Declining sales % every year

Onion · #67 11-13-2015

Amazon is a great platform for major companies, small businesses, and the average everyday seller. You don't have to create fancy listings, all you do is list a very minor detailed description and list your price.

Amazon reviews sick though, 8 years of selling on the same account and I still get 1-3 reviews a year.

DairDD · #68 11-13-2015

For me January usually are pretty slow. Everyone spend a lot of money before xmas and after that they want to save it bit more...

jjohnson777 · #69 11-13-2015

Only auction site I done good with was back when StormPay ran free one if used there pay processor.

Burger Box Man · #70 11-13-2015

Your sales may be dwindling but your spirit is very much alive

GreenBean · #71 11-13-2015

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Originally Posted by dealagreeproceed

so why are you guys saying pp is gona get very strict here in the near future?

paypal needs reinvention.

Needs to shovel a lot excrement to get back to being "liked".

solefoodbk · #72 11-14-2015

Yankee do you think we'll still see posts on this thread in December?

lol

rsot · #73 11-14-2015

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Originally Posted by solefoodbk

Yankee do you think we'll still see posts on this thread in December?

lol

Competition may arise to force his hand

shekar4evr · #74 11-14-2015

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Originally Posted by GhostOfAmazon

I already explained it.

Being a separate company, PayPal is going to start moving more towards the financial sector, rather than being eBays slave.

This, by it's nature, will require more risk. Thus, they will be harder on accounts.

I can't predict the future, but this is my guess based on the path they seem to be following. Don't go and buy stock based on my opinion though.

IMO , ebay is backbone for Paypal, where paypal earns more money combined to any other portals/online stores.

luckoftheirish93 · #75 11-14-2015

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Originally Posted by Burger Box Man

Your sales may be dwindling but your spirit is very much alive

haha that's the spirit keeping the positive vibes up are key- never let ebay beat you down lol

**SaiJin** · #76 11-14-2015

All this talk about ebay and PP separating, but does it have to do with this thread?

**SaiJin** · #77 11-16-2015

Hmm... I made some decent % of sales over the weekend, and today Monday... 0 views on most items.

joj889 · #78 11-16-2015

when does it pick up ?

**SaiJin** · #79 11-17-2015

Well, everyone kept saying Thanks giving and black friday are the main triggers, but I was hoping to start now... I'm just getting a little nervous as history shows that the starting time has been later and later each year ...

This year especially is important for me

joj889 · #80 11-18-2015

sales are slow right now for me also but it usually is slow around November hope it picks up after thanks giving

aking · #81 11-18-2015

It's been slow for my low priced items. My high dollar stuff seems to be steady. I actually raised the price of an item and sales are still steady.

yankee · #82 11-18-2015

Saturday night/sunday morning, gift type sales were good. Today it is crazy. Had to raise prices 30% to slow sales.

**SaiJin** · #83 11-18-2015

Hmmm now ya making me wonder if ebay is limiting my search results on all 20 accounts I have running.

Sales have been steady but not nearly at the volume I expect.

yankee · #84 11-18-2015

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Originally Posted by SaiJin

Hmmm now ya making me wonder if ebay is limiting my search results on all 20 accounts I have running.

Sales have been steady but not nearly at the volume I expect.

You are in a very saturated market. I wonder how many hours of the day each account gets visibility.

dealagreeproceed · #85 11-18-2015

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Originally Posted by yankee

Saturday night/sunday morning, gift type sales were good. Today it is crazy. Had to raise prices 30% to slow sales.

ahhh poor yankee.....

**SaiJin** · #86 11-19-2015

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Originally Posted by yankee

You are in a very saturated market. I wonder how many hours of the day each account gets visibility.

Last year I made 10x times more exactly this time of November already.
But I do remember things become steadily crazy starting Thanks giving day.

So I wonder if last year was a fluke

**SaiJin** · #87 11-21-2015

So Saturday is here... let's see how things go 1 week before Thx giving.

BTW, do you people read the stats from NRF?
It says that 70% people this year will start their shopping On Thanks giving day, all the way to X-mas.

While only 21% around Nov 10th

yankee · #88 11-21-2015

Im on vacation. Just got back to the hotel and had 12 more orders than expected. Very surprising to see this.