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re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Easy to kick around for sure

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The word from rsot.

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re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

My items have changed over the year due to ebays ever changing policy's which doesn't help either.

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Yesterday all of a sudden I had rush of orders (70 orders). I thought things got back somewhat to normal ... Today it's DEAD .... I tried to click on one of my items found in search results, "lo and behold" it wont let me go into my listing and instead I get to see similar products - "Items found similar to". I had to click 4 times until it "fixed itself".

Ladies and gentleman, they are hiding our listings. I think they decided to get rid of as many sellers as possible by sabotaging everyone's listings this close to holidays. Ebay lost some traffic and some buyers over security breach and Google downgrade but it's difficult to believe there aren't enough buyers to accommodate most sellers on eBay.

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Same here I was doing well september then its just slowed to a halt in comparison to last year. i was doing 22 - 40 items/day this time last year now I doing less than 10 with full top rated seller and about 30% more items available. i'm looking at the returns system glitches and also the global selling programme as it seems to have coincided with there instructions as its mainly my non UK sales which are really down and it usually now US and Australia start they xmas shopping to get thing delivered in time, I'm very concerned

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

eBay is purposefully exterminating sellers and its not just small or medium, large sellers are suffering too. I have been monitoring a lot of sellers for a few years now and every single one of them is selling less than they used to. For example one seller who used to sell 25 - 30 units is now selling 1 - 4 and their drop in sales was sudden.

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Something is seriously up. I am not sure if it is exterminating sellers because that would mostly increase my business. Seems like sales are down for most sellers across the board. Something isn't right.

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

No doubt something major is up. I just can't figure out if it's all intentional or if they majorly messed up their Cassini (CAN'T-SEE-ME) search engine. Maybe they should stop hiring programmers from third world countries in order to save money and start sourcing local it developers only.

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Yea, absolutely everyone I has talked to who sells on eBay. I don't care what country, what category what product. Sales are down the past few months. I have no idea! All I know is this is very bad for me as well as I am sure all of you. Either it turns around big time or I will be in panic mode!

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Yes exactly. My sales are in a toilet. I have a lot of wonderful products in my inventory. I always get products that are in demand. With inventory I have right now if eBay was to get back to "normal" I could easily sell 300 items everyday. I spoke with a few people and every single one tells me sales is awful, anyone else who says otherwise is lying

Here is one of my contacts from eBay's Trust and Safety:

"Everyone i know who sells on ebay says the same thing.. something is very wrong with ebay these days"

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Definitely the wrong time of the year to have a slowdown like this. I am praying and hoping for all us sellers that things turn around. I do have to say. In my 10 years of selling on eBay. Considering what I have listed at the current prices and the time of year. This is the absolutely worst I can ever remember. Even the seriously bad years of 08-10 I did much better with much more competition at the time.

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Yes you are correct again, it's worse than it was during 08 recession. Every single eBay veteran says the same exact thing. It's absolutely the worst of the worst it has EVER been on eBay. It seems like it got even worse after August 20th when they introduced their defect rating system. Are they doing it purposefully this time of the year in order to discourage and eliminate as many sellers as possible? It seems this way to me. Not to mention there is big influx of con artists, scammers or just plain nasty people who leave negative feedback if you do not comply with their demands (extortion). Seriously eBay has become one of the most corrupt companies I personally am aware of.

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Things should turn around with holiday season coming

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Sales should start to pick up back end of November and upto Chrimstas as people begin to buy last minute gifts/items before Christmas

We all need to also keep in mind we all sell different things! Its hard to make universal statements when this forum isn't just confined to a single country, but the world.

Its also pretty hard to say sales are down when some are thriving in this market, as I am. Whats a negative for someone, can be a positive for someone else. We must always constantly adapt to the market. Reason being you could easily have record breaking sales last year, and this year your sales could be record lows.

I like to look at apple as they are to me one of the best at marketing and constantly reinventing their products. Nothing lasts forever...

Too all the people knew to stealth seeing older members on here can be somewhat alarming and may make you want to stay away from eBay, don't give in. I can offer you the other side that you can thrive in this market! Sales should pick up around thanksgiving but we shouldn't have to wait for a month to see a boost in sales, a steady stream is the only way to go for the long term.

Remember never believe all that you see :) Including me.

Keep in mind it doesn't matter what you think about your product at the end of the day, its what consumers want and whats in demand that matters.

Soon it will be Black Thursday! haha...

The negativity in this thread amazes me.

I agree. The people complaining about "glitches" must have never worked in retail before. I've worked at best buy where we would be crazy busy one week, DEAD the next. Same thing applies to a simple day...where we would get a crazy rush, then dead the rest of the night.

Its just the reality of retail. Just because you sell a certain amount one week, one month, one year..doesn't mean that will happen again its just not how it works. Thats why you must adapt, adapt, adapt!

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

My sales have been down this month. Last month I had fewer stealths accounts and more sales. This month I have more stealths accounts and less sales. So as my stealths accounts increased my sales decreased. Hoping this changes quick. I have 8 active accounts on ebay and hardly no sales this month. My amazon sales this months have also decreased.

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

always early November before stupid black Friday, retails sales slow. atleast from my limited experience in retail. if this is still goin on end of nov early December then ya be concerned:ballchain::smash::help:

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

For me it's purely USA/Canada/Australia sales overnight i've went from 60/40 Uk/ROW split to 95/5 when it should be moving to 50/50 due to ROW wanting get there items in time for xmas. Its happened overnight, this split has been constant year upon year, I'm trying to track down the day to see what chagnes ebay implemented on that day. This weekend 1 USA sale, that's my first weekend of 1 USA sale in at least 3 - 4 years something is not right.

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

As a small time seller I can tell you this time of year, anything will sell. It doesnt matter what it is! Marketing a product like apple's is not the same thing as selling that product to lazy shoppers during Christmas.
In the past I have bought items at retail prices the week before Christmas and made a profit. I'll never understand it. People are just lazy.

I swear you can sell **** from a dog on ebay this time of year.

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

I just died laughing, sorry that was funny. But true though!

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Still not like it was when eBay was a huge garage sale and a community 6-10 years ago. I remember a hotdog the "hawkdog" from the Seahawks NFC championship game sell for over $1,000. A jar of air from a redskins game sell for a couple hundred bucks. A pc of Toast that looked like the state of Texas sell for $35. I am sorry to break the news to the newer sellers but the golden age of eBay is gone. I will say that holidays does mean increased sales. But this is not what it was for those of us who have been around.

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Bag of pencil shavings...cereal that looked like Jesus....a kidney...those were the golden age

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

And be-careful over the holidays , hold some accounts completely back from selling until after

Every year sales have been great in December and than January comes and it's like the MC999 tornado comes thru just making there yearly clean out, and I have lost TRS accounts that were that status 9 months running all positives there's something about a couple weeks after Christmas that eBay seems to suspend lots of accounts

So be aware and keep a group of accounts totally clear from any holiday sales, it will be worth it come mid January after the sweep

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Also look at price adjusting. Your items may just be over priced. Look at competitors, look at trends in sales. Sometimes you have to make adjustments with your listing or item to get the sale!

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

The strange thing is I was busy all year 40-60 a day with continues grow.
And yesterday 3pm everything stopped. Sold 3 since then.

Not sure what to think

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

I hope you realize that when you operate businesses they have ups and downs, peaks and valleys? Its a little earlier to worry if its just yesterday. There any many factors that come into play. Unless your a Walmart or Target you should expect to have bad days, your pretty delusional to think otherwise.

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

It could be regional by country. But when you have multiple sellers like myself, RSOT and other who have been doing this for a decade. Saying this is usual and extremely strange. Definitely something is up. You are right 1 day can be an outlier. But eBay is either losing traffic or the western economies are much worse off then the talking heads are saying.

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Also other platforms to check out

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

I have had steady selling. 40-60 items a day. The day before yesterday 3 items and today back at 37 . Seen a lot of people complain about eBay app not working and combined postage not adding up last 2 days. Seems they have fixed it? Fingers x.

I won't disagree since you clearly have the resume and not me.
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You must have seen its growth, correct? Ebay wasn't always as big as it was now 10 years ago, unless I'm mistaken.

Only time will tell. But unless some other business comes into the market and actually works (so many failed) I don't see eBay going anywhere but up.

Without competition, unless they keep doing stupid things like having security breaches...shouldn't see traffic going downwards as a trend.

I'm talking big picture too. Just like we have hiccups so can eBay. This year could be a bad one maybe. But if you break it down say every 2-3 years or something like that, you must be better off now than 10 years ago?

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

eBay may be bigger in the sense it is more corprotized. FVF fees were like 4-5% when I started for low value items then got lower for higher value items. There was a golden age of selling on eBay. I would say about 2002 to 2008 or so when Aspkin came out with the stealth guide. Still maybe 1 to 2 decent years after that. When the 1099k law went into effect for me on US eBay especially it felt like it changed everything dramatically.

There was a day when this was a community of small independent sellers and amazing things happened on the site. Now it is pretty cookie cuttter. For the most part eBay is trying to keep up Amazon in most categories.

To be honest back in like 2005 to 2007 I had crazy competition. When eBay started changing things I was like well I am the last person standing. I am starting to believe because there are so little products offered in many of the areas I sell now it has actually hurt my business. Because buyers are looking elsewhere.

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Positive news at least

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Sold $18000 in August, November to date $550. How did that happen. Ebay's new seller defect system. 99.9 Feedback. 1 Neg. Two Items lost in mail. 3 Ebay Feedback Extortion and two INAD's due to returns wanting free shipping.

Pretty cute eh? Now restricted to 50 auctions and PayPal is holding funds for up to 21 days.

The only good thing? If I'm not seeing, eBay is not getting any fees. If I'm not buying, eBay loses as well. Thank God I'm not in it for the money. :welcome;

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

I hope Aspkin is correct and I understand all the variables... but my sales are significantly down compared to 2 years prior.
BTW, no "foo foo" I have been selling the same items for over 4 years now and sales have increased every year until present.

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

There is no doubt that part of their problems are technical in nature. As an ex-programmer myself, I can't help laughing when I come across the constant glitches on difference pages.

The second issue is Donahue himself. He swore up and down that there was never going to be a split with PayPal. Ironic somehow and very embarrassing. I thing the balance of the problems are with management themselves and their 1970's human resources business model. I have never seen such deplorable customer service in my life.

Honestly, I was the idiot sending them $1600 in fees and waiting an hour on the phone just to get a rep! :noidea:

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Last month I paid $3500 in fees.

Aside from their constant technical glitches due to poor programming they are now intentionally hiding our listings. Since August 20th, after they realized their new defect rate policy wasn't enough to eliminate established sellers they decided to finish what they have planned all along which is to get rid of as many sellers as possible.

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

Most likely they are outsourcing their Programming outside the US and thus becoming difficult to get the programmer online when he/she is probably asleep. And I do agree, their site is too glitchy and it seems like it gets worst and worst every day.

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

There very clearly is a motive to get rid of us for sure. It is so ridiculous when PayPal tells me what a wonderful client I am. That they don't understand what the heck eBay is doing. One of their reps released funds to me before an item was actually received, totally bypassing eBay's dictatorial demands and restrictions they have placed on my business.

Now that my buying has been cut down to nothing, lets see how wonderful I stay.;)

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

What about the bigger picture? How has it been overall in the last say 10 years? Not sure if you've been a active Ebayer that long but I thought I read on some thread you have...

BTW still awaiting that PM reply back MM78 :)

re: ARE your sales still slow this month? Oct - Nov 2014
 

The fact that PayPal is spinning off means that eBay is in a world of trouble. This year alone there were a few prominent people who left eBay. Something major is up and I am not sure if it's all positive. John Hoe is stepping down but will remain on board of directors. This delusional idiot destroyed ebay. It was once a gaint, now it's nothing but a deserted town. What a shame! John, ebay was never Amazon and it will never be one! eBay was a unique place until you tried to turn it into your own distorted vision.