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My sales are right down!
 

Is anyone else finding this: that their sales are down?

I'm selling about 2-3 item's a day but then over weekend 10+ a day?

What is going on!

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Few posts about this - it was summer and now back to school period - perhaps people are being occupied with other things...

Also, did you scope out your competition if they are doing better sales? Lower prices, etc?

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I did look @ one. He sell's about 600 items a month, He's getting about 5-6 a day @ the moment, But my weekends a mint sell 10+ a day, Just seem's very strange.

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Thank God I been busy around the clock , I actually hired 2 college girls to help me with the packaging end , I only trust myself with the actual running the stealth part.

But it's been great and increases everyday as I make more accounts and get increases.

I'm selling 500 items a week and this has been growing every week a month ago I was at 300 items a week

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Fair shout, What sort of items?

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But @All_Sortz - if your competition is getting big orders, might be time to revamp your listings

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What do you mean "revamp your listings"?

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Sales and views are down big time ... I checked my competition and their sales are down as well.

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What do you think it is? Due to the new TRS Requirements + all the other New policy's ?

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I would say it is just that time of year. What were your sales like this time last year?

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My guess is as good as anyone's however I don't buy into excuses such as "it's just that time of the year". Really? Was it this bad last year and the year before? Most likely explanation that eBay Cassini search engine is broken. Sales don't just abruptly halt. eBay knows this but they will never admit it. I've read 10-15 years TRS veterans complain that they have never experienced such drought in sales and view before.

1. Too many sellers on eBay
2. Slow economy.
3. eBay search is broken.
4. Too many Asian sellers undercutting everyone else.

These are just a few of the main reasons why eBay has become difficult to make any decent profit.

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My sales are down. It was really down, never have been like this before. But at the weekend, did well. I do think it is due to the timing. Summer period is usually down. Now Autumn is here, i guess sales would pick up.

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Comparing year on year sales for 5 years, August and September for me is always the slowest month, although this period is down 7% on last year, but up 5% on 2011.

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Asian sellers do make quite the influence - again depending on your niche

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Asian sellers have undercut all of us, but rsot is right. It depends on what you sell

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My proposal is to make it so you cannot start bid or buy it now price for less than $4.99 - $9.99 no matter what you sell. eBay needs to educate their buyers that they cannot expect to buy an item with free shipping for a few dollars. It's ridicules!

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It only depends what you sell until Asian sellers will move on to sell these items too. It's only a matter of time. I remember many years ago there were so many US sellers on eBay. Now most of them are Chinese sellers. It's really sad what has happened to eBay for the past 5 years.

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That will never happen....

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Never say never.

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I do have to agree on #'s 1 & 4

eBay has made it to easy for new sellers to put up crappy listings on their phones.

And the Chinese sellers killed my bulk item costing me about $300. a month in profit.

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Saying that i turn around £150+ today. It's wired it seem's like it comes in @ the end of the day the most, Maybe because everyone is home, But then my niche is aimed at shops. Then weekends are the ebst by far!

I agree there are too many sellers on ebay, Every one will just undercut untill it get's to a point where it's not worth the money to sell on ebay.

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Notice about a 20% drop in sales this summer compared to last. I mainly focus on gaming accessories etc etc. Seems to be a flat market this summer with new consoles coming out.

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There is a bug at the moment in the ebay.com system with listings not being shown on .com. If you have a store they then the store shows zero items for sale. This could be some of the problem, I have it one one account and I'm 80% down to the previous weeks sales, all my other accounts are selling as normal.

It was supposed to be fixed 3 days ago but it still have not been fixed as of this morning - they are working on it......

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One buyer complained that his bid went from $13.50 to $20.50 without him setting up highest bid. I don't think he was making this all up since he wrote me a detailed message about his aggravating call to eBay's customer service.

eBay is broken .... AGAIN!

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Yes I agree OP my sales are down and I have a lot of Chinese competition that is hitting me hard in the pocket. I have to keep lowering the price and playing up the USA seller rant. I am hoping Christmas sales begin soon.

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Also who has seen the new Sold - View order details page?

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I list almost everything BIN on my aged accounts where I'm not getting holds from Paypal and the other newer accounts I do 5 day auctions and start my listings between $19 and $50 to start and I have a 99.9% sale rate and with the BIN I have a technique I use that always puts me in the front few listings first page and maybe second page and it doesn't matter what account top rates or not , besides having a great price there is another thing I do that I think gets me in front of 4000 + other of the same item

So I been doing a ton of packaging , shipping, and long rides to my supplier every week, I could have it shipped but I'd rather drive 2hours up and 2 hours back once a week that way I get exactly what I want and pick everything I want. I'm gonna start upping my inventory now that everything is moving well where I can just make maybe Once or twice a month pick up instead of once a week especially with the holidays comming

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Do you have the new Sales order page yet?

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Here it is!

http://i43.tinypic.com/9tmqgn.png

What do you think?

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Like TGMT², I agree with 1 & 4.

However No.3 is the worse issue. I am yet to be convinced that Cassini is even or HAS EVEN ever worked.

We are stuck with a lemon. We do not have a usable search engine. Listings not showing on ebay com, too too many invisible other times are a sign of troubles within ebay.
Whoever wrote their program(s) has made a giant snafu.

We suffer.

:mad:

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Sales are down this entire year for me. The Tax ID laws in the US are hurting me the most. I can't run my established accounts like I have in the past.

I can say though in general, the economy for most people is not improving. I am getting more low ball offers than every. Lots of messages about how broke everyone is.

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I am getting tons of non paying people on my auctions.

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I doubt this - he probably typed 23.50 and hence the auction is going up as people bid...eB isnt this glitchy...as of last night... .ca or .com you're on?

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Aug saw a 40% drop

so far sucktember is doing better but not by much.... im surviving.... :surrender:

ha yea i have to cancel someones bid on an item cause they don't have enough on their card............ its item costs as much as a hair cut mind you... :confused:

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So basically after thoroughly reading all of your posts I find myself correct about every single point I made, whether some of you agree with me or not. I believe many sellers here and abroad are still in denial about how bad the situation is with eBay. Our economy isn't where it was before 2008. Not even close. Many years ago eBay buyers didn't care spending more when purchasing off eBay. Nowadays they will fight you for literally one cent. When I read posts made by veteran sellers complaining about how difficult it has become to make decent profit on eBay I know we are in big trouble. I see eBay as titanic. Some sellers like myself and you are still holding on to the idea that it might get better while the entire ship is sinking. Just because a few sellers on this board are successful, it does not reflect the entire picture.

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this is sales............it goes up....it comes down........ this is to be expected.

you can't go freaking out over 1 slow month, you know how many brick and mort businesses operate in the -neg before they go back to profit. Sometimes you just gota spin the cash flow with no profit.. this is business.

If you expect to just be walking away with a wad of cash in your pocket every week like clockwork with no bumps or humps, then you need to find somethign else to do.

This isn't supposed to be easy, nothing ever is.

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No one said it was supposed to be easy. It wasn't easy 5 years ago either but we were making steady profit. If you can't make steady profit then you are in the wrong business buddy. Go back to your 9 to 5 office job then.

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Im not the one saying eb4y sucks and its going down, its so screwed up we are all dooooomedddddddd blah blah blah, you are.


Im digging in... what are you doing? wahhhhhh :violin:

if you think you should make the exact same profit, day in, day out.. no matter the time of the year.. what your comp is doing... how the econ is doing...... you are the one that needs a 9 to 5.

consumers are fickle.....this is the business you are in.

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What wrong with being objective for once? Oh okay let's pretend eBay is a wonderful place. If it is such a wonderful place to sell then why are you here? This entire forum was create out of necessity because people have had difficult time to stay on eBay platform let alone make profit.

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Where have I said that I was expecting to make EXACT same profit everyday? I am talking about Chinese sellers who are undercutting everyone else. At this point some products aren't even worth to sell anymore because you are only going to lose money. I am talking about buyers who don't have enough money on their credit card to pay for a product worth less than $10. I am talking about buyers extorting you in order to get something for free. I am talking about no views, broken search engine, glitches, poor customer service support for both PayPal and eBay.