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05-26-2024
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Has anyone else noticed this recently or is it just me? Sales this month have dropped by 68% over the previous month according to my egay dashboard
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In general they have not dropped so much to reach a 68% decrease, I think they have dropped a little less, maybe 30% in my case.
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maybe your compeitition is taking business away/ checked/
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It's not the economy. I mention this on the Reddit and the eBay forums.
It's eBay's algorithm/AI. eBay's plan is to have sellers utilize their Pay to play option to gain more eyes or sales.
Many sellers say that isn't the case on how much they spend or how little they spend. It's a scam to get more money out of sellers.
No way where sales drop at such a dramatic percentage in such a short period of time is equated to a slow economy.
That is a broken system on eBay. People are still buying. I get sales off Mercari and Poshmark.
My buyers that bought from those two platforms tell me they can't even find those items on eBay.
What eBay is doing these past couple of years, I have no F'ing clue. But it is evident it isn't working and they cutting their own throats.
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It is the economy,if consumers are not drinking Starbuck $4 coffee and lower incomes one are not going to McDonald ,and auto payment ,auto insurance,rent and gas ,student loan,cc payments,grocery ,are taking up a huge chunk of their take home pay,there is not much left for discretionary spending.
Also the layoffs,TSLA,GOOGLE,AMZN,Citicorp,Wells Fargo,and many others have been laying off workers.
I just came back from grocery shopping,dead lobsters on sale for $5.95 /lb,dead dungenese crabs $4.95/lb.
People choose markdown hamburger patties with greyish color over fresh red color,fresh mushroom with brown spots rather than ones without ,day old bread,day old muffins,day old cake,what does that tell you?
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there is a Chinese company of TEMU whichs hot in recent.they marked buller disruptor.the management runner set price for items.seller can not decide how much they want to sell.it set extremely low and it currently drewing huge flow from ebay and amazon.
so if you doing Chinese made stuffs that they sell on temu too.expect that drop as regular at the moment.
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I have ordered from TEMU after my postman told me about it,it is all junks.
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Originally Posted by vesania It's not the economy. I mention this on the Reddit and the eBay forums.
It's eBay's algorithm/AI. eBay's plan is to have sellers utilize their Pay to play option to gain more eyes or sales.
Many sellers say that isn't the case on how much they spend or how little they spend. It's a scam to get more money out of sellers.
No way where sales drop at such a dramatic percentage in such a short period of time is equated to a slow economy.
That is a broken system on eBay. People are still buying. I get sales off Mercari and Poshmark.
My buyers that bought from those two platforms tell me they can't even find those items on eBay.
What eBay is doing these past couple of years, I have no F'ing clue. But it is evident it isn't working and they cutting their own throats. | Yeah agree its all ebay god knows what there doing my sales on other platforms are consistent just ebay are down there search is F#%ked there adds are not working as they should, i’ve got keywords i’m bidding considerably high on over a £1 and the more you increase your bid on that keyword the listing drops further down the rank and then i’ve got listings which are not sponsored and there ranking on page one as sponsored when there no lol spoke to CS but apparently everything is fine in egay land.
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Originally Posted by vesania It's not the economy. I mention this on the Reddit and the eBay forums.
It's eBay's algorithm/AI. eBay's plan is to have sellers utilize their Pay to play option to gain more eyes or sales.
| 100% agree. Ebay are still making sales in any given sector but to those who pay the highest fees.
In a popular category their recommended add rate can be as high as 25%, I'm not in any of those and am still getting suggestions of 12-17%.
Buyers are, in the main lazy, they buy from those recommenced by ebay at the top of their search list. If you don't pay to be there you'll struggle.
Serious sellers will pay because there's no viable add-free alternative. Amazon are just as bad.
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Originally Posted by agent006140 I have ordered from TEMU after my postman told me about it,it is all junks. | yes they source items from really crap manufactures to match their extreme low prices. I dont think their business ways will last longwhen people found their real trick
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Etsy is worse,I just paid 12% for Google search for an order,on top of Etsy 6 1/2%.
then there is cc processing fee,transaction fee.
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You can see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ebay/commen...nce_last_year/
This part remains true and relevant to other users on other forums have stated:
My sales happen in waves then go dry for weeks. That isn't no economy issue.
I still make sales on Poshmark, Etsy & Mercari. I list those same items that get taken down off eBay on all 3 of the other platforms without issue.
Whatever eBay is doing as the year goes by I cannot come up with any logical explanation.
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Someone once called Ebay ,asking why sales is down and the rep said Be patient,your turn will come.
SO IT LOOKS like eBAY is rotating the listings,there are just too many listings,greedy sellers open too many accounts listing the same items and they dont even have the merchandise.
if you are a good seller,takes your own pictures and have good items at a fair price,you will have a better chance of being noticed
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Originally Posted by agent006140 Someone once called Ebay ,asking why sales is down and the rep said Be patient,your turn will come.
SO IT LOOKS like eBAY is rotating the listings,there are just too many listings,greedy sellers open too many accounts listing the same items and they dont even have the merchandise.
if you are a good seller,takes your own pictures and have good items at a fair price,you will have a better chance of being noticed | Ya, the more people say that their sales happens in waves the more that theory starts to hold true.
I still can't figure out why they even do this in the first place. It is like take 5 steps backwards.
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just too many listings,ebay is trying to everyone a chance to be visible and sell something
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Originally Posted by 997turbo yes they source items from really crap manufactures to match their extreme low prices. I dont think their business ways will last longwhen people found their real trick | then they will just rebrand themselves and try some new funkier name and campaign
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Originally Posted by agent006140 Someone once called Ebay ,asking why sales is down and the rep said Be patient,your turn will come.
SO IT LOOKS like eBAY is rotating the listings,there are just too many listings,greedy sellers open too many accounts listing the same items and they don't even have the merchandise.
if you are a good seller,takes your own pictures and have good items at a fair price,you will have a better chance of being noticed | This used to be true, many years ago, but not now. I would be annoyed to think that I was paying for listing placement via their several advertising 'opportunities' only for someone who wasn't paying to be deemed worthy of visibility on some kind of rotation system.
Nope, if you want visibility nowadays you pay for it. That said, there will probably be some kind of rotation in place for those who are paying similar promotional fees.
If you want to be at the top of the page you need to do all of the following IMO.
Business seller with Top Rated status, competitive price, free shipping, and pay for their promotions. This generates sales which in turn helps keeps you at the top.
Their default order is by 'Best Match', just got to make sure they think your listing is a 'best match'.
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You are right,but for many who do not pay for promotion,there is rotation among their listings..
I buy certain items on Ebay ,no seller is paying any promotion fee and those who price their items fairly all do well.
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Originally Posted by agent006140 You are right,but for many who do not pay for promotion,there is rotation among their listings..
I buy certain items on Ebay ,no seller is paying any promotion fee and those who price their items fairly all do well. | Ya, it is true: Quote:
I've been selling on Ebay full-time for the last 4 months. Ive noticed at times my sales will completely halt and then out of nowhere they will surge and I'll have one of my best days I've had.
This last Monday I had a very quiet day on Ebay. No sales or offers and it was already 7PM. Thats very rare for me.
Suddenly I hear a "Cha-Ching!" Great. Finally a sale. Then within the next 30 seconds I hear another sale. Great. $40 profit in less than a minute. I relax for the hour, and I'm about to head to bed.
I decide to box up the 2 sales so I can just wake up and go straight to USPS. Right as I finish boxing them up, I hear another sale. Great. 3 sales now. Within 15 seconds I get another sale.
So I went 18 hours without a sale, made 2 within 30 seconds, then an hour later made 2 more within 30 seconds.
Finished the day with 4 sales for about $90 net gain. Happy for the finish but why does it seem like ebay "pulses" with traffic and you get random surges of sales? This happens in a minor way to me often but never this obvious. Its like for these two different 30 second windows, buyers had my items thrown in their face or something.
Anyone have any similar experiences?
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How long eBay keep this up? No clue, but it isn't going to be pretty once it backfires.
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Originally Posted by agent006140 Someone once called Ebay ,asking why sales is down and the rep said Be patient,your turn will come. | is this from the seller forum - sounds odd
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Ebay seller forum
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interesting - i wouldnt hold a lot of weight on what eb csr's say as selling advice though
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