February Sales Dead 2025 - Ebay Sales Completely Dead

Any thoughts as why would suddenly ebay sales would do ZERO since start of February.

 

We have been closely monitoring our sales and since start of January 2025 sales are down. But they have now completely died as soon as February started.

 

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It may seem farcical to a business but as a business you should also know that there is always resistance to change, especially price increases and more especially when virtually every buyer has been battered with frozen tax allowances, huge utility bill and cost of living (food,rent etc) increases.

 

No, "they don't understand" much beyond the fact that many are finding that there is 'too much month at the end of their pay'.  Under those circumstances it isn't very clever to suddenly slap a 'new' fee on every purchase from a private or "private" seller.  Especially when it's a 'well known fact' that ebay makes billions in profit every year, it looks like profiteering even if the buyer is often paying slightly less than they were when the seller was including but hiding the previous fees.

 

Ebay has been thinking that resistance to every change will smooth itself out and everything will go back to normal for years, IMO at least since MP and loss of paypal.  But has it really?

 

Up to some point ebay announced its numbers of Active Buyers AND Sellers, but then decided to stop reporting the numbers of sellers.  Any company highlights its good results in the reports and tries to bury the bad.  We know that active buyers have been falling since before Covid (which produced an upward blip), but they have been falling or stagnating for years.  I'd guess that active seller numbers look even worse and that's why they are no longer made public.

 

Ebay still makes profits but increasingly not by selling stuff, but by payment processing, increasing fees and inventing new ones (Sponsorship).  It's moved the site towards quick selling, volume selling businesses and away from slow selling, low volume private sellers.  So one can only assume that it's private sellers who have been leaving every time ebay has changed something that makes the site less useful / more difficult for them to use.

 

Loss of paypal / MP / IS / increased payment holds  all came at intervals allowing things to smooth over.  But the loss of visibility without sponsorship has become blatant.  Now ebay has (perhaps) decided to tackle the "private" seller problem by introducing more payment holds, a buyer fee on private sales with more restrictions yet to come.

 

Is it working?  Are businesses rushing to register properly?  Or have these changes just made ebay even more useless for private sellers who will still sell next to nothing without promoting, will have their pay-outs made slower and face restrictions on delivery.   

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If you were so busy you wouldn't be on here chastising everyone for having an opinion based on their experience from their perspective which you can't argue against because you haven't a clue about them or their circumstances.

 

And do pray tell, tell me know how you can know what I'm doing or not?

 

Just because people on a forum are saying these kinds of things, does not mean that it is actually the way the things are.  The very nature of a forum gives light to those who are unhappy, as they are far more likely to post than those who are happy.

Show me the busloads!  There is actually a group of possibly 40/50 active posters and no more than that.

Not all of which post negatively towards changes etc.

 

And lastly, I was not arguing about a subjective point of view, I was giving my own opinion!  Or is that not allowed on a free forum any longer?

 

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Before on  larege letter ,and small box was available yodel 2.69 ! Now this price in ebey missing and on same yodel price is double. So what is the game ebey +Royal Mail ..  In official Yodel or on different places price is 2.70 (official Yodel site) . Can you someone see if Yodel is still available and on real price. 

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FB marketplace ?    Youtube ?

 

Are there any fees ?

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Yes, you pay fees there as well, it's just an entirely different structure.

They are more directly based on Advertising, rather than a specific fee on a sale.

But do you really think that the marketplace of facebook would exist, if it didn't make them money?

As to YT, there is no direct selling platform on there, people generally use it to advertise their products, where they can be bought on their own website etc.  But again, in order to find out about said product on that video, you have to watch an advert or two first!

 

It is extremely rare that anything (bar charity), is entirely free.

 

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In my opinion those are not buyer or seller fees.

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when no matter where they go, they pay fees of one kind or another.  Or do they all think it's free?

 

I never said that they were.  What I said was as above.

Everyone pays, regardless of what they may think.  Nothing is free.

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You don't say, well could it be due to their new disgraceful policy since 4th February 2025? have you not seen the thousnads of complaints across ebya uks facebook, internet forums most complaints in other posts on here, on trustpilot they have 1 star reviews! if your really don't know why take a look at comments across those platforms I've mentioned and read the points on my petition against it sellers 7 buyers are leaving including myself, ended all my listings! https://www.change.org/p/ebay-gone-to-far-with-new-policy-change-from-4th-feb-2025

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You have a business selling and making costumes as well as other items. 

You have your own website ( Even offering payment plans), Facebook page ( unofficial) and post on You Tube but you are petitioning for the rights of private sellers and include yourself in this category?

I don't get it.

 

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@cobwebcottage 

If it's still the same petition as the one they were linking here around a week ago it was more emotional than factual anyway.

I didn't sign it and I'm about as anti as it gets on certain elements of this rollout.

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@andha-21 

I believe that the private sellers should be charged fees to sell as before and not put extra charges on the buyers and I would support a petition for this. But I have little faith in a seller who has their own website and makes items for sale to be the figure head of a petition against Ebay for private sellers.

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I agree with private seller fees. Used eBay for years with them, never complained.

I only started speaking with this rollout.

It's not so much the money aspect that bothers me. It's the way they're doing it.

BPF is wrong and so is Simple Delivery. Delayed payments is the lesser of 3 evils in my mind.

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BPF is wrong and so is Simple Delivery. Delayed payments is the lesser of 3 evils in my mind.

 

I agree. BPF is upsetting buyers which is never good for sellers, business or private. Simple Delivery takes away a seller's power of choice over postage and it's an unnecessary interference into the running of accounts. As I'm paid monthly delayed payments wouldn't inconvenience me too much, but I can see where it is a problem for others.

 

All ebay's money making streams, promoted listings, managed payments, postage, regulatory fees, listings fees, BPF, Simple Delivery et al depend on buyers. If the buyers avoid ebay then these streams dry up, even the pay per click requires buyers searching for purchases. ebay's UK market has already been described as 'soft' by financial experts, which means more sellers than buyers and I don't see BPF making this any better.

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They are introducing simple delivery and the only choice will be Evri or Royal Mail 

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Maybe delivered, or just on a hedge/bin/safespace in the traffic.

The choice is yours! 

Can't get the royal mail estimate, but Evri have stated they plan to lose ONLY 22,000  a day...

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Same here. It didn’t tail off, it died utterly and immediately at the beginning of February. Now you can’t even get people to LOOK at your listings. Obviously it’s something to do with the buyer protection scam, but I don’t understand how it killed the entire market, overnight.

 

Well done, eBay, you destroyed everyone’s hobby or way of making money, and your own site while you were at it. Unprecedented ineptitude.

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You are either selling things people do not want, or you are over pricing them. Or possibly just not advertising enough. At any rate my sales went up in Feb. So it was a great month.

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Well said, it’s complete nonsense! 


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Erm......

 

You are in Ireland, only joined  ebay in Jan 2025 and have only sold 20 items

 

Your 'great month' was your first and only month

 

😄

 

 

 

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March has been a great month so far so keep positive folks. Whereas Feb was rubbish. There are some sales to be had.

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