Ebay sales dried up - something wrong, or bad luck (also - Turbolister problem!)

campdave

I've recently returned to selling on ebay following some years absence.

I'm a fairly low volume, but regular seller, and in the six or so weeks selling, I've been selling 2-3 items per day, and some spikes where I sell a lot more.

However, since Thursday, I've had zip by way of sales - people are watching my auctions, but not biting. I'm sure I'm just being paranoid, but could there be any problems - I can see my listings when I search for them without issue, I guess I just want to check others can find them too.

Also, I've started using Turbolister, mainly for speed at re-listing items in bulk - I used it to relist about 20 items earlier this morning, but they are not showing up in searches yet - an item I relisted afterwards through "my ebay" showed up immediately.

Thanks for the help and advice,
best wishes!

jumbojuice

Its a lot more competitive in the run up to christmas, more traffic but more choice will mean that sales conversions will be lower.

catch_me_if_you_can

Sometimes it's the way it goes.
(you may wish to remove your ebay user name off your OP)

Pembroke

Quite a few sellers in your chosen niche and not a huge amount of sales across the board.

Looking at finished sales I'd say that a larger proportion of successful sales are offering free P&P is that something you've tested ? (Up the price & loose the postal charge). You might also like to include Imperial measurements in you sales as I'm sure they are easier to visualize.

floralaura

Maybe if you became a business seller like you should be that would help.

elainew

floralaura wrote: »

Maybe if you became a business seller like you should be that would help.

who says he is a business??

floralaura

On the 3rd of Oct they purchased a tool to make button badges. Since then thats what they have been selling, in multiples (around the 90 mark from feedback received as a seller of just those). Thats makes them a business.

blue_monkey_2

I am not an eBay trader but I have a website.

It is very quiet at the moment as people are not really buying for themselves, they are buying presents for other people. If you sell something people can give to another you'll sell a fair bit, if not then you have to wait til after Xmas, possibly February, for sales to pick up

For me from now, the sales from women dry up part from occasion wear, they expect their man to buy them undies for Xmas and that happens in the last week before Xmas if they are going to buy. However, come Xmas day I get loads of sales when women do not get what they wanted!! LOL!!

catch_me_if_you_can

blue_monkey wrote: »

I am not an eBay trader but I have a website.

It is very quiet at the moment as people are not really buying for themselves, they are buying presents for other people. If you sell something people can give to another you'll sell a fair bit, if not then you have to wait til after Xmas, possibly February, for sales to pick up

For me from now, the sales from women dry up part from occasion wear, they expect their man to buy them undies for Xmas and that happens in the last week before Xmas if they are going to buy. However, come Xmas day I get loads of sales when women do not get what they wanted!! LOL!!

lol - I certainly don't expect my man to buy me undies! :rotfl:

But yes, it's true - people are buying for Christmas pressies now.

campdave

catch_me_if_you_can wrote: »

Sometimes it's the way it goes.
(you may wish to remove your ebay user name off your OP)

Thanks for the advice, and I've removed my ebay username from the original post, sorry if I was breaking any rules.

I've thought about free postage, and have decided against it at the moment, as I thought that would discourage people from purchasing multiple badges as they wouldn't be able to get any form of discount when buying multiple items.

RE: Business - I've only just started selling, and I was seeing how it went before I decided to start up as a business store. Similar sellers who have businesses on ebay have hundreds of items for sale, and sell many, many items. I'm happy to stay small scale, I don't want to be selling hundreds per week as I couldn't keep up with that.

Spitakimus14

e bay is a funny market bit like the real auctions you need two people to want your item to get the best price .
I am clearing motorcycle stuff from a closed venture and its not even making what it cost .....