Every category is different. I know lots of people work really hard and there is a chunk of luck involved in things going well. I appear to be having a bit of luck. I've significantly evolved my offering over the last three years. I've just managed to get back to my 2019 peek sales period for daily turnover. I can fund Christmas presents for that extra child I acquired this year!
I'm not posting to goad - but to say that there are still customers around, its more challenging. The areas that sell well on eBay have evolved. Pricing in different areas changes, whilst I too remember the thrill of auctions and snipping plus just about anything I listed found a buyer and its own price point, that's not where things are now. Terrapeak (or what ever its now referred to as) is a great tool for doing a bit of research and checking out the competition and seeing who is selling and trying to work out why.
I'm promoting more, marketing more, paying for more (marketing, customer support, packaging, legislative requirements etc etc)
Everyone has to run their own numbers and look at their own business model. The doom and gloom of the platform has shrunk is fact based but its still a very, very big business and we only want a bit of a share of that turnover so we need to strive to find how to get to it, clear/ let go physically and emotionally our less successful buys.
I hope everyone manages to find/ generate their own bit of luck in the run up to Christmas and beyond.
