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I was wondering if anyone here knew where to find the monthly number of ebay.com listings.
What I want to know is how many listings were in existance mid-March / or March 1st and how many June 1st.
I have this unproven theory that the GTC’s are backing up and the volume of listings is way up.
We personally took a massive dive on ebay on May 30th and I am wondering whether there is a glut problem and ebay is simply not showing anything more than 90 days old.
Thanks if any one has any leads to info source. ( I did ask ebay – and was met with incredulity that I would want this information).
Thanks
Carrie
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No idea if eBay publishes how many items get uploaded to eBay. I’ve never seen that info.
–So your hypothesis is that there’s a sudden surge in new listings on eBay? Any idea why this would be?
–When you say your sales took a dive starting May 30 (2 weeks ago), what kind of dip in sales are we talking about?
–One thing to do is to just end and relist all your items as new. Pete did an experiment here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoUwEd0FiJY&t=49s -
I was also going to link Pete’s video. His advice has been helping quite a bit on my small store and would probably be great for even bigger ones.
Why would eBay not show listings older than 90 days? Surely you could just search for your own items to prove this is/isn’t true?
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Sales probably dropped off because sales usually drop off in the summer. May and June are graduations, Memorial Day, Father’s Day, more graduations, etc. My sales always tank in the summer and then pick up once the kids are back in school.
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This 1000 times. I had two horrible weeks recently: one during may graduations and one last week, june grad time. These weeks lower my May and June a bunch.
I’ve always been GTC so the new ebay changes can’t impact me as I’ve always done it that way. So these theories of GTC messing up the 30-day relisters seems suspect to me (and I did look at the craiglist hunter video).
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I have found that if I go to the oldest listings, the ones that eBay has flagged as not having “any sales” in 16 months, end them and then relist as similar, it will often spur some sales of old inventory. I keep about 800-1000 listing up at one time, so I will end the oldest ones, 25 items at a time. Then whenever I have a few minutes to spare, I will blow through them and then end another 25 and so on. It also gives me an opportunity to check over those older listings and check for things like item specifics that ebay has added….has anyone noticed the over-abundance of item specifics for handbags lately? I can tweak the title, change the price, add the make an offer option, etc. So in a way, it forces me to do a little housekeeping that I wouldn’t ordinarily make the time to do.
I am also using the new feature in which you can send an offer to someone who is watching your item. I tend to send them offers that are at least $10 off what the asking price is. Not having a ton of success with this, but I feel like just the action of sending the offer might push it up in the search. No proof of that, but I have had many, many items sell after someone has asked a question about it…and the weird part is, it usually sells to someone else, which makes me think that any action taken on a listed item will boost it in the search. Anyone else notice this? It’s happened to me so many times, it can’t be coincidence.
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I don’t think older items are falling off entirely. I’ve sold quite a few older items recently. Meaning, items listed 3+ years ago or longer. Sales have been erratic though the last few months. One week I have a meager week and then the next week a booming one. I do think something is up with the algorithm, but not exactly sure what. Summer is typically slower, but I still think it has a lot more to do with a surge in reselling popularity.
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