Alert!!! Slow sales on ebay!

rsot · #**133** 05-09-2014

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Originally Posted by stanislav

Is it just me or eBay sales have plummeted again. I am also getting very little page views. What is happening?

Your items are either not popular...or competition has owned you...or people have moved on to other newer items...or...lot of options to explain your failure?

stanislav · #**134** 08-08-2014

Here we go again ... I've been listing more products than ever. Paying about $4000 in fees every month and sales have declined by about 70% since April. WTF is happening with eBay ...

rsot · #**135** 08-08-2014

$4000 in fees but no sales...what are you paying for? Initial listing price?

Bunneh · #**136** 08-08-2014

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Originally Posted by rsot

$4000 in fees but no sales...what are you paying for? Initial listing price?

wow that would be a hell of a lot of listing then

stanislav · #**137** 08-08-2014

It's not that many. I run a lot of auctions. It used to be that a lot of buyers would snap and just buy my product before it ended now auctions don't get any exposure. I used to get about 150-250 viewed for each listing, now I get 1-2 views, some of my auctions get a bit more views. People who still claim that eBay traffic has not subsided are completely wrong. Those of you who claim that eBay redirects traffic only to large mega sellers are probably wrong too because I have been monitoring large sellers and their sales plummeted especially side April, well before May announcement about eBay hack.

stanislav · #**138** 08-09-2014

I used to monitor one seller selling particular product that I was selling too however his price was literally $3 more than mine and he was selling at least 15-20 units while I was about 10. We are both top rated plus sellers. So then I did a little bit of more searching around and found out that if you were looking for this particular product on google by typing no more than 3 main keywords that an eBay link would appear at the top google search results. Then around April if I am not mistaken his link was way down but still on page one on google. So then all of a sudden one day I noticed he ended about 500 of his listings and relisted again. I didn't know why but now I suspect he noticed decrease in sales probably due to poor ranking on google. I think this is what caused him to realist all of his listings in an attempt to revamp his sales. I can tell you his is selling literally a fraction of what he used to. Same products, some new but sales aren't like they used to be. Most of his top best match products all were selling more than 10 items, a lot of them aren't anymore. eBay is broke ladies and gentleman and top management probably doesn't know how to deal with all that is happening. I won't be surprised if JD doesn't even know what really is happening to his company to an extent that sellers like me know from first hand experience.

Geegee83 · #**139** 08-09-2014

I've got my original eBay account, TRS, 0.54 defect rate, 100% feedback at the moment etc etc.. 20,000 feedback, so very established!

If I list something new on that account I'll not get many sales... if I list it on a stealth it'll most likely sell within the week.. An account that has just 3 or 4 feedback.. go figure!

Geegee83 · #**140** 08-09-2014

Also, I've noticed when I search for items, it's hardly ever the TRS at the top, but sometimes new sellers, so the search must not be working.

I try not to look into conspiracy theories too much, and there are plenty on eB UK Community Boards, but most of them are selling rubbish junk really and that's why their sales have gone.. but I do agree that eB are not showing things like they used to and maybe are rotating visibility and sharing it with others.

rsot · #**141** 08-09-2014

edit: Happy weekend all

GreenBean · #**142** 08-09-2014

You asked that before rsot.

rsot · #**143** 08-09-2014

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Originally Posted by GreenBean

You asked that before rsot.

I lost track of the thread - will edit...happy weekend GB

GreenBean · #**144** 08-09-2014

Do the miracle of deleting like normal people

rsot · #**145** 08-09-2014

Miracles are special requests - made with special tribute

GreenBean · #**146** 08-09-2014

The squawking canary strikes a note again

rsot · #**147** 08-09-2014

Way to kill the thread hah

GreenBean · #**148** 08-09-2014

Still here are you?

rsot · #**149** 08-09-2014

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Originally Posted by GreenBean

Still here are you?

Told you that you are inspirational

Geegee83 · #**150** 08-09-2014

Looks like I missed all the fun...

What did rsot say this time

Geegee83 · #**151** 08-09-2014

Has anyone else noticed what "rsot" looks like backwards! haha, sorry rsot, no offence, I was just seeing if that was your name backwards.. lol.

**SaiJin** · #**152** 08-09-2014

Hasn't July to mid september been slow months for a lot of us?

Rsot backwards? Toaster?

Elijah · #**153** 08-11-2014

Tosser lol.

Geegee83 · #**154** 08-12-2014

At least I'm a long way from Canada, he can't get me here... lol