poor sales

bxboards

For me, sales are up, the 12 months have seen a big uplift in exports to EU countries, which I put down to the more favorable exchange rate for buyers.

forgotmyname

If all the buyers are like me, they have gone to China. Getting items on the 7th day lately.

Thats quicker than some UK sellers.

Trying to find some filament for a 3D printer recently, i totally gave up on ebay. Stupid multi listings.

Title shows the product i want, but when you goto the listing page they have very little stock of anything and none of the item that i want.

Resorted to checking my previously bought items and those sellers no longer list the stuff at all.

bxboards

forgotmyname wrote: »

Title shows the product i want, but when you goto the listing page they have very little stock of anything and none of the item that i want.

Multiple listings really need to be got rid of them on Ebay - so many sellers abuse them, you find a low cost item listed in with the items you are actually searching for, then the real item you want it much higher, with some tenuously related item listed at a much lower price.

adindas

I understand the eBay Buyer could leave the eBay seller a negative feedback for poor performance. Is there anyway the seller to fight back leaving those buyers who left him/her negative feedback by leaving negative feedback to buyers??

theonlywayisup

adindas wrote: »

I understand the eBay Buyer could leave the eBay seller a negative feedback for poor performance. Is there anyway the seller to fight back leaving those buyers who left him/her negative feedback by leaving negative feedback to buyers??

No and hasn't been for some years.

Brooker_Dave

soolin wrote: »

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've just had that, nothing for a week, then 2 in an evening.

Both from the EU, I'm only selling thanks to the low pound.

Sometimes it feels like the whole of the UK is skint, but then I drive past queues of people spending a fortune in KFC, or people with trollies full of junk in costco.

So weird.

bxboards

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

Sometimes it feels like the whole of the UK is skint, but then I drive past queues of people spending a fortune in KFC, or people with trollies full of junk in costco.

I've traveled extensively, and the UK is a very rich country, certainly wealthier than the majority of EU countries, or most of the rest of the world.

A country where as you say, people are willing to pay a fortune for junk in KFC, pay 3 quid for a coffee in Costco, buy lottery tickets by the fistful, expensive phone contracts and 40 quid a month to watch people kicking a ball around via Sky isn't a skint country.

Luckily we have very little real poverty compared to probably 95% of the rest of the world.

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

That's sobering reading, at least it's not just me.

It's like the UK has got tired of mail order, has too much stuff and just wants junk food, expensive paper cups of coffee and scratch cards.

The bit about buuy.co.uk is interesting though

soolin

I actually had the weird experience of selling more yesterday morning on SHpock than I did on eBay! I am finding SHpock buyers though are treating it like eBay and wanting items posted, so at the moment only my smaller items that I can post are selling. I also have a couple of possible sales , both the US though, on a new specialist forum. I have just joined.

Brooker_Dave

soolin wrote: »

I actually had the weird experience of selling more yesterday morning on SHpock than I did on eBay! I am finding SHpock buyers though are treating it like eBay and wanting items posted,

Perhaps its because more people access the internet now with a smart phone?

So any phone friendly sales venue is going to make headway?