@superchallenge wrote:
"Buying or renting extra server space is most expensive, that's why apparently ebay will switch some servers off to save money, which I was told, explains the blackouts days of no sales."
I'm sorry, but that suggestion is so unbelievably misguided and wrong on so many levels. Whoever told you that has a basic misunderstanding of how anything works. It seems that people will make up absolutely anything on here to "prove" that they aren't the reason their business is failing, but this is one of the most utterly insane ones I've read.
I think it's probably more likely that there were genuine mistakes, technical errors, or that nobody wanted to buy your products on the "blackout" days, if I'm honest.
You quoted just a sentence from my post, taken out of context & then reacted to it, not sure how this is helpful to anyone.
OK, so how you explain the “blackouts” & crazy patterns of sales? because they can't be explained by your misguided judgement such as: ”none wants to buy your items”, “your business is failing”, etc.
So as per your argument, if “none wants your items” on the payday weekend so why do they do want your products on other days ???
Or if “none wants your products” between 1-10 PM today why suddenly they buy them between 3-5 AM ??
Or if they "did not want your items" this week , why sales were flying last week ? & then abruptly stopped etc.
Or why today the sales are to Scotland & Northern Ireland , but only few days back majority of sales went to London ??
Do all the millions of eBay users worldwide do get together & decide which account to boycott today or this weekend ?, how do they do that ? - absolute rubbish .
Some examples of what I & other sellers report regularly on various threads :
- No sales or very little most weekends, esp. payday weekends but sales OK during the week - it used to be the other way round, majority of sales were on the weekends, esp payday weekends.
- “Sales windows” of 1-2 hours a day - you get a sale within minutes of each other, then nothing for the next 24-48 hours & then repeat. Sales only at strange "witchy" hours such as between 3-5AM ?? but nothing during the day.
- Sudden stop to sales once you “reached your invisible sales limit” for the day, month.
- Whatever you do, jump through all the eBay hoops, promoting, etc. it makes little difference, as the monthly turnover is usually very similar but recently lower then previous month, decresing instead of increasing before Xmas, why?
Those are not normal sales patterns for accounts that sell worldwide without any restrictions.
Sales used to spread within 24 hours from all over the world & not just within 2 hours selling window every other day, this is not sustainable for any small business.
If only eBay stopped restricting visibility & restore the 24 hours access in searches, as it used to work well for years, then sales would be plenty & none would be hanging around these boards frustrated & confused reporting catastrophic drop of sales. Unfortunately since eBay forced their Promotions of all kinds, those wired sales patterns seems to be the new normal.
eBay needs to focus on the serious problems that needs urgent fixing, search being on top of the list, rather then useless fiddling with feedback ....unfortunatelly they dont listen to their paying customers .
I though in the USA the "customer is always right" so why not on eBay ?
Appologies for going 99% off topic.
