The 'Have a Moan' thread

soolin

This thread is just a bit of fun, it is not meant to be taken seriously. If you have an issue with your ebay sales, or worry about keywords etc then start a new thread for proper responses. I suppose by its very nature it is business orientated as private sellers will have no steady sales due to not having stock- but feel free to join in anyway.

There is a conspiracy theory that sometimes our sales are switched off- there is no proof of this nor should we take it seriously. However, many people have reported that when they openly have a moan their sales suddenly pick up again- hence this thread.

One further tip that has been suggested is to list completely new stock- always worth a try.

celestius

soolin wrote: »

This thread is just a bit of fun, it is not meant to be taken seriously. If you have an issue with your ebay sales, or worry about keywords etc then start a new thread for proper responses. I suppose by its very nature it is business orientated as private sellers will have no steady sales due to not having stock- but feel free to join in anyway.

There is a conspiracy theory that sometimes our sales are switched off- there is no proof of this nor should we take it seriously. However, many people have reported that when they openly have a moan their sales suddenly pick up again- hence this thread.

One further tip that has been suggested is to list completely new stock- always worth a try.

I switched my shop to the new layout on Friday and my sales died. Switched back to the old one on Sunday evening and had several sales in a row. What's going on?!

RMS2

Lovely jubilee, a thread to moan, where do I start?


I look at the title of another thread floating around at the top, "Is ebay broken".




I so want to reply, yes, about 2007 when Meg Whitman was coming to her final months, it did sort of still work, but then John Donahoe came along and completely broke it, so that it just made a lot of noise.

goodfella66

Considering more sales are sold through Ebay's app nowadays rather than a PC, I think it's about time Ebay started showing promotions on their app. I have a 10% off a certain quantity promotion but if you shopped using the app you'd have no idea that I was offering this.

mrcol1000

I do not think Ebay "switch off" sales. I think maybe that Ebay give sellers turns in being near the top of the search results. I guess it is only fair but only if it is between sellers on equal standing. I do search for my best selling item and feel despondent that it is normally 3rd or 4th placed in Best Match and those above it are more expensive and are clearly businesses not registered as businesses.

Have noticed that my sales are very random. Some days I get loads throughout the day and some none at all. As I am not the only one there must be some kind of massaging of search results. Moaning about it, getting your lucky heather out or wearing your lucky red, blue, yellow and green socks out isn't going to make you suddenly sell things. I just think you need to embrace it.

charlies_mum

Thanks fir starting this thread Soolin. I have a feeling I will be a regular poster on here

soolin

charlies_mum wrote: »

Thanks fir starting this thread Soolin. I have a feeling I will be a regular poster on here

As long as you leave room for my whinges :rotfl:

thebestnameshavegone

I'd like a moan about the address details sellers are often provided with - surely it can't be beyond the realms of the Ebay or Paypal tech teams to bolt on some sort of address verification? Having to check a buyer's address, correct the spelling, add capitalisation, and separate postcodes into something RM might be able to scan drives me mad. It's frustrating that the only part of the address that is always spelled correctly (and with a capital letter) is the county - which is the one part of the address that's not strictly necessary!

Thank you, I feel much better for that.

charlies_mum

I would like to moan about the defect system - nuff said

nicholaswitchell

celestius wrote: »

I switched my shop to the new layout on Friday and my sales died. Switched back to the old one on Sunday evening and had several sales in a row. What's going on?!

Coincidence.

soolin

thebestnameshavegone wrote: »

I'd like a moan about the address details sellers are often provided with - surely it can't be beyond the realms of the Ebay or Paypal tech teams to bolt on some sort of address verification? Having to check a buyer's address, correct the spelling, add capitalisation, and separate postcodes into something RM might be able to scan drives me mad. It's frustrating that the only part of the address that is always spelled correctly (and with a capital letter) is the county - which is the one part of the address that's not strictly necessary!

Thank you, I feel much better for that.

I agree, why on earth do some buyers insist on writing their address details like

john smith
1 anything street
anywhere
london
ab12bc

I once got a very angry email from a buyer because I just printed out his address in that format and sent it off, he said it was rude not to capitalise his name!