make a killing!

[GreenBean]

Originally Posted by cookiecutter101

It's great and all, but eBay should realise that's a new market, it will take time to iron out the kinks in the system.
They should focus on upgrading/fixing the current sites, markets, etc. who will bring huge paychecks from the already established sellers for the holiday season.

I'm sure some of there accountants have done the math, or maybe their projections for Russia are just that massive, but either way they need to do something, otherwise even more sellers will just die off. (not saying that ebay actually care)

They picked Russia to make up for their failure in China.

At the same time, the Chinese sellers have access to eBay....

Who still wins?

eBay does.