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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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Default Re: My sales are right down!

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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Default Re: My sales are right down!

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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Default Re: My sales are right down!

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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Default Re: My sales are right down!

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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Default Re: My sales are right down!

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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Default Re: My sales are right down!

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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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.
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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Default Re: My sales are right down!

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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Asian sellers do make quite the influence - again depending on your niche
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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Default Re: My sales are right down!

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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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!
That will never happen....
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That will never happen....
Never say never.
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1. Too many sellers on eBay
2. Slow economy.
3. eBay search is broken.
4. Too many Asian sellers undercutting everyone else.
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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Default Re: My sales are right down!

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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Default Re: My sales are right down!

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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