Alert!!! Slow sales on ebay!

rsot · #**155** 08-12-2014

Don't think that for a second Geegee - you can run but you can't hide...pond or no pond

GreenBean · #**156** 08-12-2014

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Originally Posted by Geegee83

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

I have the secrets to stop him.

GreenBean · #**157** 08-12-2014

Shall enlist teh new hamster to do the deeds

newjerseymax · #**158** 08-12-2014

My activity has been busiest in years.... Too many factors. Last years I had less variety and this year took more time to see what items sell best and only listed and repurchased those items along with a few more test items.... I takes time to reach that level. Very doable. If large outfits got there and do it, why not one of us???

Geegee83 · #**159** 08-12-2014

Hahahaha, poor Hammy! 'tis one big pond rsot and we are heavily populated here, isn't 70% of Canada uninhabited or something? Lucky people you are!

Geegee83 · #**160** 08-12-2014

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Originally Posted by newjerseymax

My activity has been busiest in years.... Too many factors. Last years I had less variety and this year took more time to see what items sell best and only listed and repurchased those items along with a few more test items.... I takes time to reach that level. Very doable. If large outfits got there and do it, why not one of us???

I'm also busiest in years, I cleaned up my pictures a bit, REDUCED variations, and prices..

I had listings with say 5 size variations, the price going up for the bigger sizes (stickers), but people searching were just seeing the highest price and scrolling past.. Changed the variations and stuck to the smaller sizes and sales go up.

eBay plugging this variations in one listing rubbish, it didn't help me!

GhostWhoWalks · #**161** 08-12-2014

1. I noticed at times ebay will have problems with the search engine as many on ebay forums complain.

2. I noticed if you even get positive feedback but 1s it will stop and kill an account until it's gone after 1 year. I had accounts selling $300 per month then I get a 1s in STAR rating and them bam that account is dead until it's gone.

3. 1 Negative feedback on an account with less then 98% will kill it at times + that 1s you got for it.

but yeah Stan if you go from 100 sales per day down to 50! Something is really wrong check dashboard to see what % in defect also I believe it's search engine playing a HUGE role because I've seen ebay post once that they had a problem with it many times!

I've had days were a 13 of my accounts were getting 1 sale per day and Normally I'd do a lot more then after 4 or 5 days in a row of nothing or 1 per day only I stress out. Then I notice on day 8 till the rest of the month it's like 8 to 15 sales per day etc. But brings my avg down to 5 for the month because of it. LAME!

I've noticed my newer stealths selling more then my stealths that have feedback and are 18 months old and TRS. So F TRS. I don't even get the 20% discount because I don't live in the USA. Go figure. But customers trust you when they see that TRS status.

rsot · #**162** 08-12-2014

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Originally Posted by Geegee83

Hahahaha, poor Hammy! 'tis one big pond rsot and we are heavily populated here, isn't 70% of Canada uninhabited or something? Lucky people you are!

Uninhabited is not a good thing.

GB came once and found out...

Geegee83 · #**163** 08-12-2014

That photo should be X-rated lol :D

On topic: I've noticed my stealths with 1 or 2 feedback will sell an item quicker than my 20,000 feedback account! crazy...

GhostWhoWalks · #**164** 08-12-2014

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Originally Posted by Geegee83

That photo should be X-rated lol :D

On topic: I've noticed my stealths with 1 or 2 feedback will sell an item quicker than my 20,000 feedback account! crazy...

What is the defect rate % you got on that 20k feedback account?

I drown 200+ listings GTC on my main just to get more views and sells daily.

Geegee83 · #**165** 08-12-2014

Defect rating is 0.55% ish.. 100% feedback.

**SaiJin** · #**166** 08-12-2014

regarding the search results, I find that no matter TRS or not... doesn't make a big difference for me. Some of my regular accounts make a lot more than TRS.

I think it's just the season... some items sell on one season and not another.

GhostWhoWalks · #**167** 08-12-2014

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Originally Posted by SaiJin

regarding the search results, I find that no matter TRS or not... doesn't make a big difference for me. Some of my regular accounts make a lot more than TRS.

I think it's just the season... some items sell on one season and not another.

Ehhh not really. I got all year around selling items. And I got book keeping for each item on a spread sheet for the last few years and I check month to month and when I get hit with slow sales I also check that out.

But 13 accounts with 1 sell per day then out of the blue BAM so many. Yet competition was getting tons? I wonder if they tinker the country search engine from the country seller or what. It is strange even some people complain about this on ebay forums itself. they would do like 300 sales per month then 3 for 1 month. I sell all year around business, my customers are 18 to 99 both male or female at a good cheap price so I don't limit my market and sell world wide. :O And when I had those 1 per day customers it was repeat business on top of it. And this was veryyy scary. When some weeks I sell 50 to 75 at times in a good month. Not much but keeps me happy.

So I don't blame Stan.

**SaiJin** · #**168** 08-13-2014

Well, here is what I noticed for myself.

Account A, B and C has been going on for 6 months non stop. Sales is good until recently in beginning July, and then it crashed and burn.

So I fired account D which is newest and has least feedback, history, etc, which hasnt been used for 6 months... that account now got more sales than account A, B and C combined.

So it could be that there's a switch that eBay flips.

GhostWhoWalks · #**169** 08-13-2014

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Originally Posted by SaiJin

Well, here is what I noticed for myself.

Account A, B and C has been going on for 6 months non stop. Sales is good until recently in beginning July, and then it crashed and burn.

So I fired account D which is newest and has least feedback, history, etc, which hasnt been used for 6 months... that account now got more sales than account A, B and C combined.

So it could be that there's a switch that eBay flips.

Had the same happen.

**SaiJin** · #**170** 08-13-2014

So what do you think we should try? rotate accounts every month? I sometimes tried every 3 months and that didn't do anything

stanislav · #**171** 08-14-2014

Anybody who claims their sales on eBay are up is full of sh*t. I am not the only one. There are countless eBay sellers (big and small) which I monitor (I have multiple browsers open with at least 40 tabs on each, each tab showing different eBay user account). I monitor each seller for many month and I clearly observe when sales are up or down. They are down for everyone, by price, bids, views etc ...

rsot · #**172** 08-14-2014

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Originally Posted by stanislav

Anybody who claims their sales on eBay are up is full of sh*t. I am not the only one. There are countless eBay sellers (big and small) which I monitor (I have multiple browsers open with at least 40 tabs on each, each tab showing different eBay user account). I monitor each seller for many month and I clearly observe when sales are up or down. They are down for everyone, by price, bids, views etc ...

Summer is usually slow..depends on niche too but...monitoring other sellers...way to be on top of them

GreenBean · #**173** 08-14-2014

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Originally Posted by stanislav

Anybody who claims their sales on eBay are up is full of sh*t. ..

No consistency with sales is happening across our group.

Callidus · #**174** 08-14-2014

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Anybody who claims their sales on eBay are up is full of sh*t. I am not the only one.

That statement is utter rubbish....regardless of what you see with other sellers you have no evidence that their sales are down, you don't know what they turned over last year or the year before.

You probably aren't the only one but to say EVERYONE under the sun is down on YTD sales is ridiculous.

Geegee83 · #**175** 08-14-2014

My sales are up! Thank you very much... lol

GhostWhoWalks · #**176** 08-14-2014

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Originally Posted by SaiJin

So what do you think we should try? rotate accounts every month? I sometimes tried every 3 months and that didn't do anything

Yeah true I even put one of my items with a higher qty and started the bids at .01 and they sold for $1.26 thank god for other stealth accounts to make sure it's me the winner while this sells easily on other accounts for $30! Like WTF?????

ebay logic!