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.

[therenewalworkshopltd]

Maybe you should think about that one a little more.

Prior to ebay giving free fees to private sellers, there were actually considerably less issues.

Particularly issues such as those business sellers, pretending to be private.

So they have looked at the likes of Vinted and copied the way they are doing things.

No matter what way a site like Ebay/Amazon/Vinted and so on charges, there are ALWAYS going to be charges.  Without them, the site has no money and won't last very long at all.

So what do you want them to do?  No fees for everyone?

As to comparing Amazon to Ebay and the delivery promises, that's like comparing Apples to Oranges.

Amazon operate Prime delivery and benefits.  Ebay is not in that situation at all.

But Ebay is about buying and selling different things to Amazon.  Everything on Amazon, bar one or two minor things, is brand new!  You can't buy collectables, you can't buy used clothing, you can't buy cars and the list goes on.

Ebay needs to be Ebay, not Amazon, not Vinted or any other site.  There simply is no other site that is like Ebay and the more they try to change things (like the buyers fee), the less marketable I think that they will become.  After all, why go to Ebay, when it's easier to go to Vinted?

[the_book_seekers]

Amazon delivery is not all its cracked up to be. I can't trust their delivery estimates as they rarely deliver on the day stated on ordering and if I need to be here to receive a parcel that's a problem. The last thing I ordered from Amazon was 16 days beyond the estimate given. Prime is not a free service its something that has to be paid for. 

I do agree that buyers protection is a bad idea and is just another money maker for ebay. 

[stevebills]

I beg to differ eBay make  billions each year and there fees are very high 

I buy everything off Amazon as I prefer new and next day delivery 

And I agree if you want secondhand eBay is best.

I personally don't buy secondhand electricals it's risky and with no warranty and I don't buy secondhand clothes that someone else has worn I prefer new clothes.

Thx

Steve

And new shoes 😄 

[forestfeline62]

Some people can't afford to buy new clothes or shoes .

[therenewalworkshopltd]

Actually, fees on Amazon and Ebay are not the far apart.

I sold on Amazon for many years and the only reason I stopped, was because they want far too much control!

But regardless of how much any company makes, the point I was making, is that companies need to charge fees.  If they don't, they simply don't exist.  That is nothing to do with whether or not they are charging too much.

And I will ask the same question again, what are you expecting here, for it to be free to sell for everyone?

And do you really think that when buying on Amazon you don't pay any fees?

If using Prime, you are paying for that privilege as well.  Nothing is free in commerce!

And always, no matter how the fees are charged, the customer is paying them.

Just because YOU prefer to use Amazon, does not mean that everyone else does.

So I really don't see the point of any of what you have just said.

[henley-theatre-services]

Its been even worse since the new 'holding' rules for UK private sellers have come in, it seems like they have upset everyone - tumbleweed here for the past month.

[caz1961carole]

It's because they charging buyers fees, but they have not told buyers this . They see an item on an auction with no bids at say £21. 36, and everyone knows they are being shafted by eBay, nobody lists items for such ridiculous amounts

[exponential_developments]

I agree, ebay's in decline and it's their fault.

I honestly couldn't care less.

[avalonian444]

As a buyer, my issue with EBay is that they don’t care about selling counterfeit goods.

I reported an item that was clearly counterfeit, and an infringement of intellectual property rights to anyone with two brain cells to rub together. Had a reply in less than 24 hours saying “We looked into your report and didn’t find the listing to be in violation of our policy.  This determination was made by a customer service agent.”.

They didn’t even bother to ask me how I knew it was counterfeit, and there was nowhere to provide the information in the initial report.

This was yesterday.

This morning  I received another email, this time recommending I buy the same item from the same seller.

Now closing my account.

[weston-bay-coin-and-note]

Messages on this thread have been very interesting to read. There seem to be varying factors such as slower e-commerce sales in general and ebay fiddling with the fee structure and making buyers pay a "protection fee". I think that my site traffic has been slower in recent months because of (a) less frequent new listings and (b) I have listed a lot of items that turned out to be low-demand, i.e. share certificates and notgeld notes.

[ilinkmobile]

I'm a business seller. On average I was seeing 20+ sales per day. Since Jan those numbers are down to 2 sales per week.

Since eBay has gone down the path of "Selling is free" for private sellers, my sales have completely dried up. I've noticed 1 seller with 32 listing's of the same product.

Where's we as business sellers are told listing's must be different. 

On the competing platform Im still seeing 30+ sales per day.

Clearly eBay has become a dead platform. Complete withdrawal and shut down is an option Im considering. 

I don't see why I should pay premium rates, and get get zero sales. 

[manrin_lnchehucl]

Even as a private seller, I get basically no views anymore, nevermind sales.

Since the end of February, I've experimented with promoting listings with rates going as high as 20%, and I'll be lucky if that item gets a single view, where the same item would see at least double figures beforehand. I've not had a single watcher in that period either.

I put up 5 new listings last week, and one of them managed 4 views, while the rest had either 0 or 1.

Maybe there are tiers, but from somebody supposedly at the top of those tiers, the site is essentially dead.

[madfroguk]

Agree, it's terrible at the moment and I don't think it will improve at all, if you not using promotions, you not selling at all, when you using promotions the sales are still pretty bad, but you getting a few sales, however your fees jumping to 40%, if you using ebay promoting suggestions, then your fees are 60%, it's insane.

People in charge of ebay seams to have psychedelic obsession with milking sellers more and more with excessive promotions and they killed the platform in the process.

Sellers can take extra few %, but not extra 20-30% on top of the basic fees, it's mad and no surprise that sellers are leaving and focusing on cheaper selling platforms, obviously ebay business sellers have to pass excessive promotion fees on to the customers, so buying on ebay is not cheap anymore either.

I think ebay lost it big time, once they want to be Amazon Prime by using unrealistic EDD's, next they want to be like Vinted and pretending to scrap the fees for private sellers, just to reintroduce them in different form few months later, now they are just big sinking "no name" ship with fewer sellers and even fewer buyers.

Why ebay don't want to be the good decent ebay from before that promotion madness started, cheap, reasonable, seller and buyer friendly, the ebay which reward the sellers with best customer service, not the sellers with highest CPC set in promoted listings, ebay with search not clogged with irrelevant sponsored junk, with app working also on older phones, so the most loyal older buyers can still buy there without buying a fancy new phone, why alienate customers?

Sadly I don't see anything positive on the horizon, like scraping the promos and lowering the seller fees, so will focus on other platforms which doesn't cost the earth and most importantly have some buyers willing to spend some money...

[ssam_il_trgnqd]

I have sold 10 items in five years ebay is broken

[allsorts2017-uk]

hi , with all due respect to sellers , i think the added tax on everything and buyer protection fees maybe the answer ... not only that but ebay now takes sellers listing fees before the item has even sold , furthermore the prices for shipping just from europe are astronomically impossible to buy things ... if you ask me ebay are shooting themselfs in the foot and loosing alot of customers ... thinking to look into with ebay customer services im sure . its sad really once ebay was a free site to use , now its just bombered with fees left right and certain , just like most good sites they get expolited and ruined after a while . 

[superchallenge]

You're selling a US copy of Mario Kart for the Wii for £55.71, shipped from Isreal. It's £15 on Amazon with next day delivery.

You're selling Avalon Code on DS for £135.42 + £23.21 shipping. It's £75 in CEX, or there's another copy available on eBay for half your price.

I've sold 254 items since Jan 1st. I'm not sure eBay is the issue in your case.

[superchallenge]

"its sad really once ebay was a free site to use ,"

When was that, please?

[jokers_toybox]

I used to sell on ebay.com, when ebay.co.uk launched they invited my over with unlimited free listings. 

That account died years ago, but it did happen once a very long time ago at the very end of the 1900's (1999 feel old anyone?)

[andrewstrading]

I have recently become a business seller because sales went flat after February 4th when they started charging buyers to buy. My sales have picked up but I’m not getting the views or the watchers like I did six months ago. Also the amount I get at auction has decreased to the point that if I promote anything I make a loss. My buy it now items are barely selling without giving massive discounts.  If thing’s don’t improve in the next six months I’m selling up and packing up. No point bothering with ebay when they are against you at every step!

[henley-theatre-services]

Same here private account has dried up items worth £50 recently only sold for £5 on bidding and most items getting barely any interest now, my work business account sales are down 67% and we sell the same kit all year round. Pretty sure ebay have committed suicide by upsetting absolutely everyone that uses it