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

I was having a record breaking month. Sales up 40% across the board, from an already record breaking last month.

Friday 6 sales, Saturday 7 sales, Sunday, 1 sale, Monday 0 sales, today 0 sales.
sunday and monday are normally my best days too.

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

another day of no sales.

Nobody else?

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My sales have increased yesterday

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

Lots of variables to consider.

Last week I was real slow, then sat & sun was booming!

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Which variables tho? I'm still selling the same stuff as before. My sales have always been very consistent. I've even got more stuff up then normal.

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

Competitors, rankings, holidays, time of month (payday). Lots of things to consider.

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Depends on the market too

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Usually the 1st and the 15th are the best days of the month as most people get paid on those days.. Holidays are almost always slower. It's generally slower before Thanksgiving and then it ramps up until Christmas.. lots of variables.

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My sales haven't been better since May. I don't know why everyone else is complaining ...

My sales are through the roof!

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My sales drop this month also..As above members have said " many factor involves in it. I guess this month is not a good month for me..Wish you guys all the best of luck...

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

So I checked my sales from this time last year. The amount of sales I had were 30% of what my average months are at the moment. And that was with 5 times less listings for sale last year. October 2013 was actually damn good for me, especially considering how few items I had up at that time, by comparison.

I sell watch parts, which range from $20-160. So not expensive, and not a gift item, and something that people buy at any time of the year because they need to fix their watch.

I'm not seeing the variable that would make my sales fall to 90% from every other day the past 6 months. Something is going on. Perhaps people aren't seeing my listings anymore or something. I don't know.

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I agree with you, there is something going on with eBay, and listing visibility, I definetLy think it has glitches just like the rest of eBay and paypal .

Sometimes it seems like things are normal and sales are flying and other times it's like shut off, at first I thought maybe it was,all other variables , but there is too much of a variance that doesn't make sense

And the same items are flying on Amazon, and I'll have 3 good days on eBay than 5 days of nothing, just too strange to have 3 days in a row with 100 sales and the next 3 zero

Ebay is flawed right now , they need to correct things , just too many system glitches, so if everything else is glitchy I think the search is as well

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Last month seen a huge amount in drops and some days I'd go without selling items on my main account and normally do 5 to 15 per day and had 3 days in a row of 0 sales.

Ebay got pulled by google for horrible SEO work. Traffic dropped I seen the chart by a member on here who sent it to me.

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No problem here. I am going on a record year. I'm still stocking up for the Christmas season.

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Yep. Another days, another $0. No variables explains 40 sales the first 10 days and 2 sales the next 5 days .

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Last month was absolutely great, pulled in quite a bit. But yeah, sales have been kind of here and there this month. We were kinda off to a bad start this first 1-2 weeks, especially since I had an entire week and a half of sales in the beginning that were basically deadbeats.

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End of day 6, and 0 sales.

Anyone else want to claim that 40 sales in first 10 days and 2 sales in the next 6 days is just some fluke, with many variables in play?

Called ebay, they didn't know ****. Said my account looked amazing, blah blah blah. Never heard of throttling. Said that the last 3 months, the economy has been bad. Had no explanation why despite a bad economy, my last 3 months just keep ( until now...) getting more and more sales.


But he did give me an extra $15k a month listing limit... Thanks... That will help me a lot.

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

This week has been super slow. I was actually looking to start a thread to see if anyone was experiencing the same thing.

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No one can guess their items on day, it's depending on many things, such us: Holidays, sale off, etc...

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I am 100% sure that it is a visibility issue. Perhaps a glitch.

The real question is ''will they fix it?''

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Same threads on Amazon. Oct has been record slow.

Business reports suggest retail spending is down. They dont know why. Summer showed an increase in the economy and latest report says we are stalled.

One the plus side they say oil keeps falling and should help soon.

I am at a stand still on sales across amazon/ebay. It will pick up after halloween.

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For the slow sales, Auctions or Fixed Price listings?

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After years of selling, you can figure things out pretty easy. And can know when things are naturally occurring, and when something else is happening. And having sales go from skyrocketing, to STOPPED within hours, is not naturally occurring.


Just about the only good thing to come out of this, is that it seems other peoples are also having this issue, which means auctions are going to have less buyers and less competition. So I'm gonna snag up so great deals to cover my losses

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yeah but see, that's the thing. the first 10 days of October has been more sales then I've ever experienced. I was projected to DOUBLE my sales from the previous months.

I actually have another ebay, that sells watches, and my sales on there have gone up and are still going up. But my main account, which has the most items, is stalled. I'd love to know ebays unique visitors day by day to see what's actually happening.

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Only fixed price listings. If it were auctions, I'd be in even more trouble. I might not be getting sales, but at least I"m not having to sell at cheap prices. Only option I have is to go back through all my messages and push some people to buy stuff.

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

Do what needs to be done to generate profit. Sometimes VOLUME is just as good as just having high profit margin per item...

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Depends on the items. I've been offering some discounts lately for a little volume. My stuff tho requires some actual labor on my part, so I can be a little reluctant to discount too much. And I'm limited in how many of the items I have, how many buyers I can find. It's an interesting balancing act. I was selling quite a lot, so I didn't care enough to discount anything, or to push people hard to buy

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I hear you james...the competition can be tough and labour + time...is limited. Research new products perhaps...if you can

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doesn't the holiday sales start beginning of November and august - oct are usually slower months?

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I agree. This is something else. Perhaps, our listing doesn't reach to many people as it's used to do in the past.

When i search my listing on ebay , it comes up on first page but maybe different countries have different visibility settings now. Who knows..

On the other hand, it can be shrinking economicy as it was suggested above.


On June 2014, I was selling 10-16 items least but now i can barely sell 1 - 3.

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

Well, to test my theory, I bid on something I'm used to buying. Got it for half the price I was expecting it to go for.

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

For the love of god does everybody ignore what I say on here now these days?

What don't you all not understand? IF there is no TRAFFIC and it dropped this is what happens. Less customers = less sales. Go read on the ebay forums it self of people use to do $1 Million a year or $100k a month now down to $5k a month in sales.

There was an article that shows that google pulled ebay due to bad SEO tatics.

I mean you can do all the tactics you like if there is no traffic how do you expect to sell? Then explain how some days you sell like 50 items then it's slow for the next 10 days and not like before. They are shuffling people in the search engine trying to give everyone a chance. It's bad enough when you got stores.

The only ones who seem to make a profit is those who sell phakes on ebay I noticed by viewing. And those scammers who got inside tides who remove their feedback and sell phake products to their customers lying I found a good one this month also. It's just unreal how far people go for the greed of money. I can spot out the stealths easily. Newer registered dates, and the items they sell and how professional they sound on there. Like they are a 10 year veteran and know the system very well. These ones I've noticed doing good but their accounts don't last long. Or those who post their 100 items on the first of the month selling foo foo's. I just roll my eyes at this no joke.

Anyways here is your traffic.

ebay traffic report
http://i59.tinypic.com/2zoah00.jpg

amazon traffic report
http://i57.tinypic.com/n3w2eu.jpg

Any questions? Once this drops even lower as it has then yeah.

I don't even tell people I sell on ebay because it's a joke to me and it's very embarrassing to even mention. A lot of people know that ebay has a bad rep already.

I am moving to amazon in the next few weeks already and going to start my own site.

I'll let whatever stealths I got running on ebay. But that's about it. Ebay is a joke seriously and their customers are even a bigger joke.

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Here is some SEO info for 3 websites.

http://i59.tinypic.com/5nk6mf.jpg

http://i61.tinypic.com/2z7fmgp.jpg

http://i62.tinypic.com/1zp4msw.jpg

And like I said foo foo's always sell on ebay cause I noticed real products worth $200 that are legit no one buys from trusted sellers but one that cost $149.99 that's a knock off goes for sell and cost them like $20. And legit stuff cost even more. It's starting to be the next alibaba on there now.

That's just my 2 cents.

Ebay is going down hill and everyone knows ebay is junk it's why amazon is at the top!

Ebay was at the top for years like empires who have dominated for so long.

Remember AOL? Myspace? YAHOO? Yeah they arn't so big anymore, ebay is just another do com who will join these.

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

First time in awhile I woke up with 0 sales. I usually average 4-5 sales over night.

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I don't mean to scare anyone off here but look this is last month on the 23rd at least they are trying some what....

http://i62.tinypic.com/10ggvft.jpg

But come on amazon got 3 times more links then this but I deleted the picture.

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

Traffic is dead bro.

Look at the charts I posted. :thumb:

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Looks like i need to move over to Amazon.

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The charts you posted don't explain my situation what's so ever. Because based on those charts, my sales should have been dropping like a stone, yet they were going in the complete opposite direction of what your chart is showing. Unless you have a chart showing this months visitors dropping 90% from last month, then I still hold that that is not the reason why my sales went from 5 a day, to 0-1 a day literally over night, and all in a record breaking month for me.

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Look at how many back links ebay has compared to etsy? I guess they arn't competing against amazon no more but etsy. :lol: :pound:

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Looks like 2008 all over again. Ebay seemed to turn listings altogether for fixed price listings back in late 2008-2009 No google results then either.