I do agree. 15 or so years ago, everyone was on eBay, now far less are, and younger people in particularly don't seem to want to use it favouring Amazon, even though as @kempseykate said, Amazon is often (nearly always!) more expensive.
I think eBay has been in decline since 2013 when the EU DSRs kicked in and tightened things up. Then we've had manipulated search, promoted listings and managed payments to deal with. The latter doing a lot of damage as buyers liked having a PayPal balance which they tended to spend on the site.
To add I will point out that our wholesalers appear to be overstocked with next years seasonal goods again (end of line, returns, etc.).
This is prime stock for selling on eBay and usually gone as soon as it arrives, not so this year and, to be fair it hung around longer last year too. But now most of the remaining buyers seem to have walked away.
I've also seen a big drop in our competition on eBay, possibly as a lot were operating illegally on private accounts and have fled ahead of the HMRC changes in Jan?
However, none of this explains why our sales have suddenly stopped dead in September.
My July and August were actually quite good overall, but September, not a single sale on either account which is unheard of for us....?
Perhaps they've shut me down for complaining too much on the boards 😄
