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Default eBay tinkering with search? Server Problems? Cause of SLOW SALE

Is ebay tinkering with search?
There's been a 90% decrease in sales since late august 2012 and I see lots of ppl at the eBay forum complaining too.

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Exactly! Finally someone speaks the truth! Something horribly is wrong with eBay since August or so. Yes sure some items still sell well but generally I feel like sales are down big time. Not enough bidders, lowballers, spikes in views etc ... What in the hell is going on with eBay??? I don't think it's the economy. Yes sure the economy is not like it was before 2008. Back than eBay had probably 50 times more buyers who were willing to bid until their last penny! Today it feels like eBay is dying. In fact I felt eBay was dying for the past 3 years.
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You too eh? I'm actually making notes from yearly occurences and I'm watching the trend.
Last year was summer, but my september picked up big time. This year is the opposite.
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You too eh? I'm actually making notes from yearly occurences and I'm watching the trend.
Last year was summer, but my september picked up big time. This year is the opposite.
Yeah man. This year in my opinion is probably one of the worst. I am not sure if it's something to do with the best match and algorithm change eBay introduced and now are tweaking or what. eBay has great potential, it always was but if they made some serious error in it's core algorithm we are all ****ed ... Because they will either have to rewrite the entire code or to find where is the error. I am sure eBay is aware of the huge issue but obviously they will not admit it.
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saijin you selling in the US?
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This has been a issue for years, trust me. It is not the economy as I had gone shopping at a local mall out on Long Island just this past weekend, let me tell you people where spending like it was Christmas.

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This is the time when the search started getting really played with in my opinion, keep in mind that I started selling around 1999 not mention still heavily an active eBay seller.
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So it's the search then, that eBay is messing around with? Because I went from making some $$ to barely get by to practically zero this past 13 days.
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Welcome to a problem people have been dealing with since way back. Google Rolling sever black outs/eBay.

These days your lucky if you get bids, fixed price with items listed in a store in the only way to go if you can afford to run your business this way.

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Hmmm... I didn't know it was the search engine that eBay is messing with on yearly basis, I just started taking notes on everything since 2 years ago.

So if this is one of those things that will happen every year and it'll be better soon, then I just need to be patient and not worry.

That's pretty much it.
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So what is eBay planning to do about it ? Are they EVER going to fix this or is it going to be a roller coaster ride forever ?
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have to agree with banshee on that one, i get my best profit and base my business of fixed price. i have no experience at all with bids, but they are too inconsistent
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I do Fixed price as well. No more bidding stuff...

Stan: You are saying that it's a glitch that they didn't fix or are they changing something?
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sometimes the runs can be scary but they usually even out. i once had no sales for 3 weeks and then sold 10k in one week. it's a crazy world
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what do you mean by "runs" ?
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Runs=black outs. When you have a "dry Spell"

A good example is when I do a search from a friends computer in another state, or simply location the items shown are different in the search of simply not shown at all. Sometimes my auctions/listings would not be shown on my computer, then those same listings would show up like there was no issue with the server on a totally different area/location or computer.

But there is more I have learned over the years to overcome such issues as there are methods to fight back but I am just one of those stupid guys selling since 99' so
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a 'run' is like getting no sales for 3 weeks and then for the next 2 weeks getting enough sales to cover 2 months. it's the ups and downs of things, kind of like riding a wave
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ah ok. It's an american slang?
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yes, actually it's more of new yorker dialect
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But there is more I have learned over the years to overcome such issues as there are methods to fight back but I am just one of those stupid guys selling since 99' so
Do you mean that you log in using multiple IPs from multiple location throughout USA and then modify each time your listing in order to get more views. Just wondering ...

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I do Fixed price as well. No more bidding stuff...

Stan: You are saying that it's a glitch that they didn't fix or are they changing something?
I am not sure what it is. I think when they introduced best match algorithm, they ****ed something up. All these server roll outs is because they are probably updating their system. This was not the case many years ago. As of late they are trying to completely change eBay into a different animals. I hope my speculations are right and the thick dust will settle down once day. I have seen spikes in eBay and it's has an incredible potential. If eBay worked well, many of us would be making thousands of dollars everyday now.

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look into "rolling server blackouts", what you need to understand is that in one place your item can be seen, but in another location it will not due to this so called eBay "phenomena". You have to understand how it works to break it in relation to the so called "hot spot". But that is all the detail I am going to get to, all I know is my items get sold when other people are

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I am not sure what it is. I think when they introduced best match algorithm, they ****ed something up. All these server roll outs is because they are probably updating their system. This was not the case many years ago. As of late they are trying to completely change eBay into a different animals. I hope my speculations are right and the thick dust will settle down once day. I have seen spikes in eBay and it's has an incredible potential. If eBay worked well, many of us would be making thousands of dollars everyday now.
Your getting warmer = best match, but there is some other factors missing. I am not going to put out my earning to come off wrong but eBay will make you thousands of dollars quite quickly if you know how to play the game.

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