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I'm not selling like at the beginning
Summary: veloceminddeals expressed concern about declining sales in their clothing and underwear business despite detailed listings and good titles. They considered going full-time but are discouraged by high competition and low prices. technthread advised focusing on larger clothing sizes and avoiding reserve prices to reduce fees, suggesting starting bids at a minimum price and promoting listings. Additionally, they recommended using more item specifics like EAN barcodes and MPN to improve algorithm ranking on eBay. They noted that many clothing sellers are struggling and emphasized the importance of detailed item specifics.
I started just a few months ago, at the beginning I used to post a lot, but I can't be doing that all the time as I work at the same time.
Please can someone help me giving advice of what to do.
I write all the specifics and tittles
I use good titles etc...
before it used to work then suddenly, no sells, just sometimes...
I wanted to go full time but it looks like is too much competition and low prices. I try my best to accommodate,
I sell clothes and underwear.
Thank you in advance
technthread
·Jul 19, 2026 at 7:19 PM · EditedThe men’s clothing in size XS and S are a grind to get sold. Medium isn’t as bad but try to get more the of the size large and over.
I had a look at the Arsenal shorts you have on auction at £1 free postage and thought that’s a risk but then I see you have a reserve price on. I’d say avoid reserves like the plague, you pay 4% of the reserve price to eBay in needless fees and buyers dislike it. You’d be better off starting the bids at your minimum and promoting at 4%.
Id imagine the socks aren’t worth the time as you’re paying small parcel postage. If you’re going to go for some lower priced stuff ideally you want to be posting things as large letter or the fees and postage eat too much of your profit.
The bigger picture is a lot of clothing sellers are struggling. You’re not necessarily doing a great deal wrong with how you create the listings but I had a look at the XS adidas t-shirt and you could have added the EAN barcode on the tag and even the MPN so the eBay algorithm has the best chance of matching it.
Flooding the item specifics with relevant information is what I have heard is important, tbh I still don’t do it half the time myself. Anyone who remembers me post a YouTube video a few months ago will remember what the man said, to eBay your listing is now a mathematical representation of meaning. eBay’s algorithm has to know what it is and ranks it based on whether it believes it has the best chance of selling vs similar listings.