Advice please. Sales down 37.6% compared to previous 7 days. Anyone know the problem?

[typo_lee]

Sales down 37.6% compared to previous 7 days. Anyone know if there has been a problem with ebay the past 7 days? Any changes affecting sales as clearly there is some tech issue I am not aware of?

[tascio1]

Only 7 days!! Think mine have been along those lines all year so far

[theelench]

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@krafty-kreations wrote:

If these new restrictions were applied to you, wouldn't you be doing exactly the same?

Checking on business sellers on private accounts in my categories they still seem to be getting sales and all I get is emails about promoting... No thank you eBay!!

I don't like these changes at all, but between the BPF, holding funds and the app issues I am not surprised at the lack of sales.

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Exactly.

"Private" sellers are carrying-on as normal.

The only sellers this appears to be hitting are genuine private sellers who don't have the guile and resources to get around the latest restrictions.

I thought ebay was meant to be encouraging more private sellers to join up to prop up business sellers sales.

Instead ebay makes them seem shifty to buyers and then charges them 'protection money' for the extra protection that ebay says they need.

Then Holds their money for up to 14 days.  Then transfers it to ebay's Wallet from which they then have to manually transfer it out, with further delay.

Is it surprising that they're not hanging around to buy?

[1980bram]

My sales are down 45.1% compared to the same time last year, and 42% over January 2025 

I'm not getting used to the new payment structure, it's not slick enough. Between eBay and Royal Mail they don't have the tracking section dialled in, so payments are taking longer to get to me.

With this disruption my spending has also dropped off. I've not purchased a single item from eBay in February.

What was once a revolving door of sales, is now slow moving.

I also want to add Global shipping isn't following the guidance, i thought i read once the item reached the hub the funds would be released within 2 days, but in fact all monies are being held until delivery.

[krafty-kreations]

These changes will take time. some sellers weeks in are only noticing the changes, let it settle a while and judge accordingly., guessing the BPF fees can onky assist in your lower value ranges. You've grafted hard to get just under 10K 100% feedback, if the changes are economically not viable I understand your decision, but if your fed up with the system created and I know I get cheesed of with it, just ride it out if you can, or pause the slow inventory, stick with the earners.

Thank you, I will have a long hard think and maybe ride it out and see how it goes 🙂