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Thank you. Ironically Ebay did pick up a bit this week after I posted this and started my weekly sale. I figured out what I was doing wrong on the custom view tab. I still can only look at 3 months at a time but I was able to go back if I cleared today’s date as the end date.
My impressions are WAY down in the last three months. Ebay is 63% of my sales for the year, and surprisingly that is the same percentage as for the last three months. So that would suggest that my lack of listing and other economic factors /pricing is perhaps lot of the issue. I have had to make much better discounts to get the sales I am making on Ebay, pulling all the strings. I’m TRS, have flat rate shipping under a pound, running my weekly permasale, making offers (sometimes 33% if an old listing). Looking back through my sales it does not seem as though the extra photos needed on my listing quality report are a dealbreaker. Overall, I am selling less stale inventory (even with a deep offer) on Ebay but some is selling off on Poshmark. Mercari is pretty dead overall.
I am definitely getting fewer promoted clicks since the attribution change in January but more promoted sales. If that’s true to most sellers who kept the same rate then I wonder if someone could successfully challenge the fee structure. It’s smart to not promote at first and then do it when you end and sell similar but I kind of just like keeping it simple. Should change this since it would be simple to add after the software refreshes.
I read that Ebay sales overall are doing better than a lot of small sellers like me are reporting. It’s focus categories so maybe the live sales are providing a boost? The notifications are annoying. I saw a commercial on HBO (10 seconds) and it was almost nonsensical.
@mycottage we don’t have a seller circle here either. I’ve been looking at Facebook groups, which is 90% of the people with soft sales and 10% of the people lashing them. Not many people looking at their traffic reports but some anecdotal evidence that Cassini likely changed in January along with the promoted fee change.Yeah it’s very dead. A lot of people on Facebook groups are talking. Poshmark suspended their unilateral inactive campaign and I fixed my automation relist so my sales picked up a little bit over there. Ebay is terrible but I haven’t been listing. If I get an offer on an older item I take it to try to spur activity.
I also went into Mercari this week and dropped a lot of prices on stale stuff. Mercari had the lowest fees so I thought I would start there. Unfortunately nothing sold yet.
I have created a sale category in eBay but haven’t done anything with it yet.
Preview: ebay sales are just horrible and I’ve been sending 25% off offers, running a sale, listing a bit. Only sales on Posh today to ship out. Meanwhile, my Ebay pages are just full of advertising promos. They are pushing so hard to get us to spend more but it’s just nuts. They also have the worst deal with USPS on shipping costs of the platforms (unless Ebay is just keeping part of the commercial discount they negotiated.) :/
I hope the big push is because American sellers are pushing back on promoted campaigns. https://www.valueaddedresource.net/ebay-suggested-ad-rates/
I’m with you on the nap age. I also have a CPAP (got a diagnosis after I left my career job) but recently got hit with RLS – restless legs syndrome. First I had to get my iron up and then I finally went on Gabapentin. I feel like a new person. I don’t think I had much deep sleep in almost a year.
We have no seller circle here in my small city. What are they saying about promoted listings? I don’t see people citing their traffic pages, just an overall complaint that things are slow on ebay. They must have figured out how to have Cassini distinguish actual new listings from recycled ones. The software has been keeping my store fresh but I haven’t been changing those listings when they get redone.
So I still listen to Pure Hustle Podcast. Orlando is a big fan of SL and wanted to try to get Jay and Ryanne on for the PHP 500th episode. I hope he succeeds. 🙂
@Clarity thanks! I have not carried any debt in the past but got out in front of my skis a bit with sourcing. It was really good to see that zero.
You’re welcome. It’s such a great benefit I need to calendar the next one.
So I had a huge market at the farm and sold a ton of stuff at $2300 gross. It feels so good to have a big day like that. Now I’m taking a pop up market break and turning my attention to the yard sale prep and death pile sorting again. There is a lot a lot but I haven’t been shopping much and I feel good about that. I may take my leftover yard sale stuff to our local flea if I think it might be worth it.
The new vintage collab store on our main street is finally approaching opening this summer. I’ve updated my application. They are charging 18% – fine with that – but I still don’t know what they will charge for rent. I’d like to get in on the ground floor but maybe with a small but visible space. I’m a bit nervous about finding out the rent. Fingers crossed. It would be weird to have a booth and feel pressure to source for it. What a change that would be.
Meanwhile I haven’t listed online for a week and sales are nonexistent.
In case it’s helpful I just remembered to use my quarterly supplies coupon – reminder here. 🙂
Hey @Zach that is awesome. You can get free advertising on Pinterest and it’s super quick.
https://imgur.com/a/ebay-traffic-gone-jJ0xNCD
Ouch! All of my 800 listings had 27 views total yesterday, ebay sent a whopping total of 10 of those from search. Zero sales for 3 days. ugh.
I refunded the buyer and now I’m losing my TRS because Ebay said it was an item out of stock without the buyer even complaining. I tried to appeal and it got declined. Sucks.
I’ve decided to phase out general promoted like you did. It feels like things can’t really get much worse saleswise. I have been listing again, but have some outside Ebay stuff going on so not a ton. Today should be pretty good. Still need to finish my bookkeeping this weekend as well.
@jaepete thanks! I think I only get credit for a new account opening. The code is RETRO_DECOR
Ebay is on some sort of government compliance kick and it seems to be causing some technical issues. Some podcasters were reporting that listings without country of origin were being hidden, including from domestic buyers. Another reported she checked with Ebay and that was false. My listing impressions are down by 50% this past week. A whopping 32% of my clicks are coming from external sources, while that usually runs around 6%. Something is definitely up. I only had two sales on Ebay this week, and zero until I started running my weekly sale. One of these is missing from the order page for now, which as been reported as a glitch. On the other they have a new bubble about hazardous materials.
Promoted listings clicks are still down in the teens. I don’t want to pay extra for lousy placement so I will probably phase out promoting via nifty as an experiment and see what happens.
