07-09-2024 12:13 PM
We have over 100 listings however sales are dead for over three months now.
Wondering if this is about time to take our business away to other platforms as we really cannot afford high Promoted Listings fees but still no sales.
NO SALES NO BUSINESS
29-11-2024 10:21 AM - edited 29-11-2024 10:27 AM
@bittyboy101 wrote:
@danieledwardsmall wrote:Listen, they are not leaving the UK in droves; that is just some denial imagination dreamt up to pacify yourself into thinking it is someone else's fault that you failed as a seller.
Yes there are big tax rises that will affect the rich but they aren't leaving the country because of it and if you think they are, please show me citations that suggest that.
The rich will pay that tax albeit reluctantly, but they will remain wealthy enough to buy antiques at the right prices.
As I said you, need to be smarter, build network lists, sell overseas, make good contacts with those in the industry, if you want to be taken more seriously.
Like many on here, you just want to sit at home relying on just eBay. Hell, you might even have considered dropshipping as a way out instead of food relationship building.
Now THAT is what's wrong with the UK's online retailscape.
https://www.wealthyexpat.com/blog/why-are-millionaires-leaving-the-uk
So as I have now proven in my last post above that most of the wealthy people are now leaving the UK for multiple reasons...
It is now time to change what we sell on eBay and target the poorer clientele by selling LOTS OF LOWER PRICED ITEMS...
This seems like the only way forward now as expensive items are now NOT SELLING easily online anymore.
29-11-2024 10:25 AM
I stopped selling abroad years ago, when ebay started taking FVFs from P&P costs. Selling glass is always risky and to my mind sending overseas is likely to be even more risky than shorter journeys within the UK. What I sell tends to be either small and delicate or large and chunky, either way it has to have "bomb-proof" packaging and will end up being at least RM Medium Parcel size with overseas postage costs high. Ebay's fees made it much less attractive.
But it was the Money Back Guarantee that stopped me selling abroad when it became clear that some buyers were taking advantage and returning as NAD rather than Change of Mind to avoid the return postage cost and adding to my costs to get the item back. Particularly as there was no guarantee that a buyer would pack the item as carefully as I had done to get it to them in one piece.
IMO my almost full-stop in sales in April hasn't been caused by the super-rich fleeing the UK for tax purposes, but the constant rumours (before the election) that the Triple Lock was about to be reneged-on and then after the election the immediate grabbing back of the Winter Fuel Allowance which I and many other pensioners saw as a only the next installment of a campaign to whittle away at pensioners income that had already started with the freeze on Tax Allowances. There's more to come in the future IMO.
So many in my age group have battened down the hatches for the storm ahead and stopped buying anything that isn't an immediate need.
29-11-2024 10:51 AM
Edit: **good**
29-11-2024 11:15 AM - edited 29-11-2024 11:22 AM
A single article from some noname website with an opinionated bunch of
hacks does not prove there's an exodus of the rich.
In fact, look on the roads in any town in the UK; plenty of SUVs, Jags,
Range Rovers. This tells me that those with plenty of money remain in the
UK and it's not the crisis you think it is.
The Daily Mail mindset seems to be sweeping the country with many paranoid
sellers' lack of sales is a belief in some kind of dystopian witchhunt out
to destroy their personal e-commerce microcosm.
And to start thinking that the only way you can survive is to start
peddling imported Chinese tat is a solution just shows you have little
grasp or care about the environment or building a solid online business. Jesus wept.
29-11-2024 11:43 AM
@danieledwardsmall wrote:A single article from some noname website with an opinionated bunch of
hacks does not prove there's an exodus of the rich.
In fact, look on the roads in any town in the UK; plenty of SUVs, Jags,
Range Rovers. This tells me that those with plenty of money remain in the
UK and it's not the crisis you think it is.
The Daily Mail mindset seems to be sweeping the country with many paranoid
sellers' lack of sales is a belief in some kind of dystopian witchhunt out
to destroy their personal e-commerce microcosm.
And to start thinking that the only way you can survive is to start
peddling imported Chinese tat is a solution just shows you have little
grasp or care about the environment or building a solid online business. Jesus wept.
My dear man - please Google "Tycoons and Millionaires leaving UK" and you will see the whole Internet is saying the same thing !
I rest my case. These are our MISSING BUYERS for all expensive antique stuff.
No further comments.
29-11-2024 11:52 AM
@danieledwardsmall wrote:A single article from some noname website with an opinionated bunch of
hacks does not prove there's an exodus of the rich.
In fact, look on the roads in any town in the UK; plenty of SUVs, Jags,
Range Rovers. This tells me that those with plenty of money remain in the
UK and it's not the crisis you think it is.
The Daily Mail mindset seems to be sweeping the country with many paranoid
sellers' lack of sales is a belief in some kind of dystopian witchhunt out
to destroy their personal e-commerce microcosm.
And to start thinking that the only way you can survive is to start
peddling imported Chinese tat is a solution just shows you have little
grasp or care about the environment or building a solid online business. Jesus wept.
Jags and Range Rovers don't cost millions and can be had for cheap in the second hand car market... They are probably loads of them for sale as we speak !
Now how many Rolls Royce's, Bentley's, Aston Martin's, Lamborghini's and Ferrari's do you see now on UK's roads... not as many as you used to see...
29-11-2024 12:00 PM
29-11-2024 12:24 PM
No problem 🙂
I just was thinking long and hard about why I used to sell expensive items all the time until about 2021 to 2024 and then my sales rapidly declined to 1 sale every once in a blue moon ?...
Then it dawned on me that maybe the folks who were buying my stuff and who were paying my high prices were indeed the very wealthy people with an attitude of "only the best will do for my place" and "money is no object for me"...Yes of course ! - THAT'S IT !!! - It was these same people who were giving me the regular sales and money which I so loved !!!... and now in their absence I am now noticing there are now no more REGULAR sales and just people watching my stuff now and not buying... as they would like it... but due to financial limitations are unable to AFFORD it... so look for and then settle for a CHEAPER ALTERNATIVE.
So the only way round this is to LOWER MY PRICES and ignore all the other sellers selling the same or similar items at much higher prices because I know the score now and these other sellers are going to have to wait a very long time before they get the money they want, if at all...
29-11-2024 12:41 PM
Well, there's still some money about.
My other half's just been to Argos for a C&C, and the queue's snaking around Sainsbury's. Argos have a lot more staff than usual, and they're running down the queue taking the collect number from anyone who's prepaid and then dashing back with the item.
29-11-2024 12:46 PM
Black Friday, that’s why.
29-11-2024 12:49 PM
..thanks for the reminder 😍
29-11-2024 1:14 PM
@the-nutwood-collection wrote:Well, there's still some money about.
My other half's just been to Argos for a C&C, and the queue's snaking around Sainsbury's. Argos have a lot more staff than usual, and they're running down the queue taking the collect number from anyone who's prepaid and then dashing back with the item.
It's that time of year where lots of people are now queuing up at Argos to buy all their Christmas presents early for their family and spend some of their hard earned money that they have been saving all year... before everything sells out and the grandchildren don't get the toys they have been hinting for all year !
29-11-2024 1:18 PM
47 Hours since ones last sale................Never in the history of mankind has so little been sold by so many.
Eggnog anyone.....
29-11-2024 1:22 PM
... spending some of their hard earned money that they have been saving all year...
I wish they were queueing up to spend their savings on my listings.
29-11-2024 1:29 PM
You can afford eggnog? Everyone round to your house for a snowball!
Can we have a shot of brandy in it? One of my childhood memories is of my aunties getting tiddly on brandy snowballs on Christmas Day. I was sent to the kitchen to fetch the snowballs - and had a little sip on the way back.
29-11-2024 1:30 PM
At the moment i'd say it was the best option.
29-11-2024 1:43 PM
Can beat you, its now 13 days without a sale!
Nearly 20 years on Ebay & my previous record was 7 days (that was in the last couple of months.)
Will be having a long Christmas break from Ebay & deciding where to go from here.
29-11-2024 1:51 PM
I know where i'm going..........Family, friends, Pub.................delete button.
29-11-2024 2:10 PM
@the-nutwood-collection wrote:... spending some of their hard earned money that they have been saving all year...
I wish they were queueing up to spend their savings on my listings.
Me too !
My guess is they have a lot of cash saved underneath their mattresses and want to spend it the good old fashioned way... in the high street shops where big brother can't monitor how much they are spending LOL
29-11-2024 2:13 PM
I wish i was able to do crafts........but have the creativity and attention span of a gnat lol
Shirl