Ebay Sales Completed Dead **************January 2025**************

[theglo-68]

We are a business seller with most of our listing on other platforms. However we still have big chunk of our listings on Ebay platform. Ebay has been dead for us for over few months. Sales reach minimum 1-2 per day out of 100s of listings.

What has gone wrong with our once best platform. I know other platforms are doing really well but what has caused issues with Ebay.

[wyntersemporium]

Doesn’t make a difference on mine. Did the sell similar a few days ago on a few of mine still no sales. Being undercut by private sellers. Notice one private seller who was a business last year, has decided she / he is now private seller once again ???

[jokers_toybox]

That business as a private seller really needs to stop, eBay clearly are not looking at it as you find so many obvious ones, the even have ltd in their username in the ones I've seen

[edwardian-dreams]

Ebays been  dead for years for many

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EBay  is big the real old ebay it’s an extremely constipated version of eBay ts original rip founder pity you 

I listed  something at a cheap price and got a sale in about 15 mins

 My phone pinged with th kerching sound 

It’s  what people want at a price that’s ooh 

Now if ur not willing to sell quality for cheap then don’t do it  but  sell  with offers do 

dunno what to say except ebays been *bleep* for years 

try Vinted massive more  viewings

theres also vinterior 

you can sell vintage furniture and items 

[wyntersemporium]

Unfortunately on v you cannot put a lot of items on one listing. I’m on there myself but only selling a few of mine on there. 

[weston-bay-coin-and-note]

I opened an ebid account and imported my ebay listings. There were quite a few views but not a single sale. I have also opened an etsy account but am concerned about all the fees. I feel that by opening other accounts I am throwing money away on platforms that will have the same slow sales as ebay.

[collectible-coins-medals-tokens]

Hi mate, you and I both sell coins and medals, and I have already tried Ebid, Etsy and Vinted and got ZERO sales on all 3 platforms over a trial 3 month period. Complete waste of time! And I think that fact worries me.... where else can sellers like us go?

[jokers_toybox]

One option is your own website, but getting traffic towards that is much harder than on eBay, it can get costly too 

[weston-bay-coin-and-note]

Hi.

I have come to the conclusion that we are just in a bit of a market slump. There's no point trying out all the platforms because it's just more time and money spent looking for customers who are not buying. It's probably best to stick with ebay as this is the biggest platform and wait to ride this out. I am going to carry on listing new items for sale.

[theelench]

But did you do the same as you do on ebay, park your listings and wait for ebay's millions of buyers to find you?  It might not work so well on a site with far less foot-fall.

Did you try to learn how to earn visibility by using their search and google shopping?

Did you weigh-up which of their selling plans was right for you or just jump-in and pay an up-front fee for no sales?

Last year I spent £5 on listing fees, listing 50(ish) items, making about 250 in total.  I also paid FVF on the 28 items I sold, all niche vintage glass.  You don't have to be a business to be business-like and do a bit of research before trying something new,  but it definitely helps if you do 🙂

[weston-bay-coin-and-note]

Got to admit, I did just jump in. I still have quite a lot to learn about running a business. What I am doing is just a small hobby-based business on the side of my main job so it's not like my livelihood rests on this.

[jokers_toybox]

What has gone wrong with eBay is a really good question! 

I'd say resting on their laurels and becoming reactive to threats from other sites rather than proactive.

Everything they do now seems to be because they failed to adapt earlier and allowed competition to do things better

[collectible-coins-medals-tokens]

I do have my own coins website and hardly ever get any views on it despite it being a secure commerce site. I'm not an expert in how one drives traffic to ones own website, but no doubt it will cost money, LOTS of money AND time!

Good suggestion though mate.

[collectible-coins-medals-tokens]

And I'm in the exact same boat. And that's probably the number 1 thing I hate about how Ebay has developed over the years. They used to be a straightforward online auction house where hobbyists like myself and weston could buy and sell a few coins whilst improving our own personal collections. Now it's all about being a business! You got to be a business seller! Think like a business, act like a business. Makes me sick! 

I don't want to run a business, I just want to sell a few coins here and there to improve my collection.

So if Ebay is no longer the place to be for hobbyists like me, what other platforms are there for coin collectors??

[jokers_toybox]

Yeah it's hard work, I have one because I sell single trading cards that aren't viable to sell on ebay as often they aren't worth more than 99p and there's roughly 42k different items currently that'll rise to well over 100k when I get my finger out

[santlache_sales]

I sell the same and did a fair at the weekend, and took virtually the same in a day there than I have on eBay in the last month. The money is out there and people are spending, but in our line people have deserted and given up on eBay, which it is hardly surprising as it's not a friendly site anymore and all avenues lead to eBay interfering, or taking money from you.

I have had a Promoted Shop since they started doing it, and this month I dropped down a shop level to basic and I've been culling loads of stuff since early January. There is no point listing stuff that nobody views anymore and goes around and around.

eBay have totally screwed the platform, they've been at it for quite a few years now but the Free Listings for Private Sellers totally broke it for businesses. It clearly wasn't thought through properly, but particularly how it would affect some business sellers and leave us feeling totally shafted. Which we have been.

The new measures eBay have put in for Private sellers don't even touch the surface, but all it does (surprise surprise) is generate eBay more income and totally hacks off private sellers too.

So we have hacked off Private Sellers, hacked off Business sellers, eBay needs a total rethink as the site is dying a slow death through them screwing it up at every level.

[santlache_sales]

What has gone wrong with eBay is a really good question! 

I'd say resting on their laurels and becoming reactive to threats from other sites rather than proactive.

Everything they do now seems to be because they failed to adapt earlier and allowed competition to do things better

Spot on, eBay have not been a proactive platform since about 2007, when they spent several years trying to mimic Amazon even though it was a totally different marketplace and platform. But they also started to continually think of ways they could screw sellers over with all their nasty little additions like 10% on P&P, and now we have a 2% on an overseas sale, £1 sale fee on top of the FVF.

Now this greed has come back and bitten them hard on the backside, with free sites making eBay look like some ancient relic from the past as they struggle, and they are struggling due to the management incompetence.

It is like eBay is sucking blood from you at every turn, as they try to grab back lost revenue to appease Wall Street and the shareholders, and in the same process turning more and more people off the platform.

This latest attempt to stem the flow with Free Listings just shows they have totally lost the plot, but also hacked off the vast majority of business sellers who now feel totally shafted, as it is our excessive fees now keeping eBay afloat and they are giving us nothing back.

[typo_lee]

January sales were fab but from the end of jan have nosedived.

[greencrest-intl]

We have just had our worst month of sales (jan) in 24 months.

I agree with your observations, we have noticed for some time already, "inconsistency in page views and sales". More recently we noticed a drop in sales each time our sales ticked couple % above the previous period.. obviously they feel entitled to drop our visibility to help others, which I hear, BUT once sales dropped (with ebays help) it took so long for sales to pick up, the new sales benchmark before the next visibility drop was 5% lower, hence a steady decrease in sales, month on month on month greater than the general  economy slowdown (which btw is very very real)

We have tried all the ideas on the platform over time, we went with all the ebay changes along the way hoping they would be helping us and back on 12% promoted! but ..

Like flogging a dead horse.

Wishing we could just throw in the towel, but discounts etc to clear stuff, won't help shift stock because they don't increase views or sales, it's not in our hands.

Anyone feel the same?

Any ideas for my store?

[greencrest-intl]

When I spoke with ebay a month ago , she said "we hear of stores down 60-80% on last year every week!"

On another occasion a short while back, he advised me to take up my concerns with higher elements in ebay management to see them raised properly, he said "we hear it, we know it , it's a real thing..." ebay have bungled it.

Even if it were seller specific, which would be strange, let's help those that are still naive of the risks. 

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@therenewalworkshopltd wrote:

To be fair it also doesn't prove that there is something wrong with ebay.

In fact, it's more likely that there are actually is nothing wrong if accounts are selling.

Bear in mind, that for many, it was an early pay day for December and a lot of people won't be paid until the end of the month.  So these couple of weeks are generally quite quiet.

The fact of the matter is, nobody but Ebay is able to say if there is actually an issue.

So many times I see complaints on here about search, but I've never had an issue searching for something that I want.  Yes, adverts come up, but wherever you search, your going to get adverts.

And also, with a forum you do have to allow for the fact that the majority of sellers, won't even look at a forum.  Those who tend to post are generally those ones who have an issue.  So it can look a lot worse than how it actually is.

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[edwardian-dreams]

Clothes are not hard to sell on vinted

 collectibles too

not sure about your coins and certificates though

and it’s totally fee free for sellers