@theelench wrote:
Even as a private seller that understands that selling in one niche can be erratic and slow it becomes obvious that something is very wrong with ebay. I agree with what you say about the manipulated search and PL.
For the past 2 years I sold 13 items p.a. , this year 4. A few years ago I was selling 4 items a month. 10 years ago I was selling 4 items on a good week.
As even a private seller who isn't under the pressures of making a living from ebay, listing even 1 item each week becomes soul destroying after a few months of no sales and watching the lengthening list of re-listed but unsold items, every one of which has Watchers. Some of them watching for months.
Eventually, unless you're a hopeless optimist, you have to ask "What's the point, I'm just wasting my time here." Especially when another site, tiny by comparison, never advertises on TV and doesn't claim to have a world-wide audience of millions, manages to get 28 sales. Most of which have been previously listed on ebay, sometimes for months, but I suspect have never been seen by a would-be buyer.
Right, I've more than had enough of eBay's over manipulated searches and very poor sales lately, plus all their recent changes which have now made the eBay platform impossible to sell on and way too over complicated for my liking, so I have now taken the decision to resume all my sales on the "other site" you keep saying about come early January 2025.
I lasted here on eBay for almost 18 years selling my old locks and Emco Unimat items with a good degree of success until recent years when eBay just started making constant unnecessary changes gradually chipping away at everything that was unique and original to eBay, making it harder and harder to understand and use for basic simple sellers who don't have a degree in IT or brain surgery !
One day eBay will realise that all these changes have cost them dearly when more and more people leave eBay and don't use it regularly anymore.
