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For months my sales have been slow on ebay I've tried a few things as I have a background in tech to try beat ebay algorithm  no luck or change  as a diy and hardware seller we can't use adds put the price up too much  I like to offer good value for money not rip people off  but seems ebay have decided no adds no sales  so decided to try amazon  I joined listed a few boxes of screws and within a few hours  I was getting sales  now I've been selling on there for over a week and  my sales have x10  now why can't ebay do the same go back to the old search algorithm  and get rid off the promo all your doing is driving us good seller away from your platform this is why new platform are doing well because your killing us with your fees  it's cheaper to shop on amazon then here your not only hurts your sellers but also your buyers s

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As a seller it gets very frustrating when things stop selling.

I am getting short bursts of sales then nothing for a few days.

 

Ebay likes to make changes and many of these have made it more difficult to buy and sell on ebay.

Ebay was working ok so heaven knows why they need to change it.

 

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Buy a lot of items that your selling but the first got to is Screwfix as you can normally get what your looking for the same or next day or even delivered the same/next day.

Have brought on eBay before as sometimes the smaller quantity's listed can be ideal, your packs of 10 packers for example the only downside is the delivery times of 2-3 days  which means some forward planning on a job or juggling the day.

Amazon could work well for you with their next day delivery's 👍 

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You make it sound so simple.

You must have registered your account quite some time ago and not just a week ago?

They are notoriously slow in getting accounts approved, so if you are actually selling, then you need to double and triple check that your account is fully approved.  Otherwise, you are going to be sat there selling things, building up a balance and not able to withdraw it.  Along with the fact that you will be waiting about 3 weeks or so before you actually start to get any money anyway.

 

Be sure to use the correct listings on there.  There are very many that although they might look correct, they are not.  If you use these, then you will likely get suspended.

The river has a VERY steep learning curve and something that you need to understand very quickly.

So only trying to warn you of the major pitfalls that I've seen time after time happen to new sellers.

 

As regards better sales, it's not that surprising, they have at least 10 times the number of people using the site.  And what does help, is the catalogue system.  There should only be one listing, for one item.  Whereas Ebay, you can find 1000 listings, for one item.....  So your not just competing on price.

The obvious disadvantage being that it is generally a race to the bottom over there.

 

As an aside, an awful lot of your pictures on Ebay are breaking the rules, you are not supposed to have your company name splashed across the images.  Your not even allowed to use watermarks on them.

So I would suggest that you remove them, before someone reports you.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/listing-policies/picture-policy?id=4370                                                  

 

But anyway, if you have been selling for more than 5 minutes, why on earth aren't you on other sites anyway?

It's not good to just rely on the one, where you can lose everything at once if you get suspended etc for some reason.

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I am getting short bursts of sales then nothing for a few days.

 

same here one day we have good sales the next it be dead for 2 days or longer

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