Alert!!! Slow sales on ebay!

stanislav · #1 10-15-2011

Is it just me or eBay sales are indeed slow? It seems like a lot of seller are complaining how slow as of late their sales are. Also many sellers complain that they get a lot of non paying bidders. Anyone?

imjustme · #2 10-15-2011

October is always slow, because people are saving money for Christmas gifts.

stanislav · #3 10-15-2011

Yes but not like this to be honest. So are you saying November is going to be a much better month? In my opinion the economy is so bad that no body had anymore money to spend.

RedShootingStar · #4 10-15-2011

Consistent Sales for me on both venues. Friday-Sunday sales x4. Holidays Sales x20. You may want to evaluate what you are selling.

imjustme · #5 10-15-2011

It all depends what you consider good sales or bad sales. I usually average 30/day and right now it's at around 15-17.

RedShootingStar · #6 10-15-2011

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Originally Posted by imjustme

It all depends what you consider good sales or bad sales. I usually average 30/day and right now it's at around 15-17.

30 a day? Whats your average selling price?

imjustme · #7 10-15-2011

About $50. I used to sell 40-50 per day but slowed down because it's too much stress. I'd rather make less money and have more free time.

RedShootingStar · #8 10-15-2011

Thats not too bad.....I stick with items around $12-30, with a few in the $50-100 range, but average 600+ transactions a day.

BiN4RY · #9 10-15-2011

Just wait until late november, sales will skyrocket

HurricaneHuntr · #10 10-15-2011

600 a day? wtf... how many people do you employ?

RedShootingStar · #11 10-15-2011

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600 a day? wtf... how many people do you employ?

Me, Myself, and I. And my girl, if she realizes something she "needs".

MichaelW · #12 10-15-2011

Sorry but no life for you man :D:D:D

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Me, Myself, and I. And my girl, if she realizes something she "needs".

UnderBites08 · #13 10-15-2011

600 transactions day......by yourself.......I do about 90-115 at a actual store location, and currently employe about 7-9 ppl at a time and are still very busy. You should right a book on how to accomplish this.....

BiN4RY · #14 10-15-2011

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Sorry but no life for you man :D:D:D

What a stupid thing to say. A lot of people simply makes their living off of their own business. Would you also say all employees with full time jobs also have no lives?

UnderBites08 · #15 10-15-2011

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Originally Posted by BiN4RY

What a stupid thing to say. A lot of people simply makes their living off of their own business. Would you also say all employees with full time jobs also have no lives?

work is life....so saying you have no life cause you work is pointless regardless.

UnderBites08 · #16 10-15-2011

I think a lot of people get on these forum and just bull sh**t. "Men lie numbers dont"

MichaelW · #17 10-15-2011

Did I said that :D:D:D

Come on, don't put those word in my mouth :D:D:D

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Originally Posted by BiN4RY

What a stupid thing to say. A lot of people simply makes their living off of their own business. Would you also say all employees with full time jobs also have no lives?

MichaelW · #18 10-15-2011

Yeah you are right. Included some smart a$$ ppls in this thread :D

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I think a lot of people get on these forum and just bull sh**t. "Men lie numbers dont"

imjustme · #19 10-15-2011

Some people, like me, are workaholics, and loving it. I work 16-18 hours a day, no joke. So does my wife. When it gets too much, we take some time off.

600 transactions as mentioned above is perfectly doable. It all depends on how you manage them. I have most of my orders automated. I even have my own system of printing labels. I just copy & paste the addresses from the PayPal orders into the system and it prints them by itself 12 per page. My wife puts the items into the packages and puts the labels on them, we take them to the post office together, done.

And we do no more than 30 per day.

jbluntz · #20 10-15-2011

You can do it even faster with paypal multi-order shipping. I keep most of my inventory pre-packed in bubble wrap envelopes all under 13 0z. Then have all orders for the day imported from paypal, no copy and paste, then printed out in a few minutes or less, slapped on the packages and dropped down any USPS mail box.

UnderBites08 · #21 10-15-2011

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Originally Posted by imjustme

Some people, like me, are workaholics, and loving it. I work 16-18 hours a day, no joke. So does my wife. When it gets too much, we take some time off.

600 transactions as mentioned above is perfectly doable. It all depends on how you manage them. I have most of my orders automated. I even have my own system of printing labels. I just copy & paste the addresses from the PayPal orders into the system and it prints them by itself 12 per page. My wife puts the items into the packages and puts the labels on them, we take them to the post office together, done.

And we do no more than 30 per day.

Nothing like quality time with the wife. I guess 600 sales of little things is doable. In the auto parts industry there is a lot more to it.

KingRay · #22 10-15-2011

600 is pretty good, I dont think it takes as long as some people think. once you get to that level you have figured out all the shortcuts and way to make life easy on you.

As for sales being different, Mine are up quite a bit but it all just depends on what you sell I guess. I have a great niche that kinda works in good and bad economy because when its down a completely different group of people buy from me. kinda odd actually.

When your sales are down the best thing to do is figure out why. There is usually something else at fault you have not figured out yet. If its just the economy then change the way you sell or the product itself. you have to be creative to get ahead these days. There are too many competitors with the internet.