poor sales

Brooker_Dave

I'm the only one with poor sales, tailed off last week, hoped it was the usual waiting for payday thing, but nada, zilch...

NineDeuce

P45 for you sir

ballisticbrian

YOU'RE FIRED!

Brooker_Dave

NineDeuce wrote: »

P45 for you sir

Looking that way.

Weirdly last week was good.

Margins are getting thinner and thinner by the month though.

ballisticbrian

I predicted being an eBay seller would be the next best thing to selling the Big Issue, many years ago.

Brooker_Dave

ballisticbrian wrote: »

I predicted being an eBay seller would be the next best thing to selling the Big Issue, many years ago.

I've got a website, people selling stuff at a loss on ebay has hammered a lot of my sales.

Irn-Bru-Kid

Ebay sellers are really struggling, so you're not alone. This makes for very sombre reading:

http://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Business-Seller-Board/Worst-period-of-Sales-Ever/m-p/5377320#M138360

theonlywayisup

There are always depressing stories about sales, more-so on the Powerseller board. I'm having probably one of our best periods. Views are stagnant but sales are up.

Not all eBay sellers are struggling.

Brooker_Dave

Irn-Bru-Kid wrote: »

Ebay sellers are really struggling, so you're not alone. This makes for very sombre reading:

http://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Business-Seller-Board/Worst-period-of-Sales-Ever/m-p/5377320#M138360

Makes you wonder where all the buyers have gone?

I was in Costco last night and people were buying stuff like they were expecting a tornado, but my sales have tailed right off over the last couple of years, this year especially.

I'll have to pimp myself to rich old widows.

RFW

I'm not far behind. Not my busiest time of the year anyway (I sell a fair bit to schools) but seems to be down a fair bit anyway.

soolin

I've posted before about it, but my sales are completely erratic, I sell 10 times more things one day than I do the next on a completely random basis.

I was doing well on Shpock but that seems to have completely dried up now with my last 3 sales all failing to collect, facebook has been dead for the best part of a year, I've stopped listing on etsy as the fees were getting high and I wasn't getting any sales at all. I do also have a small managed retail space, that chugs along OK but really is nothing to shout about sales wise .

One of the other forums I chat on suggest that it is because people no longer want cluttered homes , so anything that is not completely useful or required in that instant is thrown away, and people don't buy 'stuff' to replace it.